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In certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner’s command, it’s pretty apparent to us that Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Navy Personnel Command and our subordinate commands take every measure to ensure the volume of transactions does not exceed our capacity, but occasionally backlogs do occur due to a variety of reasons. These backlogs are resolved as quickly as possible to limit the impacts to sailors. – Matt Knight	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence, if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it… All the worth which the human being possesses… he possesses only through the State. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by Normando 2 years ago
During the review period, no Commanding General or subordinate echelon commander chose to intervene proactively and mitigate known risks of high crime, sexual assault and sexual harassment. The result was a pervasive lack of confidence in the SHARP Program and an unacceptable lack of knowledge of core SHARP components regarding reporting and certain victim services. – Fort Hood	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Mr. Mosley was a youth counselor -- a subordinate -- while others on scene were superior personnel, lakeside officials have released a version of events -- multiple times to the media -- that deflects responsibility from their own employee policies and procedures. They have attempted to control the narrative but we intend to show the entire truth surrounding the instruction and training of their youth counselors. – Kiana Garrity	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As Russia's taxman in chief, he's been in a senior but basically subordinate, technocrat post for a decade -- services for which he's been decorated. Mikhail Mishustin suggests there's a good chance Mikhail Mishustin's not going to think independently of President Vladimir Putin. – Valeriy Akimenko	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the biggest examples of this is that.... the CEO of McDonald's Corporation stepped down... and part of that was because he was having a relationship with a subordinate, now, it didn't say it wasn't consensual or that they had any complaints about it or anything of that nature, but just the very nature of having that kind of relationship in this #MeToo time shows bad judgment. – Michael Green	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials. – Daniel Russel	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Former governor An's position of power over the victim was sufficient to dominate her free will, an appears to have seen the victim in the context of a superior-subordinate relationship and used it to commit adultery. – High Court	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Directing a subordinate to lie to Congress is a federal crime. – Jerrold Nadler	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are barreling towards an incoherent Brexit that is going to leave us trapped in a subordinate relationship to the EU, with no say over the rules that will govern huge swathes of our economy. – Jo Johnson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are barrelling towards an incoherent Brexit that is going to leave us trapped in a subordinate relationship to the EU, with no say over the rules that will govern huge swathes of our economy. – Jo Johnson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The most popular Greek word for 'minister' is diakonos, which means, 'a servant,' or 'one who executes the command of another.' The other Greek word used is hyperetes, which literally means, 'the under-rower,' or the subordinate who is doing the rowing of a boat. Thus, a minister works for both God and man in service. Just as Jesus was a servant to both God and man, so should all believers be. – Henry Hon	added by Steve Simms 6 years ago
The bill is yet another try to subordinate the court to the executive power, and we fear that it will block all cases judged by the court, this bill will absolutely not end the row with the European Commission or the Venice Commission. – Marcin Wolny	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Polish government must be told that and more: that the alliance whose protection they demand is not only about defending territory, but, perhaps more important, about defending shared values, the bill is yet another try to subordinate the court to the executive power, and we fear that it will block all cases judged by the court. – New York Times	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
These are people who may not be connected in a 'superior-subordinate' relationship with the so-called Caliphate, but people who are mentally linked, who share their point of view and take up arms. – Andrei Grozin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think it (ISIS) is going to expand beyond Libya where it can find subordinate elements to cooperate with. – Bob Wilson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Otherwise, I wouldn't be where I am. If he didn't feel that women were as competent as men, I would be relegated to some role subordinate to my brothers, i think this is one of his great strengths: He fully prioritizes merit and accomplishment and skill and ability over background, education, and gender. – Donald Trump Trump	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ideologically, 'Pretty Woman' is a love song to consumerism and capitalism, 'Pretty Woman' depicts a world where everyone is either a card-carrying member of the corporate caste or an obliging subordinate ... It is obsessed with things (hotel suites, private jets, fancy clothes) and encourages the audience to share its obsession with things. – Bitch Flicks	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are never going to allow any coffee company, domestically or around the world, to put us in a subordinate position in terms of quality and access to the highest grade arabica coffee. – Howard Schultz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning. – Philip Roth	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. – Johann Huizinga	added by anonymous 14 years ago

In certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner’s command, it’s pretty apparent to us that Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Navy Personnel Command and our subordinate commands take every measure to ensure the volume of transactions does not exceed our capacity, but occasionally backlogs do occur due to a variety of reasons. These backlogs are resolved as quickly as possible to limit the impacts to sailors.

