The shari'a courts, though structured along simple lines, feature a conventional hierarchy of a chairman, vice-chairman and four judges.

Catherine King's essay offers a survey of issues in feminist art, focusing particularly on the ways in which such practices have challenged the conventional hierarchy which devalues female skills.

But conventional social hierarchies or privilege based on class, gender, race, etc. would be considered unnatural hierarchies.

Including folk and popular forms as well as urban fine art, the show will challenge conventional hierarchies and distinctions to give a broader view of contemporary Indian visual culture.

The reversal of the conventional speech/writing hierarchy which is implied in the term archi-écriture makes it impossible to see any use of language, written or spoken, as being determined by presence, intention or representation.

When it started, the company operated as a conventional hierarchy, albeit with much sharing and teamwork.

So post-modernist and "simulationist" artists may be doubly eager to demonstrate that even the most innocent-looking portrait images serve to reinforce cultural stereotypes and conventional hierarchies.

Managerial grid models and matrix management, compromises between true workplace democracy and conventional top-down hierarchy, became common in the 1990s.

In this conventional hierarchy, it is morally worse to intend harm than to be indifferent whether harm results from one's behaviour.

The relativism, eclecticism and rejection of conventional artistic hierarchies that were central tenets of Surrealism once again are priorities in the art world.