Sentences with 'echelons'
Example sentences and phrases with the word echelons and other words derived from it.
• « In their state, the upper echelons of government and administration were Greek, but the bulk of the royal bureaucracy was Egyptian. »
• « As rival factions developed in the upper echelons of the Church hierarchy, one group of French cardinals elected another, the French pope (Clement VII), and Europe was thus divided between two rival popes, who excommunicated each other as heretics and impostors (the term used at the time was "antipope"). »
• « The lines between the upper echelons of the bourgeoisie and the bulk of the nobility were very blurred by the end of the century, as bourgeois money financed the old noble houses that still had access to the social prestige of a title. »