You remember the old hierarchy in teaching hospitals, Goldy.

Along with the cuts came a dismantling of the old military-style hierarchy.

And in that affectionate, egalitarian hug, old hierarchies of power seem to melt away.

You could see a breakdown of the old hierarchies.

But the old hierarchy of values, which put such themes above all others, was clearly collapsing.

The old hierarchies, he argues, gave people a sense of purpose and control, a linear narrative of their lives.

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

The newly educated working classes would no longer submit to the old hierarchies.

The old hierarchy - white agent of history, black object - remains uncontested until the black Grimkés enter.

For people here outside the old hierarchy, the issue that the United States and Britain used to justify the war was never a prime concern.