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Example sentences for "subverted"

Lexicographically close words:
subvention; subventions; subversion; subversive; subvert; subverters; subverting; subverts; subvocal; subway
  1. It must be subverted and true Swadeshi rule established.

  2. Were we to trust entirely to their self-destruction, that can never take place, until they have first subverted all conviction, and have totally destroyed human reason.

  3. His throne was subverted by a rival without merit, and a people without arms.

  4. The threatening tempest of Barbarians, which so soon subverted the foundations of Roman greatness, was still repelled, or suspended, on the frontiers.

  5. They subverted all the ideas of justice by promising infinite rewards for finite virtues, and threatening infinite punishment for finite offenses.

  6. In the name and by the authority of the ghosts, they imprisoned the human mind; they polluted the conscience, they subverted justice, and they sainted hypocrisy.

  7. The number four, being a square, denoted steadiness of mind, not to be subverted either by adversity or prosperity, fixed for ever on the firm basis of the four cardinal virtues.

  8. I remember the very learned critic Palmerius affirms of an oak, subverted by a late tempest near Breda, (where this old soldier militated under Prince Maurice, at the town when besieg’d by the famous Marq.

  9. On the south side also the city was walled and towered, but the fishful river of Thames, with his ebbing and flowing, hath long since subverted them.

  10. He had openly professed an entire change of policy, had expressed his regret that he had subverted the federal constitution of 1824, and avowed that he was now in favor of its restoration.

  11. Here then we see the vast empire of deity, an empire terminated upwards by a principle so ineffable that all language is subverted about it, and downwards, by the vast body of the world.

  12. By the first principle here, the one is to be understood for that arcane nature which is beyond the one, since all language is subverted about it, can only, as we have already observed, be conceived and venerated in the most profound silence.

  13. Friendship with all, alliance with none, was the fundamental maxim of Rhodian policy, until subverted by Rome.

  14. The government was a moderate aristocracy: this constitution was subverted about 544, by the tyrant Aristodemus; but restored after his assassination.

  15. Who have erred from the truth, saying that the resurrection is past already, and have subverted the faith of some.

  16. Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth, being condemned by his own judgment.

  17. Where, then, was their 'conscience' when the council subverted the kingdom of heaven upon earth, and they all signed the decree which abolished the earthly sovereignty of Christ?

  18. But did we not say that kingdoms or governments can only be subverted by themselves?

  19. But at about the same period, the close of the first century, a fresh horde of the Sakas came to Gujarat from Central Asia and founded another kingdom, which lasted until it was subverted by Chandragupta Vikramaditya about A.

  20. By this arbitrary resumption of ancient prerogative the theory underlying the Restoration was subverted utterly.

  21. For manners can never be so effectually, and so speedily depraved, as by a total extinction of all religious principle; and all religious principle must be necessarily subverted wherever this doctrine of annihilation is received.

  22. Julius Caesar who subverted the constitution of his country, was a thorough Epicurean, both in principle and practice.

  23. Under the reign of those two kings happened the mortal blow, which subverted the very foundation of their constitution.

  24. For it preserved their state from all those violent concussions, which so frequently shook, and at last totally subverted the Roman republick.

  25. But the basis of a democratic republic is a more or less perfect equality among its citizens, which is often impaired, and, in the end, subverted by too great a disparity of wealth.

  26. The Russian government is of all others the most liable to be subverted by military seditions, by court conspiracies, and sometimes by headlong rebellions of the people, such as the turbinating movement of Pugatchef.


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