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He claimed that it was the central factor that determined the international pecking order.
It also confirmed the new pecking order within the revolutionary alliance.
An example of this is when all of the comparisons are consistent with a fixed pecking order.
To the cognoscenti of cyberspace, there is a strict pecking order, all plainly visible in the alphabet soup of letters and punctuation.
For them there is a pecking order in terms of materials from those that are decent and novel to those that are secondary and poor.
The pecking order of free radicals and antioxidants: lipid peroxidation, a-tocopherol and ascorbate.
It is a type of music, not a quality of music (or 'quality' music) in terms of which all others musics are judged inferior on the inevitable aesthetic pecking order.
That is, a pecking order exists that sets the agenda and ultimately determines the direction the guideline is going.
Such a reality is like the pecking order among chickens.
The pecking order fixed at certain levels years ago should not remain immutable forever.
He was given leave to speak rather late in the pecking order.
What we would like to get rid of is the pecking order: universities top, polys next; other major institutions third, minor colleges fourth.
There may 12, 16 or even 20 partners, but there will always be a pecking order and inequality among the partners.
Where would the matron stand in the pecking order, with the proliferation of general managers now being appointed in every hospital throughout the country?
You are not near the top of the pecking order when seen from the centre.
