But as Stalin appointed his supporters to the communist party's higher echelons, he basically created and established a patron-client network with himself at the very top.
At the center of all three of these questions was Alexander Hamilton who came from the humblest backgrounds, to rise to the very upper echelons of the new American government.
Since the Catholic Church was considered to be in the upper echelon of society – even though its influence extended to the bottom – the clergy was educated.
So this indulgent little dining-piece places its owner firmly in the echelons of high society, in that very world that St Paul was so eloquently condemning for its drunkenness and its fornication.
Military tribunes were officers in the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above the centurion and was a traditional preparatory role for a career in the upper echelons of Roman Senatorial politics.