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Such situation is one of the many examples that show how the establishment and the status quo that it serves can actually coopt well-meaning laws into serving partisan interests.

Membership in these companies brought together leading scholars of the day, some 47 to 51 (number uncertain) of them with power to coopt scholars from farther afield, representing varying religious and political convictions--although heavily weighted towards the King's favour.

In this book, he talks about how advertisers coopt radical politics and art--how what is "hip" can so easily serve the bottom line.

The legacy of these reforms--which Dierenfield, maddeningly, fails to discuss--is that Congress today is more decentralized, offering special interests a multitude of avenue to coopt legislation.

The indigenous of Matagalpa joined Conservative forces to wrest changes in land and labor laws from Jose Santos Zelaya, a detour not usually seen in literature that discusses Zelaya's steady march to "progress." Indigenous struggle was so pronounced that the government sought not to eliminate but to coopt and control the population, for example, creating Comunidades Indigenas in Boaco and Camoapa in the early twentieth century--communities that as outside creations did not correspond to real community interests and were dominated by ladinos.