Word: usurper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders are manipulating us, and we are mired in the old pre-union habit of waiting for someone else to tell us what to do and think. Instead of Holyoke Center, we now wait for HUCTW staff to arrange our working lives for us. Union leadership must serve, not usurp, membership authority. We must empower our leaders to represent us, not replace us. If we will only do as we are told on union matters, we do not deserve a voice in those matters. If we wait for permission to contradict our leaders, we do not deserve democracy...
Unsurprisingly, the confrontational tactics of conservatives such as Bennett have alienated some college presidents and leaders in higher education, who say that Bennett is trying to usurp the universities' traditional role in shaping their own curricula...
...Princeton, a team favored by many to win the Ivy title, this would be the game in which the Tigers would knock off the reigning King and usurp the crown before the eyes and ears of the nation...
...King has a keen interest in easing the living conditions for West Bank Palestinians, fellow leaders in the Arab world have persistently refused to recognize his efforts. Jordan's financial and political efforts on behalf of the West Bank have provoked Arab criticism that the King is trying to usurp the P.L.O.'s role. Hussein's attempts to promote the U.S.-sponsored peace plan have met with angry charges that he intends to speak for the Palestinians. "Our efforts are misconstrued as competition," he said plaintively at the Arab summit in Algiers last June...
...hardscrabble heritage he shares with many of them. It was a matter of class, of culture, of sects, of tribes. The phrase revealed the bitter resentments against people like George Bush that seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly; one thing Bush is not, no matter how many forklift trucks he is photographed driving, is a man of the people...