unhorse
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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
Inevitably, some Administration forces thought that McCarthy's move to unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The current scandal seems as unlikely to unhorse Chairman Daniel Haughton, who has headed Lockheed since 1967, as any of the company's former crises.
From Time Magazine Archive
The object of the young Irishman was to unhorse, or rather uncamel, his antagonist, and get him to the ground.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
This came after the outgoing speaker had already been unhorsed for his own ethical failings.
From Fox News ● Feb. 6, 2019
This is a group dedicated to rehabilitating the reputation of a king they say was much maligned by Shakespeare and supporters of Henry Tudor, who killed Richard after he was unhorsed in battle.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2015
The French king was himself unhorsed by this method, and only saved by his bodyguard.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2014
They unhorsed knights who then lay helplessly on the ground in their heavy armor.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Carados was personally unhorsed, and his squadron broken by King Bon.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
So, consider how the unhorsing of Cantor may strike some other Republicans.
From Washington Post
Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fall of 1946 they headed a veterans' group that came within a lance-tip of unhorsing the political boss, Judge Cy Bond.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was always getting himself into trouble—as, for instance, by unhorsing the Orkneys at Westminster—through underestimating the wickedness of the world.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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