Sentence examples for impeachment from from inspiring English sources

The book, which is being excerpted this week in The Post, covers the impeachment from inside the congressional process.

That possibility seemed all but ended last week when the Assembly speaker, Jack Collins, also a Republican, rejected an earlier plea for impeachment from the Senate committee.

The American colonies imported the idea of impeachment from England, where Edmund Burke called it the "great guardian of the purity of the Constitution".

Indeed, unexpected threats of impeachment from backbench congressmen led the general to postpone his change of job, planned for this January, to March 10th, the very last day possible.

Musharraf, a four-star general who became chief executive of Pakistan in a military coup in 1999 before ascending to the presidency in 2001, resigned in 2008 when he was facing threat of impeachment from opposition parties.

And in recent days, prominent Democrats like Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, have urged the White House to seriously consider such a route, even if it might provoke a threat of impeachment from House Republicans and ultimately require the Supreme Court to rule on its legitimacy.

The committee threw out the complaint on Wednesday, shielding Mrs. Arroyo from impeachment for the next 12 months.

Senator James Inhofe announced that "people may be starting to use the i-word before too long," having apparently missed all the prior calls for the president's impeachment for everything from failure to balance the budget to gun control.

The second lesson of the Clinton impeachment comes from the strategy adopted by his legal team.

By far the most valuable lessons about impeachment come from Richard Nixon.

So it's easy to forget that, in fact, his impeachment arose from charges of nonconsensual sexual behavior.