The government was overthrown.

The Czar was overthrown.

Gaddafi, a half crazy dictator, was overthrown.

The French monarchy seemed invincible, however, it was overthrown.

Milosevic was overthrown in the hope of ending Serbia s isolation.

His regime was overthrown by another military coup in 1985.

Few people believe that the system is rotten and must be overthrown.

Kyrgyzstan has had four presidents during that period, two of them overthrown in street protests.

Is France s Republican Monarchy, to borrow a phrase from Jean François Revel, about to be overthrown?

The question Georgians have been asking ever since is whether Shevardnadze was really overthrown at all.

Chávez has strong support among the poor, who reacted with fury when he was overthrown two years ago.

Before our eyes, the post Soviet international system in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia is being overthrown.

Obote had been ousted from power by Idi Amin (1971 79), but regained power after Amin himself was overthrown.

The great challenge is to increase equality, and for this the State, which globalization claims to have overthrown, is vital.

NEW DELHI In just one decade, the United States has intervened militarily in three Muslim majority countries and overthrown their governments.

The NTC has preserved much of the institutional paralysis and knee jerk behavior typical of Colonel Muammar al Qaddafi s overthrown regime.

When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.

Tyranny won t be overthrown by those who sacrificed but by people who are driven by moral power to collectively make change.

In the case of the resolution on military intervention in Libya, the BRICS decided to let Col. Muammar el Qaddafi be overthrown.

A human rights activist may want to see an oppressive regime overthrown, may believe that this is the only long term solution.

The monarchy was overthrown in 1952 without violence, and for 250 years Egypt has shown itself capable of producing both radical and reformist political trends.

The ban against ethnic and racial data is a taboo that should not be overthrown easily, and not without carefully weighing the risk to social peace.

The overthrown Tunisian dictator must now regret that his security forces did not arrest Bouazizi and lock him up, rather than allow his public self immolation.

A Spanish government was overthrown because it lied to its public about the origin of the terrorist bombs that ripped apart Madrid's train station last spring.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto anointed his wife and daughter to be the PPP s co chairpersons in case he was executed by the military regime that had overthrown him.

After Haiti s President Jean Bertrand Aristide was overthrown a few years ago, Brazil s football team acted as an ambassador for the United Nations Brazilian led peacekeeping forces.

The Christians, in particular, who were protected by Assad, now fear that if the Baath regime is overthrown, they will suffer the same consequences as Christians in Iraq.

In this, Khamenei was following the lead of the late Shah, who kept Amir Abbas Hoveyda, a loyal retainer, as prime minister from 1965 until the Shah was overthrown in 1979.

They were to be released in exchange for the overthrown Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who fled after the revolution to the USA, which had actually supported his regime for several decades.

He was bent on purging the judiciary and the public prosecutor s office, claiming that they were aligned with the protesters opposing his government and their military backers, who had been overthrown in 2011.

It is like the old Chinese concept of the mandate of heaven emperors were said to rule because they had it, and when they were overthrown, it was because they had lost it.

Serbia, which traded violent nationalism for nonviolent nationalism when Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown eight years ago, has done all it can to impede resolution of these issues, with strong support from Vladimir Putin s Russia.

The new group that took power and stayed there until overthrown by the US led ISAF invasion banned any form of female presence in public, bar nurses and midwives who nevertheless faced many restrictions.

But excessive pressure may only bring down the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is personally inclined towards rapprochement with India but who knows that every one of his civilian predecessors has been overthrown.

For any program based on selfishness and injustice must generate strong forces of social dissolution and instability. The great challenge is to increase equality, and for this the State, which globalization claims to have overthrown, is vital.

When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonized for denying cosmetics and hair color to women when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.

A human rights activist may want to see an oppressive regime overthrown, may believe that this is the only long term solution. A humanitarian, by contrast, may want to feed a population, knowing full well that food aid could strengthen the oppressive regime.

Pakistan is likely to face disagreeable diplomatic and economic consequences for inaction. But excessive pressure may only bring down the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is personally inclined towards rapprochement with India but who knows that every one of his civilian predecessors has been overthrown.