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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."
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.
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.
The essence of the story, which I found on the hidden gem of the Internet, mediagossip.com, is that he hasn't broken any stories since Monica and has seen his unique selling proposition usurped by other would-be Web Winchells.
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.