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Sir James Eyre
Sir James Eyre 1734-99, English jurist. As a young lawyer he was counsel (1763) for John Wilkes in the suit against the government that established the illegality of general warrants (warrants for the arrest of any or all persons, no names being specified, involved in an offense). He later became... Read more
Tom Campbell Clark
Tom Campbell Clark 1899-1977, U.S. Attorney General (1945-49), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1949-67), b. Dallas, Tex.; father of Ramsey Clark . He received his law degree from the Univ. of Texas. Clark joined the Justice Dept. (1937) as a special assistant to the attorney general. ... Read more
Viet Cong
Viet Cong , officially Viet Nam Cong San [Vietnamese Communists], People's Liberation Armed Forces in South Vietnam. The term was originally applied by Diem's regime to Communist troops (about 10,000) left in hideouts in South Vietnam after the Geneva Conference of 1954, following the French Indoc... Read more
oath
oath vocal affirmation of the truth of one's statements, generally made by appealing to a deity. From the earliest days of human history, calling upon the gods of a community to witness the truth of a statement or the solemnity of a promise has been commonly practiced. The force of the oath depends... Read more
Alliance for Progress
Alliance for Progress Span. Alianza para el Progreso, U.S. assistance program for Latin America begun in 1961 during the presidency of John F. Kennedy . It was created principally to counter the appeal of revolutionary politics, such as those adopted in Cuba (see Fidel Castro ). It called for v... Read more
blasphemy
blasphemy in religion, words or actions that display irreverence toward or contempt for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the community to varying degrees, depending on the extent of the identification of a religion with the society at large or the govern... Read more
Vasily Semenovich Grossman
Vasily Semenovich Grossman 1905-64, Russian novelist and journalist, b. Berdichev, Ukraine. He graduated (1929) from Moscow State Univ., published novels and short stories, and became a noted Russian war correspondent during World War II. Although he began objecting to Stalin's support of anti-Semi... Read more
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Protocols of the Elders of Zion a fraudulent document that reported the alleged proceedings of a conference of Jews in the late 19th cent., at which they discussed plans to overthrow Christianity through subversion and sabotage and to control the world. The Protocols first appeared in their entir... Read more
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Protocols of the Elders of Zion a fraudulent document that reported the alleged proceedings of a conference of Jews in the late 19th cent., at which they discussed plans to overthrow Christianity through subversion and sabotage and to control the world. The Protocols first appeared in their entir... Read more
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard 1943-, American playwright and actor, b. Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel Shepard Rogers 7th. A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive pop art vision of ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Subversion"

Subversion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Subversion Since the late eighteenth century, federal and state governments have...minimal rationality standards for review of the means chosen to suppress subversion, and a balancing of the rights of individuals to freedom of political...
MI5
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...attempts to procure defeat by political subversion’. The dividing line between...was blurring the distinction between subversion and legitimate disaffection—...advising on all intelligence relating to subversion (other than that relating to known...
Hoover, J. Edgar
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...abuses of power in the name of fighting subversion. After earning a law degree from George...however, Hoover ’ s war against subversion took a more controversial turn. During...In the name of rooting out Communist subversion, Hoover authorized illegal wiretapping...
political policing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...government's main source of information on subversion for a few years, until both intelligence...main peacetime weapon against political subversion, although military intelligence dominated...broad view of what might constitute subversion, and this has led to controversy where...
Special Branch
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...combating political crime and in monitoring political unrest and subversion. Initially it occupied a peculiar place in the force as a...detective units. Because of its continuing counter‐subversion role, some of its activities inevitably cause concern about...
Communism and Cold War
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...variety of governmental actions intended to thwart espionage and subversion . These included congressional enactment of the Internal Security...Court's appellate jurisdiction in five types of loyalty and subversion cases. His proposal failed, in considerable part because...
John Birch Society
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...pointing to the extraordinary accusations of treason and subversion in his writings. In a lengthy letter originally written in...tradition of popular fears about foreign conspiracies and internal subversion. Welch insisted on opening membership to Catholics, Jews...
Office of Strategic Services
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...functions of information gathering, propaganda, espionage, subversion, and post-war planning. This led both to an unwieldy organization...Special Operations Branch (SO), engaged in acts of physical subversion including sabotage, the support of resistance movements...
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...companions to suggest an issue; they suggested Communist power and subversion. In a speech at Wheeling, W. Va., on February 9 McCarthy...apprehension the name of "communism." He used the fear of internal subversion by an external enemy, and by giving it the concrete form...
McCarthy, Joseph Raymond
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...infiltrated the state department. He claimed that Communist subversion had led to the fall of China to the Communists in October...sub-committee to continue his campaign against Communist subversion in the federal government. McCarthy brought persons before...

