Sentence examples for through seniority from inspiring English sources
The police get promoted through seniority.
Currently, vacancies are filled through seniority.
A small state like Iowa builds up clout in Congress only through seniority, not numbers.
But she appeared to get her office space the way everyone else did, through seniority.
In 2009, a group of prominent law professors drafted and sent to Congress a proposal for limiting a Supreme Court justice to seven years as chief justice, much as the chief judges of the lower federal courts, where judges become chief through seniority, are limited by law to a single seven-year term.
It is precisely because Japanese managers have "lifetime employment" and can, as a rule, be neither fired nor moved, and because advancement for the first 25 years of a man's working life is through seniority alone, that the Japanese have made the care and feeding of their young people the first responsibility of top management.
The new seats will be distributed through a seniority system.
"So by the time the speaker went through the seniority system, there wasn't really one left.
Departments usually give priority to members who drive and operate the firetrucks and to members who have proven themselves through participation, seniority and rank.
Through his seniority, longevity and impact on the state — and the campaign's message that if Republicans take control of the Senate, he will become chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee — Mr. Hatch has become, in a way, bigger than party or ideology.
Opinions ranged from an insistence that all assessors should have the skills and understanding of research and some degree of seniority, through to the view that senior personnel could be "too far up the rung to actually understand what is happening on the ground".
