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As the Cold War dawned, American Communists, who were still a formidable force, sought a rebirth by christening themselves "Progressives," a moniker usurped from the reform movement of the Teddy Roosevelt era.

Obama a 'Reaganite'? It Just Might Work Joshua Muravchik 2011

When the psycho astronaut chick in diapers was usurped from the news by Anna Nicole overdosing, I thought it really cheated the astronaut of her 15 minutes and in general I wished the both of them would just go away.

Scripting News for 4/23/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

The power to value and reward work has been largely usurped from the employer by the government of Ontario and other provinces under a raft of pay equity rules.

Post-Election Prospects in Canada 1993

Russia, like ourselves, forced to see his name usurped without redress. '

Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

At the same fatal period, the Persian kingdom was again usurped by the dynasty of the Bowides, by the sword of three brothers, who, under various names, were styled the support and columns of the state, and who, from the Caspian Sea to the ocean, would suffer no tyrants but themselves.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Sir Menzies Campbell MP, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said the Legal Service Commission LSC had apparently "usurped" the high court's opportunity to determine whether an anti-epilepsy drug taken by mothers in pregnancy was responsible for the children's conditions.

Epilim test case: Menzies Campbell accuses Legal Services Commission James Meikle 2010

Does he think that Brown v Board of Education "usurped" what had been established law for many generations?

Fred Thompson's Dissembling About His Abortion Record 2009

It is "a system of haphazard enforcement and piecemeal policies" that are "usurped" in some areas of the country and fully "ignored" in others.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Immigration Wire: Piecemeal Reform is Dangerous 2009

One of the greatest lies consistently perpetrated is that the Bolshevik revolution 'went wrong' only when Stalin 'usurped' power.

First They Came For - In Defence of Free Speech 2007

Several thousand supporters of Lesotho political parties, waving the multiple colours of party flags, on Monday participated in a demonstration against the "usurped" government of Prime

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997