The most senior echelons of the Christian Democrats are decimated.

He promised to sweep out the senior echelon of cold warriors in operations who protected Mr. Ames and cultivated a culture of unaccountability.

If you are to move about in the senior echelons of industry, this is an important ability to develop.

Now, several Western diplomats believe, his announced lack of desire to become party chief may suggest complex maneuvering within the senior echelons of the party.

All these had been invented by 1827, but their development for naval warfare, let alone introduction, met dogged resistance from senior naval echelons.

"I remember the senior echelon of an agency in total disarray," he testified.

Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones, the only Hispanic in the senior echelons of the school system, will retire at the end of the month.

The complaint against the Secret Service charged that the agency promoted agents through an informal system based on friends and influential contacts in its senior echelons.

Except in those very special circumstances, however, the Admiralty's most senior echelons could anticipate a night's sleep unflawed by the precipitate delivery of bad news.

The Guantanamo files confirm that the Americans have seized more than 100 Al-Qaeda terrorists, including about 15 kingpins from the most senior echelons of the organisation.