Sentence examples for been overthrown by a from inspiring English sources

Our C.E.O. has been overthrown by a revolutionary contingent of rats, and all operations are suspended until further notice.

The new Chinese government, the "Fourth Assemblage of Military Talent" (the Qing Dynasty having been overthrown by a military coup during the war) orders a new offensive against the Muslim lines in Gansu.

The Libyan revolution of 2011 was always something of a phoney, not in the sense that Gaddafi was popular, but in the pretence that he had been overthrown by an armed opposition of Libyans and with NATO only playing a subsidiary role"  .

There were sporadic hunger riots and violent disturbances in several of the states, but the signal for a concerted uprising did not come until early in 1848 with the exciting news that the regime of the bourgeois king Louis-Philippe had been overthrown by an insurrection in Paris (February 22 24).

Within months he was overthrown by a military coup.

He was overthrown by a popular uprising led & organized by the Sandinist National Liberation Front.

He had lived in Martinique since his country was overthrown by a military coup.

He was overthrown by a 1983 military coup that was followed by a United States invasion.

Within a few days, however, his Cabinet was overthrown by a coup led by the national hero Józef Piłsudski.

James was overthrown by a genuinely revolutionary combination of violent popular uprisings in England and an Anglo-Dutch military invasion.

"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup," reads a CIA document from October 1970.