hierarchy-a system of elements ranked, classified, and organized one above another, according to importance.
Judge Sotomayor, now 54, came of age in the heat of the desegregation battles, bristled at any insinuation that being a beneficiary of affirmative action tempered her qualifications and organized the growing ranks of Hispanic students to argue for more hiring and admissions.
Data was ranked chronologically on the basis of patient hospital discharge and organized in a database.
At these meetings, ranking members organized their drug operations and ordered the assaults or murders of rival gang members who had invaded their territory, according to the indictment.
Her second bank was the Galvanized Rank and File, organized by the Vinyl and Linoleum Layers Union.
In 1975 a group of liberals broke ranks and later organized their own then-illegal party, the Democratic Socialist Movement (Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes), under Ahmad Mestiri.
Round II allowed the participants to rank the organized findings of Round I. Round III provided an opportunity to rescore the ranked variables after viewing other participant's results.
Mr. Taylor said Graph Rank will change and organize a user's Timeline view based on a number of criteria, including the time of day and friends' activities.
