subvert

How To Use subvert In A Sentence

• Along the Leathad Riabhach gully, the Ben More Thrust steepens into a subvertical fault with gneiss to the NE and quartzite to the SW.
• I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that enslaves him.
• What drives them to subvert science, lie about the sources of the harm done, ruin countless lives?
• It's YOUR way of life you feel is being "subverted". Reddit.com: what's new online!
• A hollywood SciFi flic can pretend to be as progessive as possible, anti-imperialist eco-warriors fighting against a capitalist military-industrial complex, but it seems it is impossible to subvert the gender dichotomy even a little bit. Will You Go See Avatar?
• The law has been subverted. Food Watch
• Lieberman says he has his own reasons for refusing to give up the Senate bid: if he quit now, his successor would be picked by the state's Democratic committee, rather than by the voters, thereby subverting the democratic process. Missouri Grieves For A Friend
• Such institutions were thinly disguised agents of a superstate bent on subverting or displacing private enterprise, particularly in the generation of hydroelectric power.
• Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
• Lobbying foreign governments to subvert the diplomatic efforts of a sitting president is something ex-presidents simply do not do.