Примеры usurp

• Their subordinates' self-imposed suppression of the urge to usurp power would serve them well.

• This occurrence complicates the analysis of species-specific behaviors because the behavior patterns of large and dominant matrilines can usurp a group's behavioral repertoire.

• Of course, it had not: jobbers had scarcely usurped the managerial hierarchy and displaced the owners.

• The usual flow of reading is usurped by typological objects, like hurdles on a racetrack or weirs in a river.

• When such actions and policies usurp the decisions of others and limit liberty without a sound evidentiary base, significant ethical boundaries are crossed.

• European states usurped church bells for dynastic celebrations, military victories and national festivals.

• Creoles were interested in taking over them because they could exploit the indigenous sector, usurp community lands and demand unpaid labour.

• One informant knowledgeable in tribal matters told me his uncle had usurped the office from him.

• The size of his plantation increased from 200 to 3,000 acres, in particular by usurping the property of local people.

• Because money has only representational value, she argues, it is easily disposed of and can only be substituted for rather than usurp gold's "real" value.

• He frequently usurped the powers of the commander, to whom he felt superior, especially if the latter was a non-party person.

• During transit, the carrier was permitted to usurp the owner's property rights by exercising dominion and control over the goods being shipped.

• A generation later, when a new leadership and often a new regime have usurped the leadership role?

• Geographical mapping could not usurp systems of governance and indirect rule.

• The objects and operations, while constituting a kind of ontology in their own right, do not usurp the role of an agent's domain ontology.