hierarchical
Example Sentences
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"The hierarchical structure of the military places power with rank, especially in a training facility," he said.
From BBC
This is how deeply hierarchical and authoritarian institutions function.
From Salon
Since the raid, U.S. prosecutors have softened their earlier depiction of the Cartel de los Soles as a hierarchical organization led by Maduro, instead framing it as a patronage network among corrupt senior officials.
More than 300 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have declared their involvement in the Freemasons or other "hierarchical associations" after the force required them to do so last month, a High Court judge has said.
From BBC
Yet it was precisely this world—hierarchical, steeped in pageantry, encouraging of free inquiry and progress—that produced the Industrial Revolution and the republican structure of government that took root in the U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
