Sentence examples for Subversion from inspiring English sources
The word "Subversion" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of undermining or overthrowing an established system or authority. Example: "The novel explores themes of subversion against oppressive regimes."
noun
The act of subverting or the condition of being subverted.
In reality, as 50 MPs declared when some of these revelations first surfaced, Thatcher's government and its security apparatus were themselves guilty of the mass "subversion of democratic liberties".
Additionally, the dust finally settling on female masturbation makes room for some gloriously guileful subversion.
Remember there is always a place for subversion.
Nato's plans would need to include not just conventional forces, he added, but countering "political agitation and subversion, cyber-attack, hostile propaganda and other destabilising effects".
The authorities viewed it as a site of potential subversion and there were cases of the police entering in order to arrest members of the audience.
The Union Jack backdrop and jacket represent both a punky subversion of a national symbol and a serious statement about the rebranding of a fusty, static, class-ridden country as the international centre of a synaesthetic youth culture.
Being a thief is banal but writing about it is magnificent and with this exhibitionist act of tedious subversion, I have recreated myself once more as gullible, European radicals reclaim me for their own.
ON the day before judgment was delivered at the Rivonia sabotage trial, the South African government announced that it was to ask parliament for still tougher anti-subversion powers.
It was thanks in part to a huge and orderly protest in 2003 that Hong Kong's puppet government shelved plans to introduce an anti-subversion bill and that the hapless chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, stepped down.
Since 2003, when 500,000 Hong Kongers marched against proposed anti-subversion laws, the annual protests have been watched as a gauge of public sentiment, of the sort that the tilted electoral system does not allow.Unless a real typhoon intervenes, this year's protests will be huge and stormy.
There is a danger that, if Hong Kong fails to keep the Falun Gong in check, Mr Jiang will increase the pressure on Mr Tung to introduce an anti-subversion bill.
