Sentence examples for the usurpation from inspiring English sources

The fans were still coming to terms with the usurpation of their king two weeks earlier.

Simon felt compelled to persecute the Essenes, who opposed the usurpation.

("It is the war for the rights of the working classes of mankind, as against the usurpation of privileged aristocracies").

Linzer_linzer "Oligarchy is the usurpation of power (in our case monopolization of resources) in order to please foreign patrons.

Their guardian, the London law professor John Griffiths, called the usurpation "a dissolution comparable to the dissolution of the monasteries".

The Karkota line came to a close with the usurpation of the throne by Avantivarman, who started the Utpala dynasty in 855.

Gallienus fought bitterly, concentrating his defense around Mainz and Cologne, but the usurpations in Pannonia prevented him from obtaining any lasting results.

Hellenism continued to flourish, for many Parthian kings had the epithet "Philhellene" placed on their coins, but during the last two centuries of Parthian rule Greek influences declined in favour of Iranian ones, while central authority suffered from the usurpations of powerful nobles and local kings.

One by one, the rest of the readers followed, voicing the ambitions of the colonists and the grievances against the king, and stumbling occasionally over the Latinate phrasing and ornate vocabulary of another era, all the usurpations and consanguinity and perfidy.

She could describe and debate every single up and down of Argentine history in the islands: from the British usurpation in the age of Rosas to the useless gesture of a handful of fanatics in the 1960s.

Although the Meiji government had formally abolished feudalism and declared the land to be the property of the peasants, usurpation of land by the rich and by moneylenders had created classes of perpetual tenants and absentee landlords.