In his eyes, they said, state officials are not supplicants, subordinates or mere middle managers, but equal partners with a role rooted in the Constitution.
The person should never be a mere means to an end, subordinated to the will and purposes of another.
However, it took a number of wars during the 19th century for this to be understood, as generals were unwilling to subordinate themselves to mere railway managers.
Pornography, by its very nature, requires that women be subordinate to men and mere instruments for the fulfillment of male fantasies" (Longino 1980, 45).
If he is not careful, he will find himself written off as a mere subversive, a troublemaker who cannot be trusted to subordinate his own interests to those of the team.
The worship of subordinate deities such as yaksa and yaksi, earlier considered as mere attendants of the tirthankars was seen from the 7th century to the 12th century.
Another is often reported by his subordinates to be "golfing in outer space," a catchphrase for exotic vacations that mere mortals could never afford.
Meanwhile, subordinated lenders — mainly the carmaker's bondholders — are expected to recover a mere 12.5 cents on the dollar, according to a recent auction held to determine the payout on credit-default swap contracts linked to that debt.
This mere convention is not false; it is simply understood as a mode of perception that is subordinated to the ultimate truth that has been directly experienced in meditation.
Jewish thinkers often considered natural science a mere system of hypotheses, which was capable of grasping only the superficial appearance of things, and was subordinate to the absolute truth offered by the Torah.
