There are other long-term ramifications of teachers slipping down the social pecking order. |
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Indians, irrespective of their place in the social pecking order, tend to speak loudly. |
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Human beings seek to ascertain their place in the pecking order and then ascend. |
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Pastors are ranked into a pecking order by whatever numbers their tribe values. |
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And their mere existence is a reminder of your position in the pecking order. |
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Our filial relationships, ruled by generational authority and following a pecking order based on seniority, are very Chinese, too. |
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Crows and falcons are top of the pecking order in the league table of bird-brains, it was revealed today. |
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The social pecking order so apparent in Japanese society became equally well defined by certain golf clubs. |
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Thus, for centuries, wants have superseded needs on the social pecking order. |
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It is a pecking order that originated in militaries, entered schools, and now is a social system of the Second World. |
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But today it appears the social pecking order defined by financial correctness is subtler. |
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But they do have strikers coming out of their ears and he is probably sixth in the pecking order. |
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Those at the bottom of the pecking order scrape by, defying our understanding of what is required to keep body and soul together. |
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They are poorly resourced and have low status in the bureaucratic pecking order. |
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Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige. |
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However, Darcey's favourite nibble slips down the nutritional pecking order on account of its sugary fondant centre. |
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To understand showbiz you have to realise that there is a great snobbery, a pecking order if you like, and movies are at the top. |
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In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order. |
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As a suburban jackeen, the finely constructed pecking order in the bar escaped me. |
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He may be occupying a place lower in the pecking order, but they started with far more purpose. |
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Opportunities to break into the first team at Preston appear to be slim, with five other players ahead of him in the pecking order at Deepdale. |
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One alpha male rules the group, and there is a strict pecking order all the way down to the lowliest monkey, who is picked on by everyone. |
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The new face had to be assessed, evaluated and placed in rank according to the established pecking order. |
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Directors instantly knew where they were in the pecking order by a quick look at the seating plan. |
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But to do that, they would have to want to enter the fray, starting from the bottom and working their way up the pecking order at rock festivals. |
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The pecking order of policy advisers depends on the power of their advisees. |
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It has given us our position at the very top of the pecking order and we have been taking advantage of it ever since. |
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You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow. |
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If this is Western society's hierarchical pecking order, it's no wonder that particularistic groups seek to court and sustain victimhood at every opportunity. |
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There is social chaos as thousands of chickens mill about, with too many birds for a well-defined pecking order to develop. |
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In the White House pecking order, Jones was a small fry, who wasn't exactly sitting in on cabinet meetings. |
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Is there a pecking order, then, that once you do have a success, you go to the back of the line and you come along again? |
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The issue of housing is one of the most pressing issues in the pecking order of living needs. |
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This technique ensures that every bird, including those low down the pecking order, is able to obtain its fair share of food. |
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Without that protection, child detainees found themselves at the bottom of the internal pecking order, prone to all forms of exploitation. |
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As a flock, chickens abide by a pecking order. This way, the dominant birds always get first choice. |
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They are, like hens, too busy observing the pecking order in which each bird is pecked by those above her and pecks those below. |
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And though he is down the pecking order, his consistency has left Radomir Antic sure he can be depended on in an injury crisis. |
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During any other month, that news alone would have signaled a new world order, an upheaval in the pecking order. |
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The cantor had the second position within the pecking order of ministry. |
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You had to fight, literally, to find your place in the pecking order. |
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Even after you get in there is a strict pecking order to be observed. |
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She is the fashion correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and by the lights of the arcane pecking order of this bizarre business is accepted as the queen bee. |
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As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting. |
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That parsing of the pecking order, though, didn't extend to his personal life or interactions with colleagues. |
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At the top of the pecking order are the all-metal, French or French-inspired traditional mandolines with interchangeable blades. |
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Without any protection from the State, child detainees find themselves at the bottom of the internal pecking order, prone to exploitation by others. |
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By tradition, law enforcement has been the bureau's dominant mission, and its internal pecking order has been dominated by special-agents-in-charge. |
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I'll hand it over to Diane, but certainly the priority for money, I understand, is the top of the pecking order above secureds, and that's what's been given in the case of the WEPPA legislation. |
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If you want to get a pecking order within the underbelly of our society, look at the young boys and young men who are in the trade and what their exit routes are, if they have any, if not to death. |
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Their presence in the House would be as a result of a party pecking order that had placed them on a list, not because Canadians had chosen them to represent them in the House. |
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There is a natural pecking order as regards the various liquidity sources. |
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Here the Europeans agree in principle. Then there is pecking order. |
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The usual slasher-movie pecking order of retribution applies. |
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There's inevitably a pecking order at every break. |
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The trouble with Leicester is the incestuousness of their coaching pecking order. |
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He says the spotlight felt by the Dublin panel is something felt by all the counties, irregardless of their place in the pecking order. |
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Previous studies on capital structure in Pakistan have reported evidence in support of the pecking order theory. |
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This world of wizards and witches, they're already ostracized, and then within themselves, they've formed a loathsome pecking order. |
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The animal kingdom is studded with evidences of creatures in authority, from the pecking order of the birds to the stamping ground of the buffalo. |
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These thermodynamic properties can be used to predict a pecking order, or hierarchy, for free radical reactions. |
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A pecking order exists among the four main subjects — three employees and one kibitzer from Mr. Smith's New Jersey comic-book shop — and at the bottom of it stands the stubborn and combative sales clerk Ming Chen. |
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Before the rise of the Sky Sports juggernaut, rarely did Boro get more than a blipvert on national football shows and even local networks had them well down the pecking order. |
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Most large enterprises have already deployed some level of DRM, and that interest is now trickling down to companies lower down on the pecking order. |
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The emergence of teenager Jack Wilshere has forced Denilson down the midfield pecking order and the Brazilian has made just three Premier League starts all season. |
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Second to Adrian Maguire in the pecking order at David Nicholson's, Johnson has in place an agreement to ride as number one for Henry Daly when not obliged to his Dukeship. |
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