| Nevertheless, thousands of lives and billions of dollars have been spent deposing a defanged dictatorship that posed no immediate threat to us. |
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| Nevertheless, John realized that not all tyrants could be peaceably overcome and offered specific advice about deposing them by force. |
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| The Anglo-American forces that invaded Iraq in March 2003 did so for the purpose of deposing Saddam Hussein. |
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| During those years, Napoleon reshaped the peninsula's map at will, changing borders, deposing rulers, annexing territories, and establishing new states. |
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| Later in his rule, the reigning Merovingian king being an incompetent drunkard, Pepin sent a letter to the Pope asking for his support in deposing the king. |
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| Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. |
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| The Portuguese explained that in deposing the Malaccan king, they were helping the Chinese merchants there who were being oppressed under his rule. |
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| Consequently, Howard supported Richard III in deposing Edward's sons, for which he received the dukedom of Norfolk and his original share of the Mowbray estate. |
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| After becoming Archbishop of Canterbury in 668, Theodore of Tarsus resolved the situation by deposing Ceadda and restoring Wilfrid as the Bishop of Northumbria. |
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| The only human power capable of deposing the king was the pope. |
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| Fate implies the primeval, tripartite division of the world that Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades effected in deposing their father, Cronus, for its dominion. |
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| After deposing and killing the incumbent emperor Didius Julianus, Severus fought his rival claimants, the generals Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. |
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