You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow. |
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The pecking order of policy advisers depends on the power of their advisees. |
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Directors instantly knew where they were in the pecking order by a quick look at the seating plan. |
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One alpha male rules the group, and there is a strict pecking order all the way down to the lowliest monkey, who is picked on by everyone. |
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In fact, among surfers there's a fairly rigid code of beach behavior, which includes a strict pecking order. |
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For weeks, it was untouched, then I noticed that something had been pecking around the aperture. |
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To understand showbiz you have to realise that there is a great snobbery, a pecking order if you like, and movies are at the top. |
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Human beings seek to ascertain their place in the pecking order and then ascend. |
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The new face had to be assessed, evaluated and placed in rank according to the established pecking order. |
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His serenity makes you feel like a clucking chicken, scrabbling and pecking at the dusty ground, while he sits back and watches. |
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But they do have strikers coming out of their ears and he is probably sixth in the pecking order. |
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It is a pecking order that originated in militaries, entered schools, and now is a social system of the Second World. |
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Our filial relationships, ruled by generational authority and following a pecking order based on seniority, are very Chinese, too. |
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It has given us our position at the very top of the pecking order and we have been taking advantage of it ever since. |
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Before being shown into a shed, I could hear the miserable monotonous droning, or pecking noises of the birds. |
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Aggressive behaviors included pecking the male, bill snapping, reverse mounting, and frontal attack, which resulted in aerial grappling. |
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Opportunities to break into the first team at Preston appear to be slim, with five other players ahead of him in the pecking order at Deepdale. |
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Pastors are ranked into a pecking order by whatever numbers their tribe values. |
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He may be occupying a place lower in the pecking order, but they started with far more purpose. |
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There were no hens pecking about, no friendly lop-sided roofs or straggly flowers popping their heads above the earth. |
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A single robin, pecking about on the garden step for his breakfast, will scatter a host of sparrows. |
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Mrs Wheeler said she thought the noise made by the burglars was the bad weather or birds pecking on the roof. |
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The chickens are pecking, the cows are mooing, and the pigs are, well, eating slop. |
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I got quite used to tiny black Tussock birds pecking matter-of-factly at my shoes. |
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Farmers trim from a third to a half of the beaks off chickens, turkeys, and ducks to cut losses from poultry pecking each other. |
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Chickens were pecking in a small yard and pigs were rolling in a mud swamp. |
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A bird pecking for food a few steps ahead of me sensed my approach and flew off the ground and disappeared into the woods. |
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She made a pretence of pecking at her food, then excused herself and retreated to her rooms. |
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Four middle-aged guys, dressed business-casual, are sitting at a long desk in an off-white room, sifting through files and pecking at laptops. |
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I'm in the study, pecking away at my keyboard, the window at my side thrown wide open to let the overnight air out of the house. |
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Then, chin pointed up arrogantly, she went back to pecking away at the bleach-white keyboard before her. |
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Indians, irrespective of their place in the social pecking order, tend to speak loudly. |
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Crows and falcons are top of the pecking order in the league table of bird-brains, it was revealed today. |
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The social pecking order so apparent in Japanese society became equally well defined by certain golf clubs. |
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Thus, for centuries, wants have superseded needs on the social pecking order. |
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But today it appears the social pecking order defined by financial correctness is subtler. |
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Those at the bottom of the pecking order scrape by, defying our understanding of what is required to keep body and soul together. |
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They are poorly resourced and have low status in the bureaucratic pecking order. |
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There are other long-term ramifications of teachers slipping down the social pecking order. |
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Street wardens patrolling the area found the birds clucking and pecking around and thought they had escaped from the nearby School Farm. |
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The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs. |
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She is blinded by the fall and regains consciousness with unseen things pecking at her. |
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Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige. |
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However, Darcey's favourite nibble slips down the nutritional pecking order on account of its sugary fondant centre. |
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But to do that, they would have to want to enter the fray, starting from the bottom and working their way up the pecking order at rock festivals. |
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Free-range hens, for instance, have greater freedom to move about, but are more susceptible to feather pecking and disease. |
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Birds grappled and fell, fighting, to the ground, where we could see and hear them flapping and pecking one another in the leaf litter. |
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And their mere existence is a reminder of your position in the pecking order. |
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As a suburban jackeen, the finely constructed pecking order in the bar escaped me. |
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He tells Harding that the session reminded him of a pecking party, where a group of hens, seeing a spot of blood on one of their number, will peck that hen to death. |
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Seri was pecking away at the keyboard, he seemed very into something. |
