Sentence examples for seized in the name of from inspiring English sources

The common people, impoverished by an exploitative and over-powerful aristocracy, viewed Kantakouzenos as a representative of the hated aristocrats and rallied behind the legitimate Palaiologos line and one by one, the cities were seized in the name of the Constantinopolitan regency.

Thus the opportunity arose for ambitious men to seize power in the name of the oppressed.

The two men were members of Mr. Mubarak's inner circle before seizing power in the name of the revolution.

The only people who truly bought into our fantasies of seizing power in the name of the proletariat, were the various arms of the security state such as MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.

First she offended their idea of property rights by making noises about seizing - in the name of the state - dozens of factories and other enterprises that had been acquired in the post-Soviet era by tycoons, Ukraine's so-called oligarchs.

It claimed to seize power in the name of the revolution, but after months of ineffectual rule, suspicions over its willingness to fully surrender power and a plan for elections that has satisfied few, the council's appeal has diminished.

The Ostend Manifesto proposed a shift in foreign policy, justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security.

So, too, is the West Bank, where land belonging to Christian Arabs – like other Palestinians – is seized by Israel in the name of security, then handed over to settlers; or Jerusalem, where Palestinians are being forced from their homes.

There is a renewed emphasis on private-property rights, accompanied by the suggestion that Democrats condemn the Supreme Court's 2005 Kelo decision, which expanded the right of eminent domain by allowing governments to seize private property in the name of economic development.

A mulatto man, by the name of McIntosh, was seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death; and all within a single hour from the time he had been a freeman, attending to his own business, and at peace with the world.

He recollects the fresh bread smells on the streets of Paris when he was a student at the same moment as he summons up the faces of fellow students from Indo-china, young revolutionaries preparing to seize power and "kill in the name of the universal beautiful ideas".