Sentence examples for so as to overthrow from inspiring English sources

And 35 fans of Besiktas, an Istanbul football team, were indicted for trying to attract the foreign media to the Gezi protests so as to overthrow the government.

Pyle's doubleness extends into the chambers of the heart: when he, too, falls for Phuong, and sets out not so much to steal her as to overthrow, and replace, the Englishman who has dared to colonize her, is the quiet American truly smitten, or is she a useful entrée into Saigon ways?

The release of the man they fought so hard to overthrow is perceived as a huge setback to the uprising.

Boudicca, Boudica, Boadicea – the woman was as difficult to overthrow as her name is to spell.

Government opponents used Tahrir and Benghazi as fulcrums to overthrow the leaders of those two countries, so the disappearance of Syrian security forces could provide the opportunity to seed similar beachheads there.

Lucas said his adrenaline and his shock that Testaverde had been knocked out so quickly led him to overthrow balls.

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.

Not all Jews expected God to send a son of David as messiah to overthrow the Romans, though some did.

Thus, there is no one tyrant that Americans can first hate and then finally overthrow so as to end senseless wars and economic injustices.

Just as the impressionists overthrew the salon and put artists back at the centre of the art world, so someone out there needs to overthrow the Tate empire.

"I'll tend not to overthrow as much, use my off-speed pitches and locate my fastball.