The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. From LearnThat.org. [Scott Raymond Adams]
It has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
File logs are shown in hierarchical log views with quick access to file content diffs. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmo Project] Reference
There's religious dissent on that score and a lot of controversy over whether one should go in hierarchical order. From Wordnik.com. [Agnostic Michael Krasny Has 'Spiritual Envy'] Reference
It's not just following the rules laid down, and it's not just moving from modality to modality in hierarchical order. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
My second-year summer paper also involved dual prices, this time in hierarchical linear programs, and it was published in Management Science. From Wordnik.com. [Finn E. Kydland - Autobiography] Reference
Bureaucracies refer to the use of secretive, codified information to achieve co-ordination; the approach is sometimes called hierarchical co-ordination. From Wordnik.com. Reference
What Gmail does is to throw our the notion of hierarchical storage. From Wordnik.com. [Only Wonder Understands] Reference
Rather, like many other organizations, it is what might be called a hierarchical collectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Social Epistemology] Reference
"Everyone is treated equally, and in a country like India which is so hierarchical, that is great," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
It was the word "hierarchical" that I was responding to. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking with the Enemy] Reference
The appointmentdoess not carry that kind of hierarchical weight. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
You actually have to participate in some kind of hierarchical structure--even if you are at the top. From Wordnik.com. [Marvel, Money, and Power] Reference
And as individuals they assiduously AVOID the kind of hierarchical rankings that would ever create celebrity. From Wordnik.com. [Dinner with a Bud] Reference
One suggestion I have is that libraries could establish a kind of hierarchical membership system based on usage. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen's Lighthouse: What to call library user communities....] Reference
If what she says is true, she is running one of the least "hierarchical" Conde Nast publications, and it seems to be working. From Wordnik.com. [Abi Wright: Gourmet's Ruth Reichl on Twitter and the Recession's Silver Lining] Reference
You store your campaign characters in XML in this schema, then translate it to some kind of hierarchical diagram with labelled links. From Wordnik.com. [September 20th, 2007] Reference
The first few iterations of the method thus took the form of a kind of hierarchical decision tree. From Wordnik.com. [Design with Intent] Reference
It would be good to have some kind of hierarchical navigation if you are one level deeper in the site. From Wordnik.com. [TWiki.Codev] Reference
Syntactical operations allow the mind to transform the sequential input into hierarchical, meaningful patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
However, because multivariate methods such as hierarchical clustering are sensitive to factors with relatively larger values. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
That is the hierarchical authority in unity government. From Wordnik.com. [Mugabe Doesn’t Call the Shots] Reference
Others learned to hate the hierarchical business system by joining the chaebol. From Wordnik.com. [Korea's 'Generation 386'] Reference
For decades, our business model was rooted in our rigid, hierarchical personnel system. From Wordnik.com. [People Power, Japanese Style] Reference
It's not a strictly hierarchical organization, but they're all members of the same alliance. From Wordnik.com. [‘No Choice’] Reference
And "flat" — as in anti-hierarchical and informal — would be completely counterintuitive. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference
But in the hierarchical world, everybody knows exactly what year their colleagues joined the institution. From Wordnik.com. [People Power, Japanese Style] Reference
The Kerry-Edwards campaign is organized differently -- less hierarchical, perhaps, but no less determined. From Wordnik.com. [THE GROUND GAME] Reference
The Internet, one of the most anti-hierarchical means of communication, is by its very nature anti-Confucian. From Wordnik.com. [A Smoke Screen] Reference
Add to this the fact that Europe's business culture is still more hierarchical and less flexible than America's. From Wordnik.com. [Myth and Reality] Reference
First, Vietnamese society is much more hierarchical, homogeneous and isolated from the rest of the world than Cuba's. From Wordnik.com. [Between Hanoi And Havana] Reference
And yet monarchy is threatened because the idea of republicanism seems more democratic and less overtly hierarchical. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Monarchy Must Stay] Reference
I'm a child of the latter part of the 20th century and, consequently, I'm comfortable in a less hierarchical environment. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Dealer] Reference
In such a rigid, hierarchical society, an unexpected visitor like a comet would have been seen as a manifestation of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference
It's a very hierarchical system, very old fashioned, and he is used to having every little whim of his carried out as an instruction. From Wordnik.com. [‘We’ve Missed Opportunities’] Reference
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