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He is pro-gun and believes the government should be over-thrown. teabagger hick?
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He is pro-gun and believes the government should be violently over-thrown. teabagger hick?
Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist 2010
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The heavy table was smashed, the stool and the bunk-board splintered, and the stove over-thrown.
CHAPTER 26 2010
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Her racy, frothy novels of middle-class black life have over-thrown the unattractive publishing-industry wisdom that African-Americans don't read.
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Lieberman on Iraq yesterday: "Mistakes were made after Saddam (Hussein) was over-thrown."
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When has America ever over-thrown an oppressive right wing government?
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To be sure, the failings and the irritations of the system would have continued to generate opposition—led by heroic and self-sacrificial dissidents—but it is unlikely that such opposition, even in the setting of growing moral revulsion, could have over-thrown the coercive totalitarian machinery if it had been reinforced by relative material success.
Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993
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However, we are not going to be satisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to rely implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring facts to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as statistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fools dispute.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg
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I shall wear, and if I were over-thrown to-morrow thou wouldst kneel likewise to mine enemy.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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It may be so with the present Emperor, who knows that one false step might upset his dynasty as utterly as it was twice over-thrown by the armies of combined
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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