This more conventional, male-dominated reading is nevertheless subverted by each woman's narcissistic self-absorption. |
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We must not allow our immigration policy to be subverted by unchecked illegal arrivals. |
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Furthermore, the same group seem close to, if not the same as, those who have subverted democracy in the federal Liberal Party. |
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The institution is successfully subverted from its institutional purpose and is converted into a private enterprise. |
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It is more important that the law is not subverted by those who want to limit the field of free speech and fair comment. |
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Language can be invented, subverted, skewed, and slanted to make it look good, yet say nothing. |
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Traditional beliefs and views are subverted as a searching look is directed at figures and heroines from our epics, myths and legends. |
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These possibilities may have complicated the search for the Great American Thing and subverted theories of American exceptionalism. |
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The wife is a thoroughly odious creature, but by the end, the author has cleverly, imperceptibly subverted the reader's sympathies. |
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They dominated the countryside, perverted justice, and subverted the rights of the towns and rural communes. |
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Even exercising our vote may turn out to be no more than palliative in a democracy continually subverted by the power of money. |
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The director further subverted the original's scuzzy naturalism by superimposing the images or arranging them in split screens. |
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This superficially mawkish fairy tale is subverted by a remarkable combination of comic brutality, acute formalism, and inconsolable sorrow. |
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A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia. |
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The Vote is a powerful polemic arguing that the right to vote, like democracy, has been subverted and we had better do something about it. |
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Didactic tendencies are continually being subverted by swerves, qualifications, and context. |
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This theme is apparently subverted by another TV ad for one of those vile-tasting instant soup products that taste like reheated dishwater. |
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The strong influence of Italian neo-realism is further subverted by such outlandish sights as a boy suckling at a cow's udder and Pedro hurling an egg directly at the camera. |
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Yet the principle of the proscenium arch, which institutes the separation of spectators and performers, was continually subverted during the festival. |
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Any sense of community and collectivity is subverted by the status quo. |
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Irrespective of the intentions of legislators, some feticide laws have been subverted from their original purpose to target pregnant women. |
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One idealizes one's literary heroes only to have that idealism subverted by the reality. |
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In authoritarian systems the local media is usually the first to be subverted and used by the government to purvey its message. |
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Byrne's contention is that the coalition has subverted the Haldane Principle by funding its favourite projects. |
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The moment a present becomes not a simple act of goodwill but an obligation that is fulfilled in front of witnesses, its delights are subverted. |
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After all, the bloc voting that has for years subverted the event has habitually played in Ukraine's favour. |
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Mr President, you have your responsibilities, but you and your services are in danger of being subverted. |
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The principle of state sovereignty and the rule of law itself has been subverted in the name of an ideology that is allegedly humanitarian. |
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In response, elites and wealthy farmers subverted land reform and redistribution policies to seize the best land for themselves. |
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What starts out as a liberation struggle can be subverted by the massive personal wealth available to rebel leaders. |
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However, the magical quality of the effigy had been gravely subverted before the funeral ever began. |
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Access can be denied when the ends of justice would be subverted by disclosure or the judicial documents might be used for an improper purpose. |
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This system was subverted by his brother John when he succeeded to the throne in 1199, and extraordinarily repressive measures were set in motion to extort money from them. |
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To have a situation where the law can be subverted so easily is ludicrous. |
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True suspense and deft plotting are subverted in the name of needlessly convoluted conspiracies. |
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This is why the goal of building a prosperous and secure Afghanistan for all citizens should not be subverted to international geopolitical considerations. |
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The concept of freedom is subverted here: freedom is not the development of human potential but the power to commodify oneself, ceasing to be a more developed human being. |
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One of the consequences of these scandals has been the development of internal affairs units, within police departments designed to ensure that the discipline system is not subverted when it is used to respond to complaints. |
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The fact that it has been known to exist, however, points to the importance of locating the intelligence function within government such that it cannot easily be manipulated or subverted for policy reasons. |
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It subverted the goals of objectivity and non-selectivity and ran counter to an earlier decision to implement systematic, unified criteria to examine human rights situations in all United Nations Member States. |
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A member of the Forces comcomplainant may have been approached plained that a Secret security clearance or subverted by a hostile intelligence had been withdrawn and a clearance at service. |
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There is little public enthusiasm for the role of the state in providing public services because such services were historically subverted or exploited by the political and economic elite. |
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The merit principle was a potent social myth which could be partially subverted to accommodate the exigencies of the time, but which left a vague sense of uneasiness among those so manipulating it. |
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The entire amount in the Conservative piggy bank is going to be spent on advertising campaigns to convince Canadians that parliamentary democracy should be subverted and that the Prime Minister should be allowed to carry on. |
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When they are alienated from the government, the plan will be subverted from the base: the formal target plans may be met, but by poor quality goods. |
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The NSA had not only subverted technical standards, attempting to break the encryption that holds the global financial industry together, it had also stolen the keys to as many vaults as possible. |
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There is the wretched oxymoron of the peaceful ideal of the mid-60s counterculture being subverted by the violence it abhorred, as the decades clicked over. |
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Realistic and allegorical elements are mingled in a phantasmagoric way, and both the poetic medium and the structure are frequently subverted by the writer's spiritual and didactic impulses. |
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Surly that day, he tried to psych out the young hammer thrower who eventually beat him, and he was dismissive when I asked him about reports that he had subverted the youngster's Olympic training with misinformation. |
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What the member is saying in very technical terms is that the power of Parliament will be subverted and it will then go from a level of scrutiny by Parliament to the bureaucrats and the minister. |
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That no meetings were scheduled subverted the will of the Senate, and as such is an indictment of the government that borders on contempt of Parliament. |
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The Lex Gabinia was a classic illustration of the law of unintended consequences because it fatally subverted the institutions it was supposed to protect. |
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In doing this, we must be clear that our quarrel is not with the people of Ukraine but with the corrupt leadership that has illegitimately subverted the will of a population. |
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According to the author, a promising start in the 1950s was subverted over time by insufficient expansion of the internal market, a market that only a prospering peasantry could provide. |
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The tools and resources available to assist those living in poverty and affected by conflict, as well as various coordinated approaches to peace operations, should not be subverted to protect Northern security interests. |
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The electoral parameters laid down in the original statement by Miliband about the leadership vote have been subverted by New Labourites to prevent people like me voting. |
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