Sentence examples for be a subversive force from inspiring English sources
Yale taught us that education indeed could be a subversive force.
When a personality cult helps to uphold corruption and brutality in a dictatorship, satire can be a subversive force for change -- a point that The Interview movie, in its own half-witted way, was perhaps trying to make.
While on a student trip to the Soviet Union in the 60s, I recognized that rock n' roll was a subversive force in a repressive society.
But for the young people who helped bring down Communist regimes across Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989, pop music was a profoundly subversive force, inspiration and vital tool of protest for challenging and undermining a totalitarian state stricter than any parent.
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.
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.
Such identification caused many Christians to regard conversos as a subversive force within the church.
LENIN thought inflation a subversive force, as damaging to capitalism as any Bolshevik revolutionary.
It is a subversive process.
Now there's a subversive organisation.
