Word: subverter
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...think people who hold power in the public realm tend to want to subvert other forms of discourse. This seems to be built into the power structure. And religious organizations are notoriously hard to control--they're decentralized, and they suffuse the society. It's not incidental that totalitarianistic societies try to control the churches, the press, and the universities...
...also says much about Soloveitchik's own demons: for all of his confidence in the intellectual and psychological validity of his tradition, there seems little doubt that he worries about, and perhaps even fears, the cultural forces that relentlessly threaten to subvert it. -ByRichard N. Ostling...
...administer the elections. He also permitted them and the tiny Communist Party to buy commercial time on the air waves. Even the Communist newspaper Al Bayane conceded that the campaign "was the cleanest that has ever been seen." The King has described his overall strategy: "I am going to subvert by democratic means people's natural instincts toward anarchy...
...Cambridge" referendum, which would have sent at best an ambiguous message about the nuclear arms race while clamping down on traditional university norms of free and open inquiry. And several months later, members of the Right showed, not surprisingly, that the Left had no monopoly on improper attempts to subvert free and open inquiry. Harvard and other universities that get money from the Pentagon for research have been chafing under the Reagan Administration's efforts to censor the publication of unclassified research sponsored by the Defense Department...
...more significant, Hughes announced that the administration wants to head off a Nicaraguan attempt to use the World Court as a forum for "anti-American propaganda." Hughes didn't mention what that propaganda might be, but you can assume it would include the charge that we are trying to subvert their government and mine their harbors. This second argument exposes the cynical, anti-democratic side of the administration. No argument was made defending the administration position on legal or moral grounds. And President Reagan's silence on the issue has sent this message: I am the bully, thus...