seniority

As long as seniority reigns among teachers,” Klein writes, “we will fail.

The culture of promotion through seniority kills creativity and effectiveness.

Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.

Vogel spins a story of a political culture becoming slowly unbound by previous constraints like party loyalty or seniority.

The best we mere doctors usually hope for is time with aides of varying seniority.

When a candidate passes, he is appointed assistant-engineer by the Ministry, and he rises in his profession solely by seniority.

The Drapers assembled beneath, and proceeded to make their purchases in order of seniority, according to ancient usage.

Still, I would harden my heart to it now—to-night—were not my hands tied by Mahon's seniority.

"He's not as susceptible as he looks," Rose pronounced from her vantage-point of seniority.

When a father dies intestate, his property is equally divided among his children, without respect to sex or seniority.