Dominance and submission — the shifting poles that govern all relationships, not just sexual ones — are Gaitskill's great subjects, carrying her from "Bad Behavior" to her novels "Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (1991) and "Veronica," and through two more story collections, "Because They Wanted To" (1997) and "Don't Cry" (2009).
While the Bush hasn't staged a submission since its policy shift, it has commissioned several writers straight off the bat: Chris Thompson's Albion being one such example.
The lineup includes the Free Press's own submission, "Packard: The Last Shift," which gives a history of the former automobile plant and its many incarnations.
"We want to show that if they plan to come at us with a club in the nationwide bargaining and if they think they're going to beat us into submission in terms of shifting other serious health costs onto the workers, they're just plain wrong".
There was a time early on in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) when bad decisions could be blamed on judges' lack of familiarity with the intricacies of MMA (mistaking pulling guard for falling, not recognizing subtle position shifts and submission attempts, etc).
Statistical surveillance of the number of surveys submitted by field veterinarians showed that an upward shift in submissions occurred at approximately week 30.
Executives within HarperCollins, Jonathan Cape, Little, Brown, and Tinder Press are inviting "un-agented submissions", marking a dramatic cultural shift for an industry having to readjust to developments such as self-publishing, as well as the often huge advances demanded by agents for coveted titles.
Observations, such as language shifts either within a submission or between submissions, can highlight discrepancies in the way language is used, inconsistency in the writing style, and extreme shifts from very poor to a very high level of expression.
Ms. Farber has taken special care to keep fluid the shifting choreography of dominance and submission.
"In the shift from open to closed submissions, he had indeed found the straw that broke the camel's back".
