There were never hierarchical levels or state headquarters.

There are no strictly defined kind of hierarchies.

Sanctified hierarchies stifle initiative.

Ecuador was able to maintain relatively superior growth during the crisis.

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 ().

This is not because markets are morally superior, though they do require freedom of choice to function effectively.

Incheon was awarded the right on April 17, 2007, defeating Delhi, India to host the Games.

That would mean 3,000 micro states, each refusing to accept any sovereignty superior to its own.

In recent years, it has become Africa s leading exporter of industrial goods, outperforming even South Africa and Egypt.

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.

Although faced with vastly superior numbers, the Portuguese and British forces achieved a strategic victory over the Spanish and French forces.

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.

Aimed particularly at the automotive market, they were the first practical, affordable car hi fi systems, and could produce superior sound quality to the compact cassette.

Thanks to policies introduced with the full support of the Member States, UNIDO had been strengthened and now excelled in promoting industrial development worldwide.

In developing countries, there currently exist a number of outstanding scientific and technological institutions that can be qualified as centres of excellence.

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.

Development is not seen as a means of improving people s lives, but as helping Russia prove itself to be superior to everybody else.

Perhaps the central idea behind it is on the ability of the market to be self correcting as well as being the most superior institution in allocating resources.

In the late 1970 s, a Committee on the Present Danger argued that Soviet power was surpassing that of the US, and the 1980 American election reflected such fears.

Soviet fighters were usually superior in firepower, speed and agility, and were to be avoided unless the enemy was in a disadvantageous position.

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.

Microsoft s critics have complained endlessly about this, claiming that the browser s integration into the operating system drove out inherently superior software solutions.

Finally, the Iraqi government must begin dismantling the militia groups that still outgun the fledgling Iraqi army, and it must defeat the largely Sunni led insurgency.

As a result, it was outnumbered not only by the Royal Navy but also by the Imperial German Navy and United States Navy, which were also technically superior.

The quality of China s roads and telecommunication puts to shame Thailand s uneven, badly maintained streets and its slow and expensive Internet service.

She stayed at the top of her class through elementary school, middle school, and then in high school, she scored brilliantly on the national examinations so that she became the first person in her village, ever, to come to the United States on scholarship.

Every day in the Gaza Strip, strategic deterrence the inhibition of attack by a fear of punishment backed up by superior military power is being put to the test.

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.

And so that's the beginning of Protei, and that's the first boat in history that completely changed the shape of the hull in order to control it, and the properties of sailing that we get are very superior compared to a normal boat.

In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgium.

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.

With nothing set in concrete, Europe's constitutional process continue to rely not on any transcendent document, but on balancing political relations and calculations so that the whole thing does not fall apart.

This approach was chosen not only because of political expediency indirect coordination was seen as economically superior to the more direct coordination implied by economic governance.

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.

The US prevailed not because of its military superiority, but because of its soft power, and because its hegemony was based not on coercion (though there was some of that, too), but largely on consent.

Nowadays at the College of Europe, the culture of doubt among students from Old Europe seems to prevail over what was once the pragmatic confidence of students from New Europe.