Word: subverter
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...commission is still studying the most controversial issue of all: papal infallibility. And last week's statement emphasized that for Lutherans, any function of papal primacy must not "subvert Christian freedom." Moreover, none of the theologians' dramatic agreements so far have been translated by either communion into effective action, such as the approval of exchanges in celebrating the Eucharist. The statement suggested a growing impatience for such a move. One of the questions posed for the Catholic Church was whether "in the expectation of a foreseeable reconciliation," it is ready to accept the Lutherans as "sister churches, which...
...people who inhabit a mountainous region that includes parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The Kurdish tribes have long sought nationhood but are divided politically between left-and right-wing elements, which are supported respectively by Iraq and Iran-each of which accused the other of trying to subvert its native Kurdish leadership...
...method of attacking it links him with the grand tradition of silent comedy. Like such masters of that tradition as Chaplin and Keaton, he deplores the notion that things can be improved through scientific and political "progress." Like them, he obviously believes it his unsolemn duty to subvert such nonsense. Sleeper is his definitive assault on it. And his funniest...
...retires, Ervin said that he would admire the sunsets back home in Morganton, N.C., and do some fishing. It is more likely that he will continue to peruse his well-thumbed copy of the Constitution and keep a baleful eye on any people he suspects are trying to subvert it. Those are the fish that Senator Sam likes to catch...
...amorality than immorality and are all the more pernicious for that. These were power-intoxicated, self-righteous men, sure that their purposes justified their wrongdoing, insisting that they were not themselves profiting financially, though they were in fact serving their ambitions in the process and showing themselves ready to subvert government and justice when it suited them. Corruption once wore a plainer face...