This Stirnerian ideal of self-mastery has external and internal dimensions, requiring both that we avoid subordinating ourselves to others and that we escape being 'dragged along' (56) by our own appetites.
In addition, efforts were made to exclude managers and individuals with supervisory positions from the discussions, to avoid any superior-subordinate relationships that may inhibit discussion.
Similarly, in an experimental study [26], older fallow deer females (>2.5 years) were found to avoid mating with younger, subordinate males, and delayed estrous even when there were costs associated with weight loss and delayed reproduction, suggesting that females choose (directly or indirectly) males according to their age.
Whereas transactional models (Reeve and Keller 2001) generally predict that the subordinates' paternity share is related to breeding opportunities for subordinates outside the group, we predict that incentives are given to subordinates when the dominant perceives a threat from outside the group and subordinates help to avoid this threat.
In other words, unrelated subordinates may choose to avoid participating in tasks that might compromise their chances of inheritance.
Indeed, if we accept the possibility that prime males sometimes forwent mating opportunities by avoiding subordinate, post-prime males who formed coalitions against them in the past, as suggested by others (Kuester and Paul 1992), the proportion of changeovers related to coalitionary activity reaches 47%.
He drew Cao off to one side to avoid embarrassing him in front of their subordinates Cao could not let the vanity of some major stop them from winning the war, he said.
I speculate that LBJ — like all presidents — wanted to avoid an open split among his key subordinates..
Women with power must be careful to avoid evoking in the voter (or their subordinates in a company) the buried experience of the nagging, shaming, disappointed and entitled mother.
In these pairs, one animal (the dominant) has learnt to dominate the other animal (the subordinate), which in turn tends to avoid confrontation [5].
The prosecution's case was based partly on testimony from his former subordinates, some of whom struck deals to avoid prosecution.
