Don't let's wait for somebody else to co-opt him.
"It will be interesting to see if the system is able to co-opt him as it has so many other black ministers in this town," he said.
More often, Smith is partnered with white men, usually older, grumpier, more authoritative ones who co-opt him into the status quo.
Let African-Americans co-opt him, let's surround him with so much camaraderie and friendship, and don't let him forget, let us do it rather than fall victim to Machiavelli's dictate, separate and rule, divide and conquer.
Even his critics, however, recognise that Rajoy is his own man, distancing himself from Aznar and resisting the financiers, newspaper editors and others who have sought to co-opt him.
Even if Mr. Bloomberg never runs for president, an ill-fated quest for several New York mayors, he remains enough of a force — especially in the business world — that senior White House officials seem determined to co-opt him, through flattery and attention.
An Ulster-born Catholic who in the 1970s moved south to Wicklow and later Dublin (and who also spent many years teaching at Harvard), he resisted attempts to co-opt him, preferring to "tell all the truth but tell it slant", to borrow a line from Emily Dickinson.
Superb performances, especially by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Scott) 'THE NINTH DAY' (No rating, 90 minutes, in German) A somber, thought-provoking moral thriller, in which a Roman Catholic priest from Luxembourg, temporarily released from Dachau, finds his conscience tested when the Nazis try to co-opt him.
Mr. Sharansky said some people say to him, "How dare you take big stands when your people are only interested in sausage!" He says he thinks that Prime Minister Barak is trying to co-opt him by inviting him to attend a summit meeting, if there is one, in Washington.
So friendly has Clinton grown with his old opponent George H. W. Bush — they have raised more than a hundred million dollars together, to help the victims of the Asian tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — that one member of the Clintons' circle worries that "the Bush people worked hard to co-opt him," keeping Clinton quiet, or at least polite, by keeping him close.
So, in classic British fashion, they co-opted him.
