Sentence examples for aimed to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Known as the Revolutionary Forces Front, the alliance aimed to overthrow the Khartoum government.

Belhaj was founder and leader of the LIFG which aimed to overthrow Gaddafi.

This aimed to overthrow Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, and engineer a return to their home country.

Turkey's former military chief, Gen. Ilker Basbug, went on trial on Monday, charged with leading an illegal network that aimed to overthrow the government.

The plot's leader, Mike du Toit, was the first member of the Boeremag, a ragtag militia, to be found guilty in connection with a botched 2002 coup attempt that aimed to overthrow the governing African National Congress.

Two successive US presidents – Dwight Eisenhower and John F Kennedy – approved the CIA-funded and organised amphibious assault on 17 April 1961 by 1,400 Cuban exiles, which aimed to overthrow the two-year-old government of Fidel Castro.

But coups usually aim to overthrow one government and replace it with another.

Supported by opposition parties, it was aiming to overthrow Mr Meciar.

Qatar would end up backing many of the revolutionary movements of the Arab spring aiming to overthrow the old order.

He acknowledges that if he were to gain the "worker justice" he seeks, some would lose power, but he is not aiming to overthrow the government.

Syrian opposition groups, which aim to overthrow Mr. Assad, condemned Mr. Nasrallah's stand and called for his fighters to withdraw from Syrian soil.