Charles M. Schwab

There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

American Businessman

Sangram Singh

It is the women who bring the men to this world: men are there because of women. It was my mother who brought me out of a health condition that threatened to usurp me completely. If we still treat women with disrespect, it is utterly shameful.

Indian Actor

Zhang Zhidong

With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

Chinese Politician

Jim Brown

Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.

American Athlete

John Edward Redmond

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

Irish Politician

William Godwin

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

English Writer

Mitt Romney

I oppose Obamacare and believe it has failed. It drove up premiums, took insurance away from people who were promised otherwise, and usurped state programs.

American Politician

Carrie Lam

Any proposal that would usurp or water down the rights of the nominating committee would not be able to receive political support.

H. P. Lovecraft

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

American Novelist

Edie Campbell

English Model

Indicates an aggressive action to take control, often suddenly and by force.

Power Grab

Highlights the lack of legitimate claim or permission in the act of usurping.

Without Consent

Used in political contexts, it often implies a coup d'état or overthrow.

Coup Connotation

Implies using something that doesn't rightfully belong to someone, often secretly or deceptively.

Unfair Advantage

Can refer to taking credit for another's idea or intellectual property.

Intellectual Theft

Involves taking over resources or rights usually benefiting an individual or a group.

Resource Control

Reflects how advancements can render old methods or devices obsolete.

Technological Shift

Highlights the natural process by which new customs displace old ones.

Cultural Evolution

Refers to one group taking the positions formerly held by another, often in employment.

Job Replacement

 The rest of the time, you're just defending, and you get into this, turtle posture, you know? Where you're not doing -- it usurped the joy of what I loved to do because I was no longer doing it to create and have fun, and when it died out from under me, that was one of the most liberating things, because I could create.

Rodney Mullen: Pop an...

 and deeply unsure of what might be lurking in the shadows. But his brooding takes a turn when he’s visited by a ghost that bears his father’s face. The phantom claims to be the victim of a “murder most foul,” and convinces Hamlet that his uncle Claudius usurped the throne and stole queen Gertrude’s heart.

Why should you read...

 is a fable and warning about the power of language. According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by using their language to work together, they could build a tower that would take them all the way to heaven. Now God, angered at this attempt to usurp his power,

Mark Pagel: How language...

 briefly usurping the Kardashians, which I understand is quite a feat. But one of the reasons it made such a splash was the volume of the material. I mean these 1500, and now 1700, specimens that we'd recovered was unprecedented.

How Finding This Human...

 fighting her way to the top of the brood pile. Her daughters help their mother succeed where other queens fail— defeating the reigning monarch, and usurping the brood pile. Eventually, all the remaining challengers fail,

Mating frenzies, sperm...

 creating new legends wherever they went. But none of their adventures was so great as when they joined forces for the sake of a young man named Jason. Years before, Jason’s uncle Pelias had ruthlessly usurped

The myth of Jason and...

 to create friction between Frank and Hitler, so that Hitler would imagine Frank was trying to usurp his power. Again, talking about fate, I was interested in the stories and fate of particular works of art.

Taryn Simon: The stories...

 the world is being driven and shaped, not by the old developed countries, but by the developing world. We've seen this in terms of the G20 usurping very rapidly the position of the G7,

Understanding the rise...

 it broke online. It was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the internet for a major news story -- a click that reverberated around the world.

The price of shame PIPE...

 our country has been usurped by a foreign tribe

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