Last week, dissident army officers came close to toppling Paraguay's government (see article).
There is no sign that the government in Tehran is close to toppling.
Their protests in February and March were extremely close to toppling Saleh on their own.
Bad debts at Japan's banks amount to perhaps 30% of GDP, and several big banks look close to toppling.
Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister, has staked his political future on making Iraqis safe; with every bomb, the militants come closer to toppling him at the polls.
Sharp's guide to toppling despots has been translated into 34 languages so far and was widely circulated in Egypt last year in Arabic.
Yet experts said the British had been dismayed at what they saw as America's reluctance to commit itself fully to toppling Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
The genesis of the downturn—a financial crisis that came close to toppling Britain's banking system is one that augurs ill for a robust recovery.
And yet, after going through thousands of documents and millions in taxpayers' cash, Mr Starr seems no closer to toppling the president.
Harris, Australia's leading wicket-taker in England, said consistency was key to toppling England's big hitters at home, naming Ian Bell as the biggest threat.
But most of them are too bulky to climb mountain passes, and are prone to toppling over on Afghanistan's steep and rutty roads.
