Everything – from the courts to local authority swimming pools – is subordinate to that aim.
Everything and everyone was subordinate to the larger aims of the book, so the reality of the people I knew got eliminated pretty quickly.
"The derivation of direct economic benefit", it says, "must be subordinated to this principal aim" (maintaining the health of the forest).
Wherever possible, he said, military action "should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance, economic programs that spur development and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom terrorists recruit".
They look at the way the market economy has developed over the last 25 to 30 years and see the obsession with subordinating all other aims to the sole goal of maximising profits as deeply warped.
"Where possible, what the military calls kinetic operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance, economic programs that spur development, and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit.
All these immense battles, however, were subordinate to the supreme strategic aim of breaking the German military pressure that had been building up against the French army around the town of Verdun since the German advance early in 1916.
They may, however, take a great interest in the world of spirits and the operations of astrology, just as the local population does, even though they regard such matters as subordinate to the ultimate Buddhist aim of universal Nirvana.
Another type of statements in this subcategory concerned different kinds of motivational strategies aimed at influencing subordinate behaviour.
The aim of the government is to subordinate the media, as a whole if possible, to the political executive.
On Monday, the prime minister's subordinates detailed new measures aimed at stopping the protests.
