be at the top of the pile

"I like to be at the top of the pile," she has said.

Google, he said, was at the top of the pile.

This is just another dip, in a few years time the guitar will be at the top of the pile.

They aim to be at the top of the pile with humanity as their slaves.

"There is so much chance and randomness in whether your manuscript happens to be at the top of the pile on a good day.

CityNightLine services are at the top of the pile for night-train standards in Europe.

It was a short jump from that to the six-figure consulting fees to well-connected Republicans to make sure those forms were at the top of the pile.

Princeton With Maryland losing to Johns Hopkins and Syracuse upset by Rutgers, the Tigers are at the top of the pile again.

"I just don't think the issues that are going to be at the top of the pile, and that he cares about, are partisan issues," Mr. Gregg said.

He began leafing listlessly through his Form 2392, 'Application for Verification of Authorization and Validation', for no other reason than that it happened to be at the top of the pile.

White skin, hair, and names etc. were at the top of the pile and black skin, hair and names etc. were at the bottom with all shades in between forming an orderly spectrum from light to dark.

Other times I have chosen only what was at the top of the pile, and found myself in Ireland when I should have been in Portugal and inside Edmund Wilson's head when I thought I was in Turkey.