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  • A subordinate tells Volkheimer there are reports of resistance broadcasts washing out of the Leopoldstadt.†   (source)
  • He was known as a diligent worker, and his skill and leadership qualities were plain to all his subordinates.†   (source)
  • You're the one who's always saying they've subordinated us to every passing principle and whim and desire!†   (source)
  • What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life!†   (source)
  • Thomas might be several years younger than Metias and a subordinate on his patrol, but he's more disciplined than anyone I know.†   (source)
  • The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs.†   (source)
  • Individual's interest is subordinate to the organization's interest.†   (source)
  • But he cannot escape the dynamic dictated to him by his culture in which subordinates must respect the dictates of their superiors.†   (source)
  • He never professed to have skills greater than his subordinates.†   (source)
  • "You can't wear those clothes," she told me, authoritative, as a subordinate handed me tea, managing to mostly conceal her disgust at my bare hands.†   (source)
  • Daniel Hudson Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, on September 4, 1846, into a family devoted to Swedenborgian principles of obedience, self-subordination, and public service.†   (source)
  • I will not speak with subordinates or grubby clerks.†   (source)
  • These schools were not rivals; they were subordinates.†   (source)
  • Thus a chief engineer on a Soviet naval vessel could outrank his commanding officer and still be his subordinate.†   (source)
  • Trueba was not one to encourage intimacy with his subordinates.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke to the inspector as he would have to a subordinate.†   (source)
  • Wennerström's lawyer was able to prove that the photograph of Wennerström's subordinate and the Ustashe leader was a montage of two different images.†   (source)
  • If you greet someone with greater status than yourself or if you wish to honor a subordinate, then speak first.†   (source)
  • The uppermost shank of Everest's Southeast Ridge is a slender, heavily corniced fin of rock and wind-scoured snow that snakes for a quarter mile between the summit and a subordinate pinnacle known as the South Summit.†   (source)
  • A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.†   (source)
  • He stares down subordinates if they challenge him.†   (source)
  • She doesn't even pretend to be subordinate to her husband.†   (source)
  • His subordinate stands right next to him, looking as blank-minded as ever.†   (source)
  • He also had the ostensible advantage of experienced subordinate officers, professionals all, several of whom had marked ability.†   (source)
  • My mother kept her outbursts about that to a minimum, but I could tell by the way she winced when they showed my father and Lorna together at their subordinate news desk that it still hurt.†   (source)
  • J. T., who was in his late twenties, had cooled down his subordinates, but he didn't seem to want to interfere directly with their catch.†   (source)
  • He knew that Major — de Coverley was his executive officer, but he did not know what that meant, and he could not decide whether in Major — de Coverley he was blessed with a lenient superior or cursed with a delinquent subordinate.†   (source)
  • Only vaguely did I wonder how I could so subordinate myself to my husband.†   (source)
  • Max approached them, expecting Sudri or his subordinates to hand him the weapon he was to use, as had become the custom.†   (source)
  • She would quickly subordinate her own desires to those of the family or the community, because she knew cooperation was the only way to survive.†   (source)
  • So over the objections of his subordinates he dismantled the old beach defenses and pulled his guns back.†   (source)
  • It wasn't any particular point of view that outraged him so much as the idea that Quality should be subordinated to any point of view.†   (source)
  • The use of French was explained by the client's clothes; even the subordinate gnomes of Zurich were observant.†   (source)
  • People bored Manchek; the mechanics of manipulation and the vagaries of subordinate personality held no fascination for him.†   (source)
  • In order to respond to me, Aucamp would have had to humiliate his subordinate.†   (source)
  • Mike used knowledge to play a Mikish prank: Subordinate who made one-changed-digit calls invariably reached Warden's private residence.†   (source)
  • The ministers subordinates may control his every move.†   (source)
  • Man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God, Man's mind, say the mystics of muscle, must be subordinated to the will of Society.†   (source)
  • This binds two but makes one subordinate to the other.†   (source)
  • In many ways, Stanton does not behave as if he is subordinate to Lincoln.†   (source)
