Word: ousting
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...snap election in 1986 that was widely suspected to be fraudulent, Sin took to the airwaves, rallying the country of devout Catholics to join a military faction that had mutinied against Marcos. After a three-day standoff, Marcos fled. Sin stepped in again to help oust the corrupt Estrada in 2001. Famous for his humor--"Welcome to the House of Sin" was his greeting to houseguests--he responded to criticisms of his secular activism by saying the church "cannot proclaim eternal salvation ... when we are blind to the physical realities which deny [people] that very salvation here on earth...
...work out quite that way. Just six months after her triumphant return, Bhutto last week announced that she was dropping her campaign for immediate elections. Eventually, she still hopes to oust Zia, the general who overthrew her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a 1977 coup and whose government executed him two years later...
Duehay says that he wanted to run for one of the nine spots on the City Council in 1971 because he was frustrated with the appointment of Cambridge’s school superintendent, and wanted to oust him from office. On the School Committee, he did not have the power to overturn the appointment, but he felt that if the CCA got a majority on the council, they could eventually replace the superintendent...
...never quite got over that: the vast majority of UC representatives supported Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and his running mate Clay Capp for office. With Glazer elected president but Capp overlooked in favor of Nichols, the UC leadership eventually began looking for ways to oust Nichols. When they sensed an opportunity, they struck, and were able to drive Nichols from office...
...Even more contentious than the number of cabinet positions being offered to Sunnis has been the plan by Jaafari's alliance to oust former Baathists from the security services and deny anyone with a Baathist past a cabinet position. Debaathification has been vigorously opposed by Sunni representatives in negotiations with Jaafari, and the U.S. has also urged the new prime minister to abandon plans for a purge of Baathists from the security services, believing that this could fatally weaken the ability of the Iraqi security forces to fight the insurgency. Jaafari is reportedly backing away from a wholesale purge, recognizing...