That's why he finds it distressing that in both the Verniero debate and the mapping controversy "the interests of minorities are being subordinated".
This fundamental national interest is being subordinated to short-term political interests — Republicans who won't acknowledge that higher taxes are needed to pay for an adequate military; Democrats who will cut almost anything except retirement spending.
It gave amnesty for corruption crimes more than four years old, granted immunity to retired politicians and civil servants (that means all Mr Moi's corrupt old cronies) and gave the attorney-general the power to stop investigations.Opposition MPs were irritated that parliament was being subordinated to the IMF's decree and were enraged by the amnesty clause.
As long as they keep saying they are at war, then they will find justifications for 'mistakes' like killing children and women which create so much anger on the streets and make this whole road map process harder". He said Israeli democracy was being subordinated to the will of the military, with Ariel Sharon providing the shield: "Sharon is giving them political cover.
The departure of Mr. Stern, a longtime friend and confidant of Governor Cuomo who has often engaged in public and behind-the-scenes disputes with other officials and with developers, comes when the top U.D.C. post is being subordinated to a new State Director of Economic Development.
In his view, religion was being subordinated to a political ideology that he considered "tyrannical, brutal and cruel".
The Amhara, dominant before 1991, and the Oromo, the largest ethnic group in the country, complained they were being treated as subordinate minorities.
As a manager of operations and maintenance at the World Trade Center, he was on the phone every weekend from his home in Ozone Park, Queens, making sure that things were being done right, that subordinates were treating his beloved towers just so.
"America's security and fiduciary responsibilities," said Mr. McCain, "are apparently being subordinated to what's in the best interest of the Boeing Company".
What should be the most solid and enduring element, the Constitution, is suddenly being subordinated to perhaps the most insubstantial and momentary elementNhow our politicians wish to appear to the voters.
