Otherwise, the tower would almost certainly have toppled.

In that action, he toppled the government of Luís Cabral.

Western policymakers and those in the Gulf ask themselves what Syria would look like the day after Assad is toppled.

Houses had collapsed, bridges had toppled over, overpasses had fallen to pieces as the ground beneath literally turned to liquid.

Sidi Bouzid was the city which sparked the Tunisian revolution which toppled Zeine Al Abideen Ben Ali's 23 year rule.

The US military forces did not capture him, though they toppled the Taliban government and disrupted bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.

Jacqueline Charles writes in the Miami Herald that government estimates that 25,000 government offices and businesses either toppled or need to be demolished.

In May 2009, the Maoist led government was toppled and another coalition government with all major political parties barring the Maoists was formed.

He was toppled in an internal military coup, and free multi party elections were organized and held for the first time in 1993.

Although local law enforcement quickly ended the invasion of the stage, the ensuing melée toppled Cole from his piano bench and injured his back.

In August 2011 the Jhala Nath Khanal Government was toppled and Baburam Bhattarai of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was made the Prime Minister.

Summary of the invasion The U.S. led Coalition forces toppled the government and captured the key cities of a large nation in only 21 days.

Three Arab dictators have been toppled, some others forced to engage in reforms, while in other places the confrontation is proving to be painful and bloody.

He also predicted doom, poverty and a bloodbath for Libyans should Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya with an iron fist for more than 40 years be toppled.

As the Muslim Brotherhood s rule became increasingly authoritarian, it trampled on the ideals and aspirations of the Tahrir Square revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Last month, a pipeline carrying Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan was bombed the 15th such attack since Mubarak s regime was toppled and remains out of commission.

By the end of November, São Tomé and Principe plunged into a political crisis, and in Guinea Bissau another military coup d'etat toppled the government in April 2012.

In February 2011 the Madhav Kumar Nepal Government was toppled and Jhala Nath Khanal of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) was made the Prime Minister.

The Party of Democratic Convergence (PCD) toppled the MLSTP to take a majority of seats in the National Assembly, with the MLSTP becoming an important and vocal minority party.

And that is what this cylinder is, the declaration made by the ruler guided by God who had toppled the Iraqi despot and was going to bring freedom to the people.

Zibakalam has advocated for the Islamic Republic to hold firm, as if this regime is toppled, it is not obvious that a country of Iran as we know it will remain.

What happened was that for the first time in modern Arab history, authoritarian regimes and rulers were toppled, or seriously challenged, by popular demonstrations, not as in the past through military coups.

Russian TV spreads a lot of propaganda about the presence of so called Banderovites, or followers of Ukrainian nationalist and alleged war criminal Stepan Bandera, among the protesters who toppled Yanukovich's government.

However, in 1955, the State of Vietnam's Prime Minister, Ngô Đình Diệm, toppled Bảo Đại in a fraudulent referendum organised by his brother Ngô Đình Nhu, and proclaimed himself president of the Republic of Vietnam.

Nyerere was instrumental in the union between the islands of Zanzibar and the mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after the Zanzibar revolution on 12 January 1964 which toppled the Sultan of Zanzibar Jamshid bin Abdullah.

Iran s backward economy, a third of which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, is simply incapable of offering job opportunities to Iran s growing cohorts of university graduates the same segment of society that toppled the Shah.

That may be why Bo had to be toppled, and certainly why dissidents like Chen, as well as his family, have to suffer so much that refuge in a foreign embassy is their final, desperate option.

An Egyptian court has fined ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and other officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ( 90m) for disconnecting the Internet and mobile phone services during the revolution which toppled him, it was announced today.

As the constant campaigning exhausted the resources and manpower of the state, the Umayyads, weakened by the Third Muslim Civil War of 744 747 CE, were finally toppled by the Abbasid Revolution in 750 CE 132 AH.

The tall column in the center of the main square dates from colonial times it held a statue of a Spain's viceroy, which was toppled when the country gained independence the current sculpture on its summit commemorates Mexican independence.

Meanwhile, both Egypt and Tunisia, which have had popular uprisings which have toppled Hosni Mubarak and Zein El Abdideen Ben Ali respectively, and which also flank Libya, have opened their borders for humanitarian relief to reach Libyans, under attack from the Gaddafi regime.

Then, in 2011, Western backed regime change in Libya toppled Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi and drove more fundamentalists to flee into the desert but not before they had gotten their hands on a significant part of Qaddafi s heavy weaponry, as well as many vehicles.

Then, in 2011, Western backed regime change in Libya toppled Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi and drove more fundamentalists to flee into the desert 160 but not before they had gotten their hands on a significant part of Qaddafi s heavy weaponry, as well as many vehicles.

Among the chief demands is calling for a civil government, to take the place of the Supreme Council for Armed Forces (SCAF), the military establishment which has installed itself as the defacto ruler of Egypt after former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.

Recent history (2002 present) In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was established by the UN Security Council to help assist the Karzai administration and provide basic security.

In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was established by the UN Security Council to help assist the Karzai administration and provide basic security to the Afghan people.

The Kurdish militias in northern Syria, which sought to stay out of the civil war while preparing their own autonomous enclave should Bashar al Assad s regime be toppled, are now being drawn into the fighting the Iraqi Kurds, who have been training their Syrian kin, may well follow.

On 14 November 1980, Vieira toppled the government of Luís Cabral in a bloodless military coup, which initial reports credited to racial strife between the black population of Guinea Bissau and the mulatto population of the related Republic of Cape Verde, embodied in the Cabo Verdian origin of President Cabral.

A revolution that was made only by lieutenants also toppled the PRM (Minas Gerais Republican Party) from power in Minas Gerais and the PRR (Rio Grande do Sul Republican Party) from power in the Rio Grande do Sul Elections and the revolution The elections were held on March 1, 1930 and gave victory to Júlio Prestes, who received 1,091,709 votes against 742,794 given to Getúlio Vargas.