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.
More importantly, and with wider relevance, the war was intended as a substantial demonstration of the continuing validity of the regulative order as against any would-be subverter of it.
He uses extremely creative images of the devil and demons in order to slyly subvert our expectations.
It requires a mindset that can embrace something other than polarities and binaries (including so-called subverted or queered binaries, which are still binaries if you believe they have a basis in reality). Archive 2009-05-01
It has to do with the corrupt misuse of big money to subvert democracy.
He won't win lots of popularity contests, but he's no subverter of the system's integrity.
Having led the Arches Circus Summer School for the past two years and with international performance experience, Seed is on a mission to subvert the public's preconception of big top buffoonery.
Nothing must be allowed to subvert the text; no optimism springing from political chauvinism or national frenzies.
The attempts to subvert the constitution and establish an autocratic form of rule have been on the agenda for quite some time.
However, when he published ‘On Consulting the Faithful, in Matters of Doctrine’, it was delated to Rome, and he was charged with subverting just authority.
Since Paglia herself has been among the most vocal champions of "popular culture" among academics and intellectuals, the essay can almost be read as a kind of apology for her own excesses in encouraging us to "become unmoored from the mother ship of culture," or at least as an expression of second thoughts about her own possible collusion with the powers that be in the academy in "subverting" literature and the fine arts. Literary Study
A democratic government must also respect the will of the people and not use its powers to subvert democracy and avoid accountability. Times, Sunday Times
On Friday the company reported a fire at East Driefontein gold mine's Number 4 subvertical shaft, about 2500m below surface. ANC Daily News Briefing
He knew of the talks between my emissaries and those of Icenius, and has tried to subvert the alliance by disaffecting the loyalties of my daughter, turning her young head with smooth words and lies. The Eternal Mercenary
Jasun Wurster ... in the process of being subverted by right wing ideologues. How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
Anti-immigrant hatred, urban violence, democracy subverted by plutocracy - these are not, the film shows, new developments.
This theme is apparently subverted by another TV ad for one of those vile-tasting instant soup products that taste like reheated dishwater.
Xavier - A perfect example for me of how the film avoided or subverted cliche is the development of the love story. The Anatomy of “District 9″ - Eric’s review » Scene-Stealers
A democratic government must also respect the will of the people and not use its powers to subvert democracy and avoid accountability. Times, Sunday Times
The channel is to news what reality TV is to reality: its calculated subverter, its smirking betrayer.
Yet one suspects that there is another agenda behind his attempt to subvert the global uniformity.
To have a situation where the law can be subverted so easily is ludicrous.
If nothing better than linear progress prevails, its glacial not gliding pace will subvert hopes for equality for many generations.
The narrative of sexual deviance does not subvert conventional power relations, but rather reproduces them.
He shows that slaves who seemed submissive and passive were cleverly using the language of their masters and subverting it to their own ends.
That they cannot subvert the very system of justice we are rightly so proud of. Times, Sunday Times
These include reimagined versions of the portrait bust, such as Jonathan Baldock's salt-dough heads decorated with cloth and hair (echoing the vaguely tribal sensibility of Ryan Mosley's paintings, with which they share a gallery) and Steven Claydon's mock-heroic demagogue, subverted by the peacock feather over one eye and the fact that the patina on the coppered surface was achieved by urinating on the sculpture. The State of Young Art in Britain
A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia.
We're left with an amendment that achieves social conservative aims by subverting both the separation of powers and federalism.
Her novel subverts the conventions of linear narrative. It has no neat chronology and no tidy denouement.
In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
A seismic event measuring 2,1 on the Richter scale affected an area served by the Number 1 subvertical shaft at a depth of about ANC Daily News Briefing
The director further subverted the original's scuzzy naturalism by superimposing the images or arranging them in split screens.
The rhythmic angularity of the recontextualized rift imparts a temporary sense of disorientation that subverts the song's forward momentum.
Had I stumbled on a right-wing plot to subvert the semantics of English collective nouns?
Whilst facilitating the adoption of this model by employers, legislative vagueness about the issue subverts the effectiveness of union resistance.
These are purposely put on in these totalitarian societies as of way of subverting the population.
Ita saevit haec stygia ministra ut urbes subvertat aliquando, deleat populos, provincias alioqui florentes redigat in solitudines, mortales vero miseros in profunda miseriarum valle miserabiliter immergat. Anatomy of Melancholy
And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary.
