coopt in a sentence

Examples

1. I can understand the fear that there will be a a desire to coopt the meaning of Auschwitz and the Holocaust.
2. That is when the whole movement became called the Taliban, that is when Pakistani military intelligence began to coopt it.
3. By 1875 the Salon had come to accept and then coopt the Realist program, at which time the society disbanded.
4. I'm no fan of such dispensers, especially when corporations use pieces of silver to coopt schools as their handmaidens.
5. The women who ran the center were unwilling to rely on outside funding, feeling that outside support could coopt their mission.
6. It was set up by the Communist Party to coopt other parties, create a semblance of democracy and control sources of potential dissent.
7. The government of Fidel Castro at first sought to coopt the celebrations, authorizing labor unions and government organs to sponsor floats with revolutionary themes.
8. He's still an original, still an iconoclast, still the swashbuckler whose daring and directness helped coopt the NFL's sovereignty.
9. Those Republicans often refer to him as a chameleon, unprincipled in such a way that he can coopt their ideas without a hint of penitence.
10. As a rule, the Palestinian leader has tried to coopt rather than confront his opponents, and most detainees were released after a short period.