| In 1979 the US-backed dictator in Nicaragua, Antonio Somoza, was overthrown by a popular revolution. |
| They ride a tiger, and the retribution against them, were they to be overthrown, would be frightful. |
| When Nicaragua's dictatorship was overthrown by the popular Sandinistas, a communist regime was successfully put in place. |
| In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas had overthrown the US-backed Somosa dictatorship and had gone on to consolidate their power by winning an election. |
| According to one episode, Jamshid, the Iranian equivalent of King Solomon, after reigning for 700 years was overthrown by the tyrant Zahhak. |
| The Damascus-based Umayyads were overthrown by a revolution that brought the new dynasty of the Abbasids to power. |
