noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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For a short time, Simeon kept the Nazarean administrative hierarchy in Jerusalem.
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And these rules may, of course, be enforced by an administrative hierarchy to which the subject may appeal.
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These presupposed not only honest and well-educated people, but an administrative hierarchy , managers, and a system of checks.
catholic
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Heavily backed by the Catholic hierarchy , it had an agenda of combating Mafia crime.
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Levada was a rising and ambitious figure within the conservative ranks of the Roman Catholic hierarchy .
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From the Roman catholic hierarchy , he solicited the response that the church believed in the indissolubility of marriage.
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The Catholic hierarchy was joined at the prayer vigil by the Rev.
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Imprisonment -. condemned by the Catholic hierarchy from the pulpit.
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The people of Holy Trinity espouse similar values in the face of an unpersuaded Catholic hierarchy .
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Ostentatiously non-sectarian, Larkin was invariably opposed by the Catholic hierarchy on social issues.
ecclesiastical
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Some idea of status has to be obtained, therefore, if the local ecclesiastical hierarchy is to be understood.
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There were no official mediators, licensed by an ecclesiastical hierarchy or set apart by apostolic ordination.
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Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.
local
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Some idea of status has to be obtained, therefore, if the local ecclesiastical hierarchy is to be understood.
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He can afford to argue with the local hierarchy when the interests of his order require it.
managerial
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Given the power of the managerial hierarchy to dispense or withhold rewards, open acts of defiance expose individuals to reprisal.
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It had two primary characteristics: multiple operating units and managerial hierarchies .
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Both reasons for fragmenting work imply the creation of a managerial hierarchy to co-ordinate and control the various fragmented jobs.
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As an organizational system, managerial hierarchy has never been adequately described and has just as certainly never been adequately used.
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What we need is managerial hierarchy that understands its own nature and purpose.
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And, if they do, how should their organisational structure be incorporated into the managerial hierarchy of the hospital?
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The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals.
old
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But as the old hierarchies are swept away, some managers are demoted and many others see their natural promotion paths disappear.
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I go into meetings now and the old hierarchy is flattened.
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The anytime / anyplace business world leaves those whose position in the old hierarchy gave them status and power upset and uneasy.
rigid
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In place of the rigid bureaucracies and hierarchies of many traditional companies Peters and Waterman found less conventional and more dynamic organisational forms.
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We needed flexibility, but kept rigid hierarchies .
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Many communities of small cetaceans have rigid hierarchies of power.
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For decades rigid party hierarchy determined political fortunes.
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Such disparities predated the imposition of a rigid social hierarchy , but became more marked during the course of the Tokugawa period.
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In Workplace 2000, rigid hierarchies will be dismantled, as will the ceremonial trappings of power.
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Its supporters make the point that it breaks down rigid hierarchies and allows for greater participation in the decision-making process.
roman
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From the Roman catholic hierarchy , he solicited the response that the church believed in the indissolubility of marriage.
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Levada was a rising and ambitious figure within the conservative ranks of the Roman Catholic hierarchy .
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A son who might rise in the Roman priestly hierarchy was essential to family and dynastic interests.
social
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What is its place in the social hierarchy of knowledge? 2.
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When children are segregated by ability groups, a social hierarchy develops.
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An official orthodoxy based on Neo-Confucian doctrines emphasized the preservation of order and maintenance of social hierarchy .
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Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
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These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy .
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In the social hierarchy , these lords of big business were the equivalent of the daimyos of the past with their clans.
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This unequal but in general legitimated social hierarchy had depended on a healthy capitalist economy and benign, prosperous welfare State.
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In sum, conservatism attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and social hierarchy .
strict
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Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently.
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Operation Rescue was an organization with a strict hierarchy of command.
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In the strict hierarchy of the Catalan countryside these peasant farmer families almost ranked as a petty nobility.
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There seemed to be a strict hierarchy of beauty and desirability.
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Forward-thinking organisations have restructured themselves so that adherence to strict hierarchy and title is less significant.
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Even among the whites in a single grade there was a strict sense of hierarchy .
traditional
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Some were outright extensions of traditional hierarchies , while others were predominantly recruited from the new plutocracy and professions.
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The traditional hierarchy will have only a local, limited, internal role.
■ NOUN
church
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These country people did not love bishops, the paraphernalia of church hierarchy .
