Word: overthrown
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Both Turkey and Great Britain are trying to absorb independent Arabia and the Bedoin tribes. Turkey at the same time is killing Arabian commerce by her misrule, and high tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem...
...trial of a case, said Mr. Fox, although the law is interesting, the facts are the important thing, and each case has its own important fact to be established or overthrown, even at the loss of unimportant detail. Continuing, he said that one must speak before the jury with as much interest as one would conduct a drawing-room conversation, and must centre his attention upon them...
...more and more stubborn unwillingness to concede anything whatever to the outside opponents of their system. But no success attended the efforts of the Southerners, in the fifties, to improve and extend their industrial system without changing it. The actual process by which slavery was in the end overthrown was in fact quite foreign to the purposes of the avowed abolitionists. They contributed to the result only by exciting the North, not by devising any plan of action and getting the North to adopt...