Sentence examples for enforcing a hierarchy from inspiring English sources

From its inception, it may be argued, the term graphic novel has served less to elevate the medium of comics than to denigrate it further by enforcing a hierarchy based on format alone rather than one based on substance, form, or quality.

Chickens in large groups are known to enforce a hierarchy called a pecking order, which can sometimes get bloody.

In order to ensure Mongol law was enforced, a hierarchy of legal administration was developed.

Unfortunately, the previously strong-willed and independent Louise has become defined by her appearance, which is exploited by the men who compete for her affections (Spencer, Jamie and Andy) in order to enforce a hierarchy of males within the new set of characters in the show.

A properly designed page structure should enforce a consistent hierarchy of design elements where the relevant elements are emphasized, and the content is displayed in a logical and orderly manner.

Under this second model, a "tournament winner" emerges, and a single decision (e.g., Judge Easterbrook's ProCD opinion enforcing a shrink-wrap license) begins to take on influence and govern subsequent disputes, largely irrespective of jurisdiction or court hierarchy.

Police were enforcing a Parades Commission ban.

Indeed, Internet sports journalism has not only created a highly critical fan base but enforced a bottom-up hierarchy.

But here's the problem: the technology industry enforces a distinct gender hierarchy between front-end and back-end development.

analyze a full matrix of gene gene pairwise similarities from -omics data; infer true hierarchical structure in these data rather than enforcing hierarchy as a computational artifact; and respect biological pleiotropy, by which a term in the hierarchy can relate to multiple higher level terms.

It's one of the crueller realities of the N.F.L.'s strictly enforced hierarchy, a classic Catch-22: what you most need in order to make a team as a rookie, especially an undrafted one, are opportunities to show what you can do.