Usurped from you and your progenitors.
La Tour has painted a blind musician standing -- a pose usurped from a king, or from Richelieu.
He said Washington had lost any moral authority because of the prisoners it held "in the territory usurped from our country".
Kenneth Tynan, for example, particularly loathed John Barton's famous Stratford production in 1974, in which Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco swapped the roles of king and usurper from one performance to another.
His school of Republicanism, which had its last serious national airing in the Goldwater campaign of 1964, stands for a certain idea of the Constitution — the idea that much of the power asserted by modern presidents has been usurped from Congress, and that much of the power asserted by Congress has been usurped from the states.
Tityras utter froglike sounds and nest in tree holes, which, in the case of the masked tityra, may be usurped from a toucan or woodpecker by stuffing leaves into the hole until it is abandoned by the owner.
He now aimed to set up a regime of imperial officials and captains who were to exact dues and to control jurisdiction that the communes had usurped from the failing grasp of their bishops.
No more sensible is the sudden twist of feeling that inspires Duke Frederick Andre Braugherr, expertly doubling as the good Duke Senior) to banish Rosalind from the court he has usurped from her father, despite the lifelong affection between Rosalind and his daughter, Celia (a tart, appealing Renee Elise Goldsberry).
In particular, he likes to recall Dutugemunu, a famous warrior-king of the second century BC, who defeated Elara, a Tamil usurper from India.This foolish oratorical provocation has been matched by increasing intolerance of dissent, suspicion of many Tamils and threats against those seen as Tiger "collaborators".
The topic was recently taken up by Max Saunders, but, typically, for the middle-class modernist cause, even though the definition was first used for The Poor Man's House by Stephen Reynolds in 1912 – another case of attention being usurped from working-class literary heritage.