  • However, we shouldn't hastily conclude that faction did not agitate the cities, or that subordination and harmony reigned.†   (source)
  • He always tried to get subordinates who were smarter than he was to handle his various affairs.†   (source)
  • Such remarks are rescued from bombast by knowledge that all four men who wrote them—two lieutenants, a sergeant, and a private—were killed in action.9 Those soldiers were using the word slavery in the same sense that Americans in 1776 had used it to describe their subordination to Britain.†   (source)
  • She steered me through the crowd, through the dense alliances of intermingled families where each face was a chronicle of privilege and subordination to the genealogy of great houses and proud names.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: And that we should subordinate our good offices to certain conditions?†   (source)
  • He knew him from the photographs on the ifie and the accounts of his former subordinates.†   (source)
  • We talked with your subordinate, Sangirgonio.†   (source)
  • He would—as soon as he had got his subordinates out of the room (and they of course knew why they had been asked to leave the room)—check the notes with his eyes alone.†   (source)
  • There was not one of his direct subordinates who did not possess much more luxurious quarters, but this place was ample for Stormgren's needs.†   (source)
  • To do this she does not have the necessary ruthlessnessKomarovsky's chief asset in dealing with subordinates and weaklings.†   (source)
  • His motives appear clearly from his own writings on the subject years later in articles contributed to Scribner's and Forum magazines: In a large sense, the independence of the executive office as a coordinate branch of the government was on trial...If ....the President must step down....a disgraced man and a political outcast ....upon insufficient proofs and from partisan considerations, the office of President would be degraded, cease to be a coordinate branch of the government, and ever after subordinated to the legislative will.†   (source)
  • "Mary," he said, like a superior to a subordinate, "did you hear what I said?"†   (source)
  • And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher...   (source)
    subordinating = making subservient
  • These failings are connected with but subordinate to the failure to educate good citizens.   (source)
    subordinate = less important than
  • It meant he had to place a lot of trust in his subordinates.†   (source)
  • But he's using his own cultural language, speaking as a subordinate would to a superior.†   (source)
  • He wasn't a subordinate to be browbeaten.†   (source)
  • Probably to keep his subordinates off balance.†   (source)
  • "An act of subordination for which he should have been cashiered," said Frederic.†   (source)
  • Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.†   (source)
  • In our conversation you haven't been subordinate.†   (source)
  • Being subordinate to the laws is different from being dependent on the legislative body.†   (source)
  • It is not subordinate to them in any way.†   (source)
  • 'Putting the Australian in jail,' suggested the short, well-dressed subordinate firmly.†   (source)
  • The blown-apart old man, two subordinate terrorists in stocking masks-the S?†   (source)
  • If you can't define Quality, there's no way you can subordinate it to any intellectual rule.†   (source)
  • But it doesn't define the jurisdiction of the subordinate courts.†   (source)
  • Simply follow the advice of an extremely experienced subordinate.†   (source)
  • He hung up and looked at his anxious subordinate.†   (source)
  • Silent subordinates, controlled by and subservient to their superior.†   (source)
  • Using subordinate institutions, it can reproduce itself in every part of a great empire.†   (source)
  • It was subordinate only to Truth itself, in a synthesis of all that had gone before.†   (source)
  • 'Victoria Peak!' said the petrified intelligence subordinate.†   (source)
  • They can even subordinate their authority to the authority of the union.†   (source)
  • Wenzu looked at his subordinate; he had to choose his words carefully.†   (source)
  • It subordinates the feelings of the majority to the minority.†   (source)
  • 'You'll talk with his subordinates in whatever sequence is required.†   (source)
  • I reach only subordinates by their code names.†   (source)
  • He wanted me, almost, to act out my subordinate role as a favour to him.†   (source)
  • The junior officers lost heart and with it their influence over their subordinates.†   (source)
  • "Even if the proven charges did not have merit enough," the president was saying, "the irresponsible and criminal boldness with which the accused drove his subordinates on to a useless death would be enough to deserve capital punishment."†   (source)
