There is a paradox surrounding Wales's position in the first-rank of internet movers and shakers, which he freely acknowledges.
To be sure, there are many areas in which China does rank first in the world.
Wobbling precariously on my crutches after a family dinner in a local restaurant, I hailed the first cab in the rank.
Or at least it was last year, for the first time, after a steady rise in rank over the past few years.
The first woman in the Army Reserve to be promoted to the general officer rank.
Kennedy, former U.S. Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, is the first and only woman to have received this flag rank in the U.S. Army.
But we do know that the three metros rank poorly in everything except the average salary ranking, where they place first, second and third, respectively.
Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.
It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.
Hong Kong didn't even rank in the top 10 in Knight Frank's first global cities survey, released in 2009.
The markets apparently regard me as a worse credit risk than the government of the world's eighth largest economy - largely because individuals have a sorrier history in general of repaying what they owe than the public sectors of first-rank developed economies.
Heart disease and trauma rank first and second as the two most expensive conditions in terms of total national health care spending while cancer remains the most expensive on a per-person cost basis.
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Having risen once before to the rank of first-deputy prime minister, he was sacked in January 1996 when hostility to privatisation was at its zenith and Mr Yeltsin needed a scapegoat.
He was born in Londonderry in Northern Ireland, and after gaining a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant.
StatCounter presents its data as is, and even though other counts of world-wide Internet users generally rank China first, the company's reading suggests that China ranks 22nd in the world in Web usage.
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