Word: subverts
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...patrolmen's latest charge--that Harvard tried to subvert the collective bargaining process--is disturbing because that process is the raison d'etre of unions. To deny workers the advantage of a united stance is to make unions meaningless. Sadly, however, the University's attitude toward unions is all too clear...
There is no particular danger in writing what I will call, for want of a better term, 'serious fiction.' In writing popular, commercial fiction, there is nothing but danger. The commercial writer is easy to bribe, easy to subvert, and he knows it. I have felt this much more strongly in the last two or three years than ever before. But if this is true, it also means that the commercial writer who can tell the truth has achieved a great deal more than any 'serious' writer can hope for; he can tell the truth and still keep up with...
Conservatives claim that the Supreme Court Justices whom they have targeted should be voted out of office for misinterpreting the state constitution. But it is these conservatives--in their willingness to politicize the judiciary and compromise judicial independence--who show contempt for constitutionalism and reveal their willingness to subvert government institutions for the sake of power...
Meese made a name for himself as a tough law-and-order prosecutor in San Diego. If implemented, though, his theory would undermine the rule of law and subvert social order across the land. It would allow citizens, officials and judges nationwide to ignore past High Court rulings and interpret the Constitution as they...
...prosecutor was taken aback. "You do?" Sensing a moment of weakness, Rutger immediately began to expound the whys and wherefores of the American Way. In a few minutes he had a convert. "But even if the United States does have the right to subvert the government of any country it chooses," the interrogator asked as he drove us to the airport, "Why does it pick...