Sentence examples for overthrow the king from inspiring English sources

It was penalized, in 1948, for opposing King Farouk, not Gamal Abdel Nasser, who took power after helping to overthrow the king in 1952.

Despite its failure to overthrow the king, the rebellion firmly established the dominance of the Roman Catholic gentry over the monarch in the Polish political system.

Those rejecting it, including a radical Islamist group which aims to overthrow the king and install a caliph, had the chance to make their cases on public radio and television.

After naming Absalon, the bishop of Roskilde and Valdemar's chief adviser, his successor (1177), Eskil was soon forced into exile in France when his relatives plotted to overthrow the king.

"Engage people in a conversation in the cafe or at the falafel stall, and opinion is the same, 'Yes there is a desire for constitutional reform, but no, we do not want to overthrow the king.

Intended by Hergé as criticism of Nazi Germany, the story sees Tintin help thwart a plot to overthrow the king of a fictional central European country which is threatened by an aggressive neighbour.

Eventually they discovered their birth right and overthrew the king to take the throne for themselves.

Fersen played no part in the 1809 revolution that overthrew the king, but he supported the candidacy of the king's son against that of the popular Christian August of Augustenburg.

When the Free Officers overthrew the king in 1952, his family lost all their land in the Delta; he remained in exile in Europe until the seventies, when Sadat made peace with the old wealthy families and invited them back.

There was much to gossip about: London's great plague, the great fire, the Dutch navy sailing up the Thames, and a revolution which had overthrown the king.

Tjioeng Wanara returns to Galuh and overthrows the king, arresting Aria Kebonan and Dewi Pangrenjep; Aria Banga, however, is able to escape and establish the kingdom of Majapahit.