How to Use subordination in a Sentence

subordination

noun

• The hallmark of the Putin era has been the restoration of state supremacy and the subordination of the rich to Kremlin goals.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2022
• That was when colonists on the eastern seaboard sought to end their subordination to the British monarchy.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• And here is a vice that The Crown shares with horse-race election coverage: the subordination of facts to narrative.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2020
• Black veterans were seen as a threat to Jim Crow and racial subordination.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
• Women were defined in terms of their full subordination to men and in regards to their role in the family and in motherhood.
  — Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
• At a time when most German rulers demanded complete subordination from their subjects, Fichte gave the self the most exciting of all powers: free will.
  — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022
• The other reason a young dog may cuddle relates to how young puppies turn, twist, and roll around on their back displaying respect and subordination.
  — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 28 June 2021
• The growing subordination and the emergence of new roles in our team organically provoked the creation of group chats without a boss, secrets and less openness within the team.
  — Tatiana Melnichuk, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• As Thomas notes, many Americans’ increasing commitment to racial subordination and slavery loomed large in the background of the cases.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• Humans signal subordination by bowing, groveling, laughing at the boss’s jokes, kissing the don’s ring, saluting and so on.
  — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
• Thankfully, she's found a solution to instill fear and subordination into the hearts of the student body: reviving the ancient spirit of Gossip Girl.
  — refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• In both cases, household and kingdom shared a common model of subordination.
  — David Graeber, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The theory emerged during the 1980s and argues that subordination on the basis of race permeates American law and society.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• The feature treats huge issues, such as the subordination of a woman’s life to her familial responsibilities.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• The law performed colorblindness in a country where the color-conscious subordination of Black people had been a core feature since its eighteenth-century founding.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• The safety and security of our democracy demands competent civilian control of our armed forces, the subordination of military power to the civil.
  — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2021
• The tide has turned and Iranians – particularly women – will no longer settle for exile or subordination.
  — Ana Diamond, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
• Instead, the lawsuit claims that Remillard’s signature was forged on an October 2018 subordination agreement allowing Hankey to be paid first.
  — Laurence Darmientostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
• When Nigerians must travel to London or New York to see the masterworks of their homeland, they are symbolically reminded that this history of subordination has not ended yet.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Jim Crow was white terrorists enforcing racial subordination outside of the formal legal system.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Sep. 2021
• To the young Hannah-Jones, her father’s reverence for America seemed a degrading acceptance of black subordination and marginality.
  — Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The domination and subordination at the core of American enslavement shaped the afterlife of Black Americans as freedpeople.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Peering over the shoulder of an ensign in the upper-left-hand corner of the canvas, this Hals is simply one member of the company, his marginal placement and muted coloring affirming his subordination to the whole (see illustration below).
  — Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
• The relationship between a college president and a donor may indeed involve an element of subordination.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Economic status may fluctuate, but the subordination and vulnerability to state violence that come with being Black is something most Black people expect to contend with from cradle to grave.
  — G'ra Asim, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
• There is much theater to this trade, as reflected in Putin's fiery speeches and the public portrayal of his virility, the absolute subordination of Russia's most senior officials and the country's feeding a mystique of overwhelming military power.
  — Douglas London, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
• Helga’s constant irritation is a response to a hostile environment, one filled with bad smells, shabby surroundings, and the indignities of racial subordination.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2022
• But Modi’s subordination of institutions has gone even further.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Selflessness, which has been vital to the warrior ethos for generations, requires subordination of self and subgroup identity and the ability to regard teammates’ racial and ethnic differences as inconsequential.
  — Mike Waltz, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2023
• Corporatism is an ideology that, to a greater or lesser extent, will lead to the subordination of conventional corporate purpose based around shareholder primacy to objectives set elsewhere.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024