Sentence examples for saw overthrown from inspiring English sources

Hay despised President Jackson and Jacksonian democracy, which he deemed corrupt and responsible for the continuation of the slave system that Hay saw overthrown at huge cost in the American Civil War.

Operation Barracuda saw Bokassa overthrown and former President David Dacko installed in his place.

SIX months after the "tulip revolution" that saw the overthrow of President Askar Akaev, Kirgizstan is still beset by political instability.

The crowd cheered.The revolution which last week saw the overthrow of Mr Yanukovych, a corrupt, cowardly and thuggish president, has not yet been given a name.

In July 1943 Rome saw the overthrow and arrest of Mussolini, and statues of the dictator were torn down all over the city.

The first phase of the war on terror saw the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the escape of the leaders of Al Qaeda.

I was in Somalia during the Afghanistan war, and even Westernoriented Muslims there saw the overthrow of the Taliban as the start of a war against Islam.

The second French revolution, known as Les Trois Glorieuses, saw the overthrow of King Charles X, only to be replaced by another monarch, Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

After being dismissed as coach of the United States national team, Bradley landed in Egypt in September 2011 and was witness to that country's turbulent Arab Spring that saw the overthrow of a government and civil unrest.

"I said that a few weeks ago we almost saw the overthrow of an Afghan constitutional order that Iran and the U.S. had worked together to put in place.

Pinochet and his inner circle saw the overthrow of Allende as not just an opportunity to impose stability, but a chance to remove what they been taught was a cancer at the core of society: Marxism.