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number of tiebreakers, including previous offices held, are used to determine seniority. Per traditions, the longest serving senator of the majority party...

and can be used to quickly determine seniority among a group of members from different services. They are also essential when determining a member's entitlements...

Seniority is used to determine assignments, tactical commands, promotions and general courtesy. To a lesser extent, historical seniority is used to recognize...

hold a rank, either that of officer, warrant officer or enlisted, to determine seniority and eligibility for promotion. Those who have served are known as...

Manpower and Reserve Affairs. In addition to determining seniority among officers, it is also used to determine promotion eligibility. U.S. Marine Corps...

someone has held a particular rank is called "seniority in grade" and determines whether that person is senior to another person of the same rank. For instance...

Agnatic seniority is a patrilineal principle of inheritance where the order of succession to the throne prefers the monarch's younger brother over the...

agreement from Cabinet to bring items to the Executive Council. The prime minister ranks the Cabinet ministers to determine seniority, or the "pecking order"...

also have an order of precedence that determines seniority; it often decides such matters as which unit forms up to the right (senior side) of other units...

Forces have an order of precedence that determines seniority; it often decides such matters as which unit forms up to the right (senior side) of other units...

Buildings). The prime minister assigns roles to ministers and ranks them in order to determine seniority. A minister's rank depends on factors such as...

several new Justices to the Court. The previous service of these three were not considered for the purposes of determining seniority. This point would cause...

submitted to the Senate must determine seniority. On September 21, Adams received a letter from McHenry relaying a statement from Washington threatening to resign...

straws to determine seniority, and Cottle drew the middle straw and middle seniority. In 1993, Republican Governor Pete Wilson elevated Cottle to Presiding...

Y-chromosomal Adam lived were much more recent, estimated to be tens of thousands of years. Agnatic seniority Derbfine Family name Historical inheritance systems...

to the age (venerability) of the creation of their peerages; that is, the older the title, the more senior the title's holder is. However, seniority rules...

many species react to ultraviolet light. Flocking birds, such as sparrows, also have a 'ranking system' that determines seniority. In Patagonia, Attenborough...

In legislatures, a quorum call is used to determine whether a quorum is present. Since attendance at debates is not mandatory in most legislatures, it...

order of seniority. The senior-most associate justice sits immediately to the chief justice's right; the second most senior sits immediately to their left...

male descendants in the male line to determine the rightful successor, although in earlier history agnatic seniority was more usual than primogeniture...