Word: overthrowe
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...some ways, the presidential injunction seemed superfluous: Portugal has been bristling with political activity since the overthrow of the Caetano dictatorship, as if the people were making up for the decades when any kind of political activity was banned. The once sparkling white walls of Lisbon are disfigured by thousands of peeling political posters; radio and television devote seemingly endless hours to political debates, and most newspapers are little more than partisan broadsheets. There is a rally almost every day by at least one of the country's more than 50 parties...
...King as a betrayal to the black cause. He correctly observed that when a group is repressed and controlled through violence it cannot hope to free itself without the use of violence. It was this very observation which eventually compelled Malcolm to begin formulating a strategy for the overthrow of the particular economic and political system under which black people are oppressed...
...overwhelmed their opposition yesterday at a State House public hearing on a proposed ban on private possession of handguns. They claimed that a program of state purchase of privately owned handguns would cost the state $90 million and they also attempted to link such a program with a Marxist overthrow of the state and the issues of prison reform, gay liberation, drug use, and "limousine liberals...
...mark the fourth anniversary of the coup d 'état that had brought him to power. He added: "Even the most powerful witchcraft cannot hurt me." It is growing more and more difficult to gainsay Big Daddy. There have been at least a dozen known attempts to overthrow him, six in 1974 alone. But the burly Amin has somehow survived...
...death in 1927, his son, Julio de Mesquita Filho, assumed control and battled Brazilian governments in the '30s and '40s. Twice Mesquita Filho was forced into exile. By 1964 he was back in Sao Paulo wielding political influence himself. He plotted with the military to overthrow leftist Joao Goulart, whom he suspected of heading toward totalitarianism. Once in power, however, the new rulers turned authoritarian, and O Estado again found itself in opposition...