subversive activity

collocation in English

meaningsofsubversiveandactivity

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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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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofsubversiveandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With the coming of democratic processes and the struggle for a multi-party system, theatre lost its leading role in politicallysubversiveactivity.
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My own view of good teaching is that it is asubversiveactivity, in that it actually fosters the questioning and challenging of authority.
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Before 1967, police organisations were responsible for monitoringsubversiveactivity.
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Cohesive ' primary groups ' were actually discouraged for fear that close relationships between soldiers might lead tosubversiveactivity.
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Are not flying pickets illegal in this country, and is it not almost asubversiveactivityagainst the police to hold meetings of this sort?
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If that is the case, the reiteration of the statement thatsubversiveactivitywill not daunt the constitutional arrangement is to be welcomed.
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I fully understand their alarm and concern at anysubversiveactivityin a country that is so close to them.
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We were told at first that the case was one ofsubversiveactivity.
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The lists that it compiles about people often contain inaccurate information and it has a broad idea of what constitutessubversiveactivity.
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If open political activity is banned,subversiveactivityis encouraged.
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What is the point of continuing thissubversiveactivityat great cost to interfere with the trade unions in pursuit of their legitimate activities?
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Does he appreciate also that there must have been some other cause thansubversiveactivity, and will he take care to have a fuller investigation?
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We read in the newspapers of case after case of the most wickedsubversiveactivity.
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It could be taken as saying that those people may have been engaged in some type ofsubversiveactivity.
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I think that we shall find that she is increasing hersubversiveactivity.
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We had an exposure ofsubversiveactivityin this country not so long ago.
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The category of warrant concerned with national security includes majorsubversiveactivityand circumstances related to internal and external aspects of the nation's security.
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I suggest that it was due to panic or to inability to judge what is and is notsubversiveactivity.
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I have had some experience of what is calledsubversiveactivity.
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Does not this event qualify as asubversiveactivity?
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