Word: overthrown
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...toward the exhausted end of the Ceausescu regime. Many freedoms were terminated during this despotic time, among them a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. As J. Hoberman noted in The Village Voice: "Abortion was made illegal in Romania in 1966; by the time Ceausescu was overthrown 23 years later, an estimated half-million women had died as a result of botched illegal abortions. The nation's overflowing orphanages were notorious for their subhuman conditions...
Sharif himself would be overthrown in a coup by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999. Musharraf would become an indispensable ally of the U.S. after Sept. 11, 2001, when he became the guarantor of the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan against the tide of Islamic radicalism...
...earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Bhutto's election to the presidency of the Oxford Union happened after her father was overthrown...
...more dangerous cost. Government graft "undercuts the legitimacy of the Communist Party," says Dali Yang, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. "Ruling élites, perceived by the population as irredeemably rapacious and self-serving, enjoy little popular legitimacy and would more likely get overthrown if a major [economic] crisis hits," says...
...weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this activism’s meddling morality, for all of its ease, most inexcusably errs in its pride. What sort of imperialist hubris, unbefitting of our University’s commitment to moral neutrality and relativism, can claim to dictate proper political behavior to the indigenous rulers...