Sentence examples for fixed hierarchy from inspiring English sources

Early societies, such as the Babylonians and the ancient Egyptians, were static, with a fixed hierarchy of social obligations.

Here, far from the rough and tumble of the commercial world, is a fixed hierarchy where the staff work their way slowly through the ranks, everyone worries about tenure, and the headmaster's word is law.

In 1520 Charles I agreed to the nobles' demand for a fixed hierarchy of rank, from the 25 grandees of Spain through the rest of the titled nobility, down to some 60,000 hidalgos, or caballeros, and a similar number of urban nobility, all of them distinguished from the rest of the population, the pecheros, by far-reaching legal privileges and exemption from direct taxation.

Upsetting this fixed hierarchy among creditors is just an illegal taking of property from one group of creditors for the benefit of another, which should be struck down on both statutory and constitutional grounds.

But even holding a person accountable is dependent on a fixed hierarchy, a variety of measurable criteria: the prominence of the person, their popularity, their gender, the quality of their apology.

But even holding a person accountable is dependent on a fixed hierarchy, a variety of measurable criteria: the prominence of the person, their popularity, their gender, and the quality of their apology.

He was, after all, a climbing snob of the first order, a courtier, and he needed a background of fixed social hierarchy against which to do his insouciant but fawning thing.

To the best of our knowledge only [20] uses data-driven spatial generalization to achieve anonymity for trajectory datasets; the only work applying spatial generalization is [31], but it uses a fixed grid hierarchy to discretize the spatial dimension.

This is a fundamental issue because this indirect information suggested the chaperone role; however, it was not possible to interactively create these views using methods that depend on fixed cluster hierarchies.

Determiners are assumed to occupy a position fixed by the hierarchy of functional categories, allowing for the dissociation between the word class (determiner) and the syntactic position its members occupy (D).

By the time we emerged from the unconscious part of our childhood, the world seemed fully established, everything as it was supposed to be, all the points and objects fixed, all the hierarchies and structures natural and unalterable.