(n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
(n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
(v. t.) To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
(v. i.) To take position in echelon.
Example Sentences:
(1) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(2) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(3) 4) There were multiple and conflicting lines of authority between higher and lower echelons of the ministry.
(4) "We have been instructed by the political echelon to hit Hamas hard," General Moti Almoz, the chief military spokesman, told army radio.
(5) Contrast sensitivity with the Echelon lens was compared to contrast sensitivity with bifocal spectacle correction.
(6) The three interdependent echelons were: (1) Forecasting patient census, (2) estimating diet category census, and (3) calculating menu-item demand.
(7) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
(8) One was recruited from the ranks of the European commission, while another comes from the upper echelons of the civil service and is an expert in the economic affairs of India, China and Afghanistan .
(9) The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday that the US authorities were legally obliged to investigate the top echelons of the Bush administration over crimes such as torture, abduction and other mistreatment of prisoners.
(10) He became a principal, joining the top echelon of dancers, when he was 28.
(11) Notable, also, that the two sides that we faced in our doomed play-off campaign two and a half years ago are also sitting in the upper echelons of the Premier League, serving notice of the quality of the competition in the division below.
(12) But the stark reality is that in both the public and private sectors, women are still under-represented in the highest echelons of leadership.
(13) In the final gruesome hours of waiting, the American judicial system at its very highest echelons was involved – including the US supreme court, which issued the decisive final ruling.
(14) Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.
(15) The letter to the prime minister calling for wind subsidies to be cut, signed by more than 100 Tory MPs, was the culmination of months of campaigning from a coalition of free-market thinktanks, politicians, special interest groups and sections of the media, creating an anti-wind backlash that has reached nearly the highest echelons of government.
(16) Updated at 12.04pm BST 11.10am BST Military unrest A number of commentators are suggesting that the sidelining of military chiefs Hussein Tantawi and Sami Anan was supported by the Scaf's upper echelons in order to pre-empt an internal coup .
(17) The remuneration of different categories of recruited human resources within the districts posed a major problem: how to set up a system that would consider different levels of professional skills and education as well as retain incentives for lower echelon workers.
(18) In the theater of operations, rear echelon hospitals by doctrine receive patients who have been stabilized by forward hospitals.
(19) The two-echelon system, using adaptive exponential smoothing, was recommended.
(20) His purging of senior cadres has led to nervousness among the higher echelons of power in Pyongyang and not consolidation.
Row
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.
(n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
(n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
(v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
(v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
(v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.
(v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
(n.) The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(3) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(4) However, a new, high-profile business deal, and a public row with her family, mean the multibillionaire's days of privacy are numbered.
(5) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(6) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
(7) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
(8) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(9) It is suggested therefore that the ATPase is not randomly distributed in the plane of the membrane but rather forms ordered clusters (probably rows of monomers or dimers) on the fluorescence time scale (nanoseconds) even in the presence of a large excess of phospholipid.
(11) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
(12) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
(13) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
(14) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(15) It leaves 121 people on death row in the state, including two women.
(16) The row between two of the media industry's most colourful and abrasive figures took place in the YouView boardroom, located at Desmond's Northern & Shell Thameside skyscraper.
(17) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
(18) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(19) The prospect of prosecutions has already led to rows between the Obama administration and members of the Bush administration led by the former vice-president Dick Cheney, who said CIA morale would be damaged.
(20) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.