Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
reversed .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
subvert .
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Examples
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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 Jake Townsend 2011
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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 2010
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Reply Obj. 1: This very modesty demands that the heretic should be admonished a first and second time: and if he be unwilling to retract, he must be reckoned as already "subverted," as we may gather from the words of the Apostle quoted above.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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It's YOUR way of life you feel is being "subverted".
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The risk in such situations is always that businesses use ready-made political allies to play Chicken Little and proclaim that the country is being subverted as a means to protect their own privileges.
Christopher Sabatini: Humala: We Wait Christopher Sabatini 2011
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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.
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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 Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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"Jasun Wurster ... in the process of being subverted by right wing ideologues."
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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.
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The United States must reckon with the past policies and practices that subverted American values and principles and badly damaged our moral leadership.
Human Rights First: Political Interference With Torture Investigations Is Un-American Human Rights First 2011
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