subordination

Example Sentences

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The racial subordination of nearly half the state’s population constituted “an endless economic dead weight which is bound to reduce the fiscal attractiveness of the state’s securities quite apart from the moral issue,” he wrote.

From New York Times

She chalked up her subordination to racism, without understanding that subordination is an end in itself.

From Washington Post

“Drivers are in a position of subordination and dependency to Uber, such that they have little to no ability to improve their economic position or professional or entrepreneurial skill.”

From Seattle Times

In 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights asserted that "in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, civil power."

From Salon

But I also reject the notion that our options are exclusively either absolutist violence or grudging subordination to another’s viewpoint.

From Seattle Times