subordinating

Adjective

Meaning

of Subordinate

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. Theodore Roosevelt

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. Arthur Henderson

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a ‘ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of ‘fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually. John Carroll

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. Nicholas Sparks

Men who were used to subordinating others to their wills were invariably surprised by rebellion-as though this imaginary prison they created was, in fact, real. Sean Russell

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