This act of separation was perceived as an assault on his status and thus a venal betrayal of the true faith.
Teachers' unions have responded to the assault on the status quo by arguing that all the ire directed at bad teachers distorts the issue.
Within Chechnya itself, what jihadists there still are there have been ideologically and physically marginalised to the extent that they are struggling to survive at all, let alone mount any concerted assault on the status quo.
Another damaging assault on the status of women is that most of the women are wealthy because they married into money.
Attempts to undermine the king's authority were viewed with as much seriousness as if the accused had attacked him personally, which itself would be an assault on his status as sovereign and a direct threat to his right to govern.
When you've got no money whatsoever, the high street feels like some kind of constant assault on your status, a strange world in which everyone is the guy down the road with the Porsche, desperately trying to make you feel like shit.
For the most unfortunate, such assaults on health status shave away decades of life.
And, paradoxical as it may sound, reading your portrait of my colleagues' difficulties with demanding parents and trustees, relentless fund-raising and assaults on their status confirms my view.
Rebel comedy's Madison to Sahl's Jefferson would have to be Lenny Bruce, who leaped over any remaining lines of taste and turned comedy into a series of unexpurgated assaults on the status quo, both public and private.
"Sleep is a fundamental and non-negotiable human need," writes Huffington, who appears, however, to agree with Ettus, and probably a vast number of men, that what women should now prioritise is not old-fashioned assaults on the status quo, but even older-fashioned hints on how to make the best of it, by way of phone-free nights and speedy dressing.
Kael's piece was an assault on the cultural status quo, and her opening lines set the tone: "Bonnie and Clyde" is the most excitingly American American movie since "The Manchurian Candidate".
