Suborned

Having "suborned" (p. 119) many local leaders over generations (as colonialists always did), Britain set in motion a coup d'etat. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Labour has suborned our constitution, trashed our economy, debauched our currency and all but broken the back of our Armed Forces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its tentacles, they insisted, not only reached into every part of the economy, but also corrupted churches, the press, and institutions of higher learning, destroyed the family, and suborned public officials from the president on down. ❋ Steve Fraser (2011)

The best they can do is sniff out chemicals used in the leading manufacturer and it is up to police forces suborned by the movie industry to decide if they ` re counterfeits or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Any ID can be faked, any database of 300 million people can be suborned. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Manipulating witnesses and using suborned testimony are standard operating procedure. ❋ Mary Anastasia O'Grady (2011)

The regulators have been suborned and we are so much poorer for it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So I shore up my armamentarium of corticosteroids, ibuprofen, Plaquenil, acupuncture to beat back the cells you've suborned and inflamed. ❋ Linda Simoni-Wastila (2010)

As we now know, it has also suborned politicians and the police and operated as a freelance security service – not to expose the abuse of power, but to carry it out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In Wilde's clever hands, a successful resolution depends on a sly infusion of truth, and the understanding that principles can always be suborned to profit; or as Algy notes: "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." ❋ Fern Siegel (2011)

As I have noted, and will return to in future columns in more detail, lenders and their agents frequently suborned appraisers by deliberately creating a Gresham's dynamic to try to induce them to inflate market values, leaked the loan amount to the appraisers, drove the appraisal fraud, and made it endemic. ❋ William K. Black (2011)

Not as simple as that, JDB: read Karl Popper's 'The Open Society and its Enemies' as a clue to the way our freedoms can be suborned and then denied by subversive minorities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sale of eggs would expose poor, impressionable women (suborned by evil men) to a temptation their weak natures could not resist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They suborned our economic well-being to K Street, special interest lobbyists and the barons of Wall Street and undermined our national security by privatizing too many functions of our professional armed forces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then she cheated on him with his great enemy, the Councilor Lindorf, who suborned her with a vampire bite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The longer that we are denied our opportunity to have our say on the EU into which our political elite has suborned us, the more rumbustious will be the spasm that eventually throws off the thrall-shackles thus placed upon us. ❋ Unknown (2008)