To sabotage something means to purposely weaken or destroy it through subversion, obstruction and disruption.
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He champions younger filmmakers whom he says succeed in subversion, including Johnny Knoxville and Todd Phillips.
For this critical free-for-all lends itself to subversion of various subtle and not-so-subtle kinds.
He said the Portadown leadership could not "absolve itself from responsibility for this subversion and youth".
He identifies Islamic radicalism as in many cases a preparatory phase for this violence and associated subversion.
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The Pentagon, of course, is taking this subversion of its chaplaincy program seriously.
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So not only was Tamir's meeting an act of gross insubordination and subversion.
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Morocco is so concerned about Iranian subversion of its Sunni population that last month it cut off diplomatic ties with Teheran.
In sum, education has been an agent of change, if not subversion.
His wit acquired a sharper edge: celebrity became a vehicle for subversion.
Yet some Americans have practised subversion as well, including Uri Caine, a pianist known for reshaping classical masterworks in his own ebullient way.
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"With colonisation came the deliberate subversion of these languages, " said Dr Bill Fogarty from the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University.
The difficulty, say legal experts, is that no organisation can be proscribed under Japan's anti-subversion law unless it can be shown to be politically motivated.
Where Strange's suit is lyric-subversive, Sebastian Horsley's extravagant red velvet suit and matching top hat is subversion as satire, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland by way of Mephistopheles.
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When a former head of America's Central Intelligence Agency allies himself with tree-hugging greens that his outfit would once have suspected of subversion, you know something is up.
This confident subversion of what our ears expect is Mr Glass's secret for remaining fresh, and that freshness was expertly and sympathetically conveyed by the conducting of Dennis Russell Davies.
Nonetheless, he does acknowledge that cyber threats are real and that various cyber tools and techniques are becoming increasingly important in international conflict, including those used for sabotage, espionage, and subversion.
Suffering subversion is an occupational hazard for earnest, buoyant music, but What A Wonderful World is still used in sincere contexts, for example in tribute to the people of Armstrong's hometown New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Moreover, as my esteemed colleague, Caroline Glick, observed in her Jerusalem Post column last week, if Israel can no longer use the Golan to threaten Syria, Damascus and Tehran may feel free to redouble their subversion in Iraq.
Some art historians now prefer to view Pop as a subversion of American values, to read, say, Billy Al Bengston's chevron images as antimilitary or Roy Lichtenstein's cartoons of jet fighters as antiwar, when opposite interpretations are equally sensible, if not more so.
On Tuesday, the Scottish Affairs Committee's highly charged inquiry into blacklisting of workers by employers continues (at 1.30pm) with evidence from Jack Winder, a former director of the Economic League, an organisation set up in 1919 to oppose what they saw as subversion and "action against free enterprise".
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