Sentences with phrase «high up the food chain»

Pick up the phone, even if it means calling someone higher up the food chain.

It's appetite goes much higher up the food chain.

(Not that they don't now, since King, an on - again / off - again Cuomo ally / opponent, is already pretty high up the food chain).

What Leveson rightly focused on were exchanges far higher up the food chain than pints in the Red Lion on Whitehall or lunch at the Gay Hussar in Soho.

The effect could also apply higher up the food chain — predators often have to deal with toxins produced by their prey, such as scorpion venom.

BRAN FERREN: The triumph of the Internet was that the authors were smart enough to work only on the lowest level protocols rather than anticipate things higher up the food chain, which permitted interoperability to an extent that no one ever expected.

Brill, Stephanie soon learned, had reached people higher up the food chain throughout the federal government.

The chemical is also fat - soluble — meaning that it builds up in fatty tissues — so scientists are concerned that it can biomagnify, appearing at greater levels in the tissues of animals higher up the food chain, as the triclosan of all the plants and animals below them is concentrated.

Targets are set and agreed in closed meetings, action plans are created and delivered to class teachers and we end up routinely undermining the authority of classroom teachers by pretending that higher up the food chain there is a magic bullet.

If this tech ever does land in a VW AG model, it will likely start in a model that is higher up the food chain than the Golf.

Higher up the food chain resides the B3 S BiTurbo wagon ($ 149,900 plus ORCs) and the B4 S BiTurbo convertible ($ 159,900 plus ORCs).

Higher up the food chain, the Dodge Viper and Nissan GT - R, as amazing as they are, can't touch the Chevy's impressive refinement and feature set.

Larger fish, like salmon and tuna, offer many of the same health benefits as small fish, but, because they are higher up the food chain, they are also more likely to be contaminated with pollutants like heavy metals.

PBDEs are found in particularly high concentrations in fish that are high up the food chain and, therefore, in seafood - flavor cat foods.

If you have at least Gold status with Marriott, I would book the Coral Tower in hope to be upgraded higher up the food chain.

There are traps to be sprung, beasts higher up the food chain to be summoned to help your cause and all manner of tools constantly at your disposal.

Any impact on the populations of tiny crustaceans will affect other creatures higher up the food chain — cod, seals and polar bears — which need fat sources in their diet.

«It could stimulate growth of plankton at the base of the food web, which could impact birds, fish and marine mammals higher up the food chain,» said Dr Hawkings.

Mercury is bioaccumulative, which means its concentrations build up in the tissues of animals as the neurotoxin travels higher and higher up the food chain.

Upwelling is a crucial process because it provides the raw nutrients for phytoplankton to grow, creating a rich source of food for filter feeders and small fish and, in turn, larger fish and other organisms higher up the food chain.

Everything higher up the food chain benefits from more and larger green plants.

Someone higher up the food chain is likely catching a lot of heat for this.

We might also need to anticipate paying a hiring bonus so we can hire as high up the food chain as possible to minimize the turmoil.

Of course people who save our lives, nurse us back to health and extinguish our blazing homes are higher up the food chain than we are.

Eventually he tired of yelling at me and asked to be put through to my boss so he could have a go at some fresh meat higher up the food chain.

Not exact matches

But as large companies shore up their security systems in response to high - profile data breaches, that means «the bad guys are moving down the food chain, where folks are not as prepared,» says Brian Casazza, CIO at Vistage, a training organization for small - and mid-sized businesses.

The expression was meant to encourage her staff to think about how high up the organization's food chain any given question needs to travel.

The higher up on the food chain you go, the less likely church leaders are going to follow their own religion.

The plan stops working when you get higher up on the food chain and especially when a fighter hits their 30s.

Like Suarez and Bale, Benteke is now subject to interest from clubs higher up football's food chain.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, high school students, PTOs and coaches often set up fundraising tables at lunch to sell entrees from local restaurants and fast food chains, everything from pizza to Chinese food, creating veritable «food courts» of junk food.

Yes, members (and people, cats, Tories etc who paid three quid) are important but they aren't higher up the political food chain than MPs who are elected by thousands of voters and nor should they be.

People far higher up than me in the food chain will make those decisions.

Ministers of state (higher up the Whitehall food chain) are deemed more «progress chasers» than managers.

That may explain in part why a plankton - eater like a blue whale can have lower levels of PCBs than beluga whales: The belugas are higher up on the food chain.

This toxic compound accumulates up the aquatic food chain and is often concentrated at high levels in fish, shellfish and marine mammals — and ultimately in the people who eat them.

As microorganisms consume the methylmercury, the metal accumulates and migrates up the food chain; that is why the largest predator fish (sharks and swordfish, for example) typically have the highest concentrations.

The toxic form of the element is methylmercury, which is toxic to the nervous system and can move up the food chain as higher organisms accumulate the methylmercury present in their prey.

Overall, it is known that DDT concentrates in biological systems (particularly in body fat), that it is a toxin, and that it bioaccumulates up the food chain, reaching its greatest concentrations in higher animals such as humans.

In waterways, bacteria convert elemental mercury to methylmercury, an organic form that accumulates in food chains, increasing in concentration higher up the chains.

As toxins move higher up in the food chain, from invertebrates to fish to marine mammals, they become more concentrated.

They remain stuck to sediments and are carried through waterways, building up in concentration (and toxicity) the higher up you go in the food chain.

The flourishing of some species at the expense of others causes major species shifts at the base of the food chain, with likely consequences higher up the trophic web up to the fishes.

We live in a society where high fructose corn syrup infests the supermarket shelves, antibiotics and other chemicals pile up in the food chain and obesity starts in childhood.

The farm ponds can be polluted, and the farmers often serve fish meal to the fish, so they end up higher up on the food chain (bigger toxic load) than they would in the wild.

It's also possible that we can no longer eat as they might of since such foods may no longer be available or polluted in which case we eat higher up on the food chain at our own risk.

These fish are higher up on the food chain, which means they sometimes contain high levels of mercury and other toxins.

«Dietary practices influence [our] exposure to pesticides, [toxic heavy] metals,... and industrial pollutants... A diet high in fish and [other] animal products, for example, results in greater exposure to [these pollutants] than does a [more] plant - based diet, because these compounds [may]... accumulate up the food chain.»

Those successful in current programs in Europe, including Aston's recently announced single - make racing series, will receive recognition from the automaker and the opportunity to test race cars higher up on the food chain.

The series winners will be given a chance to test - drive race cars higher up in the Aston Martin food chain, including the GT2 - and GT3 - spec cars.