Example sentences for: hierarchy

How can you use “hierarchy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A human rights-oriented indicator of health inequalities, then, would be composed of two measures: (1) A health measure, including health status, health care, and other determinants of health or the social/ economic consequences of ill health; and (2) A measure of social position/advantage (also called an equity stratifier or social stratifier) that defines strata in a hierarchy, e.g., income or economic assets, education, sex, or ethnic group.

  • Those of our male ancestors who most doggedly climbed to the top of the local status hierarchy were often rewarded with sex partners--either multiple wives (the Dole approach) or multiple lovers (the Clinton approach).

  • Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has expressed the hope that the efforts of Russia and its Orthodox hierarchy "may lead to peace and the end of aggression."

  • Jews' new second-place status in the strivers' hierarchy is most noticeable in places with good public school systems like Westchester County, N.Y., (where I live) and the San Gabriel Valley, outside of Los Angeles.

  • One who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the Church of England.


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