blue ribbon (n.)

• acme
• authority
• authorization
• championship
• command
• control
• cordon
• decoration
• directorship
• dominion
• effectiveness
• garter
• headship
• hegemony
• height
• imperium
• influence
• jurisdiction
• kingship
• leadership
• lordship
• management
• mastership
• mastery
• maximum
• most
• order
• ornament
• paramountcy
• power
• presidency
• primacy
• record
• riband
• ribbon
• rule
• say
• sovereignty
• star
• supremacy
• sway
• zenith