Sentence examples for means to subordinate from inspiring English sources

Such steps entail abandonment of plans to establish the first secure military bases in a client state at the heart of the world's major energy reserves - a powerful lever of world control, as has been understood for 60 years, a means to subordinate the region more fully to US interests and the prime motive for the invasion, according to western polls in Baghdad.

While it seems clear that Leibowitz could only see the latter as a religious act, it is not clear that this sits comfortably with our ethical intuitions though presumably Leibowitz would simply retort that this is precisely what it means to subordinate human interest to the ultimate value that is the worship of God.

She also articulated a profound sense of female subjectivity, expressing what it means to be subordinate, secondary, or not in control.

And that is because – as for no other nation on these islands – what it means to be English is completely subordinate to class, region, ethnicity and local culture.

First, the religious guidelines that govern what "respect" means to the Pences are part of a system that works to prop up male power and keep women subordinate.

That often harms American interests.Another error was to subordinate means to ends.

The person should never be a mere means to an end, subordinated to the will and purposes of another.

Polanyi argued that making this commodity the organizing principle of society meant 'to subordinate the substance of society itself to the laws of the market'.

The adjective collateral, "parallel," came to mean "ancillary, subordinate"; as a noun, it is a pledge of security alongside a debt to ensure its payment.

This means that subordinate subjects not only had to localize the noise itself, but also keep in mind what the dominant had heard in the recent past.

The concept of rights, says Rand, "provides a logical transition from the principles guiding an individual's actions to the principles guiding his relationship with others… Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law" (1963b, p. 108).