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In many places, however, children expect to support their elderly parents and will subordinate their interests to that aim.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

The power of volition, that faculty which keeps the will subordinate to the judgment, seems totally weakened.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

It will subordinate paper schemes of distant amelioration to duties that will help right now.”

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David

Civilization will subordinate the flesh to the soul.

From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Robertson, Frederick William

But future man will subordinate these lower powers to the higher.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason