How To Use Subversion In A Sentence

  • This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers.
  • At the same time, it maintained that ‘allegations of disappearances have been made concerning persons who have actually been exfiltrated across the border for training in subversion.’
  • At that time I had certain, but unsubstantiated, evidence of subversion. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • When that happens they will tend to implement the decision without rancour or subversion.
  • He also announced liberal reforms including greater press freedom and the abolition of laws governing subversion.
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  • The subversion and deconstruction of "maternal mythology" is a result of the fustigation of feminist literature on male dominated culture as well as of feminism introspection.
  • This is a constant quantity of a trans-historical nature, independent of all concrete specific political issues, and represents the level to which the right wing public collectively can be induced to believe that the Rest-Of-The-World (ROTW) is practicing collective deception upon them, preparatorily to a planned stealth conquest by subversion of ‘America’. The libertarian right hoax quotient
  • The opportunity represented by the crisis of cinema lies in the expected renaissances after the fall, in the stimulating side effects of further dilapidation and aesthetic subversion.
  • I subversion of the entire world, only to straighten out your reflection.
  • This fall's literary landscape fairly bristles with weirdness, perversion, and subversion.
  • If those protests lead to constitutionally questionable successions, it becomes a subversion of democracy.
  • As to the form of that government they were not entirely agreed; although they were not quite so subversionary as many of the pamphleteers wished them to be, or as their subsequent history would lead us to believe them to have been. The Eve of the French Revolution
  • Rather than trying to understand these as aberrations -- as the half-and-half and not-quite-either of "cross-genre" and "interstitial" -- or as subversions of the form, we might better approach each text as an individual permutation of possible approaches. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Yet the subversionary writers were not left to occupy the field alone. The Eve of the French Revolution
  • Beijing would do well to remember that the last time they tried to restrict civil liberties, with the introduction of antisubversion legislation in 2003, more than half a million people turned out on the streets to protest. Hong Kong Struggle Sessions
  • He was arrested in parliament on charges of subversion for organizing the demonstration.
  • While McCarthyism rooted out political subversion, science and the media worked to instill proper gender roles.
  • Various aspects of surveillance are also decorticated and analysed in a book that counts over 650 pages: surveillance and everyday life, surveillance and pleasure, subversions, punishment, etc. Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives
  • MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
  • That the situation could have been allowed to reach such a point in Brazil, the country of "amiability" and "non-violence in politics" should prompt any leaders not yet entirely blinded by the "battle against subversion" to try to save their country's reputation. Torture in Brazil
  • But it will never repay a certain kind of close reading, that which is in vogue today and looks for aporias, fissures, self-subversions, and the rest of the deconstructionist's tool-kit.
  • But as the Turkish society has been thoroughly Kemalized by the Kemalofascist military, bureaucracy, and judiciary for almost a century, and as it has also been thoroughly Islamized by the their Muslim leaders, with their strong economic base; there is no danger of any form of subversion from the Turkish people against the status quo or any wish for real democracy. Wake up Kurdistan!
  • I would like to ask the admiral if modifications have been made to the grist after the subversion successes on Titan. METAPLANETARY
  • Thus one consequence of subversion, of women rescripting their roles, is added complexity.
  • The security laws ban treason, sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets.
  • Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
  • The threat of corruption and subversion by drug traffickers requires strong, cross-border teamwork.
  • On December 2, senior state-security personnel met in Tianjin to fine-tune a new nationwide antisubversion network to help safeguard the Chinese Communist Party's ruling status. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • But now, increasingly, those infinitesimal aspects of everyday life, taken together, are seen to have a broader importance and even might be the keys to a certain kind of political action or subversion.
  • The knowing humour of Shrek merely pushed the envelope a little further, balancing in-jokes and sly subversion for the adults with broader slapstick moments for the younger viewers.
  • It goes without saying that South Park is a phenomenon fueled almost entirely by a coy balance of subversion and candor, and nevermore has that meld been on more beautiful display than when its crude primary color cut-outs are set to music.
  • One of the actual saving energies in the place is speech, double-take, subversion, bouleversement, turning the thing upside down.
  • We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognized as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration. Erewhon; or, Over the range
  • Fraunce will do all they can to procure the King, to the utter subversion of them: for which cause, they say, _the spiritualty seemeth to be so glad of peaxe_, for that they may have that so good an occasion to worke their feate. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
  • An effective antisubversion law is in Hong Kong's interest. Twelve Tips For The Markets
  • The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message. It’s a Woman’s World | PopPolitics.com
  • No doubt he had the assistance of agents who thought they were engaging in some sort of Communist subversion. VITALS
  • Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
  • The legislation declares that publications will only be considered seditious when there is ‘an intention to incite others’ to commit treason, subversion or secession.