On the last day of June and in the very midst of the forces hunting them, four chiefs and 120 warriors resolved to continue resistance and execute any who subverted their policy. Between War and Peace
This seemingly random confluence of contrasting fabrics subverts the tie's traditional role.
In sensuality or in violence, youth cultures in many African societies express their outrage and subvert the social norms.
The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
Two egregious examples show just how easy it is to subvert the scientific process. Times, Sunday Times
The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.
We must not allow our immigration policy to be subverted by unchecked illegal arrivals.
This more conventional, male-dominated reading is nevertheless subverted by each woman's narcissistic self-absorption.
If the hero wants to get the abducted girl home, and if the villain has discovered his plan, and means to subvert it, what stratagems will each employ in the last reel?
It is because it is in the interests of all governments to circumvent, supplant and even subvert the processes of democracy, and that democracy itself is inimical to the interests the rich and the powerful.
The urge of these acolytes is not dramatic, but mercantile - to traduce all personal history, to subvert all perception or insight into gain, or the hope of gain.
He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy. Reflections on Burke
At the same time, she would inscribe a self that is so multiple and mutable as to subvert, by its very nature, any pretence to stability - much less the transcendence of a single identity.
Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
All that is required to subvert the revolution is to put a for sale sign up in front of its symbols, at which point it is assimilated.
By consciously subverting the genre of figurative painting, he evokes a miscellaneous sense of emptiness, horror, desire and unutterable inner fire with Eastern religious connotations.
But the possibility that apathy may subvert anarchy does not absolve its inciters from responsibility.
It is almost beyond satire that those who claim that political concerns had subverted our system of justice are themselves attempting to do exactly the same thing. Times, Sunday Times
He created sleeves for Nick Lowe, the Damned, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and more — many of which cleverly subverted art movements such as dada and constructivism. Archive 2008-11-01
Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing.
To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an apologist for the devil.
This is not simply a matter of reversing the polarity, that is, of subverting the religious significance of Jerusalem in order to privilege Baghdad, for Turkish materialism is revealed to be as hollow as Jewish religiosity. Introduction - Critical Apparatus
Is Labor seriously making common cause with the Liberals to subvert the rule of law?
Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture.
A democratic government must also respect the will of the people and not use its powers to subvert democracy and avoid accountability. Times, Sunday Times
Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends.
Contemporary feminist theory, then, valorizes the transformative potential of humor and language to subvert male dominance and regulation of social norms.
Interestingly, a couple of teachers who partially reversed this effect were a chemistry teacher who was an evangelical Christian – and a prim fusspot – and a math teacher who quietly subverted the establishment efforts to Christianise the school population. Foisting fake Christianity on the young « Anglican Samizdat
T. imperator and T. navigans, in contrast, are longer-skulled, with immense vertical crests, supported by thin subvertical spines at their leading edges. Those sexy tupuxuarids
It's great to finally hear someone talk about phone phreaking and other attempts to subvert American Idol voting.
Terrorism is hard to defend against because it subverts our institutions and turns our own freedoms and capabilities against us.
But the acquisitive instinct fostered by capitalism would come to subvert the moral basis that initially allowed the system to flourish.
Had any one told these unfortunate noblemen and gentlemen, how, and by whom, the grand fabric of the French monarchy under which they flourished would be subverted, they would not have pitied him as a visionary, but would have turned from him as what they call a mauvais plaisant. Paras. 60-83
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Any sense of community and collectivity is subverted by the status quo.
The denialist side was actively subverting the peer review process.
Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends.
Does not the abrogation amount to subverting the justice system?
Obviously, people will resist or try to subvert change that hurts them in the ego or in the pocketbook.
And to stop dreaming up devious ways of subverting the public will. The Sun
The parable, like the stories of the heroic women who disobeyed, in effect subverts the patriarchal system.
Churkin, angrily denied what he called poisonous, unsourced reports on the Internet aimed at subverting Russia's relationship with Arab countries in the aftermath of the Security Council veto. NYT > Home Page
If I recall correctly, my tone was one of jaw-dropped admiration and the kind of effusive praise that can only come from the young and impressionable vis-a-vis their encounter with an artist who either works proudly outside the mainstream or has found a way to subvert the norm from within. Box Office Prophets
Because procreation is the primary purpose for sexual activity more properly called the conjugal act, a married couple is not to engage in any sexual activity that intentionally thwarts or subverts the procreation of children. Scandal in Brazil Bishops' Conference Chairman defends appointment of abortion supporter to Supreme Court
Instead he cleverly subverts the traditional whodunit scenario to expose class inequalities in the 1930s.
