Instead, it merely stated that if such opinions did exist, the local hierarchy was to eradicate them.

The men play golf and are sometimes thorns in the side of "summer complaints" and the local hierarchy.

To be elected to such a position, the approval of both the British authorities and the local ecclesiastical hierarchy was needed.

She tried farther down the local hierarchy, as best she could figure it out, but got nowhere there either.

This university was institutionally independent of the local ecclesiastical hierarchy.

In the local socio-ritual hierarchy they enjoy a clean caste status.

This excavated complex was dedicated to religious ceremonies, administrative activities and the local hierarchy's relations with the rest of the world.

They had a deadly problem to resolve before he started making any major changes in the local hierarchy.

Some idea of status has to be obtained, therefore, if the local ecclesiastical hierarchy is to be understood.

The individual fits into the local hierarchy, which both supports him and checks his initiative.