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Example sentences for "subordinates"

Lexicographically close words:
suborder; suborders; subordinate; subordinated; subordinately; subordinating; subordination; suborn; subornation; suborned
  1. She must have had great powers of government, and an eye for ruling the many subordinates whom she probably employed in the management of her possessions.

  2. But, even if it were to be granted that aesthetic value embraces and subordinates all other values, this higher value would still exist only where such an aesthetic interest was actually fulfilled.

  3. It is distinguished by the fact that life is organized into a definite purpose, which, although still narrow and partisan with reference to humanity at large, nevertheless embraces and subordinates the manifold desires of a community.

  4. In the incorporation of interests, elementary interests are unified through a purpose which subordinates and regulates them.

  5. So his subordinates loved him as their elder brother and thought they would be perfectly satisfied if they could die with Sergeant Semba.

  6. This was the first word of command Colonel Aoki gave his subordinates at their departure to the front.

  7. How could the officers and commanders secure respect and obedience and faithful service from subordinates whom they did not love and take care of?

  8. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me: my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respects and subordinates itself to the object; it is love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding.

  9. He subordinates the voice to articulate speech, and for fear lest the muse should take flight he clips her wings.

  10. The reports from the subordinates of the Land Office contain interesting information in regard to their respective districts.

  11. It is possible we have been a little thoughtless," he said sweetly, "but our subordinates should attend to these matters; that is what they are paid for.

  12. I have hired no subordinates on that basis," he said distinctly.

  13. Jefferson failed to perceive what Madison seems always to have forgotten, that a commander-in-chief who appoints and may remove his subordinates can never escape responsibility for their failures.

  14. Stimulation was certainly needed in these two departments as events proved, but attention to petty details which should have been watched by subordinates is not the mark of a great commander.

  15. And the Secretaries of State, Navy, and the Postmaster-General are getting to be as fat as bears, while some of the subordinates I wot of are becoming mere shadows from scarcity of food.

  16. Dix orders his military subordinates to pursue any rebel raiders even into Canada and bring them over.

  17. Winder's subordinates in writing his name, which was Simons; he wrote it Simmons!

  18. Surely none of his subordinates divulged the secret, for none but generals of division knew it.

  19. Mr. Seddon's subordinates must answer for this.

  20. His subordinates are not responsible to him, and he can do no more than report their incompetence or misconduct to the common superior of all, and then await the tedious processes of circumlocution.

  21. Subordinates in office generally do, I think.

  22. Strong difference of opinion even on the part of subordinates recommended itself to him.

  23. We regarded it so important that the notice given to subordinates of our whereabouts at night should not be misleading, that we stuck to the place that had been named, in spite of the inconvenience and discomfort.

  24. When communication with Burnside became difficult and infrequent, he gave orders to Willcox at Cumberland Gap and to subordinates of Burnside in Kentucky and Ohio.

  25. His quiet tones were clear, his gravity was full of conscious power, and the deference shown him by his subordinates was earnest and respectful.

  26. Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, and their subordinates fall into the same error.

  27. Footnote: Sherman's general plan was given to his subordinates in person, but he repeated it to Halleck, Official Records vol.

  28. He was eager to bring the Confederates to battle in this region, and urged his subordinates to make haste.

  29. We who were Sherman's subordinates in the field knew so well his integrity and patriotism that we sympathized strongly with his indignation at the appeal to popular sentiment against him.

  30. Halleck, however, had to face the question how his subordinates must act if, on coming near the enemy, Johnston should claim a new armistice.

  31. Under such circumstances he could not be blamed for telling his subordinates that only Grant's authority or his own must bind them.

  32. On the reports of subordinates as to their uneasiness at the stretching of their lines, Thomas suggested to Sherman that the lines be contracted and strengthened.

  33. He selected his subordinates with rare judgment.

  34. The early history of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons in the State of New York is so obscure that but little information concerning its subordinates is obtainable.

  35. Reports soon began to reach me in swift succession from my subordinates in many quarters.

  36. If ever a man loved his machines it was Phail, and if ever a man was loved and trusted by his subordinates it was he.

  37. To be sure, the leader had insisted that his subordinates use the devices for their own communications, and he'd cut Fixed Communications to the bone.

  38. I shall leave it to you to distribute them to your subordinates, and to instruct those subordinates in their use.

  39. It is for her to give orders: it is for subordinates to carry them into effect.

  40. Of all her trusty subordinates none had served her so loyally as big Mr. Mears.

  41. I noticed that he was never tired of praising his subordinates in the war.

  42. This was perhaps the first occasion upon which my subordinates had an opportunity of making me the subject of any demonstration, and their reception made a lasting impression.

  43. I have sometimes disapproved, personally, of methods employed by their subordinates in this work, and have felt free to tell them so!

  44. No man has been blessed with better subordinates than I have had to assist me in the work carried on under my direction for the non-Christian tribes of the Philippines.

  45. Moreover, the intercourse of the heads of a government with their subordinates is generally so rare and transient, that it is not astonishing they should experience difficulty in assigning men to their appropriate positions.

  46. The Grand Inquisitor maintained a bodyguard of fifty mounted Familiars and two hundred infantry; his subordinates were allowed ten horsemen and fifty archers apiece.

  47. These subordinates were people of some social standing.

  48. He felt himself dependent on too many subordinates and too many masters.

  49. This was too much for the forced calmness under which the Assistant Commissioner had for upwards of eighteen months concealed his irritation with the system and the subordinates of his office.

  50. The insurmountable obstacles were in the stolid resistance of subordinates to any novelty designed to lessen labour and promote economy.

  51. He was only induced to remain, and submit to the insults offered to him, by the consideration that his hasty departure might cause an indefinite postponement of this settlement, and so prove injurious to his subordinates if not to himself.

  52. The rest of the afternoon was given over to conferences with subordinates whom he had summoned.

  53. Whether it was the latest photograph from an aeroplane or the most recent diagram of plans of attack, it came to him if his subordinates thought it worth while.

  54. Even as they spoke the main doors were burst open in mere brutal panic, and all the officers and subordinates of the asylum rushed away across the garden pursued by the smoke.

  55. Mac Grab and one of the subordinates accordingly departed with their prisoner to the spunging-house in Chancery Lane; while Proggs and the other man remained in possession of the dwelling in Baker Street.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subordinates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.