What's the difference between sidetrack and subordinate?

Sidetrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
  • (2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
  • (3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
  • (4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
  • (5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
  • (6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
  • (7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
  • (8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
  • (9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
  • (10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
  • (11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
  • (12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
  • (13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
  • (14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
  • (15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
  • (16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
  • (17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
  • (18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
  • (19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
  • (20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.

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.