As one of the few officers who had remained loyal to Morínigo, Stroessner became a formidable player once he entered the higher echelons of the armed forces.

Although ‘ Edwardian Mercia ’ never had the success of ‘ Victorian Wessex ’, it was an idea that appealed to the higher echelons of society.

The family were rich landowners and belonged to the higher echelons of Swedish society, and she was probably named after Estrid of the Obotrites, who was the queen of Sweden, and the consort of Olof Skötkonung, at the time Estrid was born.

With the maturing and miniaturization of applicable technologies as seen in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in UAVs grew within the higher echelons of the U. S. military.

Such appeals serve to allocate different categories of workers to rungs on the scale of labor markets, relegating stigmatized populations to the lower levels and insulating the higher echelons from competition from below.

Scouts may also have different tasks to perform for their commanders of higher echelons, for example: the engineer reconnaissance detachments will try to identify difficult terrain in the path of their formation, and attempt to reduce the time it takes to transit the terrain using specialist engineering equipment such as a pontoon bridge for crossing water obstacles.

He is taken abroad, first to the Netherlands, then to East Germany, en route meeting higher echelons of the Abteilung, the East German Intelligence Service.

The Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to " higher " positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder.

The wealthy and higher echelons of the society were placed in streets close to the temple, while the poorest were placed in the fringe streets.

That first season was an unqualified success, with clubs in the upper echelons of the national leagues reporting increased crowds, interest from both local backers and national companies as well as higher skill levels among players exposed to regular competition.

And with each tear he rises a rank higher in the echelons of actors ".

As a consequence of this initiative, the then young leaders of mixed heritage in UMNO, such as Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, were drafted into higher echelons of the political establishment.

In such a system, lower-level authorities directly reported to higher level authorities and so on, with the bulk of the power being held at the highest echelons of the Communist Party.

The Presidium was a powerful position in the republic's higher echelons of power, and could nominally be considered the equivalent of head of state, although most executive authority would be concentrated in the Communist Party's politburo and its First Secretary.

In hard-core rules violations cases, OOs refer problems to higher echelons of the amateur auxiliary and may be requested to gather evidence for possible FCC enforcement actions.

The episode demonstrated Bobby's devotion to his family, but also confirmed his credentials as a man not to be crossed lightly, further cementing his position in the higher echelons of Tony's crew.

Doc Daneeka's bureaucratic death parallels one of the main themes of the book that the bureaucratic system holds an impersonal attitude toward those who do not hold power in the higher echelons of the military branch ( colonels and generals ).

Investigating magistrate Armand Riberolles, who succeeded Eric Halphen, wrote that the " instruction hadn't been able to formally establish the personal involvement of responsible members of the higher echelons of the RPR ", while noting that " a large number of testimonies, cross-checked by various factual elements, show that Jean-Claude Méry had been commissioned to ensure the financing of the RPR's political activities by collecting funds, in particular through the firms working with the OPAC.

The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, however, said that it " was unable to find evidence that the two murderers convicted of the killing of Chris Hani took orders from international groups, security forces or from higher up in the right-wing echelons.

The generals, colonels, and other commanding officers in the higher echelons constantly and consistently appear to be vain and care only about their own careers.

This officer does have command of the soldiers under him but does not have many of the command responsibilities inherent to higher echelons.

After the publication of Flowering Rifle in February 1939, they became popular in the higher echelons of Roman society.

Pavlov links Ivan ’ s turn against the higher echelons of oprichniki to the increasing number of the lower-born among their ranks.

The Schwarze Kapelle were patriotic Germans, including many in the higher echelons of the Wehrmacht and Abwehr, who feared Hitler's policies would ruin the country ; by overthrowing the Nazi Party they hoped to preserve German sovereignty.

Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being mostly transparent and often containing a higher number of fossil inclusions.

Founded in 1939 by the Sisters of Saint Dominic, Caldwell College is a Catholic institution in the Judaeo-Christian tradition with a heritage of eight centuries of Dominican commitment to higher learning.

These migrants have been attracted by Puerto Rico's higher wages, which have generally tended to rise in relation to Dominican wages since the early 1980s, when an era of frequent devaluation of the Dominican peso began.

She is also the second-highest placed Dominican ever in the Miss World contest as she placed second, only Mariasela Álvarez has placed higher as she was the winner of Miss World 1982.

