Sentences with phrase «maintaining hierarchical structures»

It is perhaps then not surprising to read that Burdon believes, «our law is deeply anthropocentric and directed toward maintaining hierarchical structures for the protection of property and economic growth.»

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Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

Or you could have a world - wide network defined by connections between communities, which are defined by buildings, governed by a complex constitution, rules, and hierarchical structure, where people spend more time, money, and effort maintaining the institution and its holdings, and understanding its rules.

Tensegrity can also be hierarchical, in that each structural element can itself be a tensegrity structure at a smaller scale, with tensional integrity being maintained both locally and globally.