promotional ladder

They were fairly set in their ways, committed to a particular life style, and anxious to climb the promotional ladder.

And always in his work there were others who would succeed, moving past him on the promotional ladder, men and women with far less talent.

In fact he had been placed in this much coveted temporary assignment on the General Staff as a step up the promotional ladder.

Their class was the biggest to graduate from the academy, making the colonels a force to be reckoned with as they climb the promotional ladder of the army.

Alec Stewart (Robert Hardy 1966-70), ruthlessly ambitious "troubleshooter" keen to rise up the promotional ladder.

He is a below par career politician who happens to be in the LibDem Party, probably because there were less rungs there on the promotional ladder.

Others transfer because it is an alternative way chance to climb the promotional ladder or because it is an opportunity to experience another aspect of the fire service's role.

These traits are manifested through leaders who were imbued, as they made their way up the promotional ladder, with a solemn duty to preserve sacrosanct ideals and pass them on to succeeding generations.

Leo had climbed laboriously up the promotional ladder of merchant banking to one of the higher rungs, earning every penny of his salary, whereas James seemed to accumulate money without even trying.

After Ukraine became independent Goncharuk joined the newly created Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations, starting as head of division in 1991 and subsequently moved up having stopped at all stages of promotional ladder.

Cato's father had served with distinction on the imperial staff, and when he died, Emperor Claudius had freed the boy and sent him to join the eagles, with a kindly lift onto the first rang of the promotional ladder.

This popular satire on Japan's salaryman culture featured a feckless individual who always managed to come out on top, advancing up promotional ladders when accidents befall his superiors or lucking into important business information simply by malingering and goofing off.

Dr. Flores, a former social worker who now works as a consultant, said, "I felt I wanted to take people to the action level to begin to see what it might feel like to be black, Hispanic or female and work your way up the promotional ladder."