Position Within A Command Hierarchy Requiring Obedience
- Military rank
- Police rank
- Fire service rank
- Nobility, ranks of nobility and peerage
- Catholic Church hierarchy
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Famous quotes containing the words position, command, hierarchy, requiring and/or obedience:
“Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?”
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“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 4:3.
Tempter to Jesus.
“In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.”
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