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  • 1Parliament Act of 1911 — Act passed in the British Parliament that deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. Proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons, the act stated that any bill passed unchanged by the Commons in three… …

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  • 2Subordination — Sub*or di*na tion, n. [Cf. F. subordination.] 1. The act of subordinating, placing in a lower order, or subjecting. [1913 Webster] 2. The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.… …

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  • 3subordination — n. act of subordinating; state of being inferior to, state of being secondary in importance; subjugation, state of being under the authority of anothersub·or·di·na·tion || sə‚bÉ”rdn eɪʃn / sə‚bɔːdɪ neɪʃn …

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  • 4subordinations — n. act of subordinating; state of being inferior to, state of being secondary in importance; subjugation, state of being under the authority of anothersub·or·di·na·tion || sə‚bÉ”rdn eɪʃn / sə‚bɔːdɪ neɪʃn …

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  • 5subordination — n. 1. Subjection, act of subordinating. 2. Inferiority, subjection, subserviency …

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  • 6sub|or|di|na|tion — «suh BR duh NAY shuhn», noun. 1. the act of subordinating. 2. the condition of being subordinated. 3. subordinate position or importance. SYNONYM(S): subjection. 4. submission to authority; willingness to obey; obedience. SYNONYM(S): subserv …

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  • 7HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …

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  • 8Dependent clause — In linguistics, a dependent clause (sometimes called a subordinate clause) is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses modify the independent clause of …

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  • 9German sentence structure — is somewhat more complex than that of many other European languages, with phrases regularly inverted for both questions and subordinate phrases. Main Sentence If a verb has a separable prefix, this prefix is moved to the end of the sentence.: Ich …

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  • 10subordination — sub·or·di·na·tion /sə ˌbȯrd ən ā shən/ n: an act or instance of subordinating; also: the remedy of subordinating a claim see also equitable subordination Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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