They didn't know that America, founded on usurpation as much as on the hopes of emigrants and philanthropic forefathers, had been stitched up from the start.
They demonstrate that the Chinese focus was on usurpation, adultery, hatred and revenge, all of which were staple themes of traditional Chinese literature and theater.
This is but establishing inequity, by law founded on usurpation.
Yet in the end, as an examination of his brief will reveal, petitioner's argument of usurpation rests on that portion of the state court's decision determining the scope of the secretary of state's discretion under a Florida statute to ignore ballots that were being counted pursuant to another statute's direction.
Yorgos Lanthimos relishes the game of historical reconstruction in a tale of usurpation that borders on a romp.
The epic tale continued as the prince protector shielded his people from the worst of the Vietnam wars, then as he held on through the dark years of usurpation and Khmer Rouge rule.
The epic tale continued as the prince protector shielded his people from the worst of the Vietnam wars, then as he held on through the dark years of usurpation and Khmer Rouge rule.
Eleanor once likened this scene to Goya's painting of Saturn devouring his son, and Patrick's wife, who knows that painting well, recalls "the gaping mouth, the staring eyes and the ragged white hair of the old god of melancholy, mad with jealousy and the fear of usurpation, as he fed on the bleeding corpse of his decapitated child".
It can be found in "Henry IV, Part 2," Act 4, Scene 5. On his deathbed, finally reconciled to his wayward son, Henry IV reflects on his usurpation of the crown from Richard II ("God knows, my son,/By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways/I met this crown an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand"), and what he did about it to bolster his throne.
"Liberty Valance," Ford's last great western and his saddest, was a crisis for the genre that turned on the usurpation of the primitive man of action's role in taming the West by the man of words, the Eastern lawyer Ransom Stoddard James Stewartt).
"It falls to us, the judiciary … to act as a check on such usurpation of power," wrote Ronald Reagan appointee Judge Ilana Rovner in April as the Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld an injunction against Sessions's sanctuary cities policy on the grounds that it assumed authority delegated to Congress alone.
