Sentence examples for top down it from inspiring English sources

One of the participating engineers described the factory modelling process as "fairly technocratic" and "top down" — it did not involve "speaking to the guy who was actually working on the mill or the spinning machine".

One of the participating engineers described the factory modelling process as "fairly technocratic" and "top down"—it did not involve "speaking to the guy who was actually working on the mill or the spinning machine". Frustrated with the growing bureaucratization of Project Cybersyn, Beer considered resigning.

"It comes from the top down," it was said.

Social democracy doesn't come from the top down; it's people's politics at its best.

And most importantly, I believe that change does not happen from the top down, it happens from the bottom up.

"You understand that change, real change, never comes from the top down; it always comes from the bottom on up.

The Daily Mail, reporting the scrapping of a £12bn NHS computer system, quotes health secretary Andrew Lansley as saying: "Labour's IT programme let down the NHS and wasted taxpayers' money by imposing a top-down IT system on the local NHS, which didn't fit their needs.

Lansley told the the Daily Mail: "Labour's IT programme let down the NHS and wasted taxpayers' money by imposing a top-down IT system on the local NHS, which didn't fit their needs.

The Schwartz version of a Jobsian reality distortion field went this way: If you understand the inevitability of small pieces loosely joined, you can build an interactive swarm-like community that will pool community resources to solve problems before other competitors even start to hear about them from top-down IT hierarchy.

If it's all top-down it's not going to work.

Our economy isn't built from the top-down, it's built from a strong and growing middle class, and that's who we should be fighting for".