Parish councils are the lowest or first tier of local government.
At 40, she was in the first tier of American film actresses.
Paul is hoping college turnout will propel him back into the first tier of candidates.
It wasn't enough to elevate him into the first tier of candidates.
Our reviewer, Andrew Sullivan, said this book "belongs in the first tier of spiritual memoirs".
Senator John Edwards of North Carolina came in second, catapulting him into the first tier of presidential contenders.
"He was not in the first tier of options that I was considering in Round One," Blagojevich said.
Their first tier of defence, the feared police, collapsed, and then the armies refused to shoot their own people.
After that first tier of regular prices are specials, which last a month rather than a day or a few hours.
Although it does not rank among the first tier of classics from Broadway's prime years, "Damn Yankees" was a popular hit.
And that restaurant is one of only a few outside the first tier of American cities that could compete in any of them.
