Sentence examples for were promoted over from inspiring English sources

Other career diplomats were sidelined while politically connected newcomers were promoted over them, he said.

She was later denied promotions to become a tire and lube manager, she said, adding that several men she had trained were promoted over her.

She complained that while working at the freezer department at a Sam's Club in Concord, Calif., several men she had trained were promoted over her.

Another complainant, Walter Beach III, who was chief of recreation for Brooklyn Parks before resigning in 1999, described the indignity of training "Class of" employees who then were promoted over more experienced black employees.

Mr. Sharif, an employee of Libya's National Investment Company, said he had watched for years as others were promoted over him because he refused to join the Qaddafi political machine and its various "revolutionary committees".

The party's traditional attachment to equality was reduced: Minimum standards and equality of opportunity were promoted over the equality of outcome.

But even without having read, for example, Snowdrops, a thriller that is also up for a Gold Dagger award, it is curious, with readers already mocking its prose on online comment boards, that this first novel should have been promoted over, say, At Last, Edward St Aubyn's merciless – sorry, I mean enjoyable and readable – conclusion to his Melrose sequence, a decision that is the public's loss.

But even before then, Baitullah Mehsud had been promoted over him by the Taliban leadership.

Is this view of her one-sided – is the perspective of C's daughters being promoted over her own?

Cynthia was promoted over Keith's head without playing any nasty political games, but she was not content simply to gloat.

Ms. Donaldson, a black woman who left Microsoft in May, says white males are being promoted over more qualified blacks and females.