Exempel på echelon

• Discussions took place at the upper echelons of the administration over how to ' provoke ' men to ' volunteer ' as porters.

• They focused on working with government or, where possible, ' colonizing ' the echelons of the state that had immediate authority over the region as a whole.

• Attaching outsiders to the higher echelons of the public administration.

• They also feel excluded from the higher echelons of political and administrative power, as well as social privilege, by virtue of their relative disadvantage in matters of education and resources.

• At least for a woman and her family, these new barriers to remarriage in the upper echelons of the working class are an obvious disincentive to divorce.

• The implications for the whole post-war pattern of politics seemed serious to many at the conference, especially those from the upper echelons of the government and academia.

• Not bad for a new discipline, but we would prefer a fair representation of women in the highest echelons in all discipline, not just women's studies.

• I thought that one of the ideas of this reorganisation was that we were going to cut out some of these higher echelons.

• Enormous talent is being used and is waiting to be used in our management echelons.

• Not all have reached such high echelons of management, but they have been recruited through the apprenticeship system that this country has built up.

• In certain cases, there has been a continual reflection on members of certain professions in the higher echelons of the white-collar workers.

• There are some very good golden handshakes in the higher echelons of the private sector.

• What kind of drugs were used and were they approved by those in the higher echelons of the medical profession?

• Such money goes not only to the top echelons.

• There was considerable attraction in the new proposals and in being promoted out of the wards to higher echelons of administration.