And when he did relinquish power he often had it thrust back into his hands.
The senior consultant, Robert, wants him thrust back into the community; Bruce, a first-year junior doctor, argues with equal vehemence that Christopher needs further treatment.
I felt thrust back into to the homogenized Massachusetts suburb I had escaped years before.
Just as I had begun to feel that I was emerging at last from the dark tunnel of bereavement, I was thrust back into the company of the grief-stricken, trying to comfort two widows while knowing exactly the suffering that lay in store for them.
As I started to make my son's Halloween costume, a strange creature named Vivi from a game called Final Fantasy, yes I am making it myself, and yes, I know I am ahead of the curve as my Halloween and Christmas and Chanukah shopping is already in full bloom, I was thrust back into my public jr.
Ambling down the dusty cobbles of Al-Khader Street, I saw the fevered activity of the town centre gradually thrust back into focus.
I'm just gazing into the middle distance with my head thrust back ever so naturally so as to show off my amazing bust, tiny waist and general physical gorgeousness".
But then, just a few pages later, Browne dishearteningly announces, "I have ever beleeved, and doe now know, that there are witches," and we are thrust back into the Middle Ages.
It was routine cut and thrust back then.
Bourgeois's legacy is being thrust back into popular culture.
