222 examples of subsidiary in sentences

When the State-edicts are in the hands of the subsidiary ministers, it will be strange if in three generations there is no collapse.

He narrowly misses the misunderstood wife (now a widow, thanks to his kind offices), and his failure to bag the hero and ingénue (together with a handful of subsidiary characters) is only a matter of minutes.

Neither our limits nor our object will permit a digression of sufficient length to point out the whole of the leading features of a system so vicious, and which was, perhaps, only rendered tolerable to those it governed by the extraneous contributions of captured and subsidiary provinces, of which in truth, as in all cases of metropolitan rule, the oppression weighed most grievously.

There are, however, certain subsidiary services for which any British military system must make provision.

In Volpone everything is subsidiary to the humor of avarice, which receives unnatural emphasis.

secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary; agent &c 758; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man. maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente [Fr.], lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah^, biddy, nurse, bonne [Fr.], ayah^; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre

Most of the subsidiary matter is foisted in with monstrous clumsiness.

Upon this emergency, Oxley held a consultation with Evans and Harris, and it was decided to send the baggage and horses back to a small and safe elevation that stood some fifteen miles higher up the river, thus making a subsidiary depot camp.

After nine months of Allied occupation the Reds organised, largely under American protection, two divisions (so called) of from 5,000 to 7,000 men, and numerous subsidiary units of a few hundred, who murdered and robbed in every direction, and destroyed every semblance of order which the Supreme Governor and the Allies had with so much labour attempted to set up.

First, the rôle assigned to the reason in moral affairs is merely subsidiary.

In the Middle Ages, however, geology was an undiscovered science, and the human mind was compelledperhaps with much advantage to itselfto seek supernatural causes in order to explain the mysterious phenomena of nature, many of which, so far as subsidiary causes are concerned, have ceased to be mysterious.

It is as if I (being entirely ignorant of botany and chemistry) said that the beanstalk grew to the sky because nitrogen and argon got into the subsidiary ducts of the corolla.

Subsidiary reasons of our failure to return are due to the sickness of different members of the party, but the real thing that has stopped us is the awful weather and unexpected cold towards the end of the journey.

The best and most thorough method of analysis is that of COMPLETE SYNTACTICAL PARSING; a method which, for the sake of order and brevity, should ever be kept free from all mixture of etymological definitions or reasons, but which may be preceded or followed by any of the foregoing schemes of resolution, if the teacher choose to require any such preliminary or subsidiary exposition.

She was honestly old-fashioned and never took quite kindly to the khaki-breeched free-spoken young women of the subsidiary war services, had a hatred of muddle and was a little severe on men, though acknowledging that "young men are the kindest members of the human race."

DURABLE PUNCH & DIE CO., SUBSIDIARY.

To this great object everything is subsidiary.

3. #Subsidiary and Minor Coins.#All coins of a lower denomination than $1 belong to one or the other of these two classes.

There are three subsidiary coins, the fifty cent, the twenty-five cent, and the ten cent pieces.

The peculiarity of the subsidiary and minor coins is that they are, as compared with the standard coins (gold and silver dollars), of a greater value than the value of the metal they contain.

The subsidiary coins are legal-tender to the amount of $10, the minor to the extent of twenty-five cents.

But what were the uses of the subsidiary statues?

The man's son in his turn died, and a similar room was made for him with his statue and his subsidiary statues.

"As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.

The food of the aborigines consists chiefly of fish and shellfish, to which as subsidiary articles may be added lizards, snakes, possums, various birds, and an occasional kangaroo, turtle, dugong, or porpoise.

222 examples of  subsidiary  in sentences