There were never hierarchical levels or state headquarters.

There are no strictly defined kind of hierarchies.

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

A hierarchical database model is a data model in which the data is organized into a tree like structure.

The highest peak is the Peak of Speleologists () but the dominant summit is a typical pyramidal horn of the Arabika Mount ().

I don't know if any of you know very much about org charts, but if you were to assign a stripped down and simplified McDonald's org chart, this is exactly what the org chart would look like.

The rigidly hierarchical forces of the establishment are insecure and fearful of what will happen after the king dies.

The change wrought by 68 affected, above all, traditional culture, hidebound moralism, and the principle of hierarchical authority.

Teotihuacan, with a population of more than 150,000 people, had some of the largest pyramidal structures in the pre Columbian Americas.

The motor impulses originates in the giant pyramidal cells or Betz cells of the motor area i.e., precentral gyrus of cerebral cortex.

According to Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, hierarchical, command and control approaches simply do not work anymore.

Pyramidal neurons (pyramidal cells) are a type of neuron found in areas of the brain including the cerebral cortex, the hippocampus, and the amygdala.

Mr. Kourakis (Greece), while stressing the efforts made to harmonize all the different norms in force in Greece, wished it to be clear what the hierarchy was.

Hierarchies defined A hierarchy is a stratified system of ranking and organizing people, things, ideas, etc., where each element of the system, except for the top one, is subordinate to one or more other elements.

Therefore, while giving due attention to the mechanics of institutions (e.g. the legal and constitutional provisions of each institution's mandate and internal hierarchical and horizontal relationships), it is essential that the design of institutions takes into account organic aspects.

National safety standards and inspection regimes reflect the underlying pathologies of the Chinese state, in which lower ranking officials report only positive information up the bureaucratic food chain.

Against the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the regime, we raised a decentralized institution, a huge organism striving to achieve consensus about its aims and the methods of action.

The most encompassing view is that of the political economy school, which argues that health inequalities are determined by capitalist economies hierarchical structure and the associated political choices about resource distribution.

In a time when famine was commonplace and social hierarchies were often brutally enforced, food was an important marker of social status in a way that has no equivalent today in most developed countries.

EUPM continued to support the local police in developing management hierarchies designed to improve command and control, while also assisting the State level Ministry of Security, the State Investigation and Protection Agency and the State Border Service to boost their management and operational effectiveness.

Moreover, this winner take all system fails to account for the fact that scientific work is largely carried out by research teams rather than individuals. As a result, the scientific workforce is beginning to resemble a pyramid scheme unfair, inefficient, and unsustainable.