Examples of overthrow

• Attunement, in effect, overthrows the duality between composer, performer and listeners, a perspective that computer and electroacoustic music technologies can reinforce by facilitating access.

• The early nineteenth century saw major developments in embryology, which challenged the mechanical concept of generation and overthrew the preformation theory.

• Within less than a year, the royal system was overthrown.

• He also grants that a sceptic might" use science to repudiate science"; our entire theory of external objects might be overthrown.

• We continue to speak of a scientific revolution because earlier systems of belief were emphatically overthrown.

• Should a ruler become a tyrant, he could be overthrown by force.

• Although the values of modesty were never overthrown in the contest itself, the real winners were those women whose exterior beauty was displayed more ostentatiously.

• The state was therefore effectively insulated from the tribal power holders who had overthrown previous dynasts and dynasties.