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    Alongside this culture, various religious cultures with their respective rights can coexist, on condition (and to the degree) that they respect the criteria of the Enlightenment culture and subordinate themselves to it. This Enlightenment culture is substantially defined by the rights to liberty.  (source)
    subordinate = rank as less important (needing to conform to)
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    I've already told you—and your subordinate, and your subordinate's subordinate, and fifty other people this week—she doesn't have school or medical records.  (source)
    subordinate = person of lower rank
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    After consulting a tree to ascertain from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland.  (source)
    subordinates = people of lower rank
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    On one level he was astonished by the revelation that Sofia could play the piano at all; on another, that she tackled the primary and subordinate melodies with such skill.†  (source)
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    He had to be careful with his subordinates, and had to speak politely even to the sentries, lest he be deemed to have an intellectual's resistant attitude toward thought reform and collaboration with the masses.†  (source)
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    You're the one who's always saying they've subordinated us to every passing principle and whim and desire!†  (source)
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    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)
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    Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.†  (source)
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    They never did anything surprising, anything that seemed to show either brilliance or stupidity in a subordinate officer.†  (source)
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    It was in the Marine Corps where I first ordered grown men to do a job and watched them listen; where I learned that leadership depended far more on earning the respect of your subordinates than on bossing them around; where I discovered how to earn that respect; and where I saw that men and women of different social classes and races could work as a team and bond like family.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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