Sentence examples for we subordinate from inspiring English sources

GPS for nutrition can help get us out of this mess -- but only if we subordinate opinion to the facts at our disposal, work hard to keep up with new facts that come in, and acknowledge there may be things about the route from here to there we didn't already know.

Even if we subordinate our compassion for those thousands of miles away to ensure that our own health care system and medical workers are adequately prepared to deal with Ebola at home, we cannot overlook the necessity to wield a sustained assault against the disease where it will make the most difference in the long term.

Aged 62, he is old enough to know that the US beat the depression and won the second world war when "we subordinated the individual to the collective good, and it worked really well".

"We live in a state which is governed by laws, and we are subordinate to the highest authority which is the president of the republic," he said.

It is not that we can subordinate our actions to reason; it is that our reason can grasp what we do from our emotional nature and come to understand and make sense of it.

"But it's not a mission where we can subordinate ourselves to the military occupiers," he said.

Why should we be subordinate to their wishes?' More than a dozen Premiership players have been called up for the Nations Cup and other clubs have been more understanding than Tottenham about losing players.

Montaigne's point is that when it comes to cruelty we should subordinate all other "reasoning" — stoic, of degree and dependency — to the essential fact of the stag's suffering.

Kant's ostensible answer to this question is that we must "subordinate" mechanism to teleology (§78, 414).

Given this, the question arises as to what the relationship is between such special duties of friendship and other duties, in particular moral duties: can our obligations to our friends sometimes trump our moral duties, or must we always subordinate our personal relationships to morality in order to be properly impartial (as, it might be thought, morality demands)?

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.