Sentence examples for they were overthrowing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stevens, 52, was Washington's envoy to the rebels in Libya when they were overthrowing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

When the rebels overthrew his government this year, they found it difficult to separate the names of their own revolutionary councils from the ones they were overthrowing.

They were overthrown internally, despite US support for them.

In 568 the Lombards entered Italy and lived there in an independent kingdom until they were overthrown by Charlemagne (774).

A case in point is Cambodia, where Khmer Rouge leaders are finally being tried 30 years after they were overthrown.

"Marcos, Duvalier, Suharto, Ceau¸sescu, you go through the list, that's the way they were overthrown.

The taking of the trees began with the French slave masters who ran Haiti until they were overthrown in 1804.

Tinted vote Nigeria imperatrix ReprintsA dozen African ex-presidents, whose pleas for help as they were overthrown went unheeded, must be wondering whether they had been born too soon.

Madina Musina, a 24-year-old ballroom dance instructor, said she voted for the new constitution because she favors a parliamentary system, after seeing two presidents — Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev — so anger their citizens they were overthrown.

Intelligent men might explain that wars were no longer worth fighting and borders obsolete; a sophisticated, cosmopolitan elite -- like the U.S.-educated technocrats who ran Mexico until they were overthrown in 1911 -- might move freely between continents; but the political foundations for a global economy were never properly laid, and at the first serious shock the structure collapsed.

In Iraq the Hashemites used their new oil revenues with wisdom until, in 1958, they were overthrown by a military conspiracy and most of them were murdered.