Example sentences of "down the hierarchy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 2 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 3 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 4 | People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) . |
| 5 | This sometimes means eliminating most of the original actors , and stretching down the hierarchy or even outside to discover a new chief who was not part of the original team . |
| 6 | Further down the hierarchy the proportion of the population living in Other Dominant cities ( cities at the core of the twenty major urban regions excluding the top six — e.g. Nottingham , Edinburgh , Coventry , Brighton ) fell marginally , that of Subdominants ( medium-sized cities surrounding the Dominants ) ruse by one percentage point and that of Freestanding cities went up by nearly two percentage points . |
| 7 | In some cases this appears to have been due to privileged access to knowledge not yet available to those lower down the hierarchy , as in cases where plans were in preparation for the closure , merging or reorganisation of schools being proposed . |
| 8 | Presumably this influences relative salary structures further down the hierarchy as well . |
| 9 | Historians lower down the hierarchy were expected to work within the guidelines advanced by their superiors . |
| 10 | Whether managers lower down the hierarchy pursue the profit goal depends in large part on organisational structure and the values imposed from above , though this is not to underestimate the problems of organisational design or the difficulties involved in ensuring compliance with those values . |
| 11 | Such an organisational structure entails long chains of command , with the consequence that there is great potential for the distortion of instructions from senior managers as they pass down the hierarchy . |
| 12 | Thus , a principal function of top management is to co-ordinate and monitor the efforts of those lower down the hierarchy . |
| 13 | While such pressures will no doubt improve performance within the company generally , they are , however , likely to be at their least effective in increasing efficiency at the most senior level , since there , by definition , managers have little scope for promotion , and managers lower down the hierarchy have no power to unseat their superiors . |
| 14 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 15 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
| 16 | Our principal concern here is the delegation of decision making down the hierarchy . |