Black Friday is a term co-opted by retailers to refer to the time of year when their business moves into the black, or turns a profit.
Use of the swastika goes back over 5,000 years and was found in multiple cultures and religions around the world long before Hitler co-opted it as the symbol of the Nazi party. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Constitution -- originally passed to ensure that former slaves were forthwith defined as full "persons" under the law -- had instead been overwhelmingly co-opted by clever lawyers intent on protecting the personal rights of corporations. ❋ Sam Chaltain (2011)
Its true that the CNP has co-opted the evangelicals for their votes. .some 30 million. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nixon thought Heath had been in the country too long and had become co-opted by the French. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)
The TEA party has been co-opted by the same old same old. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bill, the only thing you fear is loss of power, which is exactly why you co-opted the agenda of the republican congress in the 1995, after they painted you into a corner. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Your being co-opted by people that were never TEA partiers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They pay for their political campaign and to be shagged, repeatedly, and never seem to learn from the co-opted experience. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What will propably happen is the cancer for profit industry will get a tx-cut while the groups they co-opted won get a thing except maybe for a free bus ride to DC, some pre-fabricated protest signs. donuts, coffee and some flags made in China to wave around. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The influential basically just jaw jaw and …. government got bigger, deficits grew, grassroots movements are co-opted, and still they go back and listen to the pundits who claim to be working in their interest but actually, thru fear mongering, you get less freedoms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Would you approve if one of your military leaders co-opted a faction within your fleet, then took control of several important worlds and deemed themselves their own nation? ❋ David R. George III (2011)
Teabaggers may be ignorant, low-information, reactionary, racist and too stupid to know what their own best interests are, but they appeal to a growing segment of voters who feel disenfranchised — that they have been co-opted by the RNC and angered some of them, splintering the teagagging movement, is immaterial — republicans know how to organize and keep everyone on message. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Beware libertarians your movement is being co-opted by the Bushies and neo-cons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Republican party and conservatives in general have had their movement co-opted (or hijacked, your preference) by the racist wackos in this country. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Egypt co-opted about 40 nations in the Middle East and Africa where the largest number of AIDS victims live. ❋ Evelyn Leopold (2011)
The freedoms granted by the Constitution are being co-opted by them and perverted so that laws necessary for a civilized society are a threat to them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In other words they are being co-opted by the same folks as before. ❋ Unknown (2010)
