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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.
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.
“We are usurping a natural cell system that is there for some other purpose, for knocking out endogenous gene function,” says Rossi.
3) Cut the God talk, and stop usurping his place by popping fertility drugs like candy.
None of them warned me that he was usurping credit where credit was not due.