There used to be that question asking whether you planned to subvert the constitution, overthrow the Federal Government or whatever.
Infact that might have been a cool way to subvert the dynamic they had in "Tommy Boy" and "Black Sheep" smither looks funny to me bustamova Get Him to the Greek Red Band Trailer | /Film
He had imbibed from Benton the invincible faith of the latter in the settled purpose of the 'nullifiers' to subvert and destroy the government. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Dike geology, a subvertical sheet-like intrusion of magma or sediment Cheeseburger Gothic » So, Abe, got my ten bucks?
What follows is a cross between Easy Rider, Alice in Wonderland, and a deliciously subverted Wizard of Oz.
Scott's work during this period suggests his growing political engagement and ever-bolder attempts to subvert the studio system, beginning with the critique of class and corruption in Murder, My Sweet, through the internationalist antifascism of Cornered, to Crossfire, the final point on the trajectory of Scott's attempts to meld his creative and political visions. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The law has been subverted. Food Watch
Nostra memoria Mahometes Othomannus qui Graeciae imperium subvertit, cum oratorum postulata audiret externarum gentium, cochlearia lignea assidue caelabat, aut aliquid in tabula affingebat. Anatomy of Melancholy
Each of these groups has been ridiculed as ‘geeks’ or ‘nerds’, and each has subverted those terms into proud self-identification.
Even when pupils take historical studies, modern teaching methods may subvert the subject.
This system was subverted by his brother John when he succeeded to the throne in 1199, and extraordinarily repressive measures were set in motion to extort money from them.
So although some journalism professors may worry that military embedding is subverting the media, I would argue the contrary.
we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis
It cannot, for example, accommodate republicans, or socialists, or supra-nationalist subverters of British sovereignty.
After modern music completely subverting the traditional major and minor system, the question as to how to control the unity of the sound structure has become a very important issue.
We hate an electoral system that is driven by money and that subverts real democracy.
Taking [85] into their most serious consideration the _best_ means for making such an establishment that their religion, laws, and liberties might not be in danger of being again subverted," they auspicate all their proceedings by stating as some of those _best_ means, "in the The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
But it says something about Pakistani politics that its most capable diplomat has been cashiered for attempting to uphold civilian and constitutional rule against a military that has repeatedly subverted it. A Diplomat of Distinction
Like I’ve said before, the law does not exist to be subverted, which is exactly what the terrorists do when it comes to warfare. Matthew Yglesias » Indefinite Detention Comes to American Soil
Urit enim praecordia aegritudo animi compressa, et in angustiis adducta mentem. subvertit, nec alio medicamine facilius erigitur, quam cordati hominis sermone. Anatomy of Melancholy
Neville's genius was to subvert and turn round press attacks on Oz, but they could still cost dearly.
It is almost beyond satire that those who claim that political concerns had subverted our system of justice are themselves attempting to do exactly the same thing. Times, Sunday Times
The strong influence of Italian neo-realism is further subverted by such outlandish sights as a boy suckling at a cow's udder and Pedro hurling an egg directly at the camera.
With the aid of Bakhtin, we can see a number of distinct discourses which subvert and ironize each other.
The other side of the disc contains a colourized version that subverts the noir mood of the film.
At the same time, she would inscribe a self that is so multiple and mutable as to subvert, by its very nature, any pretence to stability - much less the transcendence of a single identity.
I learnt concretely from his translation of Rabelais what Mikhail Bakhtin formulated as 'the image system of grotesque realism or the culture of popular laughter'; the importance of material and physical principles; the correspondence between the cosmic, social and physical elements; the overlapping of death and passions for rebirth; and the laughter that subverts hierarchical relationships. Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture
He was not inconsistent; he did not want to subvert the states, and it was “highly improper and uncandid” for Lansing to bring up arguments he had made in Philadelphia though he apparently found it perfectly acceptable to bring up those Clinton had made years earlier. Ratification
So let me tell just mention, that although I generally agree with the writeress of this blog I also want to stress again that I can just laugh and shake my head about why some frustrated women are always trying to subvert everything they can to their course. The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue?
Sequestering this great power in an unaccountable governing agency subverts democracy itself by treating citizens as children.
Jones attempts to subvert the white patriarchal system by inverting the power dynamic serve only to reinscribe phallocentric notions of power and control.
