Sentence examples for subversive means from inspiring English sources

In the early days the law centre movement was met with resistance from the mainstream profession as the Law Society decried the movement as a subversive means of "stirring up political and quasi-political confrontation far removed from ensuring equal access to the protection of the law".

Having lost livestock to raids and being incapable of reconstituting herds through normal pastoral channels and/or through subversive means (raids), the option provided by the government and other development partners has become handy when faced with destitution.

Viewers get snared by pictorially subversive means, all designed to stop them in their tracks.

Eluding law enforcement and surviving in the Los Angeles Underground, this elite band of street artists engages in civic-minded service through subversive means.

This Muslim conspiracy, he explained, uses "stealthy, subversive means like influence operations to penetrate and subvert our government and civil society institutions".

Following President Hu Jintao's call for moral purity in society, broadcasters have come under increasing pressure lately to keep potentially subversive material — which means anything but sugary, shallow pop — off the airwaves.

In the classical tradition, this idea was often expressed as the idea that, as Blackstone for example puts it, "laws, when prudently framed, are by no means subversive but rather introductive of liberty" and thus "where there is no law, there is no freedom" (1765, 122).

Today, in his office, Dr. Mirkin, 65, said through a sly smile: "The article is meant to be subversive; the article is meant to make people think.

Successive presidents gave the federal police, especially an elite corps known as the Federal Security Directorate, license to wipe out the subversives using whatever means necessary.

He is seductive and subversive in way meant to match the mood of the play, a work that is," Mr. Mizrahi asserted, "the father of punk, the father of rebellion, the father of rock music".

Subversive without being mean-spirited, the book playfully upends the conventions of narrative.