Tax collectors used to be Public Enemy Number One now bankers have usurped that role.

That right cannot be usurped or confiscated either by the international community or by any State or international organization.

However, a number of major newspapers in several countries questioned their motives and some hinted at self appointed nobility and a usurped historical identity.

The United Nations must not allow, as has appeared to be the case in recent years, any part of its mandate to be usurped.

More important and grave is the fact that Israel is continuing to build its illegal wall on usurped Palestinian territory, including in East Jerusalem.

Almost inevitably, or so it seems, the idea of Pakistan has been usurped, which is why Pakistan s friends have so often become its masters, and why Pakistan continues to remain fragile, insecure, and tense.

In 1527, the Mạc dynasty usurped the throne when the Lê dynasty was restored in 1533, they still had to compete for power with the Mạc dynasty during the period known as Southern and Northern Dynasties.

It is abundantly clear that the Greek Cypriot administration is engaged in an ill conceived policy based on the continuation of the usurped Republic of Cyprus with the eventual goal of extending its illegal authority to Northern Cyprus.

FSRP reiterated its confidence in the Puerto Rican people's ability to fight successfully for the recognition of its rights to self determination and independence and for the full restitution of its sovereign authority, usurped by the United States Congress.

Further, it should be kept in mind that, of the 27,000 court decisions that have been handed down in the last six years on the restitution of usurped property to its rightful owners, only 300 have actually been carried out.

To say that, over time, other bodies, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the specialized agencies, have usurped the powers and role of the Economic and Social Council is a defeatist attitude.

Putin has usurped authority not just from his more knowledgeