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The children scrambled round their mother, their shrill voices pecking at her with various questions.

They also aspire to a higher place in society's pecking order, but in so doing force others in the rat race to run faster to keep up.

Here, though, I thought of the sanitation grade, and of the rooster, pecking maggots out of human faeces before being killed.

At the bottom of the firm's pecking order, he had no say whatever in the matter.

Sebastian Giovinco has a galaxy of stars in front of him in the Juventus pecking order, but insists he's "not afraid of competition. "

At the bottom of the company's pecking order, he had to listen to almost everyone.

As the show ended, Bertelli rushed backstage to greet his wife, who bounced over to him, pecking him once on each cheek.

I said last season they could easily go out in the summer and buy another team, and they have to be in the pecking order now.

But it will bounce back into a global economy in the midst of a dramatic change in the pecking order.

In recent decades, evidence has piled up that human health and happiness is significantly affected by our place in the pecking order.

The pecking order of winners and losers among the broadcasters will take a while to fathom.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein founded Miramax and led the company into its 1990s heyday , when it shook up the Hollywood pecking order .

When it comes to a food find like this, pecking order is strictly observed. The biggest bird gets the booty.

What's the matter with the boy? He's only pecking at the food.

29 year-old Linghua Wong decided the only way to escape his wife's hen-pecking was by going to jail.

In Japanese companies which adopt a traditional pecking order based upon seniority, the older the age of an employee, the more he is paid.

or running over my Jianpanshangqiao word bite pecking fingers, naughty like a disturbance of the child.

This kind of preference is contrary to one of the western classic capital structure theories- the pecking order.

Do you think we'll come away from Sepang with a clearer idea of the pecking order?

What had started out as aiding our survival had swiftlyturned into a way of establishing a pecking order.

The willingness of smaller banks to take a bigger hit on interest margins could shake up the pecking order in the sector.

He is far too many miles above me in the pecking order for such a principle to work.

The children watched the birds pecking at the corn.

I waited for you but you stopped on the gangway, pecking the hat to the sea , then turned back dapperly , firmly , point-blank.

And China's auto sector has emerged as a threat to the long-standing pecking order.

What kind of a bride smells like a horse and kisses like a chicken pecking corn?

The birds were trained, using a food reward, to pick the images in ascending order of the number of objects in them (by pecking the screen).

The guy at the bottom of the pecking order takes shit from everybody.

The child is only pecking at his food.

But they can't be so far below you in the pecking order that such easy exchanges would be unlikely.

Let's deal properly with the problem, instead of just pecking at it.

They prefer to enhance the clout and economic reach of state-backed companies at the top of the pecking order.

contracting with western traditional pecking order theory, Chinese listed companies prefer equity financing obviously.

Don't just state your conclusion: "My results show that the pecking-order theory is rejected. " Give the fact behind that result.

The Scot is well down the pecking order in Benitez's first-team plans and he is keen to get regular first-team action under his belt.

Greg's mill was part of a revolution in industry that would profoundly alter the world's pecking order.

This chapter delves into group dynamics and how humans arrange themselves in a pecking order from top to bottom in the dance of life.

The quarrel led to a fight, with the nine heads pecking each other. Feathers scatted everywhere.

At day-break lots of birds flied down to the roof of the trailer, pecking the crumb. Not long after chatters of birds awoke Bill and Fred.

But the dramatic changes in the pecking order mask a lack of more profound change in the system of finance itself.

How galling then, for those down the pecking order, that the numbers of people at the top are rising so fast.

You might think chickens are way down the pecking order in the animal kingdom when it comes to emotional intelligence.

Two studies by management consultants show that they dramatically rearranged the pecking order of companies in many fields.

But, unlike conventional family holidays, I am at the bottom of the pecking order.

You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

Our HA task involved multiple applications with different pecking orders within the same cluster.

It was the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen .

Even existing funds will find it hard to raise fresh capital unless they are at the very top of the industry's pecking order.

SOCIAL animals are characterised by a pecking order derived from a complicated web of interactions.

Several fat brown chickens were pecking their way around the yard.

This paper studies the relation between the pecking order theory and industry dynamic.

In the afternoon, visit Daguan Platform, Emperor's Seat, Divine Pecking Chicken, Immortal Bridge, etc. Stay in a countryside hotel at night.

These instruments are fairly high up the pecking order if the firm goes bust.

God designed chickens to make nests, lay eggs, raise their chicks and establish communities (the "pecking order" ).

