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  • verb Present participle of subserve.

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Examples

  • Let's not get focused on party crap let's pick people that aren't subserving to the big donors and lobyist.

    McCain makes pledge on conservative judges 2008

  • If in gratifying his deepest and truest inclinations he is subserving the general end, then of that civilisation it may be said it is growing and prospering, and that nature is in it.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • Artificial Paradises, Wilner argues that for both writers, the consumption of substance, rather than subserving the economy of the healthy body, becomes human only insofar as it vehiculates an excess of desire.

    Article Abstracts 2007

  • Multiplication of Individuality ( "Du Vin et du hachisch comparés comme moyens de multiplier l'individualité"), the consumption of substance, rather than subserving the economy of the healthy body, becomes human only insofar as it vehiculates an excess of desire.

    Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

  • If neuroscientists are just calling the same thing by a different name then we can make positive empirically testable statements about the "soul": It is material (conforms to prior knowledge of basic physico-chemical principles), localizable (to patterns of interactions of CNS with its environment), analyzable (is composed of identifiable parts, each subserving a particular function), predictable, and, of course, evolved over billions of yrs.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • A composition of such marvellous beauty, of such infinite variety, of such masterly design, of such vigorous and skilful drawing, of such thought and fancy, of such surprising and delicate accuracy of detail, subserving one grand harmony, and one plain purpose, that it may be questioned whether the Fine Arts in any period of their history have known a more remarkable performance.

    Miscellaneous Papers 2007

  • Ligaments are they that tie the bones together, and other parts to the bones, with their subserving tendons: membranes 'office is to cover the rest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Can dysfunction in neural systems subserving emotion lead, under certain circumstances, to more advantageous decisions?

    Mind Hacks: (un)emotional investment 2006

  • Can dysfunction in neural systems subserving emotion lead, under certain circumstances, to more advantageous decisions?

    Mind Hacks: March 2006 Archives 2006

  • Mao made this comment when he was explaining a particular tactics of struggle and stressing before the party workers its due importance in the then particular prevailing situation of semi-feudal, semi-colonial China, there warlords subserving one or the other imperialist forces, had their own army and they were engaged in wars among themselves.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Abhay N 2006

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