Dictionary entries related to "Subversion"

Subversion, Communist
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SUBVERSION, COMMUNIST SUBVERSION, COMMUNIST. Defining itself by its commitment to a set of ideas...ancestry or blood, the United States has long harbored a fear of subversion at the hands of enemies of democracy. The first antisubversive...
subversion
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military subversion n. action designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a regime.
Arcos Raid
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...premises in London, on suspicion that the company was a front for Communist subversion, and that it was holding a British army signals manual. No evidence of subversion was found, however. Still, partly to cover Baldwin's embarrassment over...
Name-of-the-Father
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...and not to oppose) a desire to the Law," he wrote in "Subversion of the Subject and Dialectic of Desire" (Lacan, p. 309...Bibliography Lacan, Jacques. (2002). The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian...
House Committee on Un-American Activities
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Prior to HUAC's founding, congressional investigations of subversion were episodic. The most notable occurred in 1919, 1930...however, the committee came to focus on ostensible left-wing subversion. Its basic charge was that communists and their sympathizers...
"Constitutional Faith" Speech (25 July 1974, by Rep. Barbara Jordan)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." Leah R. Shafer...sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. "Who can so properly...
Jarrico, Paul
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...nature of HUAC when he declared, in his testimony, "I should be happy to help this committee uncover subversion, but one man's subversion is another man's patriotism. I consider the activities of this committee subversive of the American...
I Vitelloni
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Fellini, translated by Sohrab Sorooshian, London, 1995. Gieri, Manuela, Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion: Pirandello, Fellini, Scola, and the Directors of the New Generation, Toronto, 1995. Fellini, Federico, Fellini on...
Radical Right
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Right. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964. Davis, David Brion, ed. The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971. Lipset, Seymour M., and Earl...
The History of George Catlett Marshall (14 June 1951, by Senator Joseph McCarthy)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...browbeat witnesses, and evaded repeated requests to produce tangible evidence. Unable to prove Stevens or the Army guilty of subversion, McCarthy was undone. His influence with the public shattered, the once unknown Senator from Wisconsin was censured by...

Thesaurus entries related to "Subversion"

betrayal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...by their betrayal synonyms : act of betrayal, breach of faith, bad faith, disloyalty, perfidy, treachery, duplicity, double-dealing, subversion, sedition, treason; inf. double-crossing, back-stabbing, whistleblowing.
rebellion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...insurgence, insurgency; rioting, riot, disorder, unrest. See note at uprising.   2. an act of rebellion synonyms : defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness, insubordination, subversion, subversiveness, resistance.
disloyalty
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...unreliability, untrustworthiness, betrayal, falseness; duplicity, double-dealing, treachery, treason, subversion, sedition, dissidence; adultery; informal backstabbing, two-timing; literary perfidy, perfidiousness.
treason
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English treason • noun   synonyms : high treason; betrayal, traitorousness, treachery, disloyalty, faithlessness, perfidy, disaffection, sedition, subversion, mutiny, rebellion, lese-majesty.
sabotage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : deliberate destruction/damage/wrecking/impairment/incapacitation, subversive destruction, vandalism, subversion, treachery.   2. the sabotage of our plans synonyms : disruption, spoiling, ruining, ruination, wrecking...
sedition
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : incitement to riot/rebellion, agitation, rabble-rousing, fomentation.   2. advocating sedition synonyms : civil disorder, rebellion, insurrection, insurgence, uprising, mutiny, rioting, subversion, treason.
insurrection
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...died in a prison insurrection by Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners synonyms : rebellion, revolt, uprising, mutiny, revolution, insurgence, riot, sedition, subversion; civil disorder, unrest, anarchy; coup (d'état).
defiance
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...such outspoken defiance synonyms : resistance, opposition, noncompliance, disobedience, insubordination, dissent, recalcitrance, subversion, rebellion; contempt, disregard, scorn, insolence, truculence. antonym: obedience.
perversion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...distortion, misrepresentation, falsification, travesty, misinterpretation, misconstruction, twisting, corruption, subversion, misuse, misapplication, debasement.   2. sexual perversion synonyms : deviance, abnormality; depravity, degeneracy...

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Subversion(TM) Named an Industry Leader by Independent Research Firm.
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Rapid Subversion Adoption Validates Enterprise Readiness and Challenges Traditional Software Configuration Management Leaders.
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Subversion Earns High Scores in Standalone Software Configuration Management, According to Recent Independent Research Report.
M2 Presswire; 6/6/2007; 700+ words ; ...PRESSWIRE-6 June 2007-CollabNet: Subversion Earns High Scores in Standalone Software...CollabNet , the primary sponsor of the Subversion open source project and leading provider...software development, today announced that Subversion has, for the first time ever, been...
Polarion Software Donates Subversion.com Domain to the Subversion Corporation.
PR Newswire; 10/17/2007; 700+ words ; ...creators of the first comprehensive application lifecycle platform based on Subversion, and the Subversion Corporation today announced that Polarion will donate the subversion.com domain name, which it owns, to the Subversion Corporation. The...
Subconf 2007 - First subversion-dedicated conference brings together subversion committers, experts and users; Main sponsor CollabNet to use its Subversion stewardship role to attract the best Subversion resources to a unique event.
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Sleepycat Hardens Subversion Version Control System with Highly Reliable Database; Berkeley DB Ensures Subversion Data Integrity and Provides Automatic Recovery in the Event of System Failure.
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Pragmatic Subversion, 2nd Edition.
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CollabNet launches UK Subversion User Group; Adoption of Subversion doubles every three months.
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Sleepycat strengthens Subversion version control system with highly reliable database; Berkeley DB ensures Subversion data integrity and provides automatic recovery in the event of system failure.
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CollabNet introduces CollabNet Subversion On Demand for the enterprise; Subversion open source project founder brings enterprise functionality to leading version control system to enable global software development and collaboration.
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