Sentence examples for toppled only from inspiring English sources

The shah was toppled only months after the then President Jimmy Carter described Iran as "an island of stability" in a volatile region.

What if the Assad regime can be toppled only by Islamists driven by sectarian hate rather than dreams of Jeffersonian democracy?

It was not until later that I realized that the trees, held to the last by their root systems, toppled only gradually, and because they were forced down so slowly their crowns, which were entangled with each other, did not shatter, but remained virtually undamaged.

Inevitably accompanied by a narrative of post-Ceausescu optimism, the reviled ruler having been toppled only six months previously, Romania stepped out of the shadows at Italia 90, reaching the knockout stages for the first time, where they dominated but were unable to break down Jack Charlton's Republic of Ireland at their most obdurately Charlton-esque, losing on penalties.

On the whole, though, he is a benevolent and broad-minded revolutionary, urging a hundred flowers to bloom, toppling only the outmoded and corrupt institutions.

And of the government that he had tried to topple only last year, he now said, "It's my father, my brother".

Mr. bin Laden may have thought that by toppling only the top floors of the towers, the United States would do no more than "lob one or two Tomahawks at him," Professor Ajami said.

Although the 3-centimeter-tall wave would topple only a tiny model ocean liner, the observation lends credence to the idea that a simplified theory of water waves can explain freak waves, which have been blamed for sinking real ships.

The National Review's Stanley Kurtz went even further, warning that the multilateral, U.N.-sanctioned nature of the intervention would send a dangerous signal to America's would-be adversaries: So Qaddafi has been toppled, but only after a notably weak and unnecessarily prolonged campaign.

Naturally, the child toppled over only to be caught just in time by a young woman, quite likely the mother, by the ankles, leaving the little one suspended upside down while the camera continued to roll and the audience shrieked with amusement.

But since the uprising that toppled the only man allowed to be famous in the country - Col Muammar Gaddafi - Libyans are leaving nothing to chance.