Sentence examples for subordinate question from inspiring English sources

And there is a strong sense that regulators have answered the subordinate question (how should bankers be paid?) while ignoring the one that matters most to people: how much should they be paid?Policymakers doubtless hoped (again) that banks would show some restraint this year.

Professor Donald Kagan: Our topic today is the Dark Ages and the world of Homer, and of course, you have as one of your reading assignments a problem that deals precisely with that question that asks the subordinate question: was there a real world that Homer's poems refer to?

Whether certain other animals are spiritually free or whether we can come to engineer living beings who are spiritually free is a separate and subordinate question, which in itself presupposes an answer to the question of what it means to be a free, spiritual being.

Each subordinate question is prefixed with the phrase 'match:'match

Beginning with a general question—What is good?—it progressively breaks up this question into a whole series of subordinate questions, analyzing meanings ever more minutely, growing narrower and narrower but always with the utmost modesty and sincerity, striving for increasing simplicity and exactitude.

But in writing my post, I subordinated questions of the destruction of antiquities to the critical moment facing Egypt today, which concerns the future of living men and women.

Note that the first word in the file is 'matching', followed by an indexed main question and then the indexed subordinate-questions with a matching answer.

There was a subordinate tactical question as well: could the enemy be found at the outer limits of aircraft range?

Other examples of flaws, he said, are a breakdown in communication among departments, a fear among subordinates to question higher-ups and a failure to incorporate crosschecks — the way airline workers do for safety reasons — or checklists.

Furthermore, regarding multi-national clinical trials sponsored by a global pharmaceutical company, we inquired if they had experience in participating in such a trial and if so, then through an 8 subordinate-item question via a 4 tier scale asked about the major obstacles in participating in a multi-national trial (Question #16).

Unique in the collection is sustained attention to gender concerns, which have tended to be subordinated to questions of nationalism, statehood, and citizenship.