| Its ability to form alliances with and coopt other organized crime groups gives it global influence. |
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| Since 1979, the Chinese had been trying, instead, to coopt Buddhism, to make it work for them by controlling it. |
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| The Commission is also engaged in a major project on governance in the Union for which it plans to coopt the assistance of outside partners. |
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| The need to corrupt and coopt civil authorities will expand hand-in-hand with the ambitions of the various TC groups. |
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| Should there not be a joint opinion, the panel shall coopt one or more other persons. |
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| The Committee may coopt any person likely to assist it in considering particular cases. |
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| One person asked how to facilitate change if the institution tends to coopt any reform initiatives. |
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| The committee has the option to coopt additional members during the Assembly. |
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| At the other extreme, while the RPF has banned grass-roots political meetings, it allows itself to coopt local elites in a systematic fashion. |
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| There's still time for conservatives to coopt this issue as part of a broader agenda for promoting family values. |
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| It wanted to build an alliance of all the capitalist countries against socialist countries and to coopt the newly-independent countries and national liberation movements. |
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| Where there are fewer candidates than vacant seats, the parish council has the power to coopt any person or persons to fill the vacancies. |
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| The Board may temporarily coopt successors for any vacancies that occur. |
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| Plans call for the Board meeting to be held on that date to coopt Mr. Frédéric Lemoine, Chairman of the Management Board of Wendel, to replace Mr. Lafonta. |
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| In the event of a vacancy among any of the vice-presidencies, the Board of Directors has the power to coopt an alternate to hold the position until the next meeting of the General Assembly. |
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