To his son, he's a powerful and potentially subversive influence, not unlike the father portrayed in Geoffrey Wolff's eloquent memoir "The Duke of Deception."

In Brown's own words she was considered "an extremely subversive influence" as a child, resulting in her expulsion from three boarding schools.

He thinks you are an unreliable and subversive influence in the theatre, and he will be only too pleased to make an example of you.

Bannister's comments in the book The Nation's Favourite indicate that he feared Bates's supposed subversive influence rather than his broadcasting style.

Once unleashed, Andrew's subversive influence seems to affect every member of Roger's group.

Its main motivation was a desire to exclude the potentially subversive influence of Christianity, which had proved impossible to divorce from trading contacts.

"Slugger, you are a subversive influence."

For all the official prickliness about French industrial espionage, no one in the United States talks of banning french fries as a subversive influence.

"The leaders of the striking longshoremen are not free from Communist and subversive influences...There will be no turning back from the position I have taken in this matter."

In the same interview, Nimeiry noted that his military was working with Egypt to formulate a plan to destroy Gaddafi's "subversive" influence.