subversive element
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubversiveandelement
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subversive
adjective
uk/səbˈvɜː.sɪv/us/səbˈvɝː.sɪv/
trying to destroy or damage something, especially an established ...
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element
noun
uk/ˈel.ɪ.mənt/us/ˈel.ə.mənt/
a part ...
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(Definition ofsubversiveandelementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Whichsubversiveelementwas the cause of that?
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Then we have the built-insubversiveelementin industry.
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I am afraid it is true that there is a smallsubversiveelementamong our students who are not content with the hope of overthrowing society in general.
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Still, there was asubversiveelementto them, as the nudist camps inherently rejected modern society and its values regarding the human body.
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On the one hand, it belongs to the genre of the comic tale with socially subversive elements.
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Thus, it constantly alerted the government to the need of keeping a tight rein on criminal and subversive elements.
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Marsh played guitar on two shows in 1973 with the band before leaving after his expulsion from school (for being an undesirablesubversiveelement).
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The formations must be maintained, it was said, because any regular police might be corrupted through fraternization with the working classes and other subversive elements.
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It is to that fertile ground that we must turn our attention rather than to the subversive elements themselves.
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Everyone knows that the form of literature which is distributed regularly by subversive elements is in the form of newspapers.
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They have a brass face to talk about subversive elements.
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The mere announcement of withdrawal acts as a catalyst to all subversive elements.
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It is a situation which the most subversive elements within those countries will seek to exploit for their own purposes.
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Furthermore, the longer the dispute goes on, the more time there will be for the subversive elements to influence men of good will.
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We have heard a good deal this afternoon about subversive elements within trade unions and about infringement of the law on picketing.
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Very often, it is not miners but outsiders, students and subversive elements, who have been responsible for some of the trouble.
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And this is only one example of the way in which quite small numbers of men, usually worked up by subversive elements, can hold the whole community to ransom.
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There is no doubt that the authority of the union is often weakened thereby, and the men turn to the subversive elements which undoubtedly cause these unofficial stoppages.
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Were they subversive elements in 1924?
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After the war many of those who had been put in the camps had trouble finding work as few wanted to hire subversive elements.
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