Examples:

• You know the pecking order in this house?
• Each party chooses the pecking order of candidates in each list.
• We have a nice little pecking order at work.
• Rules and a strict pecking order are what they seek.
• I know there's a pecking order for tennis shoes.
• Oh, there is a pecking order.
• Shouldn't there be some sort of pecking order based off time put in at the club?
• The issue of housing is one of the most pressing issues in the pecking order of living needs.
• They stood at attention, to the rear or side of their master, as the Service-to-Self orientation requires a strict pecking order.
• But for many people lower down the pecking order, who think of themselves as solidly and boringly middle class, the same is true.