Synonyms for overthrown
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1. List of paraphrases for "overthrown":

   toppled, overturned, ousted, reversed, deposed, spilled, toppling, plunged, defeated

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1. Hannah Arendt:

   Jean Bertrand Aristide Haitian president elected by large majority, twice overthrown by U.S. supported forces. Take my hand. If you see me stumble, hold me up. If I feel you weaken, I will support you. Let us trust one another, keep faith with one another, and never falter. Let us keep the lamp of solidarity lit, and move forward.

2. Democratic Party:

   Rick Scott is doing Rick Scott best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba, the Governor is using The Governor position to consolidate power by cutting at the very core of our Democracy.

3. Aldous Huxley:

   The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

4. Duncan Innes-Ker:

   The desire for control is not something particular to any time period, it is a fundamental tenet of autocratic governments that they are constantly paranoid about being overthrown.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that American Samoa has overthrown governments all over the world -- in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran, and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them.