The award is selected by a multi-tier system.

The NWS uses a multi-tier system of weather statements to notify the public of threatening weather conditions.

Thus, the Zabbaleen system is a multi-tier system that is not limited to the simple collection of waste but also encompasses the creation of new materials from found recyclables.

Reporters and Government officials have evolved an elaborate multi-tier system for indicating the origin of information.

This legislation ultimately created a multi-tier system for higher education in Florida's State University System.

Spices such as pepper, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon are grown under a multi-tier cropping system.

Business Views is a multi-tier system that is designed to enable companies to build comprehensive and specific business objects that help report designers and end users access the information they require.

Early examples of using a zero-translation architecture in multi-tier systems can be traced back to the rise of object-oriented databases in the 1990s.

Rustock's control infrastructure was a multi-tier system.

In 1980, Peter Coe said, "we have used Frank Horwill's multi-tier system.