The pecking order may change, but pragmatism and efficiency will always count.
Peak major attractions there is an immortal bridge, the Son of Heaven Block difficult step, God pecking chicken.
But while the presence of the dollar keeps money flowing in and the system well-oiled, it no longer reflects the world's economic pecking order.
As for sounds, there was the steady drone of the snorers, and a small occasional noise, a flickering or pecking that I could in no way account for.
At 7 a.m. on a recent spring day, many passengers are pecking at BlackBerries and talking on mobile phones, but eavesdropping is practically impossible because too many languages are in play.
In classic barnyard fashion, it was scratching, pecking and clucking.
He had refused to establish even a basic pecking order in his office.
It's very tight at the very top so a relatively small change can move the pecking order.
One reason for this may be the diversity of India's economy: there is always a segment lower down the economic pecking order which is happy to buy products that richer consumers scoff at.
The boy started pecking at the keys of the piano.
Our HA task involved multiple applications with different pecking orders within the same cluster.
Did that feel a lot different given where you guys have been in terms of the top of the pecking order?
The25- year-old faces further competition next season from Foster who returns to United after two years on loan at Watford, but Kuszczak insists he is determined to fight his way to the top of the pecking order.
The children scrambled round their mother, their shrill voices pecking at her with various questions.
OVER the past decade the world's corporate pecking order has been disturbed by the arrival of a new breed of plucky multinationals from the emerging world.
No, it's just the pecking order at our office.
If they want to replace coal plants in the pecking order, though, they'll have to work all the time.
The main hall in front of the left and right two white Enta, groups of pigeons in the space between the two peckingpecking, laughing.
The lender needs to top up its capital levels, but with larger Chinese banks in the same situation, it could find itself well down the pecking order if left to raise funds on the stock market.
Even existing funds will find it hard to raise fresh capital unless they are at the very top of the industry's pecking order.
The result reflected the new financial pecking order: China won.
So you need to apply your word-pecking results to this final version, and go through it again.
Newcomers have to accept their position at the bottom of the pecking order.
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