The State Department's Legal Adviser Harold Koh believes the US should subordinate its laws to an abstract and largely unfounded notion of international law.

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Turkey, in particular, has to show that it is a full democracy, with its generals in their proper, subordinate place and all its citizens accorded decent treatment under the law (see survey).

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The researchers were able to control where in a group an individual ranked by the order in which it was introduced into its group (newly introduced monkeys almost always adopt a role subordinate to existing group members).

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