Nature works departmentally and by way of leaving details to subordinates.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
We have been all this time, be it remembered, geographically speaking in the Jura, though departmentally in the Doubs, the succession of rocks and mountains passed through forming part of the Jura range which vanishes in the green slopes of Blamont.
"Holidays in Eastern France"
Matilda Betham-Edwards
In ordinary cases the effort whereby we retain those things that we would get rid of is unperceived by the central government, being, I suppose, departmentally made; we-as distinguished from the subordinate personalities of which we are composed-know nothing about it, though the subordinates in question doubtless do.
"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"
Samuel Butler