Less, certainly, in that he did not advocate the overthrow of the power structure that he confronted.
Having come to the United States for medical treatment — he suffers from diabetes and heart problems — he stayed on after a Turkish prosecutor accused him of urging the overthrow of secular power.
Whether or not the forays of Mongol horsemen into plague regions of Burma and Yunnan resulted in the transfer of bubonic infection to their native steppe lands at the end of the 13th century, a second by-product of their restless pursuit of military efficiency certainly did contribute in the long run to the overthrow of steppe power.
During his 42 years in power, following the overthrow of King Idris in 1969, Gaddafi sought to be all things to all men, thereby negating the need for any other man at all.
It is a layered story: In the center is the tale of Makandal, a slave who escapes a Haitian plantation, hides out in the hills, leads a group of revolutionaries plotting an overthrow of colonial powers and is captured and burned alive at the stake in the public square in Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien
One basic question that has run through the Democratic primary content, between Clinton and Sanders, and now through the general-election season, is whether young voters want to overthrow the systems of power in this country or join them.
Mr. Liu was detained in December 2008, after co-writing the Charter 08 call for human rights and reform, and is currently serving an 11-year sentence for the crime of "incitement to the overthrow of the state power and socialist system and the people's democratic dictatorship".
Updated at 10.46am GMT 10.36am GMT President Putin says that what happened in Ukraine was "an unconstitutional overthrow and armed seizure of power" that went unchallenged.
Madagascar's main international partners continue to reject the legitimacy of Mr Ravalomanana's overthrow and the assumption of power by the Haute Autorité pour la Transition (HAT), led by Andry Rajoelina, the former mayor of the capital, Antananarivo.
As David Fromkin writes, in "In the Time of the Americans," "FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and their contemporaries turned back three attempts to overthrow the European balance of power: two by Germany, and one by Russia.
