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  • noun Plural form of subordination.

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  • Such approvals, known in the industry as "subordinations," mean that the home-equity lender agrees to stand in second place behind the new mortgage and allow the existing first mortgage to be replaced by another first mortgage.

    Some Borrowers 2008

  • But so eagerly do the functional subordinationists grasp after straws that they see elaborate subordinations lurking in every difference of preposition.

    Against the New Subordinationists 2006

  • β€œHe noted that in her proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass, as if her path lay through all things.”

    Representative Men 2006

  • It requires a good faith attempt to examine public policy as an instrument of the community, to subordinate personal needs and private desires to a sense of the public interest as defined by the community, and to maintain confidence that similar commitments and subordinations can be expected from others.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • It requires a good faith attempt to examine public policy as an instrument of the community, to subordinate personal needs and private desires to a sense of the public interest as defined by the community, and to maintain confidence that similar commitments and subordinations can be expected from others.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • It requires a good faith attempt to examine public policy as an instrument of the community, to subordinate personal needs and private desires to a sense of the public interest as defined by the community, and to maintain confidence that similar commitments and subordinations can be expected from others.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • These subordinations, and many like them, represent natural law, in the classical conception.

    A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society Hampshire, Stuart 1972

  • The social order is sick and liable to violence, total disorder, and death when it no longer reflects, as in a mirror, the due subordinations and separations of degree that nature everywhere requires.

    A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society Hampshire, Stuart 1972

  • The Burkean belief that a just social order, with its inherited degrees and subordinations, reflects a deeper natural order can scarcely have much hold in a freely competitive and socially mobile capitalism.

    A Special Supplement: A New Philosophy of the Just Society Hampshire, Stuart 1972

  • There are analogies and parallels between the two, but not assimilations and subordinations.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

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