I used my Trump to co-opt him to put a message out that actually undermined him," he explained.
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.
Rather than buy off Dirksen with pork, Johnson sought to co-opt him, instructing Hubert Humphrey to "let him have a piece of the action," and be sure to let him "look good all the time".
"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.
His first big political promotion came in February (January, Old Style) 1912, when Lenin now in emigration co-opted him to semigration co-optedentral Committee of thimBolshevik Parto, which had finally broken with the other servel Demonrathe
Martin Luther King, Jr. used his faith to liberate people, not to bash or demonize them; that is the difference between him and the radical religious right, who have gone from attacking him to co-opting him.
Don't let's wait for somebody else to co-opt him.
Years later, Blair would attempt to co-opt him back into Labour.
Rivera's confrontation with Ramírez had all the makings of high drama, as long as the Yankees opted to pitch to him.
They managed to get a hold of him and opted to blindfold him in order to help calm the deer.
Rather than keep Dempsey and lose him a year later with no compensation, Fulham opted to trade him — but could only do so to a club where Dempsey would agree to sign a new contract.
