Cosmic questions about our place in the universe are not so much avoided as subordinated to more pressing practical concerns.
Since Roosevelt's day, our political life, federal budget, news media, even popular culture have all become obsessively focused on the supposed safety of Americans, no matter what the actual dangers in our world, and so much else has been subordinated to that.
When asked why he'd failed to address reports, for eight years, that indicated a "significant spike" in use of force against inmates, Baca said those statistics "only tell you so much," blamed his subordinates for failing to inform him about misconduct, and suggested that there was no point to digging up the past.
Friends of the former president said that there were parameters to the relationship, given that Mr. Cheney was Mr. Bush's subordinate and so much younger.
"The sanctions will hurt so much that they can easily force Western countries to come to their senses and stop subordinating trade to their political anger," he argues in pro-Kremlin Izvestia daily.
At his last job, running the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn had so much trouble distinguishing truth from fiction that, according to the _Times, _his subordinates created a category called "Flynn facts".
The "thirst" to improve "their respective fortunes, not so much from real want as from the desire to surpass others," would lead people to try to subordinate others.
Tides changed and I didn't need to let that subordinate go after all, but I never told the blabbing colleague so much as the time, let alone anything important, ever again.
But it's not so much consciousness he's after or even action per se, more a sense of transcendent pace, a fleeing away of time to which everything else is subordinated.
That so much of the criticism cited in this article comes from within the bank suggests that McNamara's colleagues and subordinates do not have as exalted a perception of him as so much of the outside world does.
