Sentence examples for subordinates for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Putin backpedaled, blaming subordinates for the decision.

He has blamed disobedient subordinates for murderous attacks on civilians and for destroying previous ceasefires.

Mr. Sabatini blamed subordinates for the problem, though he acknowledged his responsibility.

But most often, Dr. Hornstein found, managers bullied subordinates for the sheer pleasure of exercising power.

Mr. Scrushy, who is not charged with a crime, has denied wrongdoing and has blamed subordinates for the fraud.

Though the opposition has seized on these claims, most Argentines are less inclined to blame the president than his subordinates for security failures.

Luther has about 30 fighters, although in the interview he had to ask a subordinate for the number.

A manager might use bullying to swat down a threatening subordinate, for example, said Dr. Harvey A. Hornstein, a retired professor from Teachers College at Columbia University and the author of "Brutal Bosses and Their Prey".

No one in the civilian Administration publicly condemned his remarks, and the commander of the Army, General Eduardo Villas Bôas, refused to censure his subordinate for violating the prohibition on political speech by active officers.

Ultimately, I believe, an all-volunteer military diminishes that very necessary idea that we are all in this nation together, and that there are times our individual comfort and desires must be subordinated for the good of that nation.

The superior officer who orders a subordinate to do something morally reprehensible is not in a position to blame the subordinate for carrying out the order, even if civilians are.