Citigroup analyst Keith F. Walsh said that during Cherkasky's three-year tenure its Marsh brokerage unit, its core business, underperformed on sales, margins, and share price, allowing its competitor Aon to usurp its position as the world's largest insurance broker.
Her own words are inserted as commentary, question, counterpoint, breaking open the Freudian text, usurping its privileges, revealing its wounds.
Consequently, "Hachette has allowed Amazon to utterly usurp its relationship with its customers," writes Doctorow.
Each partner fears that the other will try to usurp its proprietary advantage.
The GTi was quickly able to usurp its predecessor, taking second at Imola.
In the name of deference to Congress, Roberts usurped its prerogatives.
"McCain has usurped his position," said Patrick Eason, a retired teacher from Tacoma.
Cameron, meanwhile, made some progress in shedding his reputation as an amiable lightweight, but he failed to land any really telling blows on Clegg, who has usurped his position as the candidate of change.
The manner in which Graeme Swann has usurped his position as England's leading spinner will have reminded Panesar of the need to develop his game both technically – adapting to the pace of a pitch being the most pressing issue – and mentally, where he must be more than a serf to the captain's lord of the manor.
Bewildered by his own existence, by his tormented relationship with a corporate schmuck (Jude Law) who is trying to usurp his position as head of the open space coalition, by a series of coincidences involving a tall Sudanese refugee, and by the fact that he does not have a girlfriend, Schwartzman hires a pair of "existential detectives" to follow him around and discover what is wrong with him.
I would have liked to have heard about the way he became such an aggressive golfer — we know from "Arnie" that he listened to what his father, Deacon, told him, and there is a clip of the elder Palmer instructing his son about his grip — as well as more insight into what how it felt to upend the golf world, and if he struggled emotionally when Nicklaus usurped his position.
