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Hierarchy

A group of people who form an ascending chain of power or authority.

Officers in a government, for example, form an escalating series of ranks or degrees of power, with each rank subject to the authority of the one on the next level above. In a majority of hierarchical arrangements, there are a larger number of people at the bottom than at the top.

Originally, the term was used to mean government by a body of priests. Currently, a hierarchy is used to denote any body of individuals arranged or classified according to capacity, authority, position, or rank.

hierarchy

(Arrangement in a series), noun categorization, chain, classification, collocation, gradation, grouping, order, order of succession, range, run, seriation, series, succession, system

hierarchy

(Persons in authority), noun authorities, bureaucracy, commanders, controllers, dictators, directors, government, heads, leadership power, management, managers, masters, officials, persons in power, powers, regency, regime, rulers, sovereignty

See also: class

HIERARCHY, eccl. law. A hierarchy signified, originally, power of the priest; for in the beginning of societies, the priests were entrusted with all the power but, among the priests themselves, there were different degrees of power and authority, at the summit of which was the sovereign pontiff, and this was called the hierarchy. Now it signifies, not so much the power of the priests as the border of power.

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For that, we propose to develop a three step method : the comparison of the application of international law in the different contexts, to then perhaps (the approach is not inflexible) the combination of these applications, notably if they allow a different result to be attained than that obtained in each of the contexts individually, knowing that the lawyer potentially has the option of deciding, at any moment, to choose the application of the law in one context, rather than another : the hierarchization.

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Ibn Hajar is said to have taken a newly formal and inclusive approach in presenting the hierarchy of saints (atiliya)) in his al-Fatawa Niadithiyya, perhaps a reflection of both the contemporary coalescence of Sufi communities into orders and the Ottoman bureaucratization and hierarchization of the eilmine.

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These moments of hierarchization after independence derived from the necessity to "limit the electoral capacity of the citizens who were committed to fascist colonialism.

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The hierarchization of food items was established using the Index of Relative Importance (IRI) of Pinkas et al.

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