Sentence examples for fight to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Six of the national team lost their lives in the fight to overthrow Ceausescu.

"We lived four years of siege and continued to fight to overthrow tyranny," he added.

But they want a fight to overthrow Assad's "tyranny" – which is not quite the declared goal of Washington's Isis strategy.

When Chōshū warriors led the fight to overthrow the Tokugawa in 1867, they did so under the banner of restoring power to the emperor.

Mr. Orban was a leader of Hungary's fight to overthrow Communism and was first elected prime minister in 1998, riding a wave of Hungarian nationalism.

Meanwhile, Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, thanked Castro for his help and support in the fight to overthrow apartheid.

Facundo's eldest son, Emilio, fought to overthrow the Spanish, thus inaugurating the firm's long tradition of promoting revolutionary and progressive politics.

Al-Shabaab has fought to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu since 2007, but turned its sights on Kenya when the army was sent into Somalia in 2011 to fight the Islamic insurgents.

Tehran University's outspoken professor, Sadegh Zibakalam, was asked recently in a heated debate on national radio why he fought to overthrow the Shah and endured two-year jail sentence.

The files would also potentially link the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador to the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which the United States says is a terrorist group and has fought to overthrow Colombia's government for four decades.

Ordinary Libyans fought to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi while Nato's air campaign, driven by Britain and France while Obama "led from behind", was coordinated with Arab Gulf allies who backed rival rebel groups.