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Though Seti commissioned the temple between 1291 and 1279 b.c. , the colonnaded courtyards and ramps on its façade were added by his son Ramses II who usurped his father, trying every way possible to excise his name from the temple walls.
While the other papers all call this the centerpiece of Clinton's China trip, the WP claims that Clinton's team thought the televised press conference with Jiang Zemin had usurped this role, and so were downplaying the Beijing speech.
However Ayyubid control was weak and power was usurped by their Turkish slaves, called mamelukes, who succeeded in founding a dynasty that lasted from 1251 to 1517.
In December 1995, he and 50 other radical anti-tax activists, mainly from West Texas, declared their intention to re-establish the usurped authority of the ROT.
Perhaps that would embarrass him into retiring, having plumbed depths of behavior unworthy of a scout guide, let alone the defense minister of a country on whose role in recovering usurped Arab rights so much hope was pinned."