  • Each barricade is an investigation of both fortification and subversion; designing for the defense of each checkpoint, while simultaneously attempting to undermine it’s perceived raison d'être through a means of confrontation, provocation, or absurdism. Programming (In)Security
  • It is rock music that sounds blokeish, yet prematurely middle-aged, drained of subversion or the capacity to shock.
  • Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Thabo Thakalekoala, a journalist at the private Harvest FM radio station in the capital Maseru, was arrested last June and charged with subversion after he read out on the air a letter said to have been written by members of the army denouncing Prime Minister Phakalita ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
  • His inversion and subversion of these multivalent emblems of consumer culture reinforce the anti-consumer message he delivers in our era of late capitalism and globalization.
  • “We shall have,” said the judge, “these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration. Erewhon
  • _ -- The legitimate use of a motion to amend is to correct or improve the original motion or resolution; but a motion properly before an assembly may be altered in _any_ way; even so as to turn it entirely from its original purpose, unless some rule or law shall exist to prevent this subversion. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Be
  • It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken. Is That Legal?: A Troubling Partial Rehabilitation of Korematsu v. United States
  • I would like to ask the admiral if modifications have been made to the grist after the subversion successes on Titan. METAPLANETARY
  • Since historical circumstances have prevented the imperialists from annihilating socialism by means of war, imperialism has not renounced the idea of annihilating socialism through subversion, attrition, and, if possible, the internal destruction of the socialism system. 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH
  • London's image to many is cold, wealthy and impersonal, but its real history is of revolt and subversion.
  • Certes, such is the unhappy condition of sinful nature, that not merely in acts that are morally doubtful it adopts the worse conclusion; but often it depraves by iniquitous subversion those which have the appearance of rectitude. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • Early Wednesday, as part of the strike, the lawyers presented a petition to the High Court in Kampala expressing their concern about what they called the subversion of the rule of law. Uganda Lawyers on Three-Day Strike
  • Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
  • In the Renaissance, the renewal of interest in Greek and Roman mythology opened the way for political subversion as well as propaganda.
  • Regina Ip, whose ill-fated drive to enact sweeping antisubversion legislation (known as Article 23) brought half a million demonstrators onto Hong Kong's streets back in 2003, is poised to garner the endorsement of several pro-Beijing parties in a bellwether Legislative Council by election scheduled for December. The Fall and Rise of Regina Ip
  • Even if post modernism readily swaps wit and subversion for gravitas and rubbishes the idea of the ‘original’ in art, the question is not invalid.
  • It had a cultural identity relatively immune to subversion from neighboring countries.
  • Subversion turns quickly to reabsorption into the main-stream; intellectual independence is a chimera. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A consideration of loyalty necessarily involves con - sideration of disloyalty, which must also be viewed in different and shifting contexts, and in a variety of forms, including treason, sedition, security risk, and subversion, each in gross and in subtle meanings. LOYALTY
  • We shall have," said the judge, "these crude and subversionary books from time to time until it is recognised as an axiom of morality that luck is the only fit object of human veneration. Erewhon
  • That also strikes me as a good way to approach an aesthetics of what I'm labelling Spectaculist Fantasy, steering us away from the assumptions that use of conventional epic tropes equals conventional use of epic tropes or that subversion of conventionality is necessarily about introducing atypicalities of character, plot or theme -- which strikes me as potentially quite superficial (I wonder if you can talk about a "cult of subversion" on a par with Scott's "cult of innovation"). More Aesthetics
  • Even women starting to wear trousers was an act of subversion.
  • That's a problem because the point of McGruder's style of pop-cultural subversion is to get the revolutionary message into the minds of the unthinking, aliterate media consumer.
  • Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male. Archive 2008-12-01
  • It should by now be an old story that in the name of counter-subversion, those who did their best to put the alleged subversives out of business did more damage to the Republic than the alleged subversives themselves.
  • China says its law guarantees citizens freedom of speech and expression, but critics are often arrested under an antisubversion clause, a vague term that can yield hefty prison terms. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • But Nietschze made a bad mistake to think Dionysian madness is the answer; such oppositions - unlike metic subversion - only prop each other up and keep the whole show on the road.
  • China says its law guarantees citizens freedom of speech and expression, but critics are often arrested under an antisubversion clause, a vague law that can yield hefty prison terms. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
  • Department and the White House always say that there are three obstacles to improving relations between Cuban and the United States, and they are your allegiance to the Soviet Union, what they call subversion in this hemisphere, and the large number of your troops in Africa. THE MACNEIL/LEHRER NEWSHOUR INTERVIEW W/CASTRO
  • There is no top-down hierarchy that can easily be disrupted, no carefully organised cell structure that resists but is ultimately vulnerable to covert subversion, no nation state that can be battered into submission.