– Matt Knight

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence, if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it… All the worth which the human being possesses… he possesses only through the State.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

added by Normando
2 years ago

During the review period, no Commanding General or subordinate echelon commander chose to intervene proactively and mitigate known risks of high crime, sexual assault and sexual harassment. The result was a pervasive lack of confidence in the SHARP Program and an unacceptable lack of knowledge of core SHARP components regarding reporting and certain victim services.

– Fort Hood

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Mr. Mosley was a youth counselor -- a subordinate -- while others on scene were superior personnel, lakeside officials have released a version of events -- multiple times to the media -- that deflects responsibility from their own employee policies and procedures. They have attempted to control the narrative but we intend to show the entire truth surrounding the instruction and training of their youth counselors.

– Kiana Garrity

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As Russia's taxman in chief, he's been in a senior but basically subordinate, technocrat post for a decade -- services for which he's been decorated. Mikhail Mishustin suggests there's a good chance Mikhail Mishustin's not going to think independently of President Vladimir Putin.

– Valeriy Akimenko

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One of the biggest examples of this is that.... the CEO of McDonald's Corporation stepped down... and part of that was because he was having a relationship with a subordinate, now, it didn't say it wasn't consensual or that they had any complaints about it or anything of that nature, but just the very nature of having that kind of relationship in this #MeToo time shows bad judgment.

– Michael Green

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Just as this week's 'tactical weapon' test was a signal to warn Trump that his much-vaunted 'freeze' is in jeopardy, the verbal attack on Pompeo is meant to encourage Trump to ignore his hardline advisers and make a deal with his 'friend' Kim Jong Un, as long as the North Koreans believe they can flatter and dupe the U.S. president into making important concessions ... they will resist dealing with less gullible and more demanding subordinate U.S. officials.

– Daniel Russel

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Former governor An's position of power over the victim was sufficient to dominate her free will, an appears to have seen the victim in the context of a superior-subordinate relationship and used it to commit adultery.

– High Court

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Directing a subordinate to lie to Congress is a federal crime.

– Jerrold Nadler

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are barreling towards an incoherent Brexit that is going to leave us trapped in a subordinate relationship to the EU, with no say over the rules that will govern huge swathes of our economy.

– Jo Johnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are barrelling towards an incoherent Brexit that is going to leave us trapped in a subordinate relationship to the EU, with no say over the rules that will govern huge swathes of our economy.

– Jo Johnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

– Henry Hon

added by Steve Simms
6 years ago

The bill is yet another try to subordinate the court to the executive power, and we fear that it will block all cases judged by the court, this bill will absolutely not end the row with the European Commission or the Venice Commission.

– Marcin Wolny

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Polish government must be told that and more: that the alliance whose protection they demand is not only about defending territory, but, perhaps more important, about defending shared values, the bill is yet another try to subordinate the court to the executive power, and we fear that it will block all cases judged by the court.

– New York Times

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These are people who may not be connected in a 'superior-subordinate' relationship with the so-called Caliphate, but people who are mentally linked, who share their point of view and take up arms.

– Andrei Grozin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think it (ISIS) is going to expand beyond Libya where it can find subordinate elements to cooperate with.

– Bob Wilson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Otherwise, I wouldn't be where I am. If he didn't feel that women were as competent as men, I would be relegated to some role subordinate to my brothers, i think this is one of his great strengths: He fully prioritizes merit and accomplishment and skill and ability over background, education, and gender.

– Donald Trump Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ideologically, 'Pretty Woman' is a love song to consumerism and capitalism, 'Pretty Woman' depicts a world where everyone is either a card-carrying member of the corporate caste or an obliging subordinate ... It is obsessed with things (hotel suites, private jets, fancy clothes) and encourages the audience to share its obsession with things.

– Bitch Flicks

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We are never going to allow any coffee company, domestically or around the world, to put us in a subordinate position in terms of quality and access to the highest grade arabica coffee.

– Howard Schultz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

– Philip Roth

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

– Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

– Johann Huizinga

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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