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"Hierarchy" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The hierarchy of rank has long been fixed.
There's a very rigid hierarchy in the Civil Service.
Japanese companies emphasize hierarchy.
Peer helpers made the teacher's job a lot easier, but established a cruel hierarchy among the students.
A tangled hierarchy is a hierarchical consciousness system in which a strange loop appears.
Hierarchy is against equality.
Hierarchy is present in all social animals, including humans. I mean the ones that live in groups. Hierarchy is meant to decrease intraspecific aggression. To keep two males from fighting over every piece of food or a female, nature came up with ranks.
There's no such thing as a natural hierarchy.
Hierarchy is a social construct.
Dominance hierarchy is a key part of animal behavior.
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Gay men and bisexuals were blamed for the [AIDS] epidemic for much the same reason that the church hierarchy in the Middle Ages accused Jewish people of creating bubonic plague by "poisoning the wells."
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
Social defeat arises in strict social hierarchies in which the few dominate the many. Overcrowding exacerbates the many ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.
... the surviving portions provide enough detail to outline its principal features: the hierarchy of beings to whom his liturgy was to be addressed (we previously considered Plethon's hierarchy of gods in our examination of his Summary[…]
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