The Convitto San Tommaso was established by the Dominican Order in 1963 as a place of residence in Rome for secular priests who come to the Eternal City in order to pursue higher studies at one or other of the Roman Universities.

Dominican University ( DU ) is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois.

Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being nearly always transparent, and it has a higher number of fossil inclusions.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

Throughout the world there are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study and research, including the ICMA ( International Computer Music Association ), IRCAM, GRAME, SEAMUS ( Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States ), CEC ( Canadian Electroacoustic Community ), and a great number of institutions of higher learning around the world.

The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.

The largest institution of higher education in Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń serves over 40 thousand students and was founded in 1945, based on the Toruń Scientific Society, Stefan Batory University in Wilno, and Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv.

Non-Abelian Algebraic Topology: filtered spaces, crossed complexes, cubical higher homotopy groupoids ; European Mathematical Society Tracts in Mathematics Vol.

The success of this exhibition resulted in the incorporation of The Society of Arts and Crafts, on June 28, 1897, with a mandate to " develop and encourage higher standards in the handicrafts.

A Steinway Society is a local, non-profit society that aims at developing the musical knowledge and talents of disadvantaged youth ; providing an opportunity for young piano students to work towards a higher level ; encouraging performance experience, audition preparation, and scholarship assistance for further study in classical and jazz piano ; and providing talented students with a loaned piano and tuition for piano lessons through the establishment of Steinway Piano Galleries.

The Audio Engineering Society recommends 48 kHz sample rate for most applications but gives recognition to 44. 1 kHz for Compact Disc and other consumer uses, 32 kHz for transmission-related application and 96 kHz for higher bandwidth or relaxed anti-aliasing filtering.

The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.

It is commonly found in suitable habitat anywhere in Australasia, particularly in the higher rainfall areas to the east, south-east, and south-west, of Australia and throughout New Zealand, but also in the tropical north of Australia and the island groups of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga and the Society Islands.

He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women.

Divine Word College of Legazpi ( DWCL ) is a Catholic school of higher learning run by the Society of the Divine Word.

As a United States Senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of " Great Society " legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans.

In 1999, SCONUL, the Society of College, National and University Libraries in the UK, published " The Seven Pillars of Information Literacy " model, to " facilitate further development of ideas amongst practitioners in the field ... stimulate debate about the ideas and about how those ideas might be used by library and other staff in higher education concerned with the development of students ' skills.

After the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, a special Committee reorganized the various courses of study, dividing them in higher education ( Canon Law, Philosophy, Civil Law, Theology, Logic and Metaphysics, Physics ) and primary education ( courses in Rhetoric, Reading and Writing ).

He served until the end of the war and before the unit was discharged, commanded the Corps and had become a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati, an organization formed during the war by officers of the rank of Captain and higher.

Interest in proportional representation revived sharply in Britain in 1974, and from then on the Society was able to secure a higher public profile for its campaign.

He was elected into the imperial Caesareo-Leopoldina Academy in 1708 ( originally located at Schweinfurth ), and to a higher grade in 1732, into the Royal Society in 1724, into the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1731, the St. Petersburg Academy in 1735, and the Berlin Academy in 1754.

Still, it ’ s astonishing that officials could not immediately recognize a conflict with the values that are fundamental to Catholic higher education .” One of the on-going activities of the Cardinal Newman Society is to monitor which Catholic colleges and universities perform the play each year.

president of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) ( and of the Institute of British Geographers ( IBG ) after amalgamation ) 1993 – 1997 ; president of the Anglo-Hellenic League 1978 – 1986 ; president of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1987-1994 ; president of the UK Crete Veterans Association 1991-2001 ; president of the British Heart Foundation ( BHF ) 1992-1995 ; chancellor of Southampton University 1984 – 1995, and has been closely associated with research and higher education.

The Ibero-American University ( in Spanish: Universidad Iberoamericana, abbreviated UIA but commonly known as Ibero ) is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus.

Studies by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation found for the first time very high levels of higher brominated PBDEs ( BDE-209 ) in eggs of Peregrine falcons.

He gave two lectures in 1892 in which he accepted Darwinism and argued that it was compatible with a higher view of Christianity ; the lectures were published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, which had a few years earlier strongly opposed Darwinian ideas.