usurpations
Example Sentences
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“But in Republics of large extent, usurpations can scarcely make its way through these avenues,” Washington writes to “Friends & Fellow-Citizens,” in an address that was published in newspapers rather than delivered to Congress.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025
A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.’
From Fox News • Mar. 29, 2019
“The classical republican convictions that Bailyn ascribed to America’s founders drew on a vocabulary of political pathology to predict tyranny, chaos, usurpations and conspiracies,” Dr. Appleby said in a 2012 lecture.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017
The researchers recorded evidence of 46 such interspecies usurpations, with victors coming from either species in equal proportion.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2015
The contention between the houses of York and Lancaster becomes an epic theme, uniting the three parts, and affords manifold opportunity for battles, defiances, coronations, usurpations, and patriotism.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
