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seniority
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  • Any geisha can act as older sister to a younger girl, as long as she has at least one day's seniority.†   (source)
  • Surely, any doctor or nurse on the hospital's seniority list had gotten off for the night.†   (source)
  • You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all.†   (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)
  • Kelly was a nice girl, kind of a mother hen, and had taken me and Rina on to show us the ropes since she had a year over us and therefore some kind of squad seniority.†   (source)
  • Then this panel agrees who those men will be, based on seniority and union rules.†   (source)
  • The money's good just now and I have some seniority built up.†   (source)
  • They signed a generous union contract with the Amalgamated Butcher Workmen, granting benefits like seniority rights and pay bonuses for work on the late shift.†   (source)
  • I know you asked for it off, but Midge has seniority.†   (source)
  • Being seniormost of the five probationers in Missing's nursing school had been a matter of pride for her, and most days she managed to push to the back of her mind the fact that her seniority was only because she was repeating her year, or, as Dr. Ghosh put it, because she was "on the long-term plan."†   (source)
  • Next he had put his name and Call's, his first because he was two years older and felt seniority should be honored.†   (source)
  • I'd like to keep men here sometimes instead of sending them back, but she has seniority.†   (source)
  • All evolutionary disadvantages, I know, but it's a law at the Workshop that only nonengineered humans can attain certain levels of seniority.†   (source)
  • Sensitive to Adams's seniority and his importance in Congress—and possibly to Adams's vanity— Jefferson was consistently deferential to him.†   (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)
  • I pull seniority and take the bed by the window.†   (source)
  • I've got seniority on the crime beat.†   (source)
  • That's been my business for years, I have the right of seniority, it isn't fair, it's dog-eat-dog competition, newcomers shouldn't be allowed to muscle in.†   (source)
  • Seniority ran downhill from each end of the table, with the Skipper at the head and the strike force C. O. at the foot, the junior midshipman at his right and myself at the Skipper's right.†   (source)
  • Rufus Hastings has challenged Bartholomew Velasquez for the seniority and leadership of the New York pack.†   (source)
  • It was exactly the kind of pause—just a trifle rich with seniority of years—that had often tried the patience of both Franny and the vif tuoso at the other end of the phone when they were small children.†   (source)
  • Workers were required to obtain a union membership, and it was this reinstated pipe-fitter card from the late 1940s that later gave him the seniority to get high-paying construction jobs—if he was willing to travel to them, which he was in his later years.†   (source)
  • For another thing, there was the simple matter of what I construed to be Nathan's overwhelming seniority.†   (source)
  • "Then I have seniority," he told me, "for I am Oberon's prisoner."†   (source)
  • Used to be, Grover looked to me for answers, but Thalia had seniority.†   (source)
  • Since this was my very first morning I had even less seniority; I had to use the cubby above hers.†   (source)
  • Dad was in the United Auto Workers at work so seniority was real important in our house.†   (source)
  • I started buzzin' like a Hoover vacuum and you guys dropped off in reverse seniority!†   (source)
  • At the Count's signal, the doors to suite 417 were opened at precisely 9:00 P.M. By 9:15, forty-six men of various rank and seniority were taking the seats appropriate to their station.†   (source)
  • But when Granny summoned me I couldn't very well ignore her, for she had more seniority in the okiya than anyone else.†   (source)
  • Sure, we'll go by seniority.†   (source)
  • Because of her seniority it was always my turn when it was slow, so I got up and went over to see what they needed.†   (source)
  • They had a waiting list too, the Hammond Car Company, only they didn't go by friendships and they didn't go by seniority, they went by a man's record.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that Kenny had been with the company for almost sixteen years, despite the fact that he was first in seniority at the Greeley plant, that he'd cleaned blood tanks with his bare hands, fought the union, done whatever the company had asked him to do, suffered injuries that would've killed weaker men, nobody from Monfort called him with the news.†   (source)
  • Seniority of service was his favorite topic of complaint and sole standard of value; he had been in the railroad business longer than many men who had advanced beyond him; this, he said, was proof of the social system's injustice-though he never explained just what he meant by "the social system.†   (source)
