Sentence examples for power overthrow from inspiring English sources

Once an inspiration to emerging democracies for its "people power" overthrow of the American-backed autocrat Ferdinand E. Marcos, the Philippines has suffered from poor governance in the past decade.

The Mamlūk mercenaries to whom he had given extensive power overthrew his dynasty in 1250.

Two years after his homecoming, nationalist army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power, overthrowing the British-backed monarchy.

It was the name they chose to keep when, using the southern city of Kandahar as a base, they fought their way to power, overthrowing the weak government there in 1996.

It declared that the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice of the SCC would assume presidential powers, overthrowing Mr Morsi.

But they lack the power to overthrow Mr. Assad.

But most of us don't hold the power to overthrow systems that don't work.

But he paid a price for prosecuting officials who still had the power to overthrow him.

"He awakened at the moment when a motivated coalition had the power to overthrow Mobutu," Mr. Booker said.

He was convicted of "spreading rumors or slander or any other means to subvert the state power or overthrow the socialist system".

Encouraged by the United States and others, they had (among other "crimes") organised a petition calling for more freedoms, and were found guilty of "conspiring with a foreign power to overthrow the government".