(n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
(v. t.) To teach; to train.
(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the Dynamo winning three of their last four, that scenario was becoming more likely, though disciples of the Church of Dom were given reason for pause on Saturday.
(2) This school of thought has had a massive surge in disciples of late, as the dust settles in the aftermath of the credit crisis; now that the second wave of the credit crunch appears to be upon us, the baying for blood has become even louder and more vituperative.
(3) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(4) Many of his disciples and coworkers became first rate scientists, owing a lot to his encouraging personality.
(5) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) Other objections rest on the fact that Jesus chose only male disciples.
(8) Berizzo, a disciple of Marcelo Bielsa who he first worked under aged 14, pushes his team high up the pitch and at great speed; the ball moves quickly, the players too.
(9) It is maybe unsurprising, then, that many of Jacobs' disciples have had nothing but scorn for the High Line.
(10) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(11) He's not a slavish disciple of markets, or small government (although fiscal circumstances and periodic stiffening from economic dries within the Liberal party may make him something of a latterday convert on this score at least).
(12) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(13) In early 2015, Isis was at the height of its power, and was still attracting thousands of eager new disciples every month from all over the world.
(14) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
(15) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
(16) In 1914, Pavlov's disciple N. R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, exploring the limits of visual discrimination in dogs, noticed that when the discrimination was difficult, the dogs' behavior became disorganized.
(17) One of Boris Johnson’s Eurosceptic disciples interrupted a live Channel 4 broadcast on Friday night on the mayor of London’s orders.
(18) Graffiti is only ever graffiti when it’s done illegally.” Saysell said he was a disciple of the “broken windows theory”, the idea that tackling small acts of vandalism promotes a sense of order which prevents further crime.
(19) Nasser was a flawed and tragic idol by the time Gaddafi had acquired the means to emulate him, but an immensely potent one all the same, and had he lived, the disciple would have remained in the shadow of the master.
(20) Jiang Jiemin, another high-profile disciple of Zhou and the former head of the commission that oversees China’s state-owned companies, was sentenced to 16 years in October.
Subordinate
Definition:
(a.) Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
(a.) Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like.
(n.) One who stands in order or rank below another; -- distinguished from a principal.
(v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another.
(v. t.) To make subject; to subject or subdue; as, to subordinate the passions to reason.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(2) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(3) Compared to socially dominant females, socially subordinate females had fewer ovulatory menstrual cycles, more cycles with deficient luteal phase plasma progesterone concentrations, increased adrenal weights and increased heart weights.
(4) In none of the constructs were TG sequences folded in a positioned nucleosome, demonstrating that the rotational setting played a subordinate role in the rough positioning in vivo.
(5) Allogrooming was more frequent among subordinates than among dominants and subordinates.
(6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(7) When mice were isolated, no differences were found between the behavior of those that later became alphas and those that became subordinates.
(8) Plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine samples obtained from anesthetized subjects did not differ between dominant and subordinate males.
(9) Existing services and underutilized because of illiteracy, the most important factor, cultural practices, religious practices, and the subordinate status of women.
(10) In the proposed model medicine of catastrophes should consist of organization-methodological centres, regional organs of management and various functional elements, possessed of flexible structure of coordination and subordination.
(11) Results of these studies allow the conclusion, that hypertrophy is a reaction of arterial smooth muscle cells to an increased mechanical load in hypertension which, in turn, is responsible for the thickening of arterial with Hyperplasia - increase in smooth muscle cells' number in the media - played a subordinate role.
(12) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(13) The article describes the following results: 1) The majority of those who responded, particularly workers in subordinate positions, were of the opinion that firms, management and co-workers were rather unwilling to accept the physically disabled as competitive and equal employees and colleagues.
(14) Specialty interests cover the whole range of medicine but in most instances are subordinate to the claims of general medicine.
(15) These observations are interpreted in light of behavioral data suggesting that these subordinate males are under sustained social stress.
(16) These data show nonspecific protection against tumor recurrence because of alloimmunization but clearly demonstrate the subordination of any beneficial colon cancer TSA immunotherapeutic effect by contained histocompatibility antigens.
(17) The older mother-adult child relationship may be characterized by a power differential, such that some older mothers feel subordinate to their adult children.
(18) The dominant male in FFF groups displaced subordinates less frequently than did the dominant older male in AFF groups early in the season, but equally frequently later.
(19) In addition to understanding one's subordinates and peers, the effective manager understands the organizational forces that exist in the workplace.
(20) Historically, social work in hospitals has been subordinate to the medical profession.