Sentence examples for were subverted from inspiring English sources

Peru's public institutions were subverted and its political morality debauched by Mr Fujimori.

Treadmills had been rented for eighteen thousand dollars apiece. Bidding processes were subverted to favor businesses close to government officials.

Attempts by Clay Cross council in Derbyshire to declare a republic day were subverted by threats and by the defiance of local pubs hanging out the bunting.

But efforts to reinforce Alexander Hamilton's original hopes for a federal bank to provide oversight were subverted in the 1830s by President Andrew Jackson, who opposed "concentration of power".

They point to filtering systems in other countries that were started with an expressly moral purpose but were subverted for more political ends.

He needs to be subverted, minimized, annihilated.

Then we see democracy being subverted indirectly.

Henry's metaphor had been subverted.

His vision was subverted from the start.

Systems break down and, worse still, can be subverted.

But that logic was subverted in this year's congressional election.