Sentence examples for senior echelons from inspiring English sources

The senior echelons of civil services are a powerful arm of the state.

And while we continue to think like this, we'll continue to see a paltry sprinkling, if we're lucky, of women at the senior echelons of power.

Last Sunday, Romário, who is now a senator, launched a congressional inquiry into corruption in the senior echelons of the sport in Brazil.

Second, Maliki approved a bill that would allow many former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, whose senior echelons were mainly Sunni, to hold government positions.

The complaint against the Secret Service charged that the agency promoted agents through an informal system based on friends and influential contacts in its senior echelons.

But the blame lay not with junior officers forced to implement a bad policy but with the senior echelons of a colonial government that was rotten to the core.

As she awaits Senate confirmation as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is filling out the senior echelon of the State Department.

It had its senior echelon of leaders, but these could be replaced, and it operated chiefly through terror cells proliferated around the world that could reconstitute and reshape themselves.

If she didn't, then she was merely incompetent, which rather calls into question her ability to administer the company to whose senior echelon she has now been mysteriously recalled.

WASHINGTON — As she awaits Senate confirmation as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is filling out the senior echelon of the State Department, and keeping a respected career diplomat in one of the agency's most influential posts.

Among the plan's requirements was that senior echelon commanders preserve superficial normality while working secretly on the final preparations for the offensive.