Co-opting in example sentence

By contrast, when former President Jiang Zemin became General Secretary of the Communist Party following the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, he was able to rely on capable and loyal officials in Shanghai to run the bureaucracy; he then expanded his support base by co-opting other factions in the 1990s.

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HIV is a retrovirus, which means it can write its genetic code into the genome of infected cells, co-opting them into making more copies of itself.

To be sure, the CCP has followed a strategy of co-opting social elites since the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

At home, Putin has focused over the past year on dealing with his opponents – co-opting some and intimidating others by turning the Russian legal and penal systems into blunt instruments of repression.

I hope that the Republican establishment does not succeed in co-opting the Tea Party – and that the Democratic establishment does not, either.

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