In Chapter 1 the models resembled Trojan horses: as expressions of humanism, Renaissance churches and palaces subverted the authority of the feudal institutions they were commissioned to glorify.
The Mandarin phrase for grass-mud horse, cǎonímǎ, with a shift only of tone, becomes cào nǐ mā, which means "f— your mother" or "motherf—." In a country where public discourse is tightly controlled and rigidly censored, the grass-mud horse is playfully defiant of government censorship, and in a small way subverts the authority of the ruling Communist Party.
But the episode appeared to be the most dramatic instance in which the friction between Mr. Ahmadinejad and conservatives in the government emerged in the open; the president's conservative critics have increasingly challenged him over what they regard as a "deviant current" of presidential advisers who want to subvert the authority of the Islamic clergy.
The call for reform, they fear, is really a Trojan horse to subvert the authority of the Church.
Cockrel was also wary of granting the corporation counsel, who is appointed, the power to subvert the authority of elected government officials.
Imagine a leader of India puffing himself up to deliver a special address to Americans of Indian descent, asking them to subvert the authority of the president who signed a trade deal the Indian prime minister judges to be disadvantageous.
Percussion, in increasingly asserting its authority, has regularly fueled revolution in 20th century music by giving prominence to just about any kind of noise and by subverting the dominance of tone and harmony.
The Democratic candidates, Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have accused Senate Republicans of subverting the president's authority by refusing to hold hearings on the nominee.
The site welcomes tips about the whereabouts of pornography and scams, but also invites information on any subject that "endangers national security, leaks state secrets, subverts the ruling authority, or damages the unity of the nation".
Such interventions must not subvert the current authority of traditional healers, but facilitate a dialogue where the technologies used in early diagnosis and treatment of malaria could be incorporated into their practices.
