Sentence examples for usurpation for from inspiring English sources

He even borrowed seven lines of her story "Usurpation" for his novella "Westward the Course of Empire".

Julian, however, was a magnificent success, a fact that aroused Constantius' jealousy and led to Julian's usurpation; for the latter was proclaimed Augustus, in spite of Constantius' opposition, at Lutetia in 361.

He viewed it as a judicial "usurpation" for the Supreme Court to assume the role of a third chamber in these cases.

In 1978 a St Albans linen merchant, Denis Pamphilon, was fined £100 daily for usurpation of the banner on decorative bedspreads until he desisted, and both Rangers F.C. and the Scottish National Party have been admonished by the Court of the Lord Lyon for their improper and non-authorised use of the banner.

His sudden death opened the way for Spanish usurpation of the Neapolitan throne.

The question is whether Republicans will heed his warning against "a dangerous precedent for executive usurpation of Congress's historically and constitutionally based powers".

The FAA's Office of Inspector General needs to investigate the agency's role in this episode, and police officials in St . Louis Countymust be held accountable for their usurpation of constitutional protections.

This usurpation of rights intended for people by "corporate persons" has led to laws supporting unlimited growth - the sole corporate value of profit - at the expense of quality of life, strong communities, and the future of the planet (from a human perspective) through climate destabilization.

He called the impeachment process, which Ms. Rousseff claimed was an illegitimate usurpation of power, "an example for the world".

This photo gave him the idea for the psychological usurpation of identity that is the theme of "Persona," which he shot in less than three months over the summer of 1965.

With every flawed election that is allowed to pass, every uncontested arrest of an opposition figure and every usurpation of wealth, those who stand for freedom become more impatient with Western dithering.