Co Option

"It's called co-option -- you become part of the system when you make a deal with them," said Mike Saulenas, 60, a member of the group. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At a recent EGM he handed over the proxy for his votes to the North London Valiants, who – with the weight of Williams's equity behind them – forced the co-option of Mark Sims as a Vale director. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Throw in a ceasefire and withdrawal by the rebels possibly to weapons-free, safe zones in Turkey and Jordan and this package would make it extremely difficult for Assad, and certainly Russia, to resist what would essentially be a western co-option of the position that both have themselves laid out in public. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Can we please stay in the realm of reality here and say "some psychologists teach co-option"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Krugman is an intellectually bankrupt technocrat who doesn't understand the difference between competition and co-option. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will then propose for co-option some of the English game's most respected figures, such as Manchester United's FA board member, David Gill, or the retired former referee David Elleray. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While there are certainly obvious dangers lurking in organized religion, such as interpreting certain passages of Holy books to justify slavery, prejudice and violence towards women, Fela's co-option of some of those very same beliefs in his own relationships male dominance, child molestation, polygamy and domestic abuse while repudiating the rest, is blatant hypocrisy. ❋ Kirsten West Savali (2011)

But, as with most victories won by social and political movements, the taste of success is accompanied by the threat of co-option. ❋ Unknown (2011)

MET posits an evolutionary process involving co-option, and points to similar systems in related organisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are there to trouble what ought to be most certain to human life by suggesting that something will always elude co-option into the clear-cut or the fenced-in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wested Interests use co-option of specific sub-classes of the Polity to advance their own agenda -- classic Politics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The 2008 financial meltdown was not primarily the result of lax regulation but of co-option and abuse of the U.S. financial system by the political class in Washington. ❋ Steve Forbes (2010)

RTH: But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection. ❋ Unknown (2010)