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How to use usurpation in a sentence

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This is coercion, an usurpation of personal autonomy, and deeply destructive of human freedom.
Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa.
The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government.
Apart from elaborating the ongoing judicial usurpation on these issues, the conservative voice seems to have become muffled.
This is another massive usurpation of local control of public schools, draped in the faux fabric of federal accountability.
As each of four sets is pushed to centre stage, the garden's usurpation of the kitchen is delightfully revealed.
The Government, on behalf of the people, will not tolerate the usurpation of the functions of any of the institutions of the State by any individual or group.
Again, this is a usurpation of either the role of the agency or the role of the Congress, or a usurpation of the roles of both.
That is why the people should control the governments which pose a danger of usurpation of their rights.
The more recent the despoliation and usurpation, the more strongly felt was the injustice.
And now we are having a brazen usurpation of constitutional power by the Senate to protect their entitlements.
These obligations discourage a naked usurpation of power by judges.
Shareholder primacy puts an end to the usurpation of power that has afflicted managerial capitalism.
It is an indivisible, incommunicable, inalienable right, regardless of the length of its usurpation.
To place such a judicial limit on the clear and unambiguous wording of the statute is a usurpation of the legislative function of Parliament.
They were acquisitive and attempted to build up their territories by usurpation, inheritance, marriage treaties, and escheats.
But to ensure that producers and consumers get a fair deal, these products will need to be protected against usurpation.
In recent months some al-Salems have quietly protested against what they see as a looming usurpation of their rights.
Still, civil war, royal assassinations, and usurpation were commonplace, and warlords and great landholders assumed wide discretionary powers.
Thus, Charlemagne's assumption of the imperial title was not a usurpation in the eyes of the Franks or Italians.
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This uncanonical usurpation gave rise to a serious controversy toward the end of the century.
Filial usurpation of parental freedom is not wholly unprecedented in these days of reappraisal of most values.
He gave them a recital of all the events connected with the usurpation of Amulius.
This account was merely a frank usurpation of the creation legend for the behoof of the osirian cult.
It is esteemed a usurpation of privilege to baptize on crossing the tropics.
There is about them a faint aroma of usurpation which deters certain princely families from an alliance with them.
This usurpation of powers and this maladministration Jefferson meant to end.
Is this the rightful exercise of power, or is it usurpation?
A dissolution or usurpation is the dreadful dilemma to which it is continually exposed.
He came too young and unexperienced to that throne of usurpation.
There is the beginning and type of the usurpation of the whole earth.
The whole of their usurpation is established upon this method of arguing.
All are entitled to use it without monopoly, usurpation, despoilment, wastage, or abuse.
Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretenses so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large.
Carnal concupiscence, as a broad category, is denounced as a usurpation of teleology because of its objectification of the subject and its emphasis on the phenomenal world.
Whether the usurpation, when once begun, will stop at the salutary point, or go forward to the dangerous extreme, must depend on the contingencies of the moment.
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