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  • Then this panel agrees who those men will be, based on seniority and union rules.†  (source)
  • Bunking will be arranged by seniority.†  (source)
  • He took the first of the empty stools and the eight other egwugwu began to sit in order of seniority after him.†  (source)
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  • His age gives him seniority, and his manipulations gain him either fear or respect from a surprising number of others.†  (source)
  • Thus, Ilya, who had been hired in 1943, had been promoted on the basis of seniority to sous-chef in 1945, at the ripe old age of nineteen.†  (source)
  • Now, seniority matters in theoretical physics, and normally, she wouldn't have been senior enough to get the first shot.†  (source)
  • Poor tyrannical Rachel keeps trying to build a big-sister career upon a slim sixteen-month seniority, insisting that we respect her as our elder.†  (source)
  • Some of them would say that if true, any story of this magnitude should be broken by the president himself or, at the very least, someone with more seniority than Orear.†  (source)
  • Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice.†  (source)
  • I pull seniority and take the bed by the window.†  (source)
  • I'd like to keep men here sometimes instead of sending them back, but she has seniority.†  (source)
  • Since this was my very first morning I had even less seniority; I had to use the cubby above hers.†  (source)
  • Used to be, Grover looked to me for answers, but Thalia had seniority.†  (source)
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