Attending university was sometimes sufficient grounds to be categorised as 'a subversive element'.

Marsh played guitar on two shows in 1973 with the band before leaving after his expulsion from school (for being an undesirable subversive element).

Still, there was a subversive element to them, as the nudist camps inherently rejected modern society and its values regarding the human body.

Traditionally, the outward trappings of royal invincibility were enough to intimidate most subversive elements.

After the war many of those who had been put in the camps had trouble finding work as few wanted to hire subversive elements.