usurpations

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“But in Republics of large extent, usurpations can scarcely make its way through these avenues,” Washington writes to “Friends & Fellow-Citizens,” in an address that was published in newspapers rather than delivered to Congress.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2025

A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.’

From Fox News • Mar. 29, 2019

The nation, he declared, could not remain “passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs.”

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2017

The researchers recorded evidence of 46 such interspecies usurpations, with victors coming from either species in equal proportion.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2015

Here was a noble field in which the mythical fancy might run riot; hence came stories of usurpations, rebellions, conjugal skirmishes and jealousies, a whole world of incidents in which humour had free play.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew