| Unfortunately, the top-down system has been less successful in nationbuilding. |
| For his top-down system of personal government, prompt and accurate information was essential, but he did not get it. |
| Just because armies, empires, chimpanzee troops, and computers operate through top-down hierarchies of control, the church need not. |
| Our battle is with the closed, top-down silo-oriented value system that has been with us since the dawn of the Industrial Age. |
| Ties reinforced at the Grove manifest themselves in global trade meetings, party politics, campaign financing, and top-down democracy. |
| So from the top-down, the high level CIs are based on management and buildability issues. |
