Word: subverter
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...brief for the prolongation of the present unbearable situation. If Irish partizans, however, would receive in this country the protection of liberal laws, they must grant to the Loyal Coalitioner and the independent thinker the same freedom of expression for which they clamor. They must cease seeking to subvert the machinery of American government to the schemes of Irish separatism. They must abstain from the intimidation of voters and the baiting of public officers...
...harbor for otherwise it would not be accessible. In this debate it has been, shown that the genera law of the affirmative is too broad to be statesman like; that it means an abandonment of a policy which we have shown a right to maintain; that it would subvert rather than further the cause of arbitration; that it would involve injustice and oppression toward the South American republics; that in every case it means actual war. It has been further shown that the very money award may be collected without actual war; that no nation should take this expensive method...
...Bible times one hundred and twenty men, having an absolute faith and trust in God, set out to subvert and did subvert, the thought of the world. It is impossible then, in this enlightened age, to conceive of the influence which three hundred educated men, if they so chose, might have upon the life of their time. The condition, then, of success is that one should put himself in harmony with the infinite Will...
...responsible ministry would combletely subvert our present form of Government.- Nation, xxviii...
...this latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...