Sentences with phrase «by usurpers»

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Possessing the supernatural abilities to teleport, change his physical form and summon armies from the pits of hell, he becomes a usurper after being banished to Earth by his father.

By declaring and conducting jihad on their own, al - Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram, and other such groups act as heretical usurpers.

For Reid and those of his persuasion, George Bush's suggestion that a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq would lead to bloodbaths similar to those in postwar Vietnam and Cambodia is blasphemy by a political heretic and usurper against the canonical account of America's Vietnam and its revelation of the perils of American hubris.

The earlier kings had been chosen by the people; even for the usurper Absalom the fiction of popular choice was maintained (II Sam.

Synopsis: After saving the life of his royal father's usurper, Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), whom he fails to recognize, Jason (Todd Armstrong) is encouraged by the conniving murderer to begin a quest in search of the Golden Fleece.

Their common enemy is Jeanine, an Erudite usurper played by Kate Winslet with ice - cold eyes and a knowing smile.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

by Ian Pugh The title The Uninvited doesn't refer to the diabolical nanny / usurper driving the plot or to the undead spirits that torture our heroine, but rather to the damning intrusiveness of memory: inadequate, incomplete, and weighting down its victims with the guilt of bad decisions and lives ill - spent.

They never learned Spanish or else deliberately refused to speak it as they hate the Spanish usurpers of their lands, and by extension their Guatemalan successors.

After the events of Mask of Deception, the Yamato Empire is now ruled with an iron fist by a ruthless usurper who seeks to subjugate all before him.