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Example sentences for: usurping

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To extremists, however, such divisions, as well as the existence of parliaments and legislation, only prove these rulers to be false Muslims usurping God's authority over all aspects of life.
“We are usurping a natural cell system that is there for some other purpose, for knocking out endogenous gene function,” says Rossi.
U3 gene trap vectors were designed to disrupt cellular gene function by usurping the promoter of the occupied genes and by ablating transcription downstream of the two poly(A) sites (one in each LTR) carried by the provirus.
While agreeing that the United States should change the embargo policy, the pope blasted Castro's government for 1) tolerating abortions and divorces; 2) usurping parents' authority to direct their children's education; and 3) substituting "ideology" for Christianity.
She was a remarkable woman, gaining power as regent for the young Tutmosis II — her stepson — before usurping it for herself by claiming divine right to rule.