upper-echelon

At the time, OASIA had a reputation as a rich-in-tradition, upper-echelon bureaucracy with an experienced career staff, much like USAID.

Inside Man 2010

At the time, OASIA had a reputation as a rich-in-tradition, upper-echelon bureaucracy with an experienced career staff, much like USAID.

Inside Man 2010

At the time, OASIA had a reputation as a rich-in-tradition, upper-echelon bureaucracy with an experienced career staff, much like USAID.

Inside Man 2010

All upper-echelon members of WOCOP World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena are loaded or bankrolled by the loaded for their expertise.

'The Last Werewolf' 2011

At the time, OASIA had a reputation as a rich-in-tradition, upper-echelon bureaucracy with an experienced career staff, much like USAID.

Inside Man 2010

At the same time, the country's political classes continued to dither in the face of dismal poverty data: the Republicans focused more on how to preserve tax cuts for upper-echelon earners than on how to make the economy work for those at the bottom and Democrats failed to craft a political message capable of framing America's poverty epidemic in the moral terms that it so urgently merits.

Sasha Abramsky: The Voices of Poverty Sasha Abramsky 2011

WHAT WENT WRONG: When it came right down to it, the Griffs just went good enough to beat the upper-echelon teams of the conference.

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2010

WHAT WENT WRONG: When it came right down to it, the Griffs just weren't good enough to beat the upper-echelon teams of the conference.

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference 2010

But in the end, it was clear the league had three upper-echelon teams; LIU really was just the best of the rest.

Northeast Conference 2010

That said, they've been dealt an enormous blow, not only with the death of bin Laden but with the elimination of a whole cadre of upper-echelon people.

9/11 Plus 10 2011