During the first years of his Presidency, Putin effectively subordinated the legislature, governors, business interests, and national television networks to the Kremlin.
In the Indian parliamentary system, the executive is subordinate to the legislature; the prime minister and his council are directly responsible to the lower house of the parliament.
In Poland an additional institution to maintain administrative legality was the Supreme Chamber of Control, which was independent of the government and subordinate only to the legislature and the Council of State, a political body quite different from the French model.
On the other hand, these local governments were subordinated to the national legislature and ministries in Paris.
The legislature will remain in a subordinate role similar to Mr. Mubarak's former Parliament, they said, with the military council appointing the prime minister and cabinet.
Unlike America's Congress, it is not prone to long spells of deadlock; unlike France's National Assembly, it is not subordinate to a monarch-like president; unlike the German Bundestag, regional legislatures do not dilute its power.
Their crucial claim was now that their right to tax themselves by their own legislatures rested on charters from the Crown, and that they were subordinate to the Crown alone, and not to Parliament.
Arguably this is what one should say about constitutional democracies where the people's sovereign authority is thought to be ultimate and unlimited but the government bodies e.g., legislatures and courts through whom that sovereignty is exercised on the people's behalf is constitutionally limited and subordinate.
In 2000, the County Legislature held hearings into what was then described as overtime abuses at the jail -- in many cases subordinates were found to have approved overtime slips for their superior officers.
