Sentence examples for would subvert from inspiring English sources

But all have feared that newcomers would subvert democracy and sabotage citizens' claim to the American dream.

Why do we root for the discovery of beings that would subvert our understanding of the natural order?

The concern was that they might constitute a fifth column that would subvert the American war effort.

Many Latvians, including some in Mr Dombrovkis's party, fear it would subvert the role of Latvian as the national language and increase Russian influence.

"To overrule, under fire, in the absence of the most compelling reason to reexamine a watershed decision would subvert the Court's legitimacy," Justice Souter wrote for the majority.

Plato credited the poet with divine inspiration, but this, too, was cause for worry; a man possessed by such madness would subvert the interests of a rational polity.

"When we got dropped we'd get together, pile up some electronics and really enjoy ourselves," says Hyde. "Then whenever we got a deal we'd subvert what we naturally did to fit an idea of what was going to be successful in the charts, and we just weren't very good at it.

"It probably wouldn't subvert the Constitution, but it is competitiveness taken to a dastardly length".

It's quite impressive, this scheme; it would simultaneously subvert the will of the people and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and the Democratic party.

"To rule otherwise would completely subvert free speech by granting other students a 'heckler's veto,' " Judge Pettine wrote.

Ironically, he had been appointed for these visionary tasks by the very politicians who would later subvert them; one with myopic indifference, the other with unmitigated greed.