Amid warnings from Netanyahu to his supporters that he risks being voted out as prime minister – and his claims of the existence of a well-funded conspiracy involving Israeli leftists and foreign governments to depose him – Likud has spent the past few days targeting those intending to vote for the rival right-wing parties.
(One of the major figures who urged him to listen to the mining and business lobby and jettison that promise was the deputy who would later depose him).
He yearned for popular approval, even announcing that he met his second wife, a commoner, at Café Riche.The hapless king might also have met the man there who would eventually depose him.
Second, France announced plans to depose the Spanish government, and the expectation that Spain would default caused further contagion.
(Though that followed the failed "Bay of Pigs" effort in 1961 to depose Fidel Castro).The chivalrous spies represent another non-military means: were they to whisk Saddam away and were Iraq to submit to thorough UN arms inspections, Mr Bush would not need to contemplate a pre-emptive invasion, which would require, some generals say, up to 200,000 troops.
(The ongoing mayhem has already boosted Mr Brown's ratings though in the end it may help to wreck Labour, by forestalling a move to depose the prime minister and ensuring that he stays in office to lead his party to defeat).
This was too blatant even for the many Ecuadoreans who had been happy enough to see Congress depose Mr Bucaram and put in his place its own speaker, Fabian Alarcon.
Now the party wolves are scenting blood and may go in for the kill.Before the DS grandees move to depose their party leader, they will try to secure the government.
But if they really want to depose Mr Bush, either the Democrats or Dr Dean will have to change course and fast.
Some have aimed to depose or punish a foreign country's ruler, appropriate its assets or sway its politics: witness, most recently, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Some of his Labour colleagues started plotting to depose him; to defend himself, Mr Brown swallowed his pride and set out to show the doubters that he could feel the voters' pain while blaming it on somebody else.It didn't work: Labour continued to lose elections, and the plots intensified.
