I. adjective
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subordinate clause
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■ NOUN
class
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The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the scheme dropped.
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Large sections of the population, the subordinate classes specifically, were desperately in need of improved health care.
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For a start, it is a subordinate class , and being a socialist means surrendering a culture of subordination for self-determination.
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Clientelistic parties that help channel the demands of the subordinate classes are seen as less threatening to elites.
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Economic development was also creating massive changes in the subordinate classes .
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The effectiveness of such a legal system depends upon its ability to express the rights, powers and interests of subordinate classes .
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The new industrial social order required new techniques of power and new institutions to control the subordinate classes .
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The politics of development How do dominant and subordinate classes deal with the problems of development within the global system?
clause
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Judgments frequently consist of long paragraphs and convoluted sentences replete with subordinate clauses .
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Frye wrote the words independent clause and subordinate clause on the board.
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This seems likely, to judge from the profusion and confusion of qualifications and subordinate clauses .
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However, when a subordinate clause follows a main clause this additional processing load does not occur.
group
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There has, therefore, been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups .
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Elite convergence progresses until the subordinate group of elites learns to beat the dominant group through the electoral process.
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For members of socially subordinate groups , subordination remains salient even though superordinates are not immediately present.
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Indeed, it is just the space between these contradictions that subordinate groups fill with their demands for legal change.
legislation
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I do not like complex subordinate legislation .
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Hence back-benchers may intervene to prevent subordinate legislation .
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It comprises acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation made under the authority of the parent act.
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Statutory power to make subordinate legislation was delegated to Permanent Secretaries.
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Government ministers, local authorities and other public bodies have been given the power by statute to make subordinate legislation .
position
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Truman had to learn through experience in office without a period of gradually accumulating knowledge in a subordinate position .
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There is a certain boldness about her; she strikes me as refusing to be put in any subordinate position .
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Bargaining politics implies a clear role for politicians which may suggest that officials will occupy subordinate positions .
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Mackenzie assumed direct control, with his partners in subordinate positions .
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In fact they follow the logic feminists identify as sexist because it assumes women's subordinate position .
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Thus, as far as the scientific community is concerned, the alternative movement is kept frozen in its subordinate position .
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To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position .
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Women hold only subordinate positions in the military forces.
role
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In the world of the infant and parent, the referential function of language often takes a subordinate role to others.
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Even the glory of the Annunciation can not obscure the almost wholly subordinate role played by women in the New Testament.
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Servants are sometimes actually protagonists, and even in subordinate roles they are represented as men and even brothers.
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Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.
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The standards will also be relevant to occupations where training takes a subordinate role , for example line managers and supervisors.
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Without East Anglian acceptance of a subordinate role , Offa's Anglian empire would be of short duration.
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Women's subjectivity has a subordinate role in those accounts.
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Women had a subordinate status in our society.
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Admiral Ugaki promptly instructed subordinate staff officers to make a detailed study of the practicability of his plan.
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For a start, it is a subordinate class, and being a socialist means surrendering a culture of subordination for self-determination.
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In the 1940s the official press had stated that economic goals would be subordinate to political objectives.
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Thus the capitalist mode articulates with the peasant mode, with the latter playing a subordinate role and the former benefiting.
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When he is subordinate to both of them then a partnership with either animal may be established as an aid to intervention.
II. noun
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■ VERB
manage
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The focus of change is directed toward improving the way superiors use power to manage subordinates .
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In fact, the managers most often discovered new sides of themselves in managing conflicts with subordinates .
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They had assumed they could use themselves as models in under-standing how to manage their subordinates .
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Empathy was crucial for managing diversity among subordinates .
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In these chapters we address the challenges of managing subordinates , but not those of managing peers or superiors.
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Costello will have five direct subordinates.
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The idea of being evaluated by subordinates makes some managers uneasy.
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The prospect of being judged by subordinates made some managers very uneasy.
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But other senior managers had to convince their colleagues and subordinates of the value of this approach.
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By conferring with his subordinates before making any decision, the manager will take account of their advice and feelings.
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If something has gone badly, one of his subordinates will be criticized in an editorial.
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If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task.
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In other words, if a manager has five subordinates, the span of control is five.
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Indeed, Nagumo, passive though he was, did not always leave everything to his subordinates.
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Like the subordinates, most superiors felt the managers' interface responsibilities were crucial.
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The focus of change is directed toward improving the way superiors use power to manage subordinates.
III. verb
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According to this view, Idealism had made the mistake of subordinating political considerations to moral considerations.
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After the fall, these alliances continued, and both parties had strong interests in subordinating women.
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Back to Tradition was the slogan, and if that included subordinating women, so be it.
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Did this mean that Aquitaine was going to be permanently subordinated to the ruler of the Anglo-Norman realm?
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In this period, justice is subordinated to adult authority.
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She's quite talented but she subordinates all her interests to his.