Sentence examples for subvert power from inspiring English sources

It ignored the medium's radical potential — how consensual B.D.S.M. could subvert power structures, or how erotic displays of imperfect or disgusting bodies could be a Rabelaisian weapon in a war against élite prudery.

They gave his wife a warrant stating that he was suspected of "incitement to subvert state power," a catchall charge often used against people whom the authorities deem threatening to their power, a friend of Mr. Hu said.

Then, in June, he was formally arrested on suspicion of incitement to subvert state power.

Short of vandalizing the image itself, how do you subvert its power?

"The provision in the current Criminal Law that refers to 'the crime of incitement to subvert state power' must be abolished.

Instead, he has been imprisoned in China for those five years, and is to serve a total of 11 years — incarcerated for "an incitement to subvert state power".

Mr Hu was convicted of trying to subvert state power, after taking up the causes of AIDS patients and the environment.

Liu Xia's husband is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power, having co-authored and gathered signatures for Charter 08, a document promoting democratic reforms.

The lesson is clear: only someone plagued by mental afflictions would take such extreme steps to subvert the power of the US government.

Authorities first accused them of "incitement to subvert state power", but later changed the charge to "unlawful assembly", which carries a maximum jail term of five years.

China's best-known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, today won the Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.