The phrase "a plan to overthrow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing strategies or intentions to remove someone from power or authority, often in a political context.
Example: "The group was discovered to have a plan to overthrow the current government."
Alternatives: "a scheme to topple" or "a plot to depose".
Within days of the attacks, Wolfowitz was spearheading efforts to put on the table a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
The government denounced the protests as being part of a plan to overthrow it and is running mass trials involving hundreds of defendants.
And they insist that rumors of a plan to overthrow Mr. Bruno can be traced to senators who would like to take his place.
The investigation has reached out to once untouchable members of the military, along with secular power brokers, as suspects in a plan to overthrow the governing Justice and Development Party, which is rooted in political Islam.
A self-confessed conspirator (who, not unnaturally, requests anonymity) says that a plan to overthrow the president was postponed at the request of a group of civilians led by Mr Miquilena.In this section Weathering the storm All things to all men Staying alive Victim of contagion ReprintsCoup-mongers may not consent to stay their hand indefinitely.
This picaresque project employs a recording of Ashley speech-singing his own novel of the title — a Graham Greene-style tale of an unassuming American who becomes involved in a plan to overthrow a foreign government — to create a collective work with an electronic orchestral part composed by Tom Hamilton and choreographed by Steve Paxton.
Nonetheless, "The Wonga Coup" is a forceful example of how a group of rapacious Europeans can hatch a fantastic plan to overthrow a foreign government, gain the tacit support of Western officials — not to mention international corporations — and fully expect to succeed in executing their grandiose vision.
What they did not do is establish a financial infrastructure or a real plan to overthrow Saddam.
"The young people watched what happened in Egypt and Tunisia on the Internet, and they said, 'Why can't we do the same here?' But there was no plan for a war, or even a real plan to overthrow Qaddafi.
Proving once again that his POW brainwashing experience honed his national security insight, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) hinted at a previously unknown aspect of a devious plan to overthrow America.
During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. Butler is well known for having later become an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences, as well as exposing the Business Plot, a purported plan to overthrow the U.S. government.
