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be suborned
verb
To induce to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury
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Entire military units must be suborned, and key alliances bought.
For example, computers can be physically destroyed, their networks can be interfered with or destroyed, and the human users of this physical infrastructure can be suborned, duped, or killed in order to gain physical access to a network or computer.
In different ways, they explore the history and possibilities of unbounded inquiry, and show that while curiosity can be suborned by pathological behaviours, a refusal to inquire, and to think, is no less dangerous.
He was the first indigenous South African to help the pale invaders; the first to be suborned, plied with booze and tobacco; the first of many political prisoners, over the centuries, to be exiled on Robben Island.
It would also be extraordinary that Lord Hutton and the inquiry secretary, Lee Hughes, who forced the PM's aggressive press secretary, Alastair Campbell, to release his private diaries and the intelligence agencies to publish internal Whitehall minutes, should be suborned by the government to suppress evidence of a murder.
It is likely the Wisconsin's State Patrol will be suborned into the hunt.
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We have been suborned.
They are suborned from surrounding healthy tissue.
(These signatures can't be forged, but some CAs have been suborned at times).
Even the caverns of the Tate are suborned by their contents.
I read fairly incessantly, but as the years roll on, I am being suborned by the seductions of the telly.
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