0 the act of taking control of something without having the right to, especially of a position of power: --
Orderly transitions in modern democracies are sensitive to even symbolic usurpation.
It also explained why he found it more convenient to create a story to conceal the usurpation rather than faithfully record the shocking truth.
Furthermore, any system that allows usurpation of the family's role in the decisionmaking process was not favored.
For the colonised this is the overwhelming trauma of usurpation, which has made them strangers in the land of their birth.
In the first case, hyperactive partisanship in the context of an imperfect election would raise the issue of "usurpation" by the opposition.
A prevailing pattern is their usurpation of the sub-district office's power.
The aboriginal survivor, he noted, ' ' sadly likened ' ' floral and faunal usurpation ' ' to the invasion of his country by the pale faces.
The usurpation of space by urbanization and the economy entails a less recognizable and de-historicized landscape.
