Sentence examples for usurp powers from inspiring English sources
The case against us included a letter from the central elections committee's chairman, Vladimir Churov, accusing Golos of "attempting to usurp powers of authority".
"I did not usurp power," he later wrote, "but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power".
He said that the ultimate goal of the demonstrators was to "destroy Russian statehood and usurp power".
But that list ended with a swipe at Cooper, who Berger's office accused of planning to usurp power.
Instead he spoke of a fight against "political provocations which have only one aim: to destroy Russian statehood and usurp power".
"We showed that our people can differentiate between a wish for renewal from political provocations aimed at only one thing: to destroy Russian statehood and usurp power.
After Ukrainian society rose up against this attempt to usurp power, Yanukovych reportedly favored using the Army against the peaceful protestors who flooded central Kiev.
"Am I trying to usurp power, or am I trying to bring democracy to Pakistan, that is the question," General Musharraf said today.
Also on Tuesday, the Justice Department responded that Apple, the US stock market's most valuable company, was trying to usurp power from government.
He has long argued that Congress was meant to be the dominant branch of government, as James Madison argued in Federalist 51, and that presidents have used the pretext of national security to usurp power.
General Abubakar's job would be to ensure that the army's junior officers, reluctant to give up their share of the national take, did not usurp power once more.Back to square oneAnd then?
