Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...against the ministry in the House. (y) The honor of being a minister would tempt them to overthrow the ministry. (2) The formation of a third party renders the government likely to be overturned at any time. (x) If this party goes with the opposite side, the government is overthrown. (y) Its continuance depends upon the continued support of a majority. C. Under it, affairs would tend to be superficially administered. (1) The ministers could not give their whole time to legislation. (a) They must give careful attention to keeping their majority in the House (Sedgwick, p. 423). (b) Their...
...evil. Civilization was a vast Roman empire, making one great slave-power of the earth. Suicide was the only escape for fettered and despairing humanity. If a man dared to act there was Rome to punish him. Had Jesus been a fanatic, he might have gathered followers and overthrown the political and religious despotism, for with fanatics all things are possible...
...fire to the rotunda. So massive was the structure leading to the rotunda that the dynamite made little impression. On each side of the portico were massive pillars of Italian marble, which were carved in Italy at a great cost for Mr. Jefferson. These could not be overthrown. By this time the fire had got beyond all bounds, and leaped from the annex to the rotunda. The firemen at once directed their attention to this building, as in it was the fine library of 63,000 volumes, many of them extremely rare and valuable; a life-size statue of Jefferson...
...Puritan regime was overthrown and the reaction was strong against solemnity and restraint. The succeeding literature showed little reverence or earnestness, but bubbled over with jollity...
...place this fall, illustrated with an imaginary independent voter the influence which the local virtues or sins of either party should have upon the independent's vote. In Ohio and Pennsylvania he should oppose the McKinly and Quay rings, in Maryland and New York Gorman and Tammany should be overthrown...