The whole exercise was a war game, put on in secret by the Defense Department to test the nation's readiness for a subversive attack.

No Arab tribe or person was strong enough to wage "subversive attacks" against the Islamic polity.

The books make a breathtakingly subversive attack on organized religion and on the notion of an all-powerful god.

The Mission Earth novels on the whole are a subversive, harsh, poignant attack on American society in the 1980s.

He also accused them of making a "subversive attack" against him.

"Mrs. Farnsworth" is as polite and sweetly subversive a political attack as you're likely to come across.

Mr. Nichols used the framework of a traditional British pantomime for a brilliantly subversive attack on English colonialism.

At this point the Sultans signaled to the Moslem officers in the Vijayanagaran army to launch a subversive attack.

At the critical point of war Moslem officers in the Vijayanagaran army to launch a subversive attack.

He was accused of launching subversive attacks against national unity.