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This decision split the vehemently antiabortion Church hierarchy from its liberal allies.
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They are, for a start, a product of the local community, not the church hierarchy .
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In the South, the church hierarchy pursued the path of full cultural control.
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But the official church hierarchy strongly disapproved.
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Between 60 and 70 percent of Salisbury's clergy wives now work, and the church hierarchy encourages them to.
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In contrast we find the Church party attacking the Church hierarchy .
class
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Each of the objects in our little class hierarchy is also an instance of the Thing class.
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Their consumer goods are yearned for throughout the class hierarchy .
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The difference in the relative mortality of the extremes of the class hierarchy decrease with age.
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The class hierarchy is alive and well in the gradations through the 250 different decorations which the Crown awards.
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This is the object-oriented concept of inheritance, that is, characteristics received from an ancestor in a class hierarchy .
status
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The breakdown in inhibitions may be moving up the status hierarchy in higher education.
■ VERB
arrange
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Society was arranged in a dual hierarchy , of laymen and clergy.
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But he delved deeper and discovered that the thirteen genders were arranged in a hierarchy .
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The second premise is that human needs are arranged in a hierarchy of importance.
based
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In essence, internal relations previously based on hierarchies and bureaucratic authority are being gradually transformed into actual or surrogate market transactions.
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It acknowledged color differences but based no hierarchy on them.
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This results from its special form of organization, a system of relations based on hierarchy , specialization and co-ordination.
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Scheler's phenomenology was based on a metaphysical hierarchy of values orienting the human being.
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This is in contrast to the traditional structure based upon professional hierarchies .
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We are developing a holistic model of nursing care directly based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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The social system is based on a hierarchy within which the most dominant individuals take the greatest share of food.
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It remains a conservative model, based upon control and hierarchy .
create
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Browsers create windows in a hierarchy which starts with a page in the original browser window.
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You just create a new hierarchy and reset the thermostat.
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The draftsman did not make the crimes formerly contained in those statutes consistent or create a hierarchy of offences.
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The range of connectance created a hierarchy .
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It is possible to express many-to-many relationships using the hierarchical model, but only by creating two hierarchies .
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In the next project, I have created a small hierarchy of related classes.
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The effect of this is to create a hierarchy of norms with conformity with the obligations of the Charter at the top.
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These two factors act together to create and reproduce social hierarchy .
establish
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The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another.
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Thus the recognition of values helps health practitioners establish priorities and hierarchies of importance among needs and goals.
flatten
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It was hypothesized here that the flattening of the hierarchy was apparent, but this did not automatically democratize.
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Hence participatory organizations find that they must eliminate layers and flatten their hierarchies .
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At the same time our study found that although the flattening of the hierarchy was apparent, that did not automatically democratize.
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Companies are flattening management hierarchies and erasing the operational separation between managers and workers.
form
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If there are many males and females in the group, the males form a separate hierarchy above that of the females.
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Living beings comprise a whole sequence of levels forming such a hierarchy .
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Linguistic units tend to form a hierarchy of extent.
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The grammatical structure of the sentence is thus a series of nested constructions forming a hierarchy .
move
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As we move up the hierarchy towards elite sport, there is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
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The breakdown in inhibitions may be moving up the status hierarchy in higher education.
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Each group becomes more inclusive the further we move up the hierarchy .
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Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy .
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As officials move up the hierarchy they may be more involved in policy advice rather than managing budgets or people.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Genotti was thought to be number two in the Sicilian Mafia hierarchy .
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Smith has the backing of the Republican hierarchy .
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Tatawi worked her way up through the corporate hierarchy to become President.
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The caste system categorized Hindus into a social hierarchy .
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The school district reorganized the administrative hierarchy , which helped to save money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A good conceptual clusterer is one which finds a succinct meaningful hierarchy of succinct definitions of meaningful concepts.
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Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently.
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Formal organisations have an explicit hierarchy in a well- defined structure; job specifications and communication channels are also well-defined.
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In the human management of distributed control, hierarchies of a certain type will proliferate rather than diminish.
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In the social hierarchy , these lords of big business were the equivalent of the daimyos of the past with their clans.
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Linguistic units tend to form a hierarchy of extent.
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The dominance hierarchies of primates are often more complex, overlapping networks, rather than the simple ladder of the hen hierarchy.
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You just create a new hierarchy and reset the thermostat.