Sentence examples for usurpation in from inspiring English sources

This was the first such usurpation in Chinese history.

In 867 Patriarch Photius accused Pope Nicholas I of usurpation in Bulgaria, but a reconciliation took place with Nicholas' successor, John VIII, in 879 880.

She could describe and debate every single up and down of Argentine history in the islands: from the British usurpation in the age of Rosas to the useless gesture of a handful of fanatics in the 1960s.

Mr. Slinger emerges fully breathless at the start, as if consumed to breaking point and beyond by a need to chronicle for his only child the usurpation in Milan that has caused him to raise the storm that opens the play.

For Legalists, in contrast, this very idea proved that the pro-ministerial discourse of their rivals was usurpation in disguise.

Despite this grave danger, or perhaps because of it, the Roman army continued to be wracked by usurpation, in one of which Stilicho, Rome's foremost defender of the period, was put to death.

The so-called Crisis of the Third Century describes the turmoil of murder, usurpation and in-fighting that followed the murder of the Emperor Alexander Severus in 235 AD.

Gallienus fought bitterly, concentrating his defense around Mainz and Cologne, but the usurpations in Pannonia prevented him from obtaining any lasting results.

It's increasingly obvious, after Obama's budget compromises, after crackdowns in Egypt and Bahrain, after the recent usurpations in Greece and Italy, that only direct action on a mass scale now offers any prospect of an alternative to local variations on market-imposed plutocracy.

Restrictions on travel suffered under the British were part of the list of "injuries and usurpations" in the Declaration of Independence.

Neighbors responded by attacking the novel crabs in nine cases (but never attacked when the original crab was removed and replaced), suggesting that usurpation does in fact force neighboring crabs to expend energy and risk injury to defend their turf.