`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to subordinate work to pleasure. ,to subordinate passion to reason. From Dictionary.com.
The first is a primary tactic in subordinating fractious slaves in the plantation economy. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference
They firmly rejected the idea of subordinating constitutional making processes to parliament. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Earlier U.S. presidents have expressed abhorrence for the notion of subordinating fiscal prudence and monetary integrity to government policy objectives. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Way to Double] Reference
Bankers call it "subordinating" a loan - the new mortgage would be paid off first under default. From Wordnik.com. [News & Record Article Feed] Reference
Ayn Rand observed that "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.". From Wordnik.com. [Don't be afraid of family leave insurance] Reference
Could I work for outward success only, or chiefly, subordinating aspiration to what stifles aspiration?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But we will be subordinating to the overall context of the excellent relationship we're having right now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2004] Reference
Expanding our cooperation with China does not mean subordinating our differences, including over human rights. From Wordnik.com. [Berger On China Policy To Council On Foreign Relations] Reference
At the sight of Palafox, he rose from his work, subordinating himself to the more intense ego of his progenitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
That's the point: The best way to weaken consumer protection is by subordinating it to a bank-friendly institution. From Wordnik.com. [No Accountability in NY or DC: $15 Billion for Jobs, $20 Billion for Bonuses - and Dodd Still Wants to Compromise] Reference
The classical economists committed the cardinal error of subordinating man to wealth, and consumption to production. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference
Often he introduces his plight in only one or two distichs of a poem, subordinating the topic to the poem's main theme. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
He has as yet little power of subordinating his lower impulses to an ideal end, and hence is not properly a moral being. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
After all the arguments for subordinating women have been shown to be self-serving lies, what are misogynists left with?. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Enough Excuses. The Relgious Arguments For Hating Women Must Be Opposed] Reference
Providence does not suppress secondary causes, but achieves its effects through subordinating their operation to itself. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The Wei dynasty did not succeed, however, in closely subordinating the various army commanders to the central government. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
All civilization is the result of subordinating instinct to reason, and to the necessities of peace, amity and righteousness. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890] Reference
But doing so would mean subordinating the interests of ambitious legislators and prosecutors to the demands of the public good. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Meranze: We Can't Afford the Politics of Punishment] Reference
Apartheid has devastated the South African economy by subordinating the economic aspirations of the many to the greed of the few. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT OF ANC DELEGATION VISITING THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA] Reference
The State Department issued a statement saying, of course we still love human rights, and we're not subordinating it to economics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2009] Reference
"Party" organisation had been faced with the problem of disciplining the military and subordinating it to their own political purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
He must size up her likes and dislikes; then adapt his salesmanship to her tastes, tactfully subordinating his own preferences to hers. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
We must respond to terrorism by championing the rule of law, not subordinating it, for it is the cornerstone of the democratic society. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Such methods make the officers using them or ordering their use to be guilty of subordinating moral principle to oppressive expediency. From Wordnik.com. [FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME] Reference
'Defense of Poesie,' Spenser attempts to harmonize history, philosophy, ethics, and politics, subordinating them all to the art of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The poem effectively combines a number of commonplaces of the works of exile, subordinating them to the central theme of Ovid's indebtedness to. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
The Chinese have been family-centered and accustomed to subordinating their individual inclinations to the requirements of family and neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Bolton points out that this approach has its distinct limitations, over and above eroding sovereignty by subordinating it to other people's interests. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This is about amnesty, blanket amnesty, and this is about subordinating border security to their interest and I don't think that's going to work either. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2006] Reference
Another point of view is that of treating the sitter as part of a symphony of form and colour, and subordinating everything to this artistic consideration. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
SAPs are basically about maintaining the dependency of Third World economies and of subordinating them to the interests of the advanced capitalist economies. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
It is matter of astonishment to most minds that slaveholders should have contemplated the bold venture of subordinating the Democratic principle in government. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
Their top priorities really did seem to be helping other Democrats win a critical election, instead of subordinating all other goals to their own personal futures. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: It's Her Party and She'll Do What She Wants To] Reference
No, Dame Judith Miller made the error of subordinating her own interests and that of her newspaper to Scooter Aspen and his mysterious dance of the dangling waivers. From Wordnik.com. [Flame On, Flame Off: James Wolcott] Reference
At little distance you may see them grouped together, subordinating their individuality and helping to blend into a beautiful composition with a character all its own. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Even if Kemp accepts the discipline of subordinating his sometimes garrulous self to someone else's agenda, he may complicate Dole's task of becoming competitive in California. From Wordnik.com. [Pangloss For Veep] Reference
In subordinating the cure to the vision, he obtained sublimity; in placing the crowd and patient on the foreground, he gained room for the full exertion of his dramatic powers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
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