Sentence examples for institutional hierarchy from inspiring English sources

For one, his directorial ambition was fiercely at odds with its orthodox Japanese institutional hierarchy.

By Ian Crouch March 15, 2013 For people who've spent the past few weeks attempting to sort out the vagaries of Catholic institutional hierarchy, the secret political and financial dealings of its leaders, and the protocols surrounding transitions of power, the resolution of the papal conclave in Rome must bring with it a note of sadness.

This runs counter to the baroque institutional hierarchy of the church, which in this case gives different levels of authority to ordinaries, the regional or national Conference of Bishops, the Apostolic See and the universal jurisdiction of the supreme pontiff can intervene.

At the top of that institutional hierarchy the social novelists, like Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells, pulled away from the eccentricities of the Victorians; they aimed to recreate, in novel form, the non-fiction prose that the novel had displaced.

For people who've spent the past few weeks attempting to sort out the vagaries of Catholic institutional hierarchy, the secret political and financial dealings of its leaders, and the protocols surrounding transitions of power, the resolution of the papal conclave in Rome must bring with it a note of sadness.

In the current European institutional hierarchy, the Council defines the general political direction and priorities of the EU, and the Commission is in charge of producing actual legislation, fitting within the political framework provided by the Council and subsequently approved by the European Parliament.

Milton, like many of his contemporaries, moved toward Puritanism, attracted by its idea that the Bible was the ultimate authority and trumped all institutional hierarchies.

Barriers included the difficulties all parties experienced in taking new social roles, realizing new learning modes (including the design process), and overcoming institutional hierarchies.

The news, last week, that the Encyclopædia Britannica was discontinuing its book edition seemed to signal a new world order — the decline of print, the surrendering of institutional hierarchies to the democracy of the Internet.

As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are corrupted by institutional hierarchies, and by "patronage networks" — one of his favorite expressions — that contort the human spirit.

By Lizzie Widdicombe The news, last week, that the Encyclopædia Britannica was discontinuing its book edition seemed to signal a new world order — the decline of print, the surrendering of institutional hierarchies to the democracy of the Internet.