usurpation

That was the first news I'd had of the usurpation.

Even one whose role in the attempted usurpation had never become public.

"Tom" was a bad baby, from the very beginning of his usurpation.

This hints at a usurpation, but the matter is not clear.

Here we have a great constitutional issue involving the usurpation of power.

This, however, was seen as a usurpation by the Orthodox churches.

But differences about interpretation should not be confused with usurpations of political will.

You resent my usurpation of the superior role, I guess!

Some historians have called this a "usurpation" of the throne.

Historically the punishment for the usurpation of arms were severe.

Thus coinage is often the only evidence of a determined usurpation.

A complete usurpation of the entire school system by the current administrator soon emerged.

Well, usurpation I could understand, even if it was saturated with superstition.

This is an intolerable usurpation of power by the Senate minority.

What more reason could these people need than unprovoked usurpations of their territory?

They see his move as a Socialist usurpation in a region controlled by conservatives.

"Millennia of usurpation will be overturned in a final solution!"

Finally, there is a record of a failed usurpation in Gaul, around this time.

The threat of usurpation will always lie between them.

Taft said Truman's decision was "a complete usurpation by the president."

"This usurpation of yours appears to have been planned in high places, sir."

He called the American Safety doctrine "a usurpation of power."

With the usurpation of the throne, the civil war broke out anew.

Nor would he be officially recognized as such by his mother after her usurpation of the throne.

What they proposed was usurpation of the powers of state.