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Discover LudwigThe word "subordinating" is correct, and it is commonly used in written English.
It is typically used in reference to the action of making one thing or idea subordinate, or of lesser importance, to another. For example, "The manager subordinated his own desires to the decisions of the board."
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subordinating
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Present participle of subordinate
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His aim, transparently, is to bring the infant ECB to heel: a commitment to stabilise the euro, dollar and yen, undertaken by finance ministers and subordinating the ECB's mandate to achieve price stability, would serve that purpose very well.
They were due to discuss ways of boosting the "rule of law", although this was likely to mean trying to strengthen the party's power rather than subordinating it.
Hence, there is a lack of trust, in the eyes of the private sector, in the extent to which sound public finance is written into the DNA of the Indian State.The government's fiscal expedients may also do lasting damage to the de facto independence of the Reserve Bank of India, subordinating monetary policy to fiscal necessity.
By subordinating the central bank to his wishes, Mr Thaksin has given investors another reason to worry.
But the Republicans seem to have gone furthest in subordinating considerations of competence and merit to pro-life purity.
His subject emerges as a remarkable but flawed individual and as a less than consistently creative writer.Most striking is Mr Solzhenitsyn's unerring capacity to make enemies out of friends—as a result, largely, of subordinating his entire life, and the lives of virtually all with whom he came into contact, to his consuming obsession to fulfil his God-given task of exposing the evils of communism.
This explains a surprisingly undemocratic habit in daily life of subordinating the needs and rights of the individual to those of companies, special-interest groups and other members of the establishment.
Healthy cells regulate their division into daughter cells carefully, subordinating their own Darwinian tendency to reproduce in favour of the survival of the body they inhabit.
That ignores the fact that the Ethiopians were invited in by a Muslim Somali government and have been longing to leave ever since.America can be more heavily criticised for subordinating Somali interests to its own desire to catch a handful of al-Qaeda men who may (or may not) have been hiding in Mogadishu.
The chairwoman of the CNE defended the decree as a government prerogative.Mr Maduro was equally ruthless in subordinating economic policy to the imperative of electoral victory.
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Furthermore, according to Strossen, "Ambiguous and positive interpretations apply to the full range of sexual speech, including violent imagery and imagery that might well be labeled 'subordinating' or 'degrading,' such as rape scenes and scenes dramatizing the so-called rape myth — namely that women want to be raped" (Strossen 1995, 146).
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