Sentence examples for be toppled in a from inspiring English sources

On Oct. 1, Mr. Zhou made a public appearance at the China University of Petroleum, dampening speculation that he would soon be toppled in a corruption inquiry.

Mr. Aristide, then a Roman Catholic priest, became Haiti's first democratically elected president in a 1990 vote, only to be toppled in a military coup the following year.

And the former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, an ethnic Indian who won power in democratic elections only to be toppled in a racially motivated coup last May, called for President Iloilo to dissolve his administration and stage new elections.

Osborne, popular with neither the City nor the voters, is the No 1 target, though there are young Tory ideologues – the kind who blog and Twitter as if it were real life – who believe that Cameron himself will be toppled in a year or so, even if he wins.

The backdrop for this Utopian fantasy is seething Tehran, as the government of the nationalist and left-leaning Mohammed Mossadeq is about to be toppled in a military coup.

Some U.S. allies in the region worry that Assad could be toppled in an Alawite-led coup designed to preserve those political and economic privileges, resulting in neither meaningful change nor peace.

The former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who had been jailed since he was toppled in a coup a year ago, and 17 of his relatives flew to a luxurious exile in Saudi Arabia as guests of the Saudi royal family.

The Seychelles became independent in 1976, and were ruled by President James Mancham until, less than a year later, he was toppled in a coup, and followed by his Vice-President, France Albert Rene.

He was president from 2008 to 2012, succeeding a 30-year dictatorship, but was toppled in a coup.

One Prime Minister was sent to the gallows after being toppled in a coup.

Brazil's leftist president, João Goulart, was toppled in a coup in April 1964.