overthrow of a government

The groups have contributed to the overthrow of a government and protests against world trade.

A coup d'état is the sudden overthrow of a government through unconstitutional means.

Putsch - coup d'état; the sudden overthrow of a government by a small group, usually the military.

Espionage does not count as subversion because it is not an action that leads directly to an overthrow of a government.

In the past, the overthrow of a government was likely to be as much the result of civilian encouragement as of military initiative.

Coup is typically used as the short form of the phrase coup d'état, a sudden overthrow of a government.

Coup d'état is the overthrowing of a government through the infiltration of the political, military, and social groups by a small segment of the state apparatus.

Concerts during the tour often began with political activist Koichi Toyama on a panoramic screen delivering an anarchic speech, ordering the overthrow of a government.

Mercenaries (called Filibusters) who were supporting the overthrow of a government would not have accepted paper money because it could become worthless simply with the change of regime.

"We cannot allow cause for the violent overthrow of a government from our own territory," said Sabine Sparwasser, a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Bonn.

United States neutrality laws forbid its citizens to abet the overthrow of a government with which the country is at peace; these laws were consistently violated throughout the 80's.

It is never popular and it invariably gives rise to resistance of one form or another, but it almost never results in the violent overthrow of a government.

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A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger government, left with limited powers or authority after a disaster, invasion, military occupation, secession or partial overthrowing of a government.

Opponents of the aid say that the Administration is supporting the violent overthrow of a government with which it still has diplomatic relations and that new contra funds would undercut the peace process.

She was trapped in Indonesia during rioting after an economic collapse, several of her friends were murdered by an old boyfriend of hers, she was involved in the overthrow of a government.

Several times since the battling began on June 10, severe disturbances were followed by a lull, only to pick up again as campus dissidents filled the streets demanding the overthrow of a Government they call a military dictatorship.

"Few secret agents are ever given the opportunity to scale the professional summit by arranging the overthrow of a government," Neil Sheehan wrote in his book, "A Bright Shining Lie" (Random House, 1988).

His tweedy persona is even a little frightening in the way it radiates joviality no matter if he is plotting the assassination of some political leader or arranging the overthrow of a government or simply spinning his expanding web of spies.

The reason for the revolution (a violent overthrow of a government) was that many Iranians disliked the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, because he was an ally of the United States, and his government was not Islamic.

Court pamphleteers, supplementing the efforts of the press, predicted that the anarchy that would result from the overthrow of a government would lead to tyranny in attempt to control it, and James' supporters among the nobility went as far as to claim that a literal reading of the Declaration recognized James' rule as justified.