So its better to co-opt it as much as possible by enabling private companies and pro-government bloggers to engage in "comment warfare" with the Politburo's foes.
In the 1950s, the beatniks co-opted it as a symbol of intellectual bohemia, the style reaching its apogee by the time a black-turtlenecked Audrey Hepburn did her modern dance, all long limbs and jagged angles, in "Funny Face".
Having accidentally spawned this exclusive enclave, it's as if the Tate has now co-opted it as a site-specific installation.
Greek and Roman antiquity, in particular, inspired a fervently nostalgic classical revival, with many varied currents — which was poisoned when Hitler later co-opted it as the house style of the Third Reich.
Greek and Roman antiquity, in particular, inspired a fervently nostalgic classical revival, with many varied currents which was poisoned when Hitler later co-opted it as the house style of the Third Reich.
In a sense, faggot can be even more hurtful because gay people haven't co-opted it as a term of endearment the way rappers and some blacks have done with nigger, draining the word of some of its venom.
Granted, Tizen wasn't created specifically by the company for its watches, but it certainly made the operating system its own as it opted it for the Gear line after jumping off the Android Wear train.
Why invent something new when you can simply co-opt it and claim it as your own?
Even after making a herculean effort to climb the traffic light and co-opt it as his own, luminous crotch, he couldn't gather a cult of followers.
James Martin (Op-Ed, March 25) writes, "Those who opt for celibacy... choose it as a manner of loving many people deeply, in a way that they would be unable to if they were in a single relationship".
Let ISPs opt out of it — as long as they then accept legal responsibility for all the data they carry.
