Sentence examples for set out to overthrow from inspiring English sources

Punk set out to overthrow the guitar hero decades ago, seeing long solos as pointless indulgences.

The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 after Gen. Francisco Franco set out to overthrow the newly elected leftist government.

He is also a stark and eloquent defender of the Syrian revolutionaries who set out to overthrow Assad back in 2011, first through civic resistance and later taking up arms to defend themselves from the onslaught of Assad's army and torturers.

In the film, a lesbian actress named Valerie, who was killed in such a manner, serves as inspiration for the masked rebel V and his ally Evey Hammond, who set out to overthrow the dictatorship.

Like many such endeavors by young scholars, this book sets out to overthrow the dominant orthodoxy in its field, in this case interpretations put forward since the 1960's in the name of the "new labor history".

Just as Vico had started out with a critique of the Cartesian notion of certainty, so Heidegger sets out to overthrow what he takes to be the Cartesian trajectory of modern philosophical reason.

Continuing the tradition of Marcel Duchamp's readymades such as Fountain, or Bottlerack, it sets out to overthrow our traditional conceptions of what an art object should be made of and what it should look like.

In April 1961, about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and backed by the CIA set out to invade and overthrow the Fidel Castro regime.

He set out to shatter traditions and overthrow established policies that he felt had lost touch with the reality he knew as the chief executive of Alcoa, the aluminum giant.

Ariely is not out to overthrow rationality.

"They recognise that workers have legitimate grievances and are not rabble-rousers out to overthrow the government".