Sentence examples for begin to subvert from inspiring English sources

The study is set within a larger context of informal urbanism where city residents take matters into their own hand and begin to subvert established planning practices.

Because body positions influence attitude, the mere act of unwinding a resistant posture will begin to subvert the resistance, itself.

They began to subvert it from a movement about freedom and justice into something very different.

No sooner has Josh achieved "perm status," as he calls it, than he begins to subvert his own good fortune.

Omar told me he was sickened by the violence, and he soon began to subvert the work his bureau was doing.

Junior took over the job of supervising the design and construction of his father's house, and almost immediately began to subvert his wishes.

Jeff Fanner, a window installer on the way to a job, said he feared that television coverage was beginning to subvert the war's progress.

Well before the Americans left, Mr Maliki had begun to subvert the non-sectarian professional army with its many Sunni and Kurdish officers that in 2008, with American help, had vanquished unruly Shia militias making bloody sectarian mayhem.

Then over a period of a few weeks the bacteria began to subvert the nerves for their own ends.

However, as the Soviet Union disintegrated in the early 1990s, a small group of ordinary Tallinn residents began to subvert the normal dynamic of surveillance, cleverly using the tools and tactics of the KGB against the Soviets themselves.

In fact, it's only recently that South Asian-Americans have begun to subvert the caricatures most often placed upon them: turban-wearing convenience store clerk; bloodthirsty terrorist (often still turban-clad); exotic goddess; nerd; spiritual guru.