Sentence examples for overthrow the democracy from inspiring English sources
In this general atmosphere of crisis, aristocrats at Athens who had long desired to overthrow the democracy there began to agitate publicly for a change of government, and formed a conspiracy to bring an oligarchy to power in Athens.
Disenchanted with Alcibiades but still determined to overthrow the democracy, Peisander and his companions returned to Samos, where the conspirators worked to secure their control over the army and encouraged a group of native Samian oligarchs to begin planning the overthrow of their own city's democracy.
In spite of the failure of the negotiations, the conspirators succeeded in overthrowing the democracy and imposing the oligarchic government of the Four Hundred, among the leaders of which were Phrynichus and Pisander.
Accordingly, a number of trierarchs and other leaders of the Athenian army at Samos began planning the overthrow of the democracy.
Several aristocratic societies conspired to overthrow the Athenian democracy.
Obviously the overthrow of democracy was not the public agenda of the EU far from it.
Rudy Avizius names the TPP the ultimate corporate takeover of the public Commons and the overthrow of democracy.
"Yet in the Southern Cone, the first place where the contemporary religion of unfettered free markets escaped from the basement workshops of the University of Chicago and was applied in the real world, it did not bring democracy; it was predicated on the overthrow of democracy in country after country.
American documentation on the overthrow of Greek democracy and the U. S. role in that tragedy has been growing for years.
Many socialists, disillusioned with what they see as the centrist drift of Mr Jospin's party, plumped for candidates such as Arlette Laguiller, an unreconstructed Trotskyite whose call for the overthrow of parliamentary democracy earned her 6.3% of the vote.
"Can it be believed that the democracy which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?" - Alexis de Tocqueville.
