Sentence examples for overthrow against from inspiring English sources

Ancient Greece is a story of distinctive states and eminent leaders, such as Alexander the Great, whose triumphs against the Persian empire in the 4th century bce illustrate the success of strategies of overthrow against centralized states unable to recuperate from a severe setback.

With tens of thousands of people remaining in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, many people say they would rather risk death than surrender to a government they have been trying to overthrow since protests against Assad began in 2011.

As a United States Senator, Ms. Clinton voted to authorize President Bush's gratuitous war against Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, who was a virtual cost-free Chinese wall against Iranian regional hegemony.

A spokesman for Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, expressed concern about a nine-year jail term that Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a prominent human rights lawyer, began serving on Saturday for "membership in an association seeking to overthrow the government and propaganda against the system".

As Secretary of State in 2011, Ms. Clinton vocally supported the war against Libya to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi on the heels of his abandonment of weapons of mass destruction.

That expectation dissolved as Russians carried out attacks against those working to overthrow the regime.

Sanders said his remarks in the interview involved speaking out against U.S. attempts to overthrow democratically elected governments in Latin America.

Government officials called the Qusair campaign a "strategic turning point" in the war against rebels trying to overthrow Assad.

Aerial supremacy has been a major advantage for the regime against insurgents seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

While Cuba justifies all this as self-defence against repeated American attempts to overthrow the Castro regime, in fact it is aimed at enforcing political conformity, argues Human Rights Watch.

It would be morally wrong and hypocritical if Iraqi leaders, who were so long oppressed by Saddam Hussein, kept working against Syrians as they struggle to overthrow their tyrant.