Sentence examples for overthrow the royal from inspiring English sources
Saudi Arabia and its allies could invade Qatar and overthrow the royal family.
It has vowed to "purge the holy shrines in Mecca" and overthrow the royal Saudi family, which belongs to the dominant Sunni branch of Islam.
In another comic Doctor Doom, the dictator of a fictional European country, invades Wakanda to overthrow the royal family and to secure Wakanda's main resource, a fictional metal known as vibranium.
Prince Turki bin Faisal, who recently stepped down as chief of intelligence for Saudi Arabia, said he saw the change in Mullah Omar over the course of a few months in 1998, when he twice visited Kandahar, the mullah's southern stronghold, to try to persuade the Taliban to extradite Mr. bin Laden to Saudi Arabia for trial on charges of advocating the overthrow of the royal family.
"We are not calling for the overthrow of the royal family.
The al-Qaeda leader sought to convince him to become the spiritual leader of a movement to overthrow the Saud royal family, "like Khomeini," he said, referring to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Indeed, President Hussein responded defiantly to his increasing economic isolation and military vulnerability, calling on Arabs everywhere to rise up in a holy war, overthrow the Saudi royal family and drive Western powers out of the region.
When Chalabi was thirteen, the Iraqi Communist Party and the Army overthrew the royal family, and he was sent to Jordan for safety.
Monarchies have been a popular target for overthrow, particularly when the royal rulers are out to line their own pockets or are just simply out of touch with their subjects.
In interviews, security officials in Saudi Arabia said that Mejjati was dispatched from Afghanistan by top al Qaeda leaders in 2002 to help recruit and train a network of cells dedicated to overthrowing the Saudi royal family.
Overthrowing the ruling royal family in Saudi Arabia and purging the country of the several thousand American troops stationed there has long been one of Mr. bin Laden's stated goals.
