| Indeed, co-opting your competition's best ideas is a time-tested political and business strategy. |
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| They don't want college students co-opting their fear, their agony and their misery in order to promote their other agendas. |
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| In many cases it is being done by co-opting both the clergy and the laity, giving them no alternative except to acquiesce. |
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| This strategy seems to be aimed also at co-opting key constituencies such as Transjordanians and the business community. |
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| The co-opting and misapplication of moral language in political arguments undermines its legitimate use. |
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| Capitalism is co-opting social forces, such as surrealism, that once were nobly subversive. |
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| Not every culture can survive monsoons, British rule, and constant co-opting by fashion-obsessed pop icons. |
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| Deputy town clerk Linda Wakefield said the council would not be co-opting a new member. |
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| It is almost as if the BBC and the media have decided they want him and are co-opting the public in on the campaign. |
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| The co-opting of the Union Jack by various fascist groups has been so successful that the flag is widely seen today as an emblem of the far right. |
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| Yucatecan hacendados were quick to exploit this by financing and co-opting anarchosyndicalist unions, local leaders, and electoral candidates who opposed the agrarian reform. |
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| By co-opting the elements of soul and jazz that were considered great, Malik and Donnelly are merely retreading territory that does not need to be retread. |
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| Or is Rand co-opting them by merely using his newfound adviser as a fig leaf? |
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| The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie. |
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| A postmodern playfulness and irony are employed to challenge a Party icon, by co-opting fragments of an old socialist anthem as the basis of a rock song. |
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| My job, then, is that of a cultural and religious broker of sorts, co-opting Melanesia to serve as a stimulus to thought in Le Moyne classrooms. |
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| Kenyan officials are increasingly worried that al-Shabab has succeeded in co-opting disaffected youth inside Kenya, especially Somali-Kenyans like Abdullahi. |
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| Co-opting him as a management guru is crass, yet if it opens more imaginations to the spell-binding it may be a useful book. |
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