Thus, even though these actors share common goals, they are not subject to direct command; hierarchy alone is a poor tool to respond to disaster.
But that does not mean that they belong to some Syria-wide FSA command hierarchy: it's still just a label, typically intended to market these groups as part of the opposition mainstream.
Grant treated his men with courtesy and a general sense of solidarity (within the limits of command hierarchy), and was popular with them.
Mr. Zhao, as senior vice chairman, was second only to Mr. Deng in the military command hierarchy.
The Soviet command hierarchy, which focused on operations at the division level, was replaced with a brigade-based structure that emphasized flexibility and rapid reaction.
Pakistan's nuclear command hierarchy, overhauled in 2000, was also revamped on Oct. 7 in the wake of a broad military-intelligence shake-up.
Permission for such naming rights is usually obtained not only from the relevant command hierarchy within the military itself, but also from the family of the recipient.
Then we have our professional lives where we: commute an hour each way, use company sanctioned technology, sit in cubicles, get 200+ emails a day, are not able to effectively communicate and collaborate, operate under a command and control hierarchy, feel like a cog, and need to get approvals for buying a $100 office chair.
The pattern looks abstract, but is actually a series of diagrams charting the command hierarchies of Oxford University, MI6 and HSBC bank.
In each of those works Cooper imagines ships with absolute command hierarchies structured according to vocal power, a trait that provides evidence of a "natural aristocracy" and proves to be the sine qua non of maritime authority.
