Sentence examples similar to a pecking order structure from inspiring English sources

There was a pecking order, and he was the general.

There is a pecking order in the Fire Department.

"How hideous," she says, "that there should be a pecking order in my grief".

"How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief," she writes.

Any hint of a pecking order among cathedral employees would infuriate him.

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

In time a dominance hierarchy formed, similar to a pecking order among chickens and rank orders among wolves.

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).

I'm the ceiling," Doug Stamper, explaining to Seth Grayson that there is a pecking order, even among henchmen.

This paper hypothesizes that there is a pecking order of deletion, which dictates that deletion should proceed from less important to more important information.

"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.