Sentence examples for formal hierarchy from inspiring English sources
Popular in Haiti even among many of those who attend Christian churches, voodoo lacks the formal hierarchy of other religions.
They prefer people who can exert subtle influence within teams, in organisations that have fewer levels of formal hierarchy.
There wasn't any formal hierarchy to the levee-reinforcement operation; on the contrary, the volunteers got sensitive at any reference to anyone's being "in charge".
To the Editor: I appreciated Randall Balmer's take on Garry Wills's "Why Priests?" Both scholars agree that life in the first-century Christian communities lacked a formal hierarchy.
As an institution, the African-American church has no single, official leader, and, in many of its denominations, little formal hierarchy.
At the same time, the film's American setting and its studious evocation of a formal hierarchy where secrecy and paranoia run rampant remind you that the story isn't just about Denmark way back when.
Groupings and factions form for a time, but few have formal hierarchies and most fail to impose discipline.
The controls and formal hierarchies that made them such formidable production machines in the 1980s are no longer seen as a big competitive advantage; indeed rather the opposite.However, Messrs Evans and Wolf argue that Toyota has now moved beyond lean.
Vital to all these works is Mr. Forsythe's canny understanding of the culture of the Paris Opera Ballet, with its formal hierarchies of grades and its deeply rooted competitiveness, which begins at the Paris Opera Ballet School, where students are ranked from top to bottom each year.
Despite the lack of perfect competition, the preference for particular projects galvanizes long-term factions between hierarchies, establishing an informal relationship within formal hierarchies.
One of the key innovations of that phase was institutionalized religion, which was created along with the stratification of social order leading to formal hierarchies and replicable practices.
