We have to get better to get to that top echelon, which is what our goal is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horizon League] Reference

It's called echelon plowing, where the trucks are staggered across the highway clearing snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Channel 9: Local News] Reference

It clearly shows the culpability of the next command echelon, which is just as great as that of the pilots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

The management echelon, that is from Director upwards, consists of 11 people. 55% of these are African, 0% coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And there's also something else called echelon, and this is a very covert and widely debated satellite-based espionage network.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001] Reference

Council chiefs said the current angled "echelon" parking on Eastney Espl.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The term "echelon" means, literally, "steps", or a zig-zag formation of columns, such as is shown in sketch Number 2, where the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas] Reference

“Those circles, upper echelon types there,” I say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plug In] Reference

Hurd's ouster is the third in five years at HP's top echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Source: Ousted HP CEO Settles With Accuser] Reference

The combination of them both really puts him in the top echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘A Standard for Fairness’] Reference

British troops, advancing in echelon from the right, led by the 22nd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

We all kind of expected a lot more help from higher echelon, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference

It's just that disconnect in the higher echelon of the FEMA program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2005] Reference

The heavy columns moved down the side of the ridge, the brigades marching in echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

The cuirassiers getting into line first, charged at once, the 16th following in echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

Quindel's report, however, is a damning indictment of the top echelon of Carey's campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Much Time To Celebrate] Reference

Well, I'm -- I happen to be particularly interested in the upper echelon crimes, shall we put it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2002] Reference

In fact, right now the case is mostly being driven by bureaucracy that isn't even in the top echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Maybe I Was Too Naive’] Reference

The trenches lay in a sort of echelon formation, the one on the extreme right being the most advanced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

This feature, a pursuit in echelon with the left flank advanced, continued throughout these operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

I ordered him to wheel his brigades to the left, to advance in echelon, and to catch the enemy in flank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The higher echelon of the placebo industry, as epitomized by Herbert Benson, is more difficult to dismiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Real Is The Placebo Effect?] Reference

Division Headquarters was at Villers-en-Haye; moving forward in echelon to Noviant and Euvezin October 24th.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Love] Reference

If the fat were cut from the rear-echelon ranks there would be no need to reduce those that carry the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputation, Not Pedicure] Reference

The players of the highest echelon do look in mirrors and analyse performances, so I am not fearful of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Hodgson orders Fernando Torres to stop making excuses] Reference

Another battalion had also suffered considerably from shell fire, and was posted in echelon on the left rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference

Since then, he has been cobbling together a business that has catapulted him into Wall Street's upper echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barclays Will Tap Diamond as CEO] Reference

He was not even a true champion at making money, never reaching the very top echelon of this country's superrich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fame Game: Why Everyone's Gloating] Reference

She's a typical high echelon Washington secretary, cool, extremely well-mannered, cheerful without being bumptious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tinker's Dam] Reference

What keeps "Star Island" from ascending to the author's upper echelon is the op-ed staleness that clings to its satire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carl Hiaasen's Hollywood comedy, "Star Island"] Reference

The phalanx moved forward slowly, and slowly went into an echelon formation, each division slightly ahead of the one following.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptation] Reference

The 120 schools in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision, the sport's highest echelon, are limited to 85 scholarship athletes each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alabama's Unhappy Castoffs] Reference

It was one of the highest-level meetings between a U.S. and Syrian official since Washington cut off top-echelon contacts in early 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Mideast Talks] Reference

Davis's and Baird's -- to follow en echelon in support of Schofield, and summoned General Palmer to meet me in person: He came on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Only two players whose careers began after American involvement in Vietnam, Johnny Bench (16) and Pete Rose (25), made the upper echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Boys Of Summer] Reference

With Briceno's death, the FARC has lost four commanders from its elite upper echelon since 2008, when Santos headed the Defense Ministry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colombian rebel leader reportedly killed in military strike] Reference