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US
/səˈbɔɹdəˌneɪtɪŋ/
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[ UK /sʌbˈɔːdɪnətɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /sʌbˈɔːdɪnətɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause
`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction
How To Use subordinating In A Sentence
- The tragic hero, we are told, still treats the ethical as his telos or goal, even if this entails subordinating particular duties to its attainment.
- From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- New Christian doctrines stripped Sophia of her divine qualities, dramatically subordinating her to the Father and to Christ as her male partner and savior.
- The editors sought to realize new conceptions of layout and design, to create a unity out of the printed page, subordinating the individual processes of ornamentation and typography to a single purpose.
- Where the society has a “compelling, subordinating interest” in regulating population size, the right of the individual may be curtailed. Science Czar John Holdren denies the ‘right of women to choose?’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
- `when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction
- From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and the death sentence for apostates (including those to the Guardian’s favourite religion, atheism) -- as extreme. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- What it would put a stop to is the reactionary policy of subordinating the revolutionary vanguard to the national bourgeoisie.
- Belief is the mood which emancipates us from the paralysing dubieties of distraught souls, and leaves us full possession of ourselves by furnishing an unshaken and inexpugnable base for action and thought, and subordinating passion to conviction. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle
- We may show it by starting at the end as with the house that Jack built and constructing the sentence backwards, subordinating by stages, and changing will to shall as the protases come in; it will be allowed that until means to the time when, and that when may be resolved into if ever. Shall and Will.