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• a  classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers
  it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art
  in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first

• And while the headlines regarding churches and pedophilia remain largely focused on Catholic parishes, the lack of hierarchical structure and systematized record-keeping in most .
• The Japanese variant of capitalism cannot be readily or precisely copied, except perhaps by a few Asian countries, because it is rooted in a homogeneous, hierarchical society .
• It's trying to marry the lessons about educating adolescent boys acquired over 566 years to the spirit of a less hierarchical, more competitive, more globalized Britain, and the .

• hierarchal
• hierarchic

• nonhierarchical

News & Articles

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• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Bubbles Within Bubbles
  This infrared image shows a striking example of what is called a hierarchical bubble structure, in which one giant bubble, carved into the dust of space by massive stars, has triggered the formation of smaller bubbles. The large bubble takes ...        
  June 14, 2013 - Wired News
• New Samplify APAX Storage Library Accelerates Disk Throughput and Expands Storage Capacity for HPC, Big Data, and ...
  CAMPBELL, Calif. , June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Samplify, the leading intellectual property company for accelerating memory, storage, and I/O bottlenecks in computing, consumer electronics and mobile devices, announces the availability of its APAX HDF ( Hierarchical Data Format ) Storage Library for high-performance computing (HPC), Big Data, and cloud computing applications.
  June 14, 2013 - Linux
• New Parasoft API Testing Solution Ensures the Integrity of APIs and API-Driven Applications
  New Parasoft Release Features Advanced Support for Mainframes, Hierarchical Data, Custom Message Formats. (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10822589.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Michael Hayden in Newsday
  It will be really interesting to see how that plays out. The organization is a lot more networked than it is ruthlessly hierarchical,Hayden said of the group behind the 9/11 attacks on the US "How do you pick the next overall leader?"
• Katharine Jefferts Schori in Living Church Foundation
  I call upon you to recede from this direction and to lead your diocese on a new course that recognizes the interdependent and hierarchical relationship between the national Church and its dioceses and parishes,Bishop Jefferts Schori wrote,...
• Ian Hodder in guardian.co.uk
  Everybody used to think only complex, hierarchical civilisations could build such monumental sites, and that they only came about with the invention of agriculture, said Ian Hodder, a Stanford University professor of anthropology who has...