  • It is this compliant animal, to the public no different from the others in size and apparent ferocity, that will be the star of the show, while the trainer leaves the beta and gamma lions, more cantankerous subordinates, sitting on their colourful barrels on the edge of the ring.†   (source)
  • An inspector supervisor in a station as busy as this likely never set foot on the ships her subordinates inspected, but Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat wore almost as little jewelry as her assistant.†   (source)
  • He took one of the office typewriters home, his subordinates joking good-naturedly: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks.†   (source)
  • They never did anything surprising, anything that seemed to show either brilliance or stupidity in a subordinate officer.†   (source)
  • Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized.†   (source)
  • If he did not find Colonel Gerineldo Marquez alive at that time he would shoot out of hand all of the officers he held prisoner at that moment starting with the generals, and he would give orders to his subordinates to do the same for the rest of the war.†   (source)
  • He offered a rousing oration on the brilliance of the future exposition and the need now for the great men in the banquet hall to think first of the fair, last of themselves, affirming that only through the subordination of self would the exposition succeed.†   (source)
  • Klotz sees himself as a subordinate.†   (source)
  • Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, "interspersed," as one visitor put it, "with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically."†   (source)
  • But on our side, even when some incredibly timid and stupid commanders lost the major battles of the Second Invasion, some of their subordinates were able to do real damage to the bugger fleet.†   (source)
  • Although the federal government had promised racial equality for freed former slaves during the short period of Reconstruction, the return of white supremacy and racial subordination came quickly after federal troops left Alabama in the 1870s.†   (source)
  • We have been unwilling to commit to a process of truth and reconciliation in which people are allowed to give voice to the difficulties created by racial segregation, racial subordination, and marginalization.†   (source)
  • They were talking to a subordinate.†   (source)
  • He'd bent a rule to show something to his former subordinate because he knew him well and was sorry that he had not received the command he had worked so hard for.†   (source)
  • "I think more than ever of the value of the island," he wrote to Harry Codman, "and of the importance of using all possible, original means of securing impervious screening, dense massive piles of foliage on its borders; with abundant variety of small detail in abject subordination to general effect....There cannot be enough of bulrush, adlumia, Madeira vine, catbriar, virgin's bower, brambles, sweet peas, Jimson weed, milkweed, the smaller western sunflowers and morning glories."†   (source)
  • The Korean linguist Ho-min Sohn writes: At a dinner table, a lower-ranking person must wait until a higher-ranking person sits down and starts eating, while the reverse does not hold true; one does not smoke in the presence of a social superior; when drinking with a social superior, the subordinate hides his glass and turns away from the superior;...in greeting a social superior (though not an inferior) a Korean must bow; a Korean must rise when an obvious social superior appears on the scene, and he cannot pass in front of an obvious social superior.†   (source)
  • This sometimes grated the old admiral, but on the whole he liked having subordinates whom he could respect.†   (source)
  • He made it clear that this anxiety was due to Ulrich, specifically, Ulrich's "constitutional propensity" to lose sight of the broad scheme and throw himself into minute tasks better handled by subordinates, a trait that Olmsted feared had left Ulrich vulnerable to demands by other officials, in particular Burnham.†   (source)
  • Good performance was something he had always felt it was important to reward in his subordinates, and the fleet commander at that time felt the same way.†   (source)
  • But never until now was he known to have berated a subordinate, and his regret over the outburst was considerable.†   (source)
  • Eragon liked Orik, but to subordinate himself to the dwarf's authority when so much was at stake would be to relinquish even more of his freedom, a prospect he loathed.†   (source)
  • She can tell the authorities nothing of substance; she's never seen the Jackal; she can only repeat the gossip of lowly subordinates.†   (source)
  • He knew the penalties for aggravated rape, exploitation of a person in a subordinate position, abuse and aggravated abuse; he reckoned he would get at least six years in prison.†   (source)
