Sentence examples for bring down Communism from inspiring English sources

Ten years ago the town was a hotbed of demonstrations that helped bring down Communism.

The renowned media tycoon had outraged senior Chinese authorities a year earlier with comments about how broadcast could bring down Communism: "Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels".

Before Solidarity, Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped bring down communism, was a nonentity; a blue-collar worker in an oft-ridiculed Eastern European backwater.

Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped to bring down communism, inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globetrotting papacy and explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium.

Defenders, however, say beatification is simply the formal seal of approval for a wildly popular pope who helped bring down Communism and whom many Catholics, especially in his native Poland, already consider a saint.

But some Solidarity lawmakers argue that such changes ignore the needs of the very workers and farmers who helped the Solidarity labor movement bring down Communism a decade ago.

White, he said, "brought down John Gotti" and prosecuted the terrorists behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Bringing down Saddam, Wurmser predicts, would have the happy effect of destabilizing both Syria and Iran.

Two years later, he helped to bring down Herbert Asquith's government.

But, he said, "he was forging back then, in order to bring down Saddam".

Facebook and Twitter might have helped bring down Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt.