| Ultimately most of the Robotpatents merely confirmed existing laws, though abolishing illegalities, encroachments, and usurpations. |
| As time went on, however, ambition and intrigue resulted in usurpations and impositions, eroding the feudalistic system at the root and bringing on a condition of political and moral disorder. |
| The usurpations and acts of the rebels were considered not legal acts, but nullities. |
| But even when they are desirable, such usurpations are not necessarily feasible. |
| The persecution of the Metric Martyrs follows a long line of power usurpations by the EU's bureaucrats, legislators, and judges. |
| The friend, the protector of the people against the usurpations of their enemies, was the character which he now chose to assume. |
