The working of all great organisation there is underground - it is easy enough to meet plot by counterplot, to suborn , to deceive, to undermine.

Jezebel said she could secure the vineyard; and she went forth and forged letters to the nobles and wise men, in the King's name, and ordered them to proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high before the people, and suborn two witnesses to swear that he had blasphemed.

OEDIPUS Did any bandit dare so bold a stroke, Unless indeed he were suborned from Thebes? A gift, a thing I sought not, for this crown The trusty Creon, my familiar friend, Hath lain in wait to oust me and suborned This mountebank, this juggling charlatan, This tricksy beggar-priest, for gain alone Keen-eyed, but in his proper art stone-blind.

Whether suborned boys - a numerous band of mercenaries - might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more?

We supposed he had now eased his mind, and told the worst he knew of the cook; but, a day or two afterwards, his conscience sustained a new twinge, and he disclosed how she had a little girl, who, early every morning, took away our bread; and also how he himself had been suborned to maintain the milkman in coals.

'Tis they, I warrant, who suborned my guards By bribes.

Thou art a messenger suborned , thy tongue Is sharper than a sword's edge, yet thy speech Will bring thee more defeats than victories.

Do you think that a hundred well-arranged plans, or a hundred suborned witnesses, or a hundred false curs at my heels, or a hundred canting speeches full of oily words, will move me?

The Prime Minister is willing to drag the Queen into his sordid Brexit-or-bust melodrama, trash Parliament, suborn the civil service and browbeat the electorate to get what he wants.

'The laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are made for all and we fought for democracy so that the powers of the state would not be used to suborn tyranny and oppression.