Sentence examples for as a subversive force from inspiring English sources

Such identification caused many Christians to regard conversos as a subversive force within the church.

But a Senate Democratic aide views him as a subversive force against diplomacy.

Born in the early 70s, Pollard and Forsyth grew up at a time when A Clockwork Orange was still banned, and recall Kubrick as a subversive force.

She has always defended the fantastic, by which she means not formulaic fantasy or "McMagic" but the imagination as a subversive force.

By 1615, more than 500,000 of its 18m people had been converted by Xavier and his Portuguese followers.From the start, the Tokugawa shoguns from 1603 Ieyasu Tokugawa, then his son Hidetada, then from 1632 a grandson, Iemitsu had viewed the Christians, with their religious intolerance and allegiance to a foreign pope, as a subversive force that must be contained.

For Jung, who started out by smuggling seeds for Doctors Without Borders in 2008, these measures have made smuggling music, foreign films and TV programmes all the more important, thanks to their power to act as a subversive force against the regime's rhetoric.

LENIN thought inflation a subversive force, as damaging to capitalism as any Bolshevik revolutionary.

At the time, this technique had a subversive force, suggesting as it did that spontaneity had become just another marketing trick.

Yale taught us that education indeed could be a subversive force.

Power presents Perry as forever trying to get out from under Stepin Fetchit's shadow and present his alter-ego the way he himself considered him -- as a subversive, revolutionary force.

He makes large claims for Berlin's work, animated as it is, he writes, "by a single idea of enormous subversive force".