So the novel, far from celebrating imperial authority, dismantles it, as does Kipling's 1888 tale of perverse imperial designs, "The Man Who Would Be King".
Ever since their colonial beginnings, the white leaders and people of this region have engaged in perverse, contorted politics designed to provide themselves the blessings of democracy at the expense of black Southerners.
In a perverse piece of programme design, the orchestra played Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in the first half.
As the appeals court wrote: "It would be a perverse system that, by design, wasted taxpayer money in order to impose crippling, credit-destroying debt on lower-income students and graduates".
In the decisive opinion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a three-judge panel unanimously concluded, "It would be a perverse system that, by design, wasted taxpayer money in order to impose crippling, credit-destroying debt on lower-income students and graduates".
On March 8, a federal appeals court panel, in a four-page opinion, summarily and soundly rejected the challenge to the rule and the industry's offensive arguments; the court wrote, "It would be a perverse system that, by design, wasted taxpayer money in order to impose crippling, credit-destroying debt on lower-income students and graduates".
His films' unreal settings, languorous rhythms and perverse eroticism were not designed to engage and arouse an audience, but rather to reflect the private concerns of their creator.
The heavily bureaucratic approach was also poorly designed, providing perverse incentives that encouraged agency examiners to review the companies with the least likelihood of having problems.
On the one hand because he forged his name with progressive, occasionally perverse menswear (he's designed platform shoes, ruffled skorts and boob-tubes - for him - before); on the other, because he likes to forge a path ahead of everyone else.
The structure of adjunct incentives needs to be undertaken with some care to ensure that there are no inadvertent perverse incentives such as designing objectives to achieve improved access that can be achieved at the expense of quality goals.
