Sentence examples for be overthrown by the from inspiring English sources

He did, five times, only to be overthrown by the army on four occasions.

They united most of what is now England from the 9th to the mid-11th century, only to be overthrown by the Normans in 1066.

It is already being said that the Demo-Christians will then be overthrown by the power that elected them in 1948-the Church.

He also sees a second term as essential, they said, to ensuring that key policies like his national health care law, which could be overthrown by the Supreme Court, are not wiped from the books.

Mr Klymenko maintained that he was merely a "technocrat" in the Yanukovych government, and had not been close to the President who was to be overthrown by the Maidan protests in February last year.

Philosophers must venture into the political realm: not necessarily to rule but to defend against tyranny, to illuminate "the shadow realm of public life," where reason can too easily be overthrown by the passions.

But three months later Mr. Sharif was overthrown by the general.

Humbert Humbert, the English academic, is overthrown by the superior, carnal knowledge of the nymphet.

For the first time, a communist government was overthrown by the people.

That government borrowed, stole and squandered until it was overthrown by the soldiers again four years later.

The second time, in 1997, he was overthrown by the army and forced into exile.