Word: subverter
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...often pegged as anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. But he seems gleefully eager to subvert even the most pervasive presumptions about him. For example, while he is generally described as antiwar, at a 2003 peace demonstration in London he reportedly distributed signs reading: "I Don't Believe in Anything. I'm Just Here For The Violence." Banksy specializes in a strange brand of self-promotion: he'll sell six-figure creations and then sermonize on the evils of consumerism. Such behavior doesn't seem to deter buyers. In April, the auction house Bonham's sold his Space and Bird...
...What I'm interested in now is trying to subvert the intense control that my imagination has on the work," he says. "One of the ways is to work with something that's already a given, so you have to rise to a different place to incorporate it into what you do, to make it your...
...this to me in broad daylight? Can they take me out like this, lying to my face? In front of dozens of my party workers?" He [told me], "look Shahbaz, I never expected that they would defy a clear verdict of the supreme court, that they would once again subvert the constitution, they would commit contempt of court, they would commit a crime like smuggling me out of Pakistan. You are going to have to pull up and leave no stone unturned to ensure that the courts of law pursue this fight, and that the fight extends to the streets...
...will try to pre-empt the Petraeus testimony by announcing a gradual drawdown from 20 to 15 combat brigades later this summer. "As if that isn't going to happen anyway," a senior officer told me. "But it may give us some political breathing space" - that is, it may subvert the Democrats' calls for a more rapid withdrawal - "if the President makes a big deal of announcing we're drawing down...
Every five years, Congress writes a massive farm bill that impacts the economy, trade, conservation and the American diet. In January the Department of Agriculture (USDA) offered "as a focus of debate" wide-ranging recommendations for how agricultural policies might support rather than subvert dietary guidelines spelled out in its new food pyramid, right. While debate on the details of the bill has traditionally been confined to lobbyists and farm-state politicians, this year the discussion is poised to go public. Among the topics to be addressed: How might government crop subsidies be changed...