| Thus he flouted the social hierarchies of his time by eating and associating with outcasts. |
| Access to education was clearly dictated by one's position in the social and gender hierarchies. |
| When most individuals in the group differ in size, stable dominance relationships generally yield transitive hierarchies consistent with size. |
| All animals, living or dead, can be placed into groups based upon shared derived characteristics and those groups form tree-like hierarchies. |
| As a type of humor or verbal wit, teasing is a device for establishing and reordering social hierarchies. |
| Goud has always exhibited a devilish irreverence for hierarchies, whether in art or in life. |
