Voorbeelden van overthrown

• 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 ideas of the opposition are projected as most characteristic of the overthrown past.

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

• That government was overthrown a year later when a paramilitary band invaded parliament.

• For reasons of idolatry and persecution, ungodly rulers could, even should, be overthrown.

• For the sovereign, successful transgression is more profitable than democracy, yet being overthrown results in the lowest payoff.

• His vision was to establish an indigenous-based oligarchy, perhaps an alternative to the settler-based oligarchy he had overthrown.

• Given the speed with which new models are born and overthrown in linguistics, this does not seem the best way to educate beginning students.

• The development of the science was not merely a linear accumulation of knowledge culminating in the realization that the old chemistry had to be overthrown.

• Never had such a powerful and highly industrialised state been overthrown from within.

• Of course, this does not automatically imply that national administrative traditions are completely overthrown and revised in the light of changing political interests and strategies.

• Nevertheless, when so many of the supposedly educated believe this to be true, we might as well admit that prescription has been overthrown by usage.

• Kings are overthrown, battles fought and revolts take place, but the reasons for these events are often elusive.

• An oppressive regime must, therefore, naturalize the condition of its disenfranchised members if it wishes to avoid being overthrown.

• In the provisionary mode, the former authoritarian government is overthrown and replaced by a government that announces a plan to hold elections and draft a constitution.