No; that House alone said it: so that that House were about to usurp the supreme authority.
How has Roman avarice come tousurp all the foundations, bishoprics and benefices of our fathers?
That right was not given to the king by Divine institution: rather was it foretold that kings would usurp that right, by framing unjust laws, and by degenerating into tyrants who preyed on their subjects.
Relationship, by the fashionable notions of those large towns, which usurp a right to lead and govern our opinions, is dwindled to a formal nothing--a mere shell of ceremony.
Mustapha was Governor of Carmania, and Roxalana managed skilfully to insinuate that he was plotting to usurp the throne.
A weak, dissolute ruler, he inaugurated his rule with customary fratricide; he had five brothers, whom he thought fit to remove out of the way of temptation to usurp the throne.
As he had outraged all the laws of morality to usurp empire, he violated all the laws of humanity to maintain himself in it.
This Italian noble had taken advantage of the disorder of the civil wars, to usurp a tyrannical domination over several cities of Lombardy and Trevisano.
Phantoms of the imagination henceforth usurp the place of substantial forms.
Some are assured that it will merely terminate in a change of ministry--others that Santa Anna will come on directly and usurp the presidency.
Andronicus, that rebel, entered the city by this gate to usurp his father's throne.
He was appointed Governor of Carmania, and so skilfully did Roxalana work upon Solyman that he was at last induced to believe that Mustapha was plotting to usurp the throne.
Royal Princes who might be tempted to usurp the throne were banished to convenient monasteries, and sometimes deprived of eyesight that they might realize the vanity of all things.
For the instinct of conservation tends without ceasing to usurp the legislative powers in the domain of the will, and its efforts go to exercise over man a domination as absolute as over the beast.
Because strongly impure inclinations often usurp the name of virtue, was it a reason for disinterested inclinations in the noblest heart to be also rendered suspicious?
She saw at once that not only was Henry ready to bestow his regards on another, but that other was still more willing to step into her place than she had been to usurp that of Catherine.
Our present course of inquiry does not lead us to treat of the notions which have, in various individuals, been thus allowed to usurp the place of truth.
He could not fail to remark, that, in other sciences, unsound and premature deductions had been brought forward, even on high authority, and allowed to usurp the place of truth.
It is only, indeed, when the conduct is regulated by partial and unsound motives, that some of these objects of attention are allowed to usurp the place of others.
When parents, therefore, force their children into an alliance, they usurp their undoubted natural and religious rights.
Nor did politics by any meansusurp the columns of the reviews.
Bern alone might usurp the whole power of the Helvetic confederacy, but she is contented still with being equal.
At the beginning of our troubles with Great Britain, the smaller states were attempted to be cajoled to submit to the views of that nation, lest the larger states should usurp their rights.
States in the constitution and extent of their federal authorities--in the tendency of the particular members to usurp on these authorities, and to bring confusion & ruin on the whole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usurp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