Poking fun at the crumbling edifice of Afrikaner culture, subverting the images, distorting the holy icons and braaing the sacred cows, bitterkomix creators Joe Dog and Conrad Botes do what they do best - make comics.
The scheme cunningly subverts the strict German building regulations pertaining to inner-city sites.
As for him, he's convinced that he is an agent who's been planted to subvert India.
It had become a work game whereby workers found ways to subvert directives from supervisors.
At the same time, big business is seen as subverting the democratic process through its financial support of favored candidates.
The path to the open altar area, well below the floor levels of the side ambulatories, leads downward, so that pews around the altar are higher, subverting the convention of an elevated chancel segregated from the laity.
Attempts to subvert the system while apparently remaining within it will likely be a lot more common.
In practice, however, the big society strategies that Mr Cameron developed in opposition, and which he was still articulating in his lecture 18 months ago, belong to an era that no longer exists and have now been subverted by some of his government's own actions. Big society: Losing the argument | Editorial
This is a cunning move that works in its favour, as by billing the movie as a straight kidnap cum psychological thriller, Gaylene Preston is able to brilliantly subvert audience expectations.
As I said, just with religion, science can be subverted by politicians and fools such as yourself that ignore the ’science’ eg. consequences of their actions. Think Progress » Bush Administration Has Pressured Half Of Gov’t Scientists To Downplay Global Warming
Classic Norse myth is rife with stories concerning Loki's attempts to subvert Odin's authority, and Odin's retaliatory actions.
The institution is successfully subverted from its institutional purpose and is converted into a private enterprise.
For musicians, syncope is a rhythmic form that subverts the order of stress in the bar and puts stress on what is regularly unstressed. Ildiko Csengei
This government will not allow anyone to subvert the law. Times, Sunday Times
They create works that subvert the utopia of corporate musicianship, which advertises the fantasy of a seamless computer-aided sound reproduction.
All theological conversations should be peppered with these termini technici (e.g. "Only a demythologised Barthian ontology can subvert the différance of postmodern theory and re-construe the analogia entis in terms of temporal mediation"). Faith and Theology
Both of these attacks can be easily subverted by booting the affected computer from a CD-ROM.
That they cannot subvert the very system of justice we are rightly so proud of. Times, Sunday Times
Surely this subverts quite clearly the idea that mainstream British culture is something straightforward and easily calibrated.
He. subverts the foundation of obedience to God as a father, if he suppose that God hath our happiness in view in requiring us to renounce some passions, but that he goes contrary to our interests by requiring us to sacrifice some other passions* which he may suppose can never be sacrificed with - out sacrificing at the same time his pleasure and feli - city. Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Pastor of the French ...
But—and this is the curse of modernism's license to subvert itself—Mr. Picabia almost certainly wanted it that way. The Good, the Bad and the Inspiring
They are not inspired by surrealism or any great desire to subvert, but by some old Japanese posters. Times, Sunday Times
The "Shit Blows Up" fun of Jack's rampaging could even be quite validly deemed escapist; it's just that I try to subvert the consolation subtly within the episodes or through their relationships with the rest of the text, to seduce the reader into engaging with reality even when the fantasy is at its most sensationalist. Essay Rant Thingy
This last point is crucial because Hare avoids the trap of agitprop by cannily subverting the play's anti-war bias.
Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.
Its punch lies in its ironical, teasing, sceptical commonsensical way of subverting tenaciously held fallacies. The Times Literary Supplement
These possibilities may have complicated the search for the Great American Thing and subverted theories of American exceptionalism.
He is not only subverting the judicial branch's integrity when he forswears himself under oath.
This is the truth missing from mythology, the truth that subverts the violent system of this world.
Jasun Wurster and those who support the effort are in the process of being subverted by right wing ideologues who could care less about Portland, but would use this as an issue to say "Look at those liberals who would rather keep a child molester in office ... blah blah blah" in order to justify their fringe values and policies to gain some ounce of momentum for the 2010 election. How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.
Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
I subvert the entire world, only to straighten out your reflection.
Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.
This is also a handy way of showing some leg: Stella McCartney's double splits sexed up her calf-length dresses a treat, while YSL's asymmetric gash subverted the nursey primness of a white skirt. Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates
Two egregious examples show just how easy it is to subvert the scientific process. Times, Sunday Times
As in Out, the invasions operated by metaphor both subvert authority and threaten personal security.
