Isis itself was a breakaway from the first al-Qaida group in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, which was subsumed by the Iraqi-led body in a power struggle in May and has remained resentful ever since.
Incentives offered in California (where there are a lot of loans made by the failed lender Washington Mutual, which was subsumed by Chase) apparently depend on various factors, agents say.
It is often useful (and sometimes necessary) to replace a non-condensed clause C by a condensation, i.e., by a condensed subset of C which is subsumed by C.
First there was Google Local, which was subsumed by Google Maps, and then Google Places (and don't forget Hotpot).
Conant succeeded Bush as Chairman of the NDRC, which was subsumed into the OSRD.
Intrawest, which was subsumed last year by Fortress Investment Group, said through representatives that it could not comment on the pending lawsuit.
Children's lives are reduced to shopping excursions in which their identities are subsumed by brands — they're the Nike generation, Abercrombie kids, iPod addicts.
What fundamentalist society would not be horrified by the ways in which traditions and rituals are subsumed by the filthy lucre of the marketplace?
Her appreciation of the energy of language allows her to inhabit a Dylan song and treat it in the manner of Billie Holiday, slurring its syllables into a hip tone poem, in which the words, while not unintelligible, are subsumed by the rhythms inside the phrases.
Disease, observation and finding are subsumed by clinical finding, which is erroneous even from the medical point of view.
Individual moments of drama are subsumed by an overriding slickness.
