It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

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If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

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1 Peter 3:1:
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
(NIV)
IN LIKE manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the [godly] lives of their wives
(AMP)
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
(KJV)

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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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Colossians 3:18:
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
(NIV)
Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.
(AMP)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
(KJV)

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1 Corinthians 14:34:
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
(NIV)
The women should keep quiet in the churches, for they are not authorized to speak, but should take a secondary and subordinate place, just as the Law also says. [Gen. 3:16.](AMP)
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
(KJV)

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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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