Sentence examples for a pecking order of from inspiring English sources

There is a pecking order of subway stations understood by almost everybody in the trade.

If you were in any doubt that there is a pecking order of events within the Olympics, just check out the whereabouts of John Inverdale.

"Anyone put in front of us is a rival - we are not going to have a pecking order of who our greatest rivals are," he said.

R. R. Tolkien (whether or not such a comparison is justified), Ms. Byatt is working within a pecking order of hauteur, using weapons against Ms. Rowling that have long been used against the entire fantasy genre, Tolkien included.

You know where is Slovenia?" It was possible, in the course of the evening, to decipher a pecking order, of sorts.

Doctors have a "pecking order" of prestige and respectability.

With the best will in the world, wouldn't the same sort of snobbery impose a pecking order on Baker's pathways, in which career colleges would be demoted to the dumping ground for failure, and UTCs only one place up from them? "No, no, I think the tide is turning my way.

(Were they having, in lieu of coffee and doughnuts, their morning espresso and croissants?) There is a pecking order on European highways.

Clarify, agree upon and respect a pecking order for the flow of information and influence.

There are separate "tranches" of credit standing for the EETCs covering one airline fleet, giving a pecking order to certificate holders in the event of financial trouble.

MBA graduates from Melbourne Business School earn on average $76,000, not $72,000 as we suggested ("A pecking order for MBAs", 18th September 2010).