The Senate assigns office space under a seniority system.
Mrs. Clinton and her fellow freshmen will remain there until they are assigned their permanent suites under a seniority system.
"President Hinckley still lives," said Thomas S. Monson, who under church seniority rules is next in line to succeed Mr. Hinckley, and who gave the final talk.
Polygyny is practiced; a man's wives are ranked by strict seniority under the "great wife," the mother of his heir.
Indeed, Koppány, the prince of Somogy who made a claim to the throne of the fledgling Hungarian state based upon seniority under the traditional tribal succession system led a rebellion against the unification efforts of Stephen I in the late 10th century.
For the last 14 years, Mr. Shadrick has worked for New York City Transit, first as a motorman, in uniform, and now, with some seniority under his belt, as a plainclothes train service supervisor, a title that hides a multitude of responsibilities.
He preached and lectured on the Immaculate Conception, and rose to seniority under the patronage of the Avignon Papacy and King Robert II of Scotland, becoming Bishop of Galloway and the only Franciscan to hold a Scottish bishopric.
Around 40% of Australia's medical practitioners are women, but they are dramatically under-represented in positions of seniority and areas of high speciality and ground-breaking research.
A first step was to scrap the bank's typically Japanese seniority system, under which employees earned more simply by staying put.
