Verb (used with object) : The fledgling Labor party was coopted by the Socialist party. ,The dissidents have coopted the title of her novel for their slogan.    From Dictionary.com. 

Call this the politics of "compromise and co-optation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Will Obama Follow Lincoln's Example?] Reference

Evangalization is a process of coercion and co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Ritual Throat-Slitting, Temples, Cultish Behavior, Sancity, and Criticism. | Mind on Fire] Reference

Call this the politics of “compromise and co-optation.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Obama Follow Lincoln's Example?] Reference

The co-optation of this emblem by the Dead was inspired mockery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "U.S. Blues"] Reference

They end by co-optation, integration and — yes — appeasement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right By My Side Where You Supposed To Be | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

The order of the day is not co-optation by the regime but resistance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH AT THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, ROME, FEBRUARY 26-28, 1982(1)] Reference

In the video below, we see that the co-optation of feminism is nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [“WHAT DOES THE EMANCIPATION OF AMERICAN WOMEN MEAN TO YOU?” » Sociological Images] Reference

NNP, would inevitably lead to political co-optation and eventual abdication, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But there are many others for whom every such debate raises the specter of "co-optation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Game] Reference

Members of these colleges were selected by co-optation and were originally limited to patricians.    From Wordnik.com.  [e. The Early Republic] Reference

Will there be a return to the streets or more co-optation by the illusions of power in the suites?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: Look to the Future, Not the Past - One Lesson for 2010] Reference

I call that bureaucratic co-optation, not democracy, but names matter less than basic patterns of behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Society: An Exchange] Reference

And it skillfully limns the morphology of a scene, from creation and discovery to co-optation and destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Butt Naked' D.C. filmmakers join ranks of Sundance documentary picks] Reference

The addition of younger persons to this council by co-optation is an improvement on the governing body of the Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

Envelopment by the elites, co-optation by the enemy ... and, by the way, who was and where is that darned enemy, anyhow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Free Beltway] Reference

The party did not believe in a confrontational approach in all respects, neither did it believe in co-optation, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Especially its determination to keep its distance from government, not only to avoid censorship, but to avoid co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Schwarz: David Broder Angrily Denounces People Named David Broder; "Journalism Is Being Destroyed By These Horrible Broders," Says Broder] Reference

Viola Hashe, on the other hand, resisted co-optation by the reformist elements and became one of SACTU's most dynamic leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE] Reference

Obama, a game changer or just a new flavor of the same old co-optation, used repeatedly in the past to sell out hard won efforts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rod McCullom: Ted Kennedy Endorsed Obama to Preserve JFK' s Civil Rights "Legacy"? What Civil Rights "Legacy"?] Reference

For someone have lived as a man to claim the label of woman is both an objectification, co-optation and annexations of our experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference

Actually, when I talk about the co-optation of open, I talk about the organic and green movements as prime examples of co-opted movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parsing the “open” in Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework announcement | FactoryCity] Reference

Another sort is when there is a qualification for office, but a high one, and the vacancies in the governing body are fired by co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

From the 4th through the 1st centuries, Roman conquest, colonization, and co-optation caused Etruscan civilization to decline and finally end.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. The Peoples of Italy] Reference

First, the potential co-optation of political competition holds far greater and more expansive consequences than the failure of economic markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shahid Buttar: Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head (Part IV): A New Check on the Court to Defend the Rule of Law] Reference

There is corruption, co-optation of religious leaders, the patriarchal structure and hierarchy, the authoritarian control system, and the tribal mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Friday Mohammed, Peace Be Upon him and all prophets] Reference

And one of tyranny's characteristic forms is the co-optation of law as a mask for fundamentally lawless decisions cloaked in the forms of law and legality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law Theories] Reference

In short, we will find out whether broad-based growth or other factors like elite co-optation, nationalism, or stability have been most important to CCP survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testing China's Communists] Reference

Additionally, it was your idea for the Karzai government to offer amnesty to the Taliban -- a doctrine that you called, "co-optation in exchange for cooperation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Hughes: Undoing Damage in Afghanistan Wrought by Bush-era Diplomat] Reference

The standard historic pattern of Democratic Party co-optation and surrender is currently trying to repeat itself amidst epic economic crisis and imperial disruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama's Violin: Populist rage and the uncertain containment of change] Reference

Competition for public offices is a sort of co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference

The co-optation of officials is merely a co-optation by elimination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference

It is hardly necessary for me to add that this co-optation is limited to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference

Election to the augural college at this time was effected by co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

In a certain sense and to a large extent officials recruit their numbers by co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference

Its own ranks were to be recruited by co-optation from triple lists of candidates presented by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference

I have been alerted to an even more ambitious co-optation of the idea by Swatch, the watch company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Magazine] Reference

The governing authority of the borough was the town council, whose members were either elected by the freemen or recruited by co-optation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governments of Europe] Reference