  • This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
  • An interesting phenomenon raised by more than one author is the way that gender subversion, with women striking back at repressive aspects of patriarchy, can go hand in hand with genre subversion.
  • Popular discontent never congealed into a significant effective national political movement against the war, but it did frighten Italy's wartime leadership, which came to view internal subversion as a major threat.
  • The security laws ban treason, sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets.
  • When the Hong Kong government tried to ram through an "antisubversion" law in 2003, the bar pushed back. Lowering the Bar
  • His keenly a foetid seyhan in this surreal and i arthrosporic countersubversion a anachronism to a trilby that had noncollapsible so sleekly for staphylinidae. monoicous in the reexamination anapurna and civilized the recombinant air as the ostensible atonia approach were fingered to backlighting clothesless flu if any of the bracteal improvised was bedraggled. Rational Review
  • The artist's show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joyous subversion of traditional mediums.
  • Mostly internal subversion, infiltration of the local Communist Party, and the trades unions. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • Thereby globalisation is defined to be that institution brought about by the process of brazenfaced subversion of state regulatory structures by private agents in their bid to innovate around prohibitions of otherwise profitable activity. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Morale operations include all measures of subversion, other than physical, used to create confusion and division, and to undermine the morale and the political unity of the enemy through any means from within, or purporting to emanate within, enemy countries; or from bases within areas where action and counteraction may be effective against the enemy. A Covert Affair
  • the big city's subversion of rural innocence
  • Factions, civil wars, persecutions, subversions of government, oppression, slavery; these are the dismal consequences which always attend its prevalency over the minds of men. On a Question about Superstition and Enthusiasm in Hume
  • The South China Morning Post printed a picture of President Hu Tuesday with his name captioned in Chinese characters as Hu Jia, a Chinese activist serving 3.5 years in jail for subversion. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Using CVS or Subversion is a top-down decision made for an entire project team, although Arch can be adopted by one or two developers at a time until everyone in the group is up to speed.
  • For every advance in open and democratic publishing, we must expect a response, a counter-manoeuvre and attempts at subversion and negation.
  • Ingratitude, in conspiring against my Life, and contriving the Subversion of the Government, for which thou knowest thou deservest to die; therefore if thou hast ought to say in thy Defence, thou hast Liberty to speak. Exilius
  • That kind of Shavian subversion -- denying obvious narrative pleasures, whacking attitudes around, demanding that audiences keep up with the sly to-and-fro -- can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw's 'Misalliance' misses the mark at Olney Theatre Center
  • The director's subversion of the hero myth is spelled out clearly by the contrast between the movie's two parts.
  • There are some major and majorly funny subversions here. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today, the allegation against me is inciting subversion of state power.
  • Thefilm's conclusion-in which death, laughter, sentiment and subversion combine-is probably unique in cinema.
  • And, they portray the quest for human rights as the subversion of law and order by foreign agitators and enemies of true religion.
  • Meanwhile its most valuable, perhaps unintended, contribution might be to aid the cause of grassroots subversion.
  • The security laws ban treason, sedition, subversion and the theft of state secrets.
  • The text, in its subversion of racial and cultural purity, posits miscegenation and hybridity as potentially positive, even liberating, forces.
  • At that time I had certain, but unsubstantiated, evidence of subversion. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • For a man to be disorderly in a civil state, yea, oftentimes through turbulency to break the peace, is nothing to an underhand combination with some formidable enemy for the utter subversion of it. The Sermons of John Owen
  • To be conversible, on the other hand, is, as the etymology almost suggests, to relate to others, but through conversational conventions whose meaningful possibilities, rather than their subversions of meaning, make conversation potentially critical of the orthodox social prescriptions it has converted in its quest for information. Post-Secular Conviviality
  • Meanwhile its most valuable, perhaps unintended, contribution might be to aid the cause of grassroots subversion.
  • I have considered this famous pamphlet at some length, because it was eminently timely, expressing, as it did, the doctrines and the aspirations of the subversionary party in France. The Eve of the French Revolution
  • To conclude, this sole vice, in my opinion, spoiled in him the most rich and beautiful nature that ever was, and has rendered his name abominable to all good men, in that he would erect his glory upon the ruins of his country and the subversion of the greatest and most flourishing republic the world shall ever see. The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 13
  • If anything, Justin is trying to turn the domesticated horse into the wild mustang, which is itself sort of a subversion, IMO, even as I found what he did to be inexcusable. Read Enough Romances and Rape Is No Longer Rape
  • Thanks to China's antisubversion laws, he probably won't be the last. The Trial of Hu Jia
  • Fascism is about corporatism and the slow, sly, insidious subversion of the democratic process, which you have very capably written about.

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