Sentence examples for usurped control from inspiring English sources

The predictable clambake was made worse when Mr. Thomas, in an effort to keep everyone amused (or keep himself at the center of things), usurped control over the proceedings, now hushing the parquet to allow the sounds from the balcony through, now running around the hall like Jerry Springer with a stick, to encourage (and comically overconduct) the riffings of individual audience members.

The iPhone usurped control from desktop platforms like Windows, as well as from carriers, which used to control the wireless network 'platform' upon which mobile phones depended.

His complaint is about the way dialectic has usurped control of the arts course, the trivium, allowing scant attention to grammar and rhetoric.

"She also rewrote the prose so drastically that Laura sometimes felt usurped".

Most of those lands were eventually usurped for European farming and their inhabitants dispersed.

A smaller part of the government and party usurped power and put Zhao under house arrest.

Mr. Kostunica and his staff also bridled at another Djindjic announcement that usurped federal presidential powers.

Bessus was now in Bactria raising a national revolt in the eastern satrapies with the usurped title of Great King.

With the passage of time, these usurped legislative trappings lent the appearance of legitimacy to their rule.

Richard II is brilliant, usurped and tragic, thanks to Shakespeare, yet Isabelle de Valois hardly makes a mark.

The program, which only briefly downloads the pornographic material to the usurped computer, is invisible to the computer's owner.