deposal

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Bob Weinstein became head of the Weinstein Company after his brother’s deposal.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2017

Bueso Rosa, the former Honduran Army Chief of Staff, was demoted and sent to Chile after Alvarez's deposal.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Angora, capital of Turkey, the Grand National Assembly passed a bill providing for the deposal of the Calif, Abdul Medjid Effendi, and the abolition of the Califate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nawab was advised, warned, and then menaced with deposal, provided things were not righted in his dominions, radically and speedily, to the satisfaction of the East India Company.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various

Forgetting how they had disliked Abbas II and called him a huckstering profligate, they mourned for his deposal by wearing black ties, especially the students.

From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)