The phrase "subordinate state" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a state or country that is under the control or authority of another state. Example: The small island nation was a subordinate state of the neighboring superpower, often having to comply with their demands and policies.
As my colleague James Brooke reported at the time, the tensions were prompted, among other things, by Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, calling the kingdom a "subordinate state that fell under the jurisdiction of the Chinese dynasties and was under the great influence of China's politics, culture and other areas".
But while protesters dressed as ancient Koguryo horsemen picketed the Chinese Embassy here, China's state-controlled New China News Agency recently called the kingdom a "subordinate state that fell under the jurisdiction of the Chinese dynasties and was under the great influence of China's politics, culture and other areas".
The report says she knowingly "permitted Todd Palin to use the governor's office and the resources of the governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired".
Between the church and the state John describes a hierarchy of function, but he does not subordinate state to church or church to state.
The most remarkable external political documents are numerous state treaties, sometimes between equals but more often covenants specifying protectorate or vassaldom status for subordinate states on the fringes of the kingdom.
When the state held this identity, the traditional subordinate state-individual relationship came onto the stage.
When the state is regarded as the ideological owner of all national urban land, subordinate state-individual relationship is applied between the state and the actors.
By this strategy, the scope for the subordinate state-individual relationship based on a permeated boundary is again narrowed, indicating the selective firming process.
The traditional boundary-permeated self, featuring an elastic self-boundary and the corresponding subordinate state-individual relationships, fit well with the totalitarian society of the pre-reform era.
While narrowing the scope in which subordinate state-individual relationships are applicable, individuals also expand the scope to which egalitarian state-individual relationships can apply.
Meanwhile, by treating the state as a landowner, actors on the one hand acknowledged the moral obligations demanded by the national self under the banner of "public interest," activating the traditional subordinate state-individual relationship.
