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"If we were to take the early dating [as fact] then it overthrows Islamic history as it is understood," Professor Thomas said.

The film and the system sit like a coffin lid atop the ambitions of youth, and the youth of French cinema will never come to life until it overthrows the model of which Assayas's movie is exemplary.

Which would hold out longer, before it overthrew its government and ended the war?

Bulgarians recoiled at the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia and the violence that convulsed Romania when it overthrew its dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.

Also, the dominant political party in India when it overthrew its colonial overlord "was probably the most multiethnic, inclusive and democratically minded political party to fight for independence in any 20th-century colony — the Indian National Congress," said Diamond.

France did indeed scandalously arm the killers; the Habyarimana regime was one of its clients, and it did not want to see it overthrown by the RPF.

In the great killing of Protestants in 1572, the Paris mob outran its rulers; in 1789, far more radical than the countryside, it overthrew them; it was crushed only by ruthless force in 1848 and 1871.

Why would those justices, as Kagan put it, "overthrow a decision entrenched in this Nation's law and its economic life for over 40 years"?

A remarkably diverse coalition at first, it overthrew a cruel dictator.

It overthrew the traditional assumption of most economists that savings were automatically invested.

"Virtually every major successful revolution ended by creating a state more powerful than the one it overthrew," Scott writes.