Word: subverter
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...effort to subvert dire suspicions of economic collapse, the Republicans have put their best hooves forward on the Senate floor, lurching from tax cut proposal to tax cut proposal. Usurping the populist initiative by adopting a stance historically reserved as a presidential re-election panacea, the GOP in the name of its soon-to-be coronated nominee Ronald Reagan has stolen some traditional Democratic thunder. President Carter last week called the proposal "irresponsible," adding that it would prove the first step in a plan that could cost the Federal Treasury $280 billion a year...
Assume for a moment that Director John Landis means to subvert the twin genres of musical comedy and action melodrama. He fails there, since periodically the film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis seems no surer of his visual style than he does of his movie's tone, so he tries everything: shots angled from a dog's-or a god's-eye view, eerily lighted special effects, more dancers, more extras, more noise, more cars and car crashes. Alas...
...making true his first promises of reasonable policies toward whites and other systems will have a considerable influence on us. If he cannot control his more extreme collaborators, then obviously there will be serious problems. The extent to which he might associate himself with dissident movements trying to subvert the South African government, either from outside or inside, is going to be of very great importance. But it would obviously be unwise and foolish of South Africa to sponsor a subversive action against Mugabe. This [type of suggestion] is merely the sort of militant noise that Mugabe apparently believes would...
...Olympics are supposed to be an act of retaliation against the Soviet Union. In practice, however, it poses a threat to the world athletic movement and every other form of international cooperation. The political aim of such a boycott is to divide that unique fraternity of athletes and subvert all other forms of their international cooperation...
...entailed. The soldiers didn't want to fight there. Our soldiers harbored no personal resentment against "Charlie," a contrived enemy, but they were compelled to fight him by the faceless military command. Our leaders were split--some wanted to beat the Viet Cong lest Communism ravage Southeast Asia and subvert the American ideal of global democracy, while others condemned the war as a futile waste of lives, energy, and national resources. No national policy emerged: we neither fought the war to win not to get out quickly. Instead we let the war drain American lives and national spirit...