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hierarchical

adjective Referring to a structure or function that is organised in a hierarchy.
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an individual with a hierarchic style prefers to distribute attention to several tasks that are prioritized.
And wherever this view is appropriate, there arises a species of complexity that is absent from pleromatic description: creatural description is always hierarchic.
There is the hierarchic or Church "from above" element that provides stability and continuity and is necessarily conservative.
Avant 1750, Paris est egalement regi par un principe de hierarchic profondernent ancre dans toutes les strates de la population urbaine.
This scenario is based on the previously inputted codifications, without, however, following a fractal distribution of aggregates, nor a hierarchic classification of the inner unconstructed spaces.
For this reason, the hierarchic relations between cartographic signs are rarely represented in the legends.
Just one hot example: writing about the recent Boston Marathon bombing and the failure of imposing more gun controls (something that Europeans have deep problems understanding), the American correspondent of The Economist ranted about the British "national conscience" and the American "national psyche." Friedrich Hayek reminded us that social organicist theory is not only without scientific foundations, but "has almost invariably been used in support of hierarchic and authoritarian views." So society's preferences cannot be independent of the preferences of individual society members.
The hierarchic Ward method was used to form the farm groups considering the predicted direct and maternal additive genetic values.
In The Future of Management (2007), Gary Hamel concludes that the scope and power of the Internet for this purpose have yet to be appreciated; in fact, he suggests that Web 2.0 tools for team management could replace traditional, hierarchic management models (253-255).
Citation: "Single-cell gene expression analyses of cellular reprogramming reveal a stochastic early and hierarchic late phase;" Yosef Buganim et al.; Cell, Volume 150, Issue 6, 1209-1222, 14 September 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.08.023
But those qualities had to be matched with strict obedience to the hierarchic chain and a complete submission to Mussolini (who was regarded as the first pilot of Italy).
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