Government can be defined as the political means of creating and enforcing laws; typically via a bureaucratic hierarchy.

He rose in the bureaucratic hierarchy until, in 1321, he was appointed the imperial parakoimōmenos (chamberlain).

This measure should help insure that bureaucratic hierarchies do not limit expression of serious views by experienced analysts.

However, in his quest, he stumbles on a community governed by a bureaucratic hierarchy using the dragon to cover their own use of power.

The haphazard bureaucracy of the early Meiji years was reorganized into a formal bureaucratic hierarchy, its entry governed by examination.

When low-level officials pick the pockets of the poor, it is also often a reliable indicator of greater corruption higher up the bureaucratic and political hierarchy.

To illustrate, let us look at a typical work setting in which a traditional bureaucratic hierarchy operates.

It will be a long time before the last bureaucratic hierarchy is obliterated.

An infrangible bureaucratic hierarchy runs the place.

This tendency overlooks the role which the bureaucratic hierarchy plays in coercing the actually existing working class into anti race line.