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- adjective Alternative form of
hierarchical .
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Examples
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Of course, the US Government is a similar poorly-crafted Virtual Construct – designed to hide the underlying hierarchial reality.
Matthew Yglesias » The End of Hierarchical File Systems 2010
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They are all so commanding, that obviously any hierarchial ordering can only be arbitrary, personal and debatable.
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The persecution of non-Catholics and religious hierarchial control over governments!
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True, and the regime I am waxing nostalic for was also hierarchial and unequal.
Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries 2009
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I will not support Obama and can hardly wait for younger women to watch as Roe versus Wade collapses; as older women tell younger women to fend for themselves; and younger women commit to the Democratic Party an organization that is hierarchial, autocratic, out of date, endorsing the same old politics of the past.
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The persecution of non-Catholics and religious hierarchial control over governments!
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Like the idea of having "dialogue with our enemies": this idea of being "non-hierarchial" is far easier to profess than to practice.
Speaking with the Enemy Steven Barnes 2009
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Is it possible that at least some of those judgements you're making about your inferiors might seem hierarchial to anybody but yourself?
Speaking with the Enemy Steven Barnes 2009
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The Greco-Roman world was a fairly regimented and hierarchial one.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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For instance in the Roman church, the hierarchy were often the relatives of the royalty who were successful in getting their favorites selected for various church hierarchial positions.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Reformation, 21st Century Edition 2009
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