Sentence examples for best to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Last time Mr Ortega was in power, after his Sandinista movement toppled the American-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, the United States did its best to overthrow him through the contra guerrillas.

He felt the height of the psychedelic counter-cultural revolution was the ideal time to release The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, an album that seemed to make a stand for everything said revolution was doing its best to overthrow.

Vulso met them as they approached the camp and addressed them as Polybius writes: "Not only had Moagĕtes shown himself the most determined enemy of Rome, of all the princes in Asia, but had done his very best to overthrow their empire, and deserved punishment rather than friendship".

"Free and fair elections are the best means to overthrow Milosevic".

"This wasn't the best way to overthrow a regime like that," said Adji Souley, a sociology professor in Niamey.

Democrats point out that President Bush was best placed to overthrow Mr. Hussein at the end of the Persian Gulf war, but decided that the risks of occupying Baghdad were too great.

And if you think your average party member gives a monkey's about whether it's men or women at the top, give over, they just want the bloke, sorry, person, who's best qualified to overthrow the neoliberal capitalist elite.

I think that these tools can have the effect of democratizing and leveling certain social spaces, but they are not the best tools to overthrow dictatorships.

The People's Mujahedeen has long been the best-organized political and military operation fighting to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Defending the Obama Administration's decision to provide military assistance to the Libyan rebels seeking to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi, Clinton described it as "smart power at its best".

They did not want to overthrow it.