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.