hierarchical

One road leads to freedom, sharing, and equality; the other to endless spying, a hierarchical structure, and repression.

This makes ISIS a challenge for traditionally hierarchical organizations to counter.

She said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”

According to the hierarchical model of galaxy formation, the first galaxies were built out of smaller collections of matter.

What was once a far more hierarchical, top-down, and force-fed relationship is much flatter and more voluntary.

And you can imagine how noses were flattened against the windows to see all this hierarchical swelldom.

These half-caste gentlemen of leisure fall into a system of hierarchical gradations.

The principle of status runs through the entire hierarchical system, both visible and invisible.

But the following facts must not be overlooked:—First, the new conception of the Church was not yet a hierarchical one.

Consequently we find nothing more than traces of the hierarchical conception of the Church in Tertullian.