When national identity is subverted, in other words, when those fundamental ideals that make a country who and what it is are negated in the name of power and reinforced symbolically in the built world, the outcome is revolution. Jake Townsend: Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols
They want a Muslim caliphate, a Muslim supernation, a vehicle to subvert Christianity and all other religions, convert everyone to Islam, and kill the rest. Think Progress » VIDEO: Rice Calls Idea That Iraq War Contributed To Regional Instability ‘Grotesque’
A 48-year-old writer and poet using the pseudonym Li Hong, Zhang was arrested on 6 September in Ningbo, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and was charged with “incitement to subvert the state’s authority.” September 2006
But the clear-cut idea of the city was subverted by the rise to power of the class tellingly named (after the fortified ''bourgs'' of medieval France) ''people of the town.''
We ‘control nature,’ but it continually subverts and even inverts our intentions.
If they do not, these actors may apply pressure through political channels to subvert or destroy the plan. Politics, Planning and the State
Like them or not - and I came away unconverted - rowies subvert the appalling global food culture with a deeply satisfying disregard for the attempt to please all the people all the time.
Schlusser has chosen a deliberately anarchic style for the story, subverting theatrical convention for effect.
The skarn deposit at Carles North, which is a subvertical, tabular mineralized body, is projected to provide about 235,000 tonnes per year of feed to the mill during the first two years of production. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Reactionary attempts to abolish or subvert parliamentary democracy must be resisted.
Et subvertit civitates istas, et omnem planitiem, et omnes habitatores urbium, et germen terrae. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
Coercion and domination subvert the integrity of love by creating power relationships that are its antithesis.
What is most striking, however, is the way the play keeps subverting our moral certainties.
Stuart stunned readers by employing "poetic" moods and styles in magazines mostly devoted to the pulpiest of space adventures; Asimov's robot stories were deliberately set up to subvert the idea of the Frankenstein-type rampaging monster created by mad scientists; Ray Bradbury eschewed science altogether and wrote weird, imagistic parables using the props of science and science fiction. Archive 2005-06-01
By showing how easy it is to subvert the system the fear goes away.
There was no doubt that these men were guilty of subverting the constitution, if not of outright treason to the republic.
Second, if you work an environment where you regularly bounce ideas off the "bandleader," arranger or song-writer, deliberately subverting his writing is highly disrespectful. Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
They would have to subvert the system to keep her over here, but it could be done.
Choreographer, curator and video artist, he likes to combine disciplines to subvert our preconceptions.
I subvert the whole world just to straighten your reflection.
Where The Count of Monte Cristo is a nod to the steadfast Errol Flynn swashbuckler, Brotherhood subverts all period conventions with kickboxing Indians and the Pope's team of highly trained assassin babes.
Didactic tendencies are continually being subverted by swerves, qualifications, and context.
Maurie Plant, ‘Andy's bag man’ in the ‘shamateur’ days of athletics, is the BBC's trackside ‘athletes' liaison ’, despite being banned in Australia after attempting to subvert a drug test at a Norman-organised event.
Do school counselors subvert young children?
If they do not, these actors may apply pressure through political channels to subvert or destroy the plan. Politics, Planning and the State
Snakeskin ankle boots with amber Perspex heels, a David Bowie soundtrack and messy ponytails subverted the niceness of the collection. Paris fashion week turns to Lady Gaga – and a quiet Belgian
She clearly sees this as an attempt by the Republicans to steal her vote and subvert the system.
Twenty-four years earlier, Aristophanes in his play Clouds had lampooned Socrates as a sophist who taught his pupils to scorn parental authority and subvert civic justice for their own gains.
Please reject this underhanded attempt to subvert democracy in Illinois.
This government will not allow anyone to subvert the law. Times, Sunday Times
The rowdies were given a free hand to subvert justice, equality, liberty and fraternity.
I subvert the whole world just to straighten your reflection.
However, the point is that like ‘queer’ the epithet can be reappropriated by those against whom it is used, and subverted into a positive term, indicating that those who cast it as a pejorative are the ones whose honour should be doubted, and mercantile privilege questioned. Pirate: the definition
It is almost beyond satire that those who claim that political concerns had subverted our system of justice are themselves attempting to do exactly the same thing. Times, Sunday Times
Committing such a hypercorrection in an anti-elitist discourse subverts the argument.
The strong influence of Italian neo-realism is further subverted by such outlandish sights as a boy suckling at a cow's udder and Pedro hurling an egg directly at the camera.
Since you live in Paradise full of happy people, the effort to subvert it must come from outside. Times, Sunday Times
The other side of the disc contains a colourized version that subverts the noir mood of the film.

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