| Although part of the agreement was the rehabilitation of settlers who had usurped tribal land, there is nowhere else for them to go. |
| King Steven who usurped the English throne in 1096 carried the centaur as his heraldic symbol for that reason. |
| Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority. |
| Anything less is a concession that the rule of law can be usurped by mob rule. |
| While fundamentalists are surely bibliolaters, mainline Protestants by contrast have usurped Scripture's divinity. |
| It was during the late 1700s that the ancient female privilege of lying-in began to be usurped by a masculine, medical authority in the West. |
