pecking order

The pecking order of democracy is reduced to this: When the president wants to go, he gets to go.

During any other month, that news alone would have signaled a new world order, an upheaval in the pecking order.

That parsing of the pecking order, though, didn't extend to his personal life or interactions with colleagues.

Without the informal pecking order, sociopaths have free room to maneuver.

Romney has already gone the extra mile to position himself below Netanyahu in the murky pecking order of US-Israeli relations.

They hadn't any organization, or any place to maintain on an organizational pecking-order.

They have a simple me-stronger pecking order so I pecked a bit and we can drink.