Word: overthrown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Idiocy” or “idiots” for Marx are not defined simply by levels of intelligence. They are descriptive terms that refer to the apolitical nature of rural people. Industrialization excited Marx because he believed that capitalism could be overthrown only through a consolidation of people in cities; then the masses could achieve political power, instead of remaining isolated in their previously family-centric, “private” lives...
...businesses, schools and government activities have ground to a halt, reminiscent of bloody protests that have plagued this country for the last several decades - most recently in 2004, when former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown. President Rene Preval, respected for his probity but criticized for his lack of leadership and statesmanship, has been trying to improve Haiti's squalid conditions since taking office in 2006, but demonstrators squeezed by spiraling food costs say they're tired of waiting for a solution to their constant hunger. "We used to be hungry enough to drink Clorox," a local mechanic told TIME...
...America's lack of political strategy [Military leaders] had assumed that they would turn up in Baghdad, Saddam Hussein would be overthrown and there would be a group of Iraqis waiting to take over. Some of them would be these exiles ? and others would be Iraqis from within and that there would be a smooth transition. But there wasn't. There was complete chaos. People were looking for a way out of the chaos and the Americans didn't have any better ideas than the average man on the street...
...seem that the worst of Pakistan's struggles are over. With no party achieving a majority, the opposition will have to work together. If the Pakistan People's Party of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto can come to an agreement with Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight years in power, but, perhaps more importantly for Pakistan's longer-term political future...
...Fatelessness,” “Detective Story” demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story a universal one of dehumanization. Framed as the memoir of torturer Antonio Rojas Martens, a member of the secret police now in prison, it tells the story of his involvement in the murder...