(Here again, there is a certain obscurity in Reinhold's claim, inasmuch as he insisted that the first principle "determines" only the "form" and not the "content" of all the other, subordinate propositions, yet he also described the relationship between the first principle and the subordinate principles as a "syllogism," in which the latter are "derived" from the former).
The Labour leader, Harold Wilson, ever subordinating principle to party, veered from anti-Europeanism to pro-Europeanism to anti-Europeanism and back again.
During the half-century of the cold war, the United States undoubtedly subordinated principles as well as causes to the overriding concern of defeating communism.
But he has carefully amassed a wealth of information that suggests Gonzales is less a conservative ideologue than a diligent subordinate whose only principle is abject fealty to Bush.
In earlier cases before the tribunal, a number of military or police officers and politicians were convicted of massacres and other war crimes committed by followers or subordinates on the principle that they had been members of a "joint criminal enterprise".
In Bentham's hands this took the form of a multitude of subordinate or secondary ends, principles and maxims designed to give practical direction to the utility principle in each and every aspect of the law.
The irony is that in enunciating such a principle that subordinates the interests of the UK as a whole to the sectional interests of one nation, not just Scotland but Wales, England and, even more controversially, Northern Ireland could have a veto that frustrates the rest of the UK's will.
There are areas such as the environment and the fight against fraud which should however be subordinated to the subsidiarity principle.
In the heat of the cold war, they, too, subordinated their moral principles to what they saw as higher purposes.
Cammack (2004: 190) affirms that while the World Bank is committed to poverty alleviation, its intentions and development programs are subordinated to capitalist principles.
