Sentence examples for its seniority from inspiring English sources

In the last few years the total volume of mail (I refuse to call it snail mail, which I feel insults its seniority and primacy and bolsters the fiction that e-mail is mail at all and not a form of digital rain) has dropped by 20 percent, while many of the offices slated for shuttering serve only a handful of customers per day.

And the teachers' union has refused to bend its seniority rules and allow the chancellor to transfer veteran certified teachers into the less desirable schools.

Its seniority system gives extraordinary power to people who can get in early perhaps because they have a family name like Kennedy or a powerful patron and then stay around for as long as possible.

The Senate has backed itself into an undemocratic corner with its seniority rules and chairmanship perks, which in this case serve to magnify, not represent, the influence of the far right.

The sudden shift of power in the United States Senate from Republicans to Democrats may help bolster the fortunes of the New York region's Congressional delegation after years in which its seniority and influence declined under Republican control.

But with his death and the retirement of the state's other senator, Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii will lose all of its seniority in the Senate, raising concerns here that the influence the state has accumulated over the last half-century will be greatly diminished and that federal aid will be harder to obtain.

Fujitsu has said it is replacing its seniority-based pay system with a payment scheme based on individual performance.

Because women in similar situations had brought lawsuits against other companies, Ameritech went to Federal District Court in Chicago in 1997 seeking a declaration that its use of its old seniority system to calculate eligibility for the new retirement benefits did not violate any of several federal laws dealing with pensions and sex discrimination.

That is hard to do under the old system, with its emphasis on seniority and promotion as the main routes to higher pay.

"New Jersey is finally restoring some of its clout after seniority losses a decade ago," said Representative Robert Menendez, the powerful Hudson County Democrat who was recently anointed as part of the Democratic Party's leadership in the House.

He also hopes it will send a message to his native country to rethink its veneration for seniority and credentials over objective measures of performance.