Sentence examples for hierarchical from inspiring English sources

It's strange that the French live in a republic and we have a monarchy but we are far less hierarchical.

Inside, it's a hymn to the open-plan bürolandschaft, the "office landscape" ideal dreamed up in 1950s Germany as a break from the hierarchical world of executives hidden behind closed doors.

At the moment our economy is caught up in a political system which is very hierarchical, counter democratic, where we've seen an erosion of democracy for a whole range of reasons.

It has been noted that higher education has become more competitive and hierarchical which may facilitate greater levels of bullying.

The prison was run along strictly hierarchical lines, down to a Teletubbies-like uniform colour scheme which allowed jailers and captives alike to recognise each detainee's place in the pecking order.

His career has been all about rolling back the democratic ideal of the church as the "people of God" that emerged from Vatican II and re-establishing hierarchical control.

The irony of all this was that Earth First! became acutely hierarchical, and in the worst possible way, "because the hierarchy is nontransparent".

The only adequate response to the crisis is a fundamental questioning of the closed, hierarchical power system of which the pope himself is the apex and the embodiment.

Attitudes, client behaviour, a dry witty cynicism (I've met Roger Sterling types at least 10 times in my career), Peggy's trajectory, career development – or not – hierarchical behaviour, professional relationships, finance, or scenes like the all-night session to prepare for the breakaway agency – all are almost uncannily spot on.

The perverse opportunity offered by our terrible defeat is... we actually have the opportunity to start again Ken Macintosh He argued that radical change must begin within the party itself, which needed to be "less hierarchical, less representative of sectoral or vested interests and more open".

He instinctively holds open the door for even lowly officials, baffling civil servants drilled in Whitehall's hierarchical protocols.