Sentence examples for they were overthrown from inspiring English sources

They were overthrown internally, despite US support for them.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

And if and when they are overthrown by democratic protests, their successors are more likely to pursue anti-Russian policies look at Mikhail Saakashvili in Georgia.

Four governments were overthrown.

Dynasties can be loved only after they have been overthrown, but they add zest and danger and seriousness of purpose to each day during which they remain in power".