Not surprisingly, this "top-down" form of millennialism found much favour among later Christian theologians.
In a way, the most extraordinary thing is that this top-down form of development became so normal.
Designs that combine top-down form generation (additively manufactured) with bottom-up growth of biological systems (biologically synthesised) open big opportunities.
Although created in its 2D, top-down form at the end of the 90s, it was 2001's GTA III that turned the franchise into the globally recognised brand it is today.
Yet, Mr. Gingrich said in an interview, the potential candidates will have to navigate not only one another, but also a new and unsettled order in a party being reshaped by new grass-roots players resistant to its once-vaunted top-down form of discipline, which has been upended.
The existing semiconductor technology lets a silicone material make integrations by a top-down form developed by nano- or molecule technology merged with nanotechnology, biotechniques, and information technology and by a bottom-up method to constitute a device and a circuit with self-alignment of atoms and molecules.
Whatever the conservative depiction of it, Chavismo – Chavez's political approach – wasn't just a top-down form of patronage that gave poor voters a piece of the pie from the country's booming crude-oil market.
Determinism is not a doctrine of physics, but of metaphysics; and the idea that it is physics which will tell us whether our world is deterministic or not presupposes what must not be taken for granted-that is, that physics settles everything else, and that we are already in a position to say that there could be no irreducibly top-down forms of causal influence.
Many young people have bold visions of a better world, but we often lose that revolutionary potential with top-down forms of education.
A bright orange and white shag rug covers the living room floor, and a 1960's Garden Egg lawn chair -- the white top folds down, forming a giant plastic egg, to protect the interior upholstery from rain -- sits nearby.
"This top-down, legalistic form of state-building focused on federalism, constitution-writing and elections has pushed Somali politicians to face the thorniest issues first," says Dominik Balthasar, another Somalia watcher, based in Ethiopia.