  • Formally, Gullberg was subordinate to a line of people in the hierarchy under the head of Secretariat of the Security Police, to whom he had to deliver monthly reports, but in practice he had been given a unique position with exceptional powers.†   (source)
  • The leaders then filed out waving to the onlookers; they started down the staircase followed by two lines of awkwardly grinning subordinates.†   (source)
  • This was to be achieved by developing methods of co-operation for a common purpose; this was to be achieved by the pledge of every member to subordinate his own interests to those of the industry as a whole; the interests of the industry as a whole were to be determined by a majority vote, and every member was committed to abide by any decision the majority chose to make.†   (source)
  • Armansky's investigation was formally subordinate to the police investigation, and he had his own agenda.†   (source)
  • It turns out that a crack boss didn't have as much control over his subordinates as he would have liked.†   (source)
  • By comparison, Prusias was tiny—a mere man in regal robes speaking to a subordinate that must have been a hundred feet tall.†   (source)
  • Hendrick was the only man in our regiment to be flogged by sentence of court-martial; the others were administrative punishment, like mine, and for lashes it was necessary to go all the way up to the Regimental Commander — which a subordinate commander finds distasteful, to put it faintly.†   (source)
  • The killer turned to his subordinate.†   (source)
  • "To attempt to introduce discipline and subordination into a new army must always be a work of much difficulty," Reed wrote to his wife, "but where the principles of democracy so universally prevail, where so great an equality and so thorough a leveling spirit predominates, either no discipline can be established, or he who attempts it must become odious and detestable, a position which no one will choose."†   (source)
  • Suitcase had no reply, and the lieutenant did something I have rarely seen a superior officer do: he chastised his subordinate in the presence of prisoners.†   (source)
  • My father, Mac McPhail, was the sports anchor for channel five, and he and the Weather Pet shared the subordinate news desk, away from the grim-faced anchors, Charlie Baker and Tess Phillips, who reported real news.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, sir,' murmured Colonel Scheisskopf Colonel Scheisskopf wilted pathetically, and General Peckem blessed the fates that had sent him a weakling for a subordinate.†   (source)
  • Eragon threw himself at the mind of one of the male spellcasters, but the man was so focused on his task, Eragon failed to gain entry to his consciousness and thus was unable to subordinate him to his will.†   (source)
  • Finn had called other warrens, located his subordinate commanders or somebody willing to take charge, and had explained how to make trouble for grounded transports—all but Hong Kong; for all we knew Authority's goons held Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hating myself for returning to the role of the subordinate wife, I nevertheless played nursemaid to Mammal, fixing him the five bland meals prescribed for him daily.†   (source)
  • Aware that the American individualistic ethic did not lend itself to easy subordination, the military designed basic training as "intensive shock treatment," rendering the trainee "helplessly insecure in the bewildering newness and complexity of his environment."†   (source)
  • It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable ...He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor ...No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval.†   (source)
  • Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your lifethat the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.†   (source)
  • If he likes you he'll walk you into the office of the subordinate to be confirmed and processed-depending.†   (source)
  • Being subordinate to Bohman was bad enough—the man was one of the most boring and least imaginative people at Milton—but now he had been put under Inspector Modig, and she was the most sceptical of the Salander lead.†   (source)
  • Jason leaned back again; the gold spectacles glistened in the harsh glare of the projector's side light, the killer who wore them touching his companion's arm, nodding to his left, ordering his subordinate to continue the search on the left side of the room; he would take the right.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart braced himself with the knowledge that he was one of General Peckem's favorites and took charge of the meeting, snapping his words out crisply to the attentive audience of subordinate officers with the bluff and dispassionate toughness he had picked up from General Dreedle.†   (source)
  • Alessandro knew from long experience as a subordinate that he was supposed to smile in a cowardly fashion and attempt to say something demeaning about himself.†   (source)
  • Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.†   (source)
