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1. When the authorized teachers of religion propagate through the great body of the people, doctrines subversive of the authority of the sovereign, it is by violence only, or by the force of a standing army, that he can maintain his authority
2. Too old for all that, perhaps, and too wise to be lured into any subversive behavior of which there was plenty already
3. If these influences were the subversive contest, the frontal assaults were the many persecutions
4. Particularly subversive is the idea that an individual and his family might own a home
5. You can see right there the subversive threat to the First Commandment of the Civil War: Be Not Judgmental
6. The term “fifth column” was invented as a metaphorical addition to Hitler’s armed forces to identify subversive elements within America during World War II
7. At first diverse, scattered geographically, philosophically, and practically, the Civil War against America grew slowly but steadily, became more conscious of itself as such, and inevitably more subversive
8. A result is that new “rights” are invented in profusion to favor the deviant, the unproductive, the anti-social, the subversive, and the criminal
9. The Tea Parties are subversive to them and their intentions
10. The Tea Parties are about as subversive as they could be to the policies and future intent evident in this radicalized White House and its similarly ultra left supporting Congress
11. lodges for subversive Illuministic purposes
12. the radical and atheistic groups with all other subversive groups
13. The original Ten Amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, may become a subversive document, no longer readily available to the public
14. The people became alarmed at the extent of subversive activity of the socialist elements in the United States Government, and finally, the magnitude of the subversion was revealed
15. If we found one writer a year that sent things in randomly, that would be a lot…agents are necessary gatekeepers but it's nice if there is an alternative entry…there are subversive ways to get your stuff read—you just have to be dedicated
16. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state
17. subversive act, which the reigning king could punish by death
18. Subversive! She sighed inwardly
19. could look forward with apprehension, to subversive activity, a brush with anarchy,
20. as fruity as a Christmas cake, even said that my essay was subversive
21. subversive Commando) and that we were now to be handed over as
22. forwards carriage and subversive thoroughfare an end to slavery loosed about the waist
23. Andrei was certain there was something subversive buried in Herist’s mercantile and military books
24. All education is subversive to the individual and the culture
25. Nothing gets more subversive than that, nor more local
26. What we need is a sustainable model of the subversive Shareconomy
27. “Are not simply clandestine products of subversive intentions, but also growths, emergents at the crossroads where ethical choices are made
28. Consequently, Ya'jooj and Ma'jooj which are (China) and (Russia) were given chance to profit by this differentiation to publicize their subversive godless thoughts
29. We are as opposed to the subversive elements as you are
30. We have seen crime and subversive behaviour develop in our City Central area of the space station city
31. Could I trust you with this information? Or would you turn me in as a subversive, a nut?”
32. performs countless miracles and his teaching is subversive
33. it is plain that this is inconsistent with and subversive of
34. The idea of small independent communities was reversed into an attempt at world domination by centralized power through every subversive, sly underhanded lying tactic possible… including trying to overpower all of the other capitalistic superpowers with an even worse brands of military dictatorship than the West supported… The result is today, the word; communism instead of representing the idea of small self-sufficient communities represents everything that is corrupt and vile
35. This child has bypassed insubordination and become a subversive
36. The single greatest graft which Churchill was guilty of was his joining the group called The focus; a secret subversive political group of radicals dedicated to getting Chamberlain out of power by any means possible and getting Churchill into power
37. of Christ and his Apostles, doctrine subversive of, and contrary to, the doctrine, which they had one and all maintained
38. Apostles, doctrine subversive of, and contrary to, the doctrine, which they had one and al maintained
39. and his Apostles, doctrine subversive of, and contrary to, the doctrine,
40. doctrine subversive of, and contrary to, the doctrine, which they had one and al maintained
41. It was in effect Plato teaching in the Church, under the supposed authority of Christ and his Apostles, doctrine subversive of, and contrary to, the doctrine, which they had one and all maintained
42. distinct impression of a subversive force within global society whose intent was to stem the
43. His work is as beneficent as that of the building aspect, and it is but man's hatred of the death of forms which makes him regard the work of the destroyer as "black," as being against the divine will, and as subversive of the divine programme
44. he will punish him for introducing a practice which is equally subversive and destructive of ship or State
45. The girls around them had exploded with joyous laughter, as if something hilarious and subversive had finally been said out loud
46. She missed more than half the services, and rarely said or did anything openly subversive
47. In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read
48. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory
49. With respect to the belief that organic beings have been created beautiful for the delight of man—a belief which it has been pronounced is subversive of my whole theory—I may first remark that the sense of beauty obviously depends on the nature of the mind, irrespective of any real quality in the admired object; and that the idea of what is beautiful, is not innate or unalterable
50. This capacity in bees of laying down under certain circumstances a rough wall in its proper place between two just-commenced cells, is important, as it bears on a fact, which seems at first subversive of the foregoing theory; namely, that the cells on the extreme margin of wasp-combs are sometimes strictly hexagonal; but I have not space here to enter on this subject
