Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rashly inclined; headlong; hasty; rash.
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- verb Present participle of
overthrow .
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Examples
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Iranians still obsess about the U.S. role in overthrowing elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossedegh in 1953.
Sunday Reading 2009
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Backed by the United Fruit Company, which didn't want to give up its land for redistribution even with government compensation, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas succeeded in overthrowing Jacobo Arbenz's democratically elected government.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism John Feffer 2010
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RE: “So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953??”
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So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953??
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So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953?
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So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953??
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If she had, like fellow honoree Desmond Tutu, taken a leading part in overthrowing apartheid, it would make sense to say that the White House vetters were dazzled by good deeds and failed to notice dubious words.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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If the American government had not been involved in overthrowing king Norodom Sihaknouk in early 1970, and bombing in Cambodia, would there have been any Killing Fields?
Global Voices in English » Cambodia: Doubts over the Khmer Rouge Tribunal 2009
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So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953?
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So you agree that the US Government under Eisenhower through the CIA was wrong in overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister of Iran in 1953??
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