Rather, the Otherhood's basic aim of creating "a peaceful world of stable hierarchies" has generated countless unintended changes which accumulated exponentially and created this world.

The dogs clearly needed help in defining a stable hierarchy between themselves, which usually prevents such dangerous conflict.

Freed from the protocols of stable hierarchy, Jorp enthusiastically took the squeeze of my leg and flattened out into a fast canter.

It is rare to discover any clear and stable hierarchy and responsibility in the deluge of official titles of most patrimonial administrations.

This serves to produce a more stable male hierarchy, where attainment of high social status and reproductive access is less reliant on physical strength.

Females exhibit a stable, nonlinear hierarchy that correlates with age.

While the males tussle among themselves, the females maintain a rigid and reasonably stable hierarchy.

Males are organized in stable, linear hierarchies.

In this highly stable hierarchy, the pharmacists-and even pharmacist assistants-were assigned status superior to all others in health-related fields such as physicians and acupuncturists.

The embedded contexts illustrated in the Hierarchy Model represent a stable hierarchy, but stability is neither necessary nor expected.