usurper

Examples of usurped

usurped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Such arrangements, enacted without the customary familial negotiations, usurped the privileges of parents and their ability to protect their family lineage, stability, and honour.
Of course, it had not: jobbers had scarcely usurped the managerial hierarchy and displaced the owners.
The usual flow of reading is usurped by typological objects, like hurdles on a racetrack or weirs in a river.
If rights were usurped, as the critics had predicted, it would provide them pretense for a political comeback.
European states usurped church bells for dynastic celebrations, military victories and national festivals.
One informant knowledgeable in tribal matters told me his uncle had usurped the office from him.
He frequently usurped the powers of the commander, to whom he felt superior, especially if the latter was a non-party person.
A generation later, when a new leadership and often a new regime have usurped the leadership role?
This right, however, was not seen as one that they had undeservedly usurped for themselves.
Only now it is singing in duet with another voice, a man's - the very ruler the king has usurped and imprisoned.
These agencies, critics argued, unfairly usurped the power of the judiciary and un12.
The implied result was an authoritarian state, the bureaucratic machine having usurped the role of the architect.
Any rule can be usurped, as a strong argument or a compelling discussion will do.
He usurped the judicial authority by trying capital cases and exerting punishment by death, exile, or confiscation of property of those he disliked or whose property he desired.
By contrast, some of the more interesting instances of this influence occur when authority has been usurped, and the weaknesses of individuals are acerbically exploited in pictorial form.
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