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In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.
By the early 1800s independence movements had overthrown Spanish rule in most of the Western Hemisphere.
If "Israeli society is desperate" today and "the young want to leave the country," it's because of him, she said: "This government must be overthrown by any means."
Despite his attempts to quell the extremists, Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined in the counterattack of the propertied classes.