There were many women in middle echelons, including the business editor.

Decisions were made at the top, by monarch, Council, or minister, not, as in a modern bureaucracy, by officials in the lower and middle echelons, who then mostly carried out routine tasks.

Murbella identified the questioner: middle echelon and ambitious.

Is it possible, as senior officials in the Drug Enforcement Administration argue, that the cartel's surviving middle echelon lacks the intelligence, connections and sheer machismo to maintain the cartel's operations?

We demand the election by secret ballot of all Party members from top to bottom, and of new officers for the lower, middle and upper echelons of the Hungarian Workers Party.

Top officers had changed, but the massive bureaucracy of the Navy depended on many lines of command, and the middle echelons remained solidly pro-Tyrant.

Enough time has passed for those in the middle echelons of government to forget the day-to-day horrors of war and focus once more on the petty intrigues of a land at peace.

For those in the middle echelons of government comes a whole portfolio of sayings on the perils of ambition.

Giving more voice to those with opposing views may actually strengthen, in the short run at least, the opposition to the reforms by foot-dragging office holders in the middle echelons of the Government.

In early 1999, a team largely drawn from the middle echelons of the first Bush administration began to act as foreign policy advisors to George W. Bush.