Sentence examples for hierarchical authority from inspiring English sources

The Reformation-era polemics that put Scripture in opposition to sacraments, church law and hierarchical authority were belatedly overcome.

Reflecting the way we have evolved as a species, there are three fundamental ways of thinking about and pursuing social change: hierarchical authority, solidarity and individual aspiration.

Agar wants to say that the mobile phone is a product of the 60s social revolution, whereby centralised, hierarchical authority was gradually replaced by "horizontal social networks".

Yet, few features of bureaucratic life have received so much adverse attention as the role of hierarchical authority as a means for achieving organizational command and control.

The rights revolution of the 1960's had many noble achievements, but in rebelling against hierarchical authority in all of its forms, it arguably threw out the baby with the bath water.

If atheists are able to organize politically, we'll find areas of broad agreement on which we can cooperate to advance causes that most of us value, even without a hierarchical authority handing out marching orders.

Some have considered them a dangerous substitute for Scripture, a tool of hierarchical church authority or a distraction from heartfelt faith and virtuous living.

But Burleigh himself invokes the hierarchical, centralized authority of Catholicism and the Vatican when explaining why so many German Catholics, unlike Protestants, were immune to the charms of Hitler.

This new wider social context has reconditioned intergenerational dynamics; that is, the traditional hierarchical family authority structure is on the wane and yet the patriarchal structure and gendered division of labour in rural families remain.

We can conceivably, eventually, replace hierarchical certificate authorities with decentralized blockchain-based services.

Research results point strongly toward the advantages of a less rigid hierarchical structure of authority, with more delegation of authority and consultation, training in supervisory skills, small and cooperative work teams, and interesting and varied work.