usurper

In other words, while the West had lost an imperial usurper in 476, it still had a legitimate Roman emperor.

This usurper showed a better understanding of why ladybirds were different colors and jumped from 5th to 1st position during February.

Some weeks ago, when the United States was contending with its own insurrection, I discussed the nature of coups d’etat and how, last century, usurpers tended to seize TV stations before storming presidential palaces.

The nimblest usurpers snatch power before anyone knows what has happened.

Branded a usurper, Bruce had been excommunicated by the Vatican.

Or because he supported the deposed King Richard II rather than the usurper Henry Bolingbroke?

This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.

He has been offering “imprecatory prayers” against “the usurper that is in the White House…B. Hussein Obama.”

To sum the whole matter, the Britisher is an odious usurper “who has always got one eye open.”

If reason is to rule, the usurper, religion, must be ejected; hence atheism was fundamental to his entire system.

And when they were through, the King (for all he was a rank usurper) spoke them fair, and gave each man three guineas in his hand.

The circumstances were propitious to the designs of a usurper.

This scandalous outrage was soon reported at Rome, and the sacrilegious usurper was excommunicated and banished.