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Example sentences for: seniority

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She kidnapped the girl, got arrested, was fired, and then, when rehired, was forced to endure the humiliation of being the best heart surgeon on staff with the least seniority.
South Carolina likes re-electing people: Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority?
In choosing chairs, he suspended seniority.
In 1962 he had become the leader of the Illinois delegation by virtue of seniority, and Daley decided it was time for him to run for the Senate, in a kamikaze challenge to the Republican incumbent, Everett Dirksen.
His reason is that before he was elected to the House, he didn't understand how important the seniority system was in Congress.