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Buzzards are all flying around pecking at them, and there are insects and flies, and you can see blood on the ground. |
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Outside there was a chicken coop and John had already bought three chickens and a rooster and they now milled about the coop pecking at bugs on the ground. |
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If this is Western society's hierarchical pecking order, it's no wonder that particularistic groups seek to court and sustain victimhood at every opportunity. |
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Trading is now done rather demurely, by pecking at a keyboard. |
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In the White House pecking order, Jones was a small fry, who wasn't exactly sitting in on cabinet meetings. |
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Even after you get in there is a strict pecking order to be observed. |
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A small, red chicken was pecking around in the grass, near the fence. |
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Birds may not resume normal pecking or preening for as long as six weeks after debeaking, and in some cases profuse bleeding and death from shock occurs. |
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Transfers of power will occur and new pecking orders will be established. |
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The rooster and hens came squawking and pecking around his feet. |
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As Macmillan steps up the ministerial pecking order from Housing to Defence to Foreign Minister and Chancellor, the politics become more interesting. |
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You had to fight, literally, to find your place in the pecking order. |
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During any other month, that news alone would have signaled a new world order, an upheaval in the pecking order. |
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The cantor had the second position within the pecking order of ministry. |
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A bird with a penchant for 17 th-century Dutch art has paid the ultimate price for flying into a museum gallery and pecking a hole in a masterpiece. |
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That parsing of the pecking order, though, didn't extend to his personal life or interactions with colleagues. |
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At the top of the pecking order are the all-metal, French or French-inspired traditional mandolines with interchangeable blades. |
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Maddie waltzed over to her father, pecking him quickly on the cheek. |
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These dishes were small and neatly packaged, and before long, I found myself pecking at my food in an appraising, sensitive way, and nibbling in tiny little bites. |
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She is the fashion correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and by the lights of the arcane pecking order of this bizarre business is accepted as the queen bee. |
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The social hierarchies and pecking orders are best revealed through the cell phone calls and text-messaging that the characters almost constantly engage in with each other. |
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New Zealand motorists have to beware a native parrot, the kea, which is just as keen on pecking off rubber windscreen wipers and window surrounds. |
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In September 1945, and a five half month old Wyandotte rooster was pecking through the dust of Fruita, Colorado when its owner decided to prepare him for the pot. |
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And it starts pecking and the mother then regurgitates half digested food into the gaping mouth of the chick, the chick swallows it and it's happy. |
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It is intended to prevent overcrowded birds from pecking at each other. |
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When ripe, the fruit turns a bright reddish orange and attracts pecking birds and children who risk life and limb to get at the juiciest looking cashew fruit. |
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The farmers trim the birds' beaks to keep them from pecking other birds, even though debeaking causes acute pain that recurs when the bird eats. |
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Previous studies on capital structure in Pakistan have reported evidence in support of the pecking order theory. |
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Another showed black crows pecking at a cutout of Switzerland. |
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He says the spotlight felt by the Dublin panel is something felt by all the counties, irregardless of their place in the pecking order. |
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Younger, sexier, better track record, more Because, unlike stool pigeons, I've yet to see one shamelessly pecking the badge. |
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These thermodynamic properties can be used to predict a pecking order, or hierarchy, for free radical reactions. |
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Physicians may be celebrated for fierce independence, but they also understand pecking orders and hierarchies. |
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A knocking sound alerts them to a pileated woodpecker, pecking holes to find ants to eat. |
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This world of wizards and witches, they're already ostracized, and then within themselves, they've formed a loathsome pecking order. |
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The trouble with Leicester is the incestuousness of their coaching pecking order. |
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However with hunting and pecking, a specifier usually can find the product on the site. |
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Second to Adrian Maguire in the pecking order at David Nicholson's, Johnson has in place an agreement to ride as number one for Henry Daly when not obliged to his Dukeship. |
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Pliny the Elder's famous story of birds pecking at grapes painted by Zeuxis in the 5th century BC may well be a legend, but indicates the aspiration of Greek painting. |
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He sees pecking orders, job titles and salaries for what they really are. |
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DePaul is coached by long-time UConn assistant Dave Leitao, and Huskies coach Jim Calhoun always likes to make sure people understand pecking orders. |
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The emergence of teenager Jack Wilshere has forced Denilson down the midfield pecking order and the Brazilian has made just three Premier League starts all season. |
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Before the rise of the Sky Sports juggernaut, rarely did Boro get more than a blipvert on national football shows and even local networks had them well down the pecking order. |
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Most large enterprises have already deployed some level of DRM, and that interest is now trickling down to companies lower down on the pecking order. |
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Perseveration in a guessing task by laying hens selected for high or low levels of feather pecking does not support classification of feather pecking as a stereotypy. |
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