overthrew in English
military coups which had attempted to overthrow the king
he grips the ball too tight and overthrows it
Use "overthrew" in a sentence
1. The October Revolution overthrew the bourgeoisie , an event without precedent in world history.
2. The rebellious prince allied himself with the Franks and overthrew his uncle in 870.
3. Abbasid (750-1258 CE, 1261-1517 CE) - The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads and established the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 CE.
4. The Abbasid Revolution The Abbasid Dynasty overthrew the preceding Umayyad Dynasty, which was based in Damascus, Syria
5. Provisional Government of Lithuania (1941), established when Lithuanians overthrew the Soviet occupation during the Lithuanian 1941 independence.
6. July 8: Col. Carlos Castillo Armas is elected president of the junta that overthrew the administration of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.
7. Che Guevara was born in 1928 in Rosario , Argentina, in 1959 and now with Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictatorship.
8. 13 members of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus refused to Condemn Myanmar's generals who violently overthrew elected leaders
9. Bahutu serfs, representing 53 per cent of Rwanda's population, overthrew the traditional monarchy of the Watusi minority, numbering a bout 400,000
10. The Rebellion is an Allusion to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the Russian people overthrew the royal ruling family.
11. Sandino's political legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which finally overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.
12. On the evening of 19 September 2006, the Thai military and police overthrew the elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
13. Taking advantage of the successes of the anti-Umayyad Shiite movement (the uprising of Abu Muslim), the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads
14. 3 The early nineteenth century saw major developments in embryology, which challenged the mechanical concept of generation and overthrew the preformation theory.
15. The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, supporting the mawali, or non-Arab Muslims, by moving the capital to Baghdad in 762 CE
16. 30 Then, in 19 Qaboos bin Said, the Sandhurst-educated 29-year-old heir to the Omani throne, overthrew his father in a bloodless coup.
17. Jennifer Briney started paying attention to world events while studying in Germany in the spring of 2003, when the United States overthrew the government of Iraq
18. After the Meiji Restoration, the leaders of the samurai who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate had no clear agenda or pre-developed plan on how to run Japan.
19. Following his 1799 return to France, Napoleon participated in an event known as the Coup of 18 Brumaire, a bloodless coup d'etat that overthrew the French Directory.
20. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) was a fundamentalist Shi'a cleric and Iranian politician who overthrew the autocratic monarch of Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1978–79.
21. 15 Unlike the army of Oliver Cromwell, which briefly overthrew the monarchy in the 17th century in two bloody civil wars, these rebels were a jovial, good-humored bunch.
22. Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia (336–323 BCE), who overthrew the Persian empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms
23. The Almohads were founded by Ibn Tumart of the Masmuda tribes of the Maghreb, and in 1147 they overthrew the Almoravids governing Morocco.By 1172, all of Islamic Iberia was under Almohad
24. In contrast, Blamphin has been trying since April to collect on a $100 dinner check signed by Archradical Bernard Coard, then the Minister of Finance, who was behind the bloody coup that overthrew Bishop
25. Coup of 18–19 Brumaire, (November 9–10, 1799), coup d’état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte
26. ‘All its land is Brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’ Psalm 11:6
27. In the late 18th century, the French Revolution overthrew the absolute monarchy, established one of modern history's earliest republics, and saw the drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day.
28. Other Caudillos like Justo Jose de Urquiza who overthrew him in 1852 • Urquiza was helped by a coalition of anti-Rosista interests including exiles from abroad, Uruguayans, British, French, and new immigrant businessmen—also pushed for reform by traditional farmers experiencing decline
29. The Five Barbarians, or Wu Hu (Chinese: 五胡; pinyin: Wǔ Hú), is a Chinese historical exonym for ancient non-Chinese peoples who immigrated to northern China in the Eastern Han dynasty, and then overthrew the Western Jin dynasty and established their own kingdoms in the 4th–5th centuries
30. The Coup of 18 Brumaire brought General Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France and in the view of most historians ended the French Revolution.This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate.This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the French Republican calendar
31. The Abbasid Caliphate, which ruled most of the Muslim world from Baghdad in what is now Iraq, lasted from 750 to 1258 A.D.It was the third Islamic caliphate and overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate to take power in all but the western-most fringe of Muslim holdings at that time—Spain and Portugal, known then as the al-Andalus region.
32. Cronus, also known as Kronos, Chronos or Saturn, was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Ouranos, the sky, and Gaia, the earth.He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus.He was known as the Titan of time, harvest and evil.