Aristotle also tended to stratify all aspects of human nature and activity into levels of excellence and, like Plato, he put the pure and unimpassioned intellect on the top level.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The top of the building is a crown, like a huge gable, which is at the same level as the roof and helps to conceal the room where there used to be water tanks.

*. ad, the top level domain for Andorra

*. aw, the internet top level domain country code for Aruba

*. az, the CC top level domain for the nation of Azerbaijan

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

The top level organisation is:

* Business leaders which include successful entrepreneurs, financially successful investors, and top level CEO's of major corporations that regularly dominate the global business scene, top the daily business headlines and coverage of financial markets have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

High-ranking politicians and top level government officials that dominate global political scene and foreign affairs, headline major current events, play a pivotal role in domestic and international politics have a tremendous impact in day-to-day media have a strong likelihood to become celebrities.

* Prominent socialites, elite aristocrats and royal families, top level professional athletes, chart-topping musicians and pop singers, television and film actors with lead roles on prominently scheduled television shows and hit box office movies, internationally recognized supermodels and models are almost invariably celebrities.

Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.

A reinforced concrete column is extended by having the steel reinforcing bars protrude a few inches or feet above the top of the concrete, then placing the next level of reinforcing bars to overlap, and pouring the concrete of the next level.

It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height.

In order to reduce large shear reversals in the core walls in the basement, and at the top of the tower base level, the ground floor, basement levels 1 and 2 and the 5th and 6th floors, the floor slabs and beams are separated horizontally from the core walls.

Its top level divisions served as a basis for the Library of Congress classification, which also took over some of its features.

The first classification has only seven top level classes, and only eight classes in all.

Further expansions add more top level classes and subdivisions.

By the fifth classification all the letters of the alphabet are in use for top level classes.

In addition, many registries of the existing top level domain names ( TLD ) s have adopted IDNA.

Barbara Borland of Tigard took top senior individual home economics honors with a demonstration called filbert hats.

In September 1992, Polgár participated in a tournament held in Aruba in which a team of senior men's players competed against a team of top women players.

In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of taking a " capitalist road ", most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

As a rule of thumb, senior debt usually has interest margins of 3 – 5 % ( on top of Libor or Euribor ) and needs to be paid back over a period of 5 – 7 years, junior debt has margins of 7 – 16 %, and needs to be paid back in one payment ( as bullet ) after 7 – 10 years.

Also, under regulations first adopted in 1954 and revised in 1984, members of the Senior Civil Service ( the top management grades ) are barred from holding office in a political party or publicly expressing controversial political viewpoints, while less senior civil servants at an intermediate ( managerial ) level must generally seek permission to participate in political activities.

He was also tapped by QEBH, the well-known secret society on campus honoring the top senior men.

By his senior year, John was considered as one of the top guards in the country and was named to the 1979 McDonald's All-American Team, joining such future college and NBA standouts as Isiah Thomas, James Worthy and Byron Scott in the game.

NCOs serving in the top three enlisted grades ( E-7, E-8, and E-9 ) are termed senior noncommissioned officers ( chief petty officers in the Navy and Coast Guard ).

The other wing were powerful in senior levels of the trade union movement ( though few actually reached the very top in the unions ) and despite the party's decline in numbers were able to drive the TUC's policy of opposing the Industrial Relations Act.

There is a Pulitzer Prize awarded every year for America's top editorial cartoonist — as decided by a panel of senior media industry professionals and media academics ( see Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning ).

The top honorary organization in Air Force ROTC, the Arnold Air Society, is named for him, and The George C. Marshall Foundation awards the George C. Marshall / Henry " Hap " Arnold ROTC Award annually to the top senior cadet at each college or university with an AFROTC program.

The lack of progress had convinced some senior Conservatives that it would be a good idea to scrap tariff reform altogether, which Law disagreed with, successfully arguing that tariff reform " was the first constructive work of the Party " and that to scrap it would " split the Party from top to bottom ".

At a senior level as of 2011, it is played by fifteen teams divided into two regional conferences, North ( Scotland ), and South ( England & Wales ) with the top teams qualifying for playoffs at the end of the season.

It is very important to keep in mind that culture change must be managed from the top of the organization, as willingness to change of the senior management is an important indicator ( Cummings & Worley, 2004, page 490 ).

Following the first Gulf War, the Air Guard ’ s senior leadership in the National Guard Bureau began to adapt their organization for the post-Cold War era in a series of far-reaching discussions with top echelon Air Force personnel, state officials, unit leaders, and members of Congress.

Participants usually come from senior or top management, with many years of experience within their company or industry and younger ' high-potentials ' identified as being key in succession strategies within their companies.

For senior rikishi in the top two divisions ( the so-called sekitori ) this belt is coloured white, and it is worn with one end distinctively looped at the front.

On New Year's Eve 1986, professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents.

He is an adjunct professor of International Affairs and a senior research scholar at Columbia's School of International & Public Affairs, where he has been voted one of the top professors.

In January 1981, Holbrooke left government and became both senior advisor to Lehman Brothers and vice president of Public Strategies, a consulting firm he formed with James A. Johnson, a former top aide to Walter Mondale.

As the head of a principal organ in the European Union he held one of the most senior position within the European Union, number five in the top hierarchy.

The award ceremony celebrated its 14th birthday recently, with artists awarded in 19 categories, including the prestigious Life Time Achievement Award ( awarded to a senior member of music industry for their contribution for the development of Nepali music ), and performances by top Nepali artists.

If any or some of the teams cannot participate than replacements would be called in from the top 60 teams or based on strong recommendations from senior members of the University Debating community.