Sentence examples for managed to overthrow from inspiring English sources

In 1618 Lerma's enemies at court finally managed to overthrow him.

A local militia here managed to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Baath Party leaders in April, shortly after the war began.

Despite efforts since 1979, the Iranians have never managed to overthrow a foreign government or start an insurgency or a civil war.

Toussaint l'Ouverture was a slave turned revolutionary who managed to overthrow French control and live, for a brief, thrilling time, in a free Haiti.

A core of protesters is bent on keeping the torch burning, reminding fellow students that the revolutionaries of 1979 endured nearly a year of repression and street skirmishes before they managed to overthrow the shah.

Britain also proved at last able to safeguard the seas around its shores, because for two centuries after 1485, in stark contrast to the preceding period, no maritime invasion managed to overthrow an English monarch.

He said: "If one of our nations manages to overthrow the monarchical system there we be a domino effect.

Many Christians express fears for their community's existence should Islamist-led rebels manage to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad.

From there on, the film explores Amstell's imagined cultural and economic battleground, where the vegan movement grows in Britain and manages to overthrow a country that's always adored its meat-and-two-veg.

Many of the tunnels are believed to have been built in the time of Prince Dmitry Donskoy, who ruled Moscow for 30 years beginning in 1359 and managed briefly to overthrow the Tatars.

As Baer tells it, he managed to get various Iraqi colonels and Kurdish leaders lined up to overthrow the Iraqi strongman, but the nervous Nellies in Washington pulled the plug at the last minute.