Sentence examples for prove subversive from inspiring English sources

"Gulf countries are not interested in promoting models that might prove subversive of their family-based political systems".

In 1844, he wrote to Gladstone of his "consternation" at the proposed branch line, feeling it would "destroy the staple of the Country … prove subversive of its quiet, and be highly injurious to its morals".

The 'dictatorship' of live-time coverage has proved especially subversive.

Voltaire was one of the Pygmalions who helped prep her for Versailles, along with the seasoned Abbé de Bernis, who advised her always to "protect writers," which she tried to do until they proved too subversive.

It might prove to be subversive.

Yet it may prove to be the subversive sensuality of his ultra-modern figures and portraits, demonstrating a kind of feminism that is really a powerful revolutionary humanism, together with the rich tenor of his unbowed social and political commentary that will finally capture the imagination of a whole new generation of audiences.

When he testified before the Thomas Committee, he said that R.K. O. would hire anyone it chose, solely on the basis of his talent, who had not been proved to be subversive.

Although the picture did not appear in any newspaper he feels sure it was preserved and that it may be brought forth by some Congressional committee today to prove that he was once involved in subversive activity.

"Like all great comics Berlanga's glancing irreverence has proved unruly and genuinely subversive where more explicit and ideologically motivated cinema often fails," Mr. Marsh wrote in 2003.

But his iconoclasm, as well as his potentially subversive doctrines, proved his undoing; he offended one of the Imperial princes by his lack of ceremony and was denounced to the emperor as a seditious influence.

"There is sufficient evidence... that prove he was a contract worker for USAID... working to implement a programme with subversive aims, to create instability in Cuba... in a clandestine fashion," she said.