The boss kept pecking at the clerk to force him to resign.

Therefore, the global pecking order among financial institutions is shifting.

Moreover, deep changes are underway that threaten to reshuffle the pecking order among carmakers, and even create openings for upstarts.

But for others further down the pecking order, non-financial incentives will be needed.

The current state of F1's pecking-order will show that the 2009 championship tussle could ultimately be between Brawn and Red Bull.

The monkeys were housed in groups so they would naturally establish a pecking order from dominant to subordinate.

If they want to replace coal plants in the pecking order, though, they'll have to work all the time.

At the very least a new pecking order appears to be forming.

However, one hen was sitting up and pecking at her own feathers.

I think it is (brutal) to keep chickens in crowded conditions and then cut off their beaks to keep them from pecking one another.

The holes are there because he keeps pecking at them to wear off any worries that happened through the day.

She kept pecking at me.

He also suggested that F1's new pecking order, with names like Brawn and Red Bull topping the charts, is confusing the public.

And, sadly, the ability to exert force still determines the international pecking order.

If you measure inequality of wealth rather than income, the global pecking order changes.

Indeed, the two companies sit very differently in the technology pecking order.

It seems envy at being lower in the social pecking order tarnishes the satisfaction of being well off.

Rules and a strict pecking order are what they seek.

My father is always pecking at my spelling mistakes.

In the pecking order at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , traders trounced investment bankers for most of the past decade.

Nor was she pecking and scratching in any of the nearby yards.

The next step was pecking out stories.

Cold stream stripping logging pecking, songbirds Liu Xiao cord quite high.

Did that feel a lot different given where you guys have been in terms of the top of the pecking order?

During impact test, no vibration and bird pecking phenomenon at contact point.

The pecking order may change, but pragmatism and efficiency will always count.

Which means that mice may be more likely to survive a bloodletting-pecking.

It's very tight at the very top so a relatively small change can move the pecking order.

He has refused to establish even a rudimentary pecking order in his office.

Finely decorated on the exterior with two groups of cockerels parading in front of hens among chicks pecking at the ground.

By contrast , the World Cup has its own hierarchy , which is pleasingly divorced from the global pecking order .

But he favours a move to Real to boost his career after falling down United's pecking order.

Holding it with one hand meant the same index-finger pecking you do on the iPhone.

Their taxes would leave the pecking order intact and envy undiminished.

Firms can, of course, recognise their own data and judge where they stand in the pecking order .

You also want to avoid creating a pecking order that places tester-programmers above tester-non-programmers.

It was not only could be stabed directly and picking, but also used for drawing and pecking.

All will be demanding service and barking orders at each other, with pecking order battles inevitable.

Today's shorebirds shuffle along muddy flats pecking and probing for invertebrates to eat.

grounds of the trade-off and pecking order theories.

China and other developing nations are quickly ascending the pecking order.

The result reflected the new financial pecking order: China won.

and I just want to scream, "stop pecking me! "

Amongst that top cadre of US schools the pecking order is also changing.

Nearby, a big snipe was looking for food in the water plants, its long and sharp bill pecking here and there.

This is because the office is organized by pecking order. People with more years and experience are given more responsibility.

Round Table of the pecking order of arrangement, there are two cases.

A plump brown hen was pecking around for stray grains of corn.

A researcher had said two years ago that China would become the No 2 in the world's economic pecking order in 2018.

We watched the chickens pecking at the corn.

There is a distinct pecking order in Cabine, and the Minister for Education resides somewhere in the lower echelons.

This year, however, the pecking order has been reversed.

Sounds of frantic pecking on keyboard.

The boy started pecking at the keys of the piano.

Even senior bondholders, who are high in the pecking order, were hit.

The pecking order in that club is pretty tough.

Now there are 13 hens pecking around the yard.

When the crisis is over these companies will be stronger and more formidable than ever, reordering the global pecking order.

She is pecking away at the keys of a typewriter.

But nobody could see anything pecking him.

The fowls are pecking at the corn.

The bird was pecking the bark.

So that may change the pecking order a little bit, that's possible, but we are working according to our plans.

There are no big changes in the pecking order.

Like many tribes, however, companies have a strict pecking order based on age.

While these apes live in female-led societies, the males also have a strict pecking order.

For example, at work it's almost always a good idea to please people above you in the pecking order.

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Loneliness like flocks of rock-eagles is pecking through my chest

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Lovely pale yellow robins dart about the floor, pecking at some seeds

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