Word: subverters
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Sharon's goal, by contrast, has less to do with an ideological commitment to Greater Israel than with the aggrandizement of his personal power. His strategy, breathtakingly obvious and all too promising, seems to be to subvert the peace process, provoke a crisis with Washington and then elbow Shamir aside in the resulting Cabinet upheaval...
Duany and Plater-Zyberk have devised a practical way to wield influence beyond the projects they can plan and design each year. They have drafted a Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance that can plug right into the existing system -- and subvert it. The T.N.D. is a boilerplate document that codifies the nuts-and-bolts wisdom Duany and Plater-Zyberk have acquired, which cities, towns and counties can enact. "The T.N.D. thinks of things like corner stores the way other codes think of sewers," Duany explains. "Everybody simply knows you have to have them." More than 200 local planning departments and officials...
Third, don't allow the Left to subvert your broader fight for respect and equal rights to suit its own narrow purposes. Realize that reasonable people can disagree on issues like gays in the military and AIDS funding...
...World War II, the federal government again came to fear that a "fifth column" in the United States would subvert the war effort. This time around it was easy to identify and isolate potential subversives, and the Army--backed by Congress, the Supreme Court and public opinion--began to imprison Japanese-Americans. By 1942, the "relocation" policy, which was originally supposed to cover only 40,000 non-citizen Japanese, had expanded to mandate the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese descent living on the West Coast...
...agenda is not to subvert rent control but to make it better in this its 20th year," Reeves said. "It is important for people in Cambridge to know the system is being attacked by a small group of people...