Sentence examples for conspired to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Several aristocratic societies conspired to overthrow the Athenian democracy.

Belgium conspired to overthrow him; so did the United States.

When he refused under severe torture to recant his religious convictions, his captors invented charges that he had conspired to overthrow the queen.

The 22 men are members of a secretive right-wing group that prosecutors say conspired to overthrow the government and replace it with a Boer republic.

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

During the secession crisis, Johnson, then a senator, insisted that secession was "treasonous" and, more important, an act of a "few men" who "conspired" to overthrow the federal government.

Now Morgan was charged with conspiring to overthrow Castro.

Such beliefs led to his execution for conspiring to overthrow the government.

A clutch of senators then conspire to overthrow Gianettino, who's a murderous schemer to boot.

(Those conspiring to overthrow government cite a conspiracy theory as their justification).

Eight years later, Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the government.