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  • Next day he interviewed his two subordi - nates, Manders and Reilly, reckless youngsters who were as elated as if it were a deer-hunt.

    Chennai 2010

  • Providing technical advice and assistance to ammunition officers in subordi-nate CSGs and ammunition supply units.

    FM 9-6 Chapter 2 United States Army 1998

  • Determining brigade ammunition requirements based on input from subordi-nate battalions and knowledge of upcoming tactical operations.

    FM 9-6 Chapter 2 United States Army 1998

  • Though subordi-nate in age and status to the visiting Ijaju, her healing skills were respected throughout the region.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Broh watched while Anzeljermeit inspected his subordi-nate.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Some - thing like a unitary reduction is proposed, however, and some concern is manifested for the difference between a principal motif (Hauptmotiv) and a subordi - nate one (Nebenmotif).

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

  • Such considerations, while present in Ogle - thorpe's venture in founding Georgia, were subordi - nated to his humanitarian aim of rehabilitating unfor - tunates who had been imprisoned for debt.

    PHILANTHROPY MERLE CURTI 1968

  • Among recent thinkers preoccupied with the prob - lem of classification is the Soviet writer Bonifatii M. Kedrov whose system is a closed, cyclical, and tight structure based on principles of objectivity, subordi - nation, and transition from lower to higher forms.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas PIERRE SPEZIALI 1968

  • Socialism, on the other hand, appeared to stress communal efforts and the subordi - nation of individual or group interests to the common good.

    NATIONALISM HANS KOHN 1968

  • The other typical ethical concepts — right and virtue — are definitely subordi - nated.

    RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

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