Mr. Gorbachev is certainly in the upper echelon of the speakers that you'd want to have.

Seton Hall has certainly shown that they're moving toward the upper echelon of our league because of how well they've played on the road.

Marvel is very quietly moving into the upper echelon of left tackles in the NFL.

Combined they could be extraordinary, but that doesn't [automatically] move them to the upper echelon. It puts them in the right path but not by default.

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

Murphy was a bit smaller, but quicker. Jefferson was a bigger and a shiftier runner.