John Calipari

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.

American Coach

Peter Bergen

The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated by a challenger who then pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq. The Madrid terrorist attacks are generally regarded as being the key to why Aznar, who had been leading in the polls, was defeated.

American Journalist

H. R. McMaster

Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.

American Public Servant

Chris Sacca

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.

American Businessman

Nicky Morgan

I was a candidate in Loughborough in the 2005 election. I had a good result against the sitting Labour MP but not enough to unseat him.

British Politician

Fredrick Brennan

I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it happened.

Gene Fowler

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

American Psychologist

Used often in political discussions about elections or when someone loses their position.

Political Context

Commonly describes unexpected or significant changes in leadership during elections.

Election Upsets

Can be used in business to talk about removing someone from a high position.

Corporate Power

Literally refers to someone falling from their seat, often in sports or accidents.

Physical Action

Frequently used with horse riding when talking about riders being thrown off.

Equestrian Term

Implies the fall was not by choice, highlighting an element of surprise or accident.

Unintentional Fall

 That year, the Congo elected its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. But months later, he was unseated in a US and Belgium backed coup. In early 1961, Lumumba was assassinated under Belgian supervision. The coup launched the country into a decades-long dictatorship.

History's deadliest king...

 we sent stories home on satellite phones about afghans celebrating the end of a dark era of harsh repression of public stonings and hangings of those who dared to disobey the taliban it took two months for the u.s and afghan militias to unseat the

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 and potential. Or my friend Maria Hadden, who was involved in the first PB process in Chicago. Then went on to become a founding participatory budgeting project board member, eventually a staff member, and then unseated a 28-year incumbent,

Unseat