Sentence examples for overthrow of existing from inspiring English sources

For example, there are episodes in the history of science in which more opportunity for future work is provided by the overthrow of existing theory.

Bad luck is still a possibility for the U.S. president, in case the situation in the Arab region deteriorates into fragmentation, partition, civil wars and vacuum in the wake of the overthrow of existing regimes -- then no one will escape being held to account.

Zawahiri envisioned not merely the removal of the head of state but a complete overthrow of the existing order.

A revolution is a forcible overthrow of an existing order, whereas a movement is a group of people with a common ideology getting together to achieve a goal.

A party committed to the total overthrow of the existing political and economic order necessarily follows different rules to any other (although attendees at Labour conferences may find some methods familiar).

In this work she agreed with Lenin in advocating the overthrow of the existing regime and the formation of a new International strong enough to prevent a renewed outbreak of mass slaughter.

The indictment charged that Vang Pao led a conspiracy aimed at "the overthrow of the existing government of Laos by violent means, including murder, assaults on both military and civilian officials of Laos and destruction of buildings and property" in the Laotian capital.

He tells us that money can't buy you love – which I already knew – and that only the complete overthrow of the existing system and embrace of mysticism can take us from "the shallow pool of the known" to the "great untamable ocean" beyond.

Bakunin was as uncompromising a revolutionary as Marx and never ceased to preach the overthrow of the existing order by violent means, but he rejected political control, centralization, and subordination to authority (while making an unconscious exception of his own authority within the movement).

In The Communist Manifesto (1848), which he wrote with his colleague and friend Friedrich Engels (1820 95), Marx yielded to the revolutionary temper of the times by calling for the violent overthrow of the existing social order (as Rousseau had done before the French Revolution).

Mosca, Pareto, and Michels all agreed that the overthrow of the existing "political class" would simply result in its replacement by another, a view that was supported in the mid-20th century by Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas (1911 95) in his The New Class (1957).