  • The Rule provided that the members of the National Alliance of Railroads were forbidden to engage in practices defined as "destructive competition"; that in regions declared to be restricted, no more than one railroad would be permitted to operate; that in such regions, seniority belonged to the oldest railroad now operating there, and that the newcomers, who had encroached unfairly upon its territory, would suspend operations within nine months after being so ordered; that the Executive Board of the National Alliance of Railroads was empowered to decide, at its sole discretion, which regions were to be restricted.†   (source)
  • By seniority.†   (source)
  • I might add, too, that I always sensed that it was Nathan—perhaps again because of his "seniority," or maybe because of the pure electric force of his presence—who set the tone of our conversation, although his innate tact and sense of proportion prevented him from hogging the stage.†   (source)
  • Five Properties wanted to be awfully careful, and he didn't lack warnings and cautions from his sister, who, by ten years of seniority, could tip him off to American dangers and those of American women for green, old-country boys especially.†   (source)
  • But allusion being made to her being held in disregard by the gentlemen, she evinced violent emotion, and this blow was no sooner followed up by the remark concerning her seniority, than she fell back upon the sofa, uttering dismal screams.†   (source)
  • She had something to suffer, perhaps, when they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to the rights of seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had a future to look forward to, of powerful consolation.†   (source)
  • I have shown that in democratic armies, and in time of peace, the rule of seniority is the supreme and inflexible law of advancement.†   (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)
  • One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D—?"†   (source)
  • and straightway comes over the water from some distant cove the same password repeated, where the next in seniority and girth has gulped down to his mark; and when this observance has made the circuit of the shores, then ejaculates the master of ceremonies, with satisfaction, tr-r-r-oonk!†   (source)
  • A voyage to Europe was pronounced necessary for him—and having served his full time in India and had fine appointments which had enabled him to lay by a considerable sum of money, he was free to come home and stay with a good pension, or to return and resume that rank in the service to which his seniority and his vast talents entitled him.†   (source)
  • The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was serving as a private.†   (source)
  • These two causes do not act in the same manner upon aristocratic armies: as men are promoted in them by right of birth much more than by right of seniority, there are in all ranks a certain number of young men, who bring to their profession all the early vigor of body and mind.†   (source)
  • His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest examples of moral and religious endurances.†   (source)
  • Despite his seniority in rank Bagration, in this contest of magnanimity, took his orders from Barclay, but, having submitted, agreed with him less than ever.†   (source)
  • Our aim is no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief.†   (source)
  • All the ambitious spirits of a democratic army are consequently ardently desirous of war, because war makes vacancies, and warrants the violation of that law of seniority which is the sole privilege natural to democracy.†   (source)
  • Buxhowden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity to fight a battle 'on his own hand' as the Germans say.†   (source)
  • Every day, letters of inquiry and notices from the court arrived, and on the first of May, Denisov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division to explain his violence at the commissariat office.†   (source)
  • There were only three tumblers, the water was so muddy that one could not make out whether the tea was strong or weak, and the samovar held only six tumblers of water, but this made it all the pleasanter to take turns in order of seniority to receive one's tumbler from Mary Hendrikhovna's plump little hands with their short and not overclean nails.†   (source)
  • 'From all my riding,' he writes to the Emperor, 'I have got a saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhowden, having sent him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only one day's ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmoretzki, and all that the peasants had has been eaten up.†   (source)
  • If you survived, and if enough engineers on the seniority ladder ahead of you keeled over with heart attacks or came down with tuberculosis or were scalded todeath in accidents, one day they would have to call you in and tell you that from now on you were going to be the man at the throttle.†   (source)
  • Such distinctions, however, are not as important in England as in America; members of the university (they are called [Pg105] /members/, not /students/) do not flock together according to seniority.†   (source)
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