Sentence examples for attempt to overthrow a from inspiring English sources

Kerry said on Saturday the US opposed any attempt to overthrow a democratically elected leader and change must come through a constitutional process.

Likewise, can't a distinction be drawn between assisting a democratic movement through unequivocal moral support for the local opposition, on the one hand, and a heavy handed, violent attempt to overthrow a despotic government and create a local opposition?

President Kennedy helped facilitate both The Manchurian Candidate and its equally controversial successor, Seven Days in May (a thriller about a right-wing attempt to overthrow a liberal president).

On Monday, the deputy defence minister, Dimitris Vitsas, insisted that while the asylum requests had to be dealt with under international law, Turkey had a strong argument for their extradition because the officers were accused of participating in an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Romero died at the beginning of a 12-year civil conflict, a leftist attempt to overthrow a repressive, military-backed government.

The definition of the word putsch, as a man as erudite as Justice Scalia knows is "a violent attempt to overthrow a government".

Yet the revolution in question is no mere change in consciousness or shift in media but the actual attempt to overthrow an existing government — and it's no dinner party but a serious war, conducted by an alternate and well-organized state with a high-tech army to rival that of the tyranny being confronted.

A widely supported popular revolution has been reduced to a smaller group of armed rebels attempting to overthrow a brutal dictator.

El Salvador's violent present has its roots in a brutal civil war that began in 1979, when Communist revolutionaries attempted to overthrow a US-sponsored military junta that had seized power.

However, Koukash says his latest action is not connected with his attempts to overthrow a points deduction – he intends to unveil his plans for that at a press conference at the AJ Bell Stadium on Wednesday – but represents an accumulation of dissatisfaction over what he believes is a lack of leadership at the heart of the game's administration.

Those who through humanitarian or altruistic reasons try to aid an anti-government group in its attempts to overthrow a corrupt, repressive or dictatorial regime should carefully consider the consequences before they embark on such a well-meaning but dangerous course of action.