Overthrow in example sentence

Ethiopia has undergone a remarkable transformation under his strongman rule since 1991, when his Tigrayan minority group from the country’s north came to power with the overthrow of the odious Communist Derg led by Mengistu Haile Mariam (still enjoying a comfortable retirement in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe).

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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

Is he picking up on the fact that Luke joins an army to overthrow the government?

At least in my very own city of Cairo, it helped overthrow two separate dictators.

The leaders of the French Revolution didn't just overthrow the monarchy.

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