Sentence examples for goal of overthrowing from inspiring English sources

With American aid and fidelity, and an unashamed U.S. goal of overthrowing Saddam, the opposition can regroup.

He insists they have set up "a parallel state" with the goal of overthrowing his Justice and Development (AK) party government.

Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Pashtun tribesman educated at religious schools, began to train militants in North Waziristan, Pakistan, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing Mohammad Daoud Khan, a former Afghani Prime Minister who seized power in a 1973 coup.

Many people in Southern Kordofan, as well as nearby Blue Nile State — both part of the north, but bordering the south — fought alongside the south during the civil war, with the goal of overthrowing the government, not becoming independent.

The queen's actions angered many of Hawaii's white businessmen, who formed a 13-member Committee of Safety with the goal of overthrowing the monarchy and seeking annexation by the United States.

The defector, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, told American officials that Mr. bin Laden had taken aim at the United States and other Western governments, broadening his initial goal of overthrowing Saudi Arabia and other "infidel" Middle Eastern governments.

As a senior Iranian official asked us earlier this year, "If America wants to make a deal with the Taliban, why did it invade Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban in the first place?" Following 9/11, Iran worked with the United States on the short-term project of overthrowing the Taliban--with a long-term goal of prompting Washington to reconsider its hostile posture toward the Islamic Republic.

We had no intention of overthrowing him.

By contrast, Soviet communism grew out of a revolutionary theory of society, pursued the goal of revolutionary overthrow of capitalist systems internationally, and employed the complex bureaucratic structures of the Communist Party as mechanisms of governmental organization.

At the core of the difference in strategy are these questions: Are the increasing sanctions likely to harden Iran's position and convince its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that the president's real goal is overthrowing the current government?

But Salafi-jihadi fighters are the ones who dominate the Syrian battlefield and are the most capable of defeating Isis: their goal also remains overthrowing Assad.