CROSSES - vertical and horizontal relationship in eternity.

The mentor-protégé thing for us is not a vertical relationship, it's a horizontal relationship.

Dearest Jo, in the old days I spoke to charm you into a horizontal relationship.

And because you could find those - we know that the password is character pairs that occur in either horizontal or vertical relationship to each other.

Underneath the supreme authority, Ayatollah Khamenei, are councils and ministries that have a more or less horizontal relationship and continually vie to fill whatever vacuums are left by the Leader.

They also often do not show horizontal relationships.

Casting various forms of 'descent' as modalities of 'vertical' arrangement (as derived from general structuring principles), he sought to accommodate the 'horizontal' relationships found in New Guinean social life.

When researchers are interpreting, it is important to ask participants for their own interpretations, to have an horizontal relationship that seeks an ideal situation of dialogue.

Companies are generally considered to have a horizontal relationship when they are direct competitors in the same market, like two car makers.

This horizontal relationship is what distinguishes a demoicracy from a federation where the internal affairs of a federal unit are insulated from external contestation at least horizontally.