Hierarchic

Even during those years in which the court's actual influence outside the palace walls was minimal, the hierarchic organization persisted.

If there are important systems in the world that are complex without being hierarchic, they may to a considerable extent escape our observation and understanding.

In practice, however, the organization was rather a hierarchic one with a military-like character, needed for its function as liberation organization, the "liberation of Palestine".

In Simon's words, The fact then that many complex systems have a nearly decomposable, hierarchic structure is a major facilitating factor enabling us to understand, describe, and even "see" such systems and their parts.

It has been argued that these interconnecting units of kinship reinforced a hierarchic structure with aristocratic clans at the top.

The hierarchic nature of the Feed and an alternative, anarchic developing technology, known as the Seed, mirror the cultural conflict between East and West that is depicted in the book.

They all rejected the existing order, decrying it as stale and overly hierarchic.