  • In 1958, when he was eighteen, he was moved to Minsk, to specialist training with the GRU—Glavnoye razvedyvatelnoye upravlenie, the military intelligence service that is directly subordinate to the army high command, not to be confused with the KGB, the civil secret police.†   (source)
  • Like a young child reprimanded by an adult, the Komitet officer, his puffed eyes widened, was both astonished and frightened by his subordinate's incomprehensible rebuke.†   (source)
  • Everything else is subordinate to that.†   (source)
  • He gives it the position of highest honor, subordinate only to Truth itself and the method by which Truth is arrived at, the dialectic.†   (source)
  • Inside, the astonished interior guards watched as the silent Bourne was outfitted with a field uniform complete with a carbine bayonet, a standard .45 automatic and five clips of live ammunition, this last obtained only after an authorization call was placed to Krupkin's unknowing subordinates at Capital HQ.†   (source)
  • They are subordinate to it!†   (source)
  • And the other house, after an impeachment vote, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department.†   (source)
  • Appeals should be easy or difficult in proportion to the grounds of confidence in or distrust of the subordinate tribunals.†   (source)
  • In order to win the battle for Truth in which areté is subordinate, against his enemies who would teach areté in which truth is subordinate, Plato must first resolve the internal conflict among the Truth-believers.†   (source)
  • Lin dialled as his subordinate ran over to it, spinning into the plastic shell that faced the street.†   (source)
  • Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn't any good.†   (source)
  • The subordinate shrugged — angrily.†   (source)
  • This means that local courts, subordinate to the Supreme Court, can be created either in States or larger districts.†   (source)
  • 'Why not?' questioned the subordinate.†   (source)
  • The authority of the whole Union would have been subordinate to the States, like a monster whose individual parts with different goals directing its head.†   (source)
  • The subordinate looked around.†   (source)
  • An entire consolidation of the States into one national sovereignty would imply an entire subordination of the parts; State powers would be completely dependent on the federal government.†   (source)
  • The major had passed the garage, pausing at several alleyways that intersected Arbuthnot Road, sending his subordinate down several of them, constantly looking around for his support troops.†   (source)
  • Therefore, a concurrent jurisdiction for taxation was the only admissible substitute for an entire subordination, in respect to taxation, of State authority to that of the Union.†   (source)
  • Subordinate guards carried enormous sums of money, enjoyed official privileges light years beyond their positions, and bore documents identifying them as members of the government's secret police.†   (source)
  • The lesser subordinate ran to the fence and leaped up, his hands gripping the open, crisscrossing squares of wire mesh as his feet worked furiously below.†   (source)
  • The immense Oriental stopped and looked around with his squinting, penetrating gaze, then turned and shouted for a subordinate, who had apparently emerged from an alley on Arbuthnot Road.†   (source)
  • Several in the audience stepped forward to corroborate the damning evidence, stating that as subordinate distributors they had given the two 'bosses' great sums of cash never recorded in the organization's secret books.†   (source)
  • Bourne and the undersecretary of state wore the white, belted coveralls and caps of the Royal Medical Corps, with no rank of substance indicated on their sleeves; they were merely grousing subordinates ordered to carry blood to a Zhongguo ren belonging to a regime that was in the process of further dismantling the Empire.†   (source)
  • With consolidation he had had to accept the arrival of a more powerful presence in his midst and Dr. Piedmont had taken particular delight in letting his subordinates know that he was sitting with both buttocks solidly planted on the throne.†   (source)
  • "If Mr. Pignetti did not break the code of the room then we can prove he did not break the honor code of the Institute, Mr. Grace," Mark said, and he raised his hands in a sign of entreaty, of subordination.†   (source)
  • I learned later that Piedmont liked his subordinates to grovel a bit before they presented a proposal, shuffle a bit before they offered a suggestion, and lie prone on their faces before they dared proffer a bit of advice.†   (source)
  • The very first time the lieutenant caught the private in a fault at drill he bawled him out, and when it seemed to him that his subordinate was not looking him straight in the eye but somehow sideways, he hit him in the jaw and put him on bread and water in the guardhouse for two days.†   (source)
