(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(3) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(4) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(5) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(6) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(7) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
(8) Ian Macfarlane signals frontbench ambition after defecting to Nationals Read more But the deputy leader of the Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, pushed back at the criticism, saying it was not unprecedented for people to move between the Coalition parties and noted it was not as significant as ousting a prime minister.
(9) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(10) Some MPs have been threatening to oust either the prime minister or the chancellor if poor poll ratings have not been reversed by next year.
(11) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(12) A headteacher the dossier claimed the plotters had ousted in fact left 20 years ago.
(13) • The original headline – 'Gun lobby campaign ousts Democrats in Colorado and Connecticut' – was amended on Wednesday September 11 2013.
(14) The jet engine maker, based mostly in Derby and Bristol, a nnounced the fresh job cuts on Tuesday as it ousted Mark Morris, its long-serving finance director .
(15) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(16) Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 after days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.
(17) Islamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens, in a statement following the adoption by the UN Security Council of a plan to oust al-Qaida linked militants from occupied territory.
(18) Unlike a similar tale across Stanley Park recently, when Kevin Mirallas ousted Leighton Baines and missed from the spot, Balotelli coolly sent Cenk Gonen the wrong way and Liverpool were reprieved.
(19) Moreover, the abrupt ousting of Jones, and the way the news was delivered, has struck seasoned Welsh observers as typical and unsatisfactory.
(20) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .
Overthrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
(v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
(n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
(n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
(n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(2) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(3) Every now and again a leader would promise to reform the system, but it survived, even after upheavals as great as that represented by the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
(4) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(5) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) Earlier this primary season, Tea Party-aligned candidates lost a series of high-profile battles, including in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, where there was a failed attempt to overthrow the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.
(8) Sunday's exodus further partitions the country, a process that has been under way since January, when a Muslim rebel government gave up power nearly a year after overthrowing the president of a decade.
(9) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(10) This is certainly not what Libya was meant to become after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
(11) The US had previously signalled its tacit support for the military's actions by giving the go-ahead for the jets' delivery , and by avoiding terming Morsi's overthrow as a coup.
(12) The defeated candidate in last month's tense presidential election in Sri Lanka , General Sarath Fonseka, was arrested today at his office in Colombo and is to be charged with attempting a military coup to overthrow the government.
(13) In the meantime, Washington is expanding its military presence where it has control (for example, Honduras), and is ready to support the overthrow of left governments when the opportunity arises ( Honduras in 2009 , and Paraguay last year ).
(14) Richard Sewell's diary reveals that he and New Zealand ambassador Chris Beeby were closely involved with the ambitious plot to fly the US diplomats to safety at a time when anti-American rhetoric was at an all-time high following the overthrow of the Shah and Washington's decision to harbour its dying ally.
(15) But I’m glad it’s finally happened.” Malcolm Turnbull promises new style of leadership after overthrowing Abbott Read more It’s a new day in Australia, with a new prime minister-elect .
(16) Jang Song-thaek, previously one of the country's most powerful men, was accused of everything from plotting to overthrow the state to instigating disastrous currency reforms and dishing out pornography in the report from official news agency KCNA.
(17) Sabbahi's declaration has already split the leadership of Tamarod, the high-profile protest movement that led calls for Mohamed Morsi's overthrow last summer.
(18) Hundreds of policemen and soldiers have been killed during a low-level insurgency that has continued since the overthrow of ex-president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
(19) A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition has planned nationwide protests after Friday prayers as part of their near-daily demonstrations against the overthrow of Morsi and the recent vote on the country's rewritten constitution.
(20) The phrase "terrors of the earth" is Arthur Schlesinger's, in his quasi-official biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility to conduct the terrorist war, and informed the CIA that the Cuban problem carries "the top priority in the United States Government – all else is secondary – no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared" in the effort to overthrow the Castro regime.