Subvert Sentence Examples

Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters subvert the traditional roles from horror films.

That the Russians involved in the peace keeping will not subvert the process on the ground.

They may subtly subvert the whole NHS reform agenda, undermining attempts to tackle their poor performance with threats of no-confidence votes.

Showing the work at the museum sought to subvert hierarchy 's of representation.

Against any attempt in action to subvert parliamentary government, there was no lawful measure, he said, from which ministers would or could shrink.

I admire people like Shadow Morton or Lee Hazelwood, who subvert the genre from within.

This would make the forging of cards fairly pointless, unless one could also subvert both the Master Databases.

It does not seek to challenge society or to wreck or subvert the conventions of jewelry making.

How can we turn our backs when the Iranian regime attempts to subvert the newborn democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The examples grossly misrepresent van Helmont, however, and subvert what we might want to convey about the nature of science.

The works introduce new meanings and messages; forge technical and esthetic innovations and sometimes subvert the standards imposed by the mainstream gaming industry.

Three years were enough to convince the nation that he was " endeavouring to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom"; and on his deposition in 1688 Roman Catholics, or persons married to Roman Catholics, were declared incapable of succeeding to the throne.

Skipping on the backs of recent Asian music trends, the Buttersprites subvert the stereotypes into strangely classic interpretations of a fad.

Aja 's genius is to subvert expectations by continually undermining the genre.

In the meantime, however, events in Sicily were reaching a crisis destined to subvert the Bourbon dynasty.

As regards domestic morality, the system offered constant facilities for libertinism, and tended to subvert domestic peace by compromising the dignity and ruining the happiness of the wife.

As if that weren't enough of a challenge, Bruce must subvert and sometimes battle head-on a secretive and corrupt government agency.

And, of course, it's the first to open the door (unwillingly) to hackers who use the hard drive to store cheats, subvert the Xbox operating system, and store pirated games in their entirety.

Refusing to entangle himself in the abortive and equivocal schemes of Lepidus to subvert the Sullan constitution, Caesar took up the only instrument of political warfare left to the opposition by prosecuting two senatorial governors, Cn.

The assertion in the " Declaration of Rights " that " no power exists in the people of this or any other state of the Federal Union to dissolve their connexion therewith or perform any act tending to impair, subvert, or resist the supreme authority of the government of the United States," is a result of the drafting of the instrument during the Civil War.

In the evolution of these laws Dr Cornay had most laudably studied, as his observations prove, a vast number of different types, and the upshot of his whole labours, though not very clearly stated, was such as to wholly subvert the classification at that time generally adopted by French ornithologists.

The prophetic teaching had indeed produced a profound effect; to the party of reaction, as the persecution under Manasseh shows, it seemed to threaten to subvert all society; and we can still measure the range and depth of its influence in the literary remains of the period from Isaiah to the captivity, which include Micah vi.

A large body of ciompi (wool carders) gathered outside the city and conspired to subvert the signory and establish a popular government.