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He recommended "earnest Supplication to God" that "every Nation and Society of Men may be inspired with the knowledge and feeling of their natural and just rights" and "That Tyranny and Usurpation may everywhere come to an end."
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Usurpation also occurred when cliques with divergent goals were present.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Usurpation also occurred when cliques with divergent goals were present.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Usurpation begins by small and successive encroachments; equity and the public interest at length exclaim and protest; then comes policy, which does its best to reconcile usurpation with equity, and the abuse remains.
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Mr Smollet pleased Dr Johnson, by producing a collection of news-papers in the time of the Usurpation, from which it appeared that all sorts of crimes were very frequent during that horrible anarchy.
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The Consciences of Men are set at naught, and the Multitude are compelled not only to bear arms, but also to swear Subjection to an Usurpation they abhor.
Lance Mannion: 2004
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The Consciences of Men are set at naught, and the Multitude are compelled not only to bear arms, but also to swear Subjection to an Usurpation they abhor.
Gentleman Johnny 2004
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War to this present Time, I am apt to doubt whether the Corruptions in our Language have not at least equalled the Refinements of it; and these Corruptions very few of the best Authors of our Age have wholly escaped During the Usurpation, such and Infusion of
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003
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Assembly agst. the charge of Usurpation in the very act of protesting agst [sic] the usurpations of Congress.
"From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison." Kevin Raeder Gutzman Kevin Raeder Gutzman 1994
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