Every belief will subsist that finds an empirical and logical warrant; while that a belief is a belief and not a sensation will not seem a ground for not entertaining it, nor for subordinating it to some gratuitous assurance.
And as refinement comes only by experience, by comparison, by subordinating means to ends and rejecting what hinders, it follows that a refined mind will really possess the greater volume, as well as the subtler discrimination.
He began by subordinating the spiritual to the secular, when he should have begun by subordinating the secular to the spiritual.
Subordinating themselves to the men, and uncomplainingly accepting a menial position, the whole burden of whatever work is necessary rests upon them.
It cannot be conceived as subordinatingthese to a desire to make creatures happy.
The difference arises at the point which lies between subordinating one's own advantage to that of another, and not subordinating it.
The conception of deity as a workman, laying stress upon the notion of cleverness in contrivance, and subordinating moral character to skill, would never lead to reverence, or the adoration of the architect.
The second means of subordinating the council was the decision to vote by heads and not by nations and to allow no proxies.
The attorneys-general and solicitors-general during the eighteenth century set themselves to the task of subordinating colonial government to parliamentary authority by a series of opinions in which they make rather than explain law.
He subordinates the State to him instead of subordinating himself to the State.
In subordinating its particular intuitions to the absolute ideal art is, therefore, merely asserting its own sovereign autonomy.
You see now why I have been so individualistic throughout these lectures, and why I have seemed so bent on rehabilitating the element of feeling in religion and subordinating its intellectual part.
Poe was creepy sometimes, but he was an artist, an idealist, subordinating even occasional horror to the beautiful in his daring dreams.
In a complex sentence, that is one consisting of a main and a subordinate sentence, the subordinate member is introduced by some subordinating word: such are, I.
The effect of this was to suspend the execution of an ecclesiastical sentence, subordinating the church courts to the royal will.
However many means men have invented to hinder the possessors of power from subordinating the welfare of the whole to their own advantage, hitherto not one of these means has worked.
The former regarded it as going too far in the direction of subordinating the separate colonies to a central colonial authority, while for the latter it was too democratic.
To carry out their plan of subordinating the states, it was necessary to establish the supremacy of the Federal judiciary.
The natural effect ofsubordinating the democratic element would be to render its influence more feeble as the system developed.
It has also had the effect of subordinating the making of laws in our state legislatures to that purely extraneous function--the election of United States senators.
Hamilton's purpose was to limit the power of the people by subordinating that part of the government in which they were directly represented and strengthening those parts over which they had no direct control.
Meanwhile this same Presidential usurpation, subordinating all to himself, became palpable in another form.
Is it not time for a President who will show by example the importance of reform, and teach the duty of subordinating personal objects to the public service?
In the hope of subduing the egoism rooted in human nature, moralists have preached renunciation of individual happiness and the need of subordinating it to the good of the community.
There move forward into the foreground the sciences which study nature and the methods of subordinating it to man.
In the same way, the superman, by subordinating everything else to his instinct to live, will make it evolve into something very accurate and efficient.
Why not make it appear more important by subordinating everything to it?
Abuse of so as a subordinating connective: You may go, so you keep still.
The crude, rambling style which results from their use may be corrected by separating the material into shorter sentences, or by subordinating lesser ideas to the main thought.
Written discourse requires greater tension and more care in subordinating minor ideas: The day, though cold, was still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subordinating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
