Sentence examples for top department from inspiring English sources

He said many were sold openly in top department stores.

Top department officials and union chiefs have cited various reasons for the fast pace of retirements.

"It's a shame, it really is," said one top department official about the resulting rancor.

Over the past three decades the company has been producing silk ties for some of Germany's top department stores, including KaDeWe and the Peek & Cloppenburg chain.

Top department officials have repeatedly denied the existence of quotas but have said managers are expected to establish minimum productivity goals.

It takes chutzpah to say as much in a recession, when the nation's top department stores — Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom — are posting monthly sales declines.

Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Beautiful by Estee Lauder, Donna Karan Cashmere Mist and that resilient octogenarian Chanel No. 5 were the top department-store sellers for this year's first quarter, NPD said.

This argues for concentration on a handful of top departments.

Even in the social sciences a plurality of the top departments are based in the United States.

And other top departments now lack experts in mainstream areas such as empirical microeconomics and quantitative economic history.

But the structure of rewards in a field in which top departments are constantly jostling for prestige favors cleverness and originality, not political correctness of any stripe.