Later, the party's upper echelons did their best to remove him from power.
But the diplomatic to-and-fro makes him unlikely to use them, which is what you wanted, no?" "Well, the ultimate goal is to remove him from power..."....
"At a minimum," Mr. Ammerman said, "we should be providing weapons to the Libyan people who are trying to remove him from power".
The Russians did not even have to physically remove him from power; their destruction of his country's infrastructure and military capability will see to that.
Russia, which has said it has suspended weapons sales to Syria, remains Mr. Assad's staunchest defender, blocking international efforts to remove him from power.
We still think it would have been riskier to carry on containing Saddam, a policy by then both counter-productive and weakening, than to remove him from power.
Tea party members, meanwhile, have been pressing him to prove his conservative bona fides, and some of them even tried to remove him from power earlier this year.
He made that clear again at a campaign rally on Friday, when he told his audience that only God could remove him from power.
Despite those setbacks, Qaddafi appeared to remain firmly in control in Tripoli, stating publicly that he would resist any attempt to remove him from power.
Mr. Taylor fled Liberia as a rebel insurgency tried to remove him from power in 2003, taking refuge in Nigeria after Mr. Obasanjo brokered a peace agreement.
Using what Çağaptay calls an "authoritarian underdog strategy", Erdoğan portrays his crackdowns on the opposition as legitimate responses to threats to remove him from power.
