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Example sentences for "subsidiary"

Lexicographically close words:
subsided; subsidence; subsidences; subsides; subsidiaries; subsidie; subsidies; subsiding; subsidio; subsidise
  1. The delta of the Irrawaddy forms, wherever cultivable, a vast sheet of rice, with cotton, sesamum, and tobacco as subsidiary crops.

  2. The dominant forms result from crustal movements, the subsidiary from secondary reactions during the action of the primitive forms on mobile distributions.

  3. It was sufficient to obtain for its author the place of lecturer in anatomy in the University of Bologna, besides the post of director of the teaching of anatomy in the Institute of Sciences, a subsidiary institution.

  4. Knowledge was no longer pursued for its own sake, but became subsidiary to religious and theological teaching.

  5. Technique, dramatic feeling, subject, and even accuracy of drawing, will be relegated to the subsidiary and comparatively unimportant position they hold in relation to a painting's aesthetic purpose.

  6. At times it emerges from its sombreness and blossoms forth in all the hot softness of now the Venetians, of again the Spaniards; but compared with the artist's genius for plastic form it is of subsidiary importance.

  7. Further, Bern has her Lower House, consisting of presidents, deputies and pensioners, subsidiary to the Upper.

  8. Occasionally it will be found couped, but it is then, as a rule, only occupying the position of a subsidiary charge.

  9. We therefore find cadets bearing the arms of their house with the tincture changed, with subsidiary charges introduced, or with some similar radical alteration made.

  10. In none of these cases is it necessary to specify the position of the subsidiary charges.

  11. In fact the use of a badge, in the days when everybody who was anybody possessed arms, was quite subsidiary to the arms, and very much akin to the manner in which nowadays monograms are made use of.

  12. The plans of General Cadorna had involved three separate campaigns--one in the Trentino, the other in the Carso, and a subsidiary campaign in the Carnic Alps to the north, along the main watershed of the mountains.

  13. Exaggerated as this number was regarded in allied circles, it showed Austria-Hungary's opinion of the severity of the fighting in what was considered a subsidiary theatre of the Great War.

  14. The principal effort was directed against this passage, the left flank of attack being secured by a subsidiary action confined to the capture of la Poche.

  15. And the other subsidiary clause completes the thought: 'through Christ.

  16. But a thought that we must not take as a supreme motive, we may rightly accept as a subsidiary encouragement.

  17. He that hath begun a good work will also perfect the same, and when He gave to you and me His Son, He bound Himself to give us every subsidiary and secondary blessing which was needed to make that Son's work complete in each of us.

  18. Besides this, there have been established two State forests of 800 acres which will be treated as subsidiary reservation nurseries to the one established at Burlington.

  19. Men who are officers or directors of the General Electric Company, or of its three wholly controlled subsidiary companies, are also officers or directors in many other corporations.

  20. A central archeus controls a number of subsidiary archei which move through the ferments, and just as diseases are primarily caused by some affection (exorbitatio) of the archeus, so remedies act by bringing it back to the normal.

  21. To the north-east of the city a very considerable valley has been formed between the Paropamisus and the subsidiary Koh-i-Mulla Khwaja range, called Korokh.

  22. The crest of the outer ridges of this subsidiary range is about 700 ft.

  23. It is a subsidiary corporation of the "big combine.

  24. We have shown how each agent of the Vice Trust, each subsidiary combine, each industry dealing with the unfortunate women, suck out the last drop of blood.

  25. It has been shown how the disgraced and fallen women not only give up a share of the earning from their dying bodies, but also are compelled to assist in the collection of subsidiary graft.

  26. But we have demonstrated that subsidiary graft has reduced the ill-gotten gains of the women until there is scarcely anything left for them.

  27. These men as a combine, are subsidiary to the great Vice Trust.

  28. The subsidiary trusts of the great Vice Trust have taken their toll.

  29. There is a subsidiary trust of the Vice Trust which robs the 2,000 inmates of resorts in the city.

  30. These subsidiary judges might consist of a single arbiter, of small boards of three, seven, or ten, &c.

  31. The second rectangle contains a small hypostyle hall with six columns, and the sanctuary, with their subsidiary chambers.

  32. The first bill laid before the Estates by the government was to impose an excise tax on the principal articles of consumption, together with subsidiary taxes on cattle, poultry, &c.

  33. The calling in of subsidiary principles may be thought to spoil the boasted simplicity of the theory.

  34. Ten variants thus remain to be studied with reference to the subsidiary elements.

  35. It will be noted that all the variants, save Finnish, which have the simple compound, retain the rescue of the bridegroom, while only half of those where a subsidiary motive has been introduced have the like.

  36. Such, then, seems to be the relationship of The Water of Life and allied motives to the main theme of our study,--purely subsidiary and relatively late.

  37. The first three of these variants clearly show in the subsidiary elements just enumerated their relationship to The Water of Life.

  38. To be sure, this superfluity of riches doubtless results from the fusion of subsidiary types, but none the less it points to the original unity of the central theme, which is all that I wish to suggest.

  39. The question of the connection which these subsidiary elements sustain to the central theme cannot properly be discussed until they have been seen in other combinations.

  40. In many plates, indeed, the shield of arms takes quite a subsidiary position by the side of the predominantly architectural urn.

  41. Inasmuch, however, as the transactions are first recorded in these subsidiary books, and afterwards classified therefrom into the ledger, the names books of entry or books of first entry are often employed.

  42. Subsidiary books which do not form the basis of subsequent entries into the ledger, but are merely used for statistical purposes, are known as statistical or auxiliary books.

  43. Broadly speaking, it may be said that the purely heraldic element tends to become subsidiary and the allegorical or symbolic to assert itself more strongly.

  44. We long to dismount these insipid creatures from the pride of place, and to supplant them by some of the admirable characters who are doomed to play subsidiary parts.

  45. He or she appears as the hero or heroine of one story, and plays subsidiary parts in a score of others.

  46. The mass of reserves must, therefore, be employed as subsidiary to the regular troops, whom they must relieve as much as possible from all minor duties.

  47. Recourse already has been had to the expedient of requiring smaller qualifications than before, and of filling the numerous subsidiary posts (clerks, waiters, etc.

  48. If we are in possession of the original and primitive, the deduced and subsidiary conceptions can easily be added, and the genealogical tree of the understanding completely delineated.

  49. There is an equally striking difference among the disputed prophecies themselves, and one of no small moment as a subsidiary indication of their origin.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsidiary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; accident; accidental; addendum; addition; additional; adjunct; adjuvant; adventitious; ancillary; appendage; appurtenance; assistant; associate; auxiliary; branch; casual; circumstantial; collateral; contingency; contingent; contributory; endowed; extra; fortuitous; helping; incidental; indirect; instrumental; invested; little; ministerial; ministering; minor; nonessential; other; secondary; serving; side; stipendiary; subordinate; subservient; subsidiary; superfluous; supervenient; supplement; supplementary; unessential