Sentence examples for bid to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Santiago is also where, on July 26 , 1953 Fidel formally initiated his bid to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, who had seized power in a military coup the previous year.

In their bid to overthrow Mr Perry in 2002, the Democrats may well choose a Latino nominee: Henry Cisneros, a former boss of the Housing and Urban Development department, and Tony Sanchez, a millionaire oilman, are both possibilities.

Wu Chuanzhen, 53, a farmer who tends eight greenhouses of jasmine on the outskirts of the city, said other growers had insisted that adherents of Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement deemed an "evil cult" by the authorities, might use the flowers in their bid to overthrow the governing Communist Party.

When Mr. Bragman initiated his bid to overthrow Mr. Silver, among the first to rally around the speaker, privately and publicly, were some of the most influential black Assembly members, including Clarence Norman Jr., Albert Vann and Roger L. Green of Brooklyn; and Mr. Wright and Mr. Farrell of Manhattan.

Jaffar Deghayes, 17, is believed to have died at the weekend after leaving home for Syria in a bid to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad's government.

Protestors claim they intend to surround a number of government ministries in a bid to overthrow the Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.

"We want to be seen as an opposition force and not as a resistance movement, and to work from within the system rather than seek to overthrow it".In this section Bouteflika's bid for concord Buck passing Diamond king A gentler Middle Eastern Islam?

A coup attempt has been launched in Burundi to try to overthrow President Pierre Nkurunziza, amid unrest over his bid to be re-elected to a third term.

His bid for power never recovered from extraordinary allegations in December that he was plotting to overthrow the government, which resulted in the resignation of his top campaign official.

The Fidesz campaign also focused its vitriol on 86-year-old Hungarian-American George Soros, with Orbán constantly accusing the Jewish billionaire of trying to overthrow the government by employing thousands of agents to do his bidding.

They did not want to overthrow it.