Still, the study said that controversies over Catholic teaching were presented as "a long-running media drama that pitted a hidebound institutional hierarchy against reformers from within and without."

A discourse community is a textual system with stated and unstated conventions, a vital history, mechanisms for wielding power, institutional hierarchies, vested interests, and so on.

It identifies the practical applications of feminist theory, while promoting the importance of social change, specifically within the institutional hierarchy found in academia.

Some of these old institutional hierarchies that posed a problem from top to bottom, they've just been beheaded.

Outside the political sphere, gerontocracy may be observed in other institutional hierarchies of various kinds.

The Protestant churches never directly opposed the regime (or lacked the institutional hierarchy to do so creedally), although many Protestant ministers did so (see Confessing Church).

He moved up through the institutional hierarchy at Nynex, starting as an information operator and ending as a manager of computer training.

There is no institutional hierarchy in mass amateurization.

Members of these groups, lead by the superclass elite, come together to form the interlocking directorates that manage political and economic policy-making, as well as institutional hierarchies that help maintain the class empire.

In this manner he had slowly but surely risen up through the institutional hierarchy of the Great Way until now he stood at its top.