  • But never once did we openly say that we occupied none but subordinate positions in the building.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.†   (source)
  • I was in the Consular Service—quite a subordinate post, but it suited me well enough.†   (source)
  • Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate.†   (source)
  • From the beginning, then, everything was subordinate to the cause of Union.†   (source)
  • An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes.†   (source)
  • It may even be the main attack, as long as he thinks it the subordinate one.†   (source)
  • It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Tarrou had hardly time to hear his companion mutter: "Now, what do those birds want?" when the men in question, who looked like subordinate government employees in their best clothes, cut in with an inquiry if his name was Cottard.†   (source)
  • Golz was a good general and a fine soldier but they always kept him in a subordinate position and never gave him a free hand.†   (source)
  • A period of sexual temptation is an excellent time for working in a subordinate attack on the patient's peevishness.†   (source)
  • It is wrong insofar as it holds that one only and binding and lifelong order is possible for the multiplicity of subordinate selves.†   (source)
  • Inspector Crome said to his subordinate: "Get me out a list of all stocking manufacturing firms and circularise them.†   (source)
  • It is absolutely necessary at a time like this that every Minister who tries each day to do his duty shall be respected; and their subordinates must know that their chiefs are not threatened men, men who are here today and gone tomorrow, but that their directions must be punctually and faithfully obeyed.†   (source)
  • For him the medium became, privately, professionally, the content of his art, even as his medium is today the public content of the abstract painter's art — with that difference, however, that the medieval artist had to suppress his professional preoccupation in public — had always to suppress and subordinate the personal and professional in the finished, official work of art.†   (source)
  • The proper creative process is a slow, gradual, anonymous, collective one, in which each man collaborates with all the others and subordinates himself to the standards of the majority.†   (source)
  • His last thoughts at breakfast sometimes were the next new policy, and this might be to devote himself absolutely to the bottom-most detail or fistful in a business that reckoned by tons; or, again, to skim in the big space of principle only and leave the details to subordinates—as he could do if they, and mainly I, were trustworthy; or to be a Jesuit of money; or to be self-made: that was one of his weakest ideas but it was also persistent.†   (source)
  • At the Ministry he was employed in some subordinate post for which intelligence was not required, but on the other hand he was a leading figure on the Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns, and voluntary activities generally.†   (source)
  • The Church herself is, of course, heavily defended and we have never yet quite succeeded in giving her all the characteristics of a faction; but subordinate factions within her have often produced admirable results, from the parties of Paul and of Apollos at Corinth down to the High and Low parties in the Church of England.†   (source)
  • Now it can be seen—growing throughout the world—not as a chaos of individual fancies, but as a cohesive, organized discipline which makes severe demands upon the artist, among them the demand to subordinate himself to the collective nature of his craft.†   (source)
  • Guy Francon, its designer, has known how to subordinate himself to the mandatory canons which generations of craftsmen behind him have proved inviolate, and at the same time how to display his own creative originality, not in spite of, but precisely because of the Classical dogma he has accepted with the humility of a true artist.†   (source)
  • Those might come in as subordinate accessories—a sort of mist.†   (source)
  • This is another way in which he's his subordinate.†   (source)
  • And this did not dispose him any better towards his subordinate.†   (source)
  • The very best man in my subordinate nine.†   (source)
  • In this case we can't believe the doorkeeper is the man's subordinate.†   (source)
  • [30] Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated†   (source)
  • —You, one of my husband's subordinates!†   (source)
  • He has got other people under him, instead of being a subordinate.†   (source)
  • But, having nonplussed his subordinate, Matvy Ilyitch paid him no further attention.†   (source)
  • I consider myself fortunate to have such a subordinate by me.†   (source)
  • You will be so kind as to see that I am allowed to keep my subordinate position in the Bank.†   (source)
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