1.   Even so, dismissal should never come as a bolt from the blue, however exalted your place in the corporate hierarchy.

2.   She worked her way up through the corporate hierarchy to become president.

3.   He was at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy.

4.   Both have little patience for formality, in corporate hierarchies, dress or manner.

5.   But as intellectual property has developed into a primary economic engine, US employers are no longer restricting these agreements to the top tier of the corporate hierarchy.

6.   But managers are realizing that good old-fashioned corporate hierarchy can ease the firing process.

7.   But now information has won out over brute politics and corporate hierarchy.

8.   But these efforts usually function within existing corporate hierarchies.

9.   Countless corporate hierarchy studies have proven that the vacuous ascend, while the intelligent languish.

10.   Corporations and sociologists are strenuously hailing casual dress as indicative of a flattening of the corporate hierarchy and a signal of the triumph of team management over autocracy.