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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many defectors provided the McCarthy committees with evidence of political subversion .
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Seventeen people were convicted of subversion following a coup attempt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After one court trial and numerous skirmishes, Williams was accused of subversion a second time in 1635.
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And the relevance of Northern Ireland to the subversion of democracy in Britain remains mystified.
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Central to Greenblatt's readings is the argument of subversion and containment.
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Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880.
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Nor is subversion the ruse of power.
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The only freedoms of the truly enslaved are subtle subversion and private dissent.
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Up in the shanty towns subversion ruled.
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When that happens they will tend to implement the decision without rancour or subversion .