In furtherance of this request, he took with him the strong approval of some members of the American hierarchy.

The letter released yesterday appeared to grant the American hierarchy some but not all the help that it had requested.

At age 35, he was then the youngest member of the American hierarchy.

African Americans believe they are at the bottom of the American racial hierarchy and therefore deserving of special consideration.

He had sat there for over an hour as most of the American hierarchy trooped by.

But doubts about this tack remain just below the surface of the American hierarchy.

At age 38 he was one of the youngest members of the American hierarchy.

Members of the American hierarchy acknowledged that there was deep division over the document.

Montlero had been big in the American hierarchy of gangsterdom.

Who could fill the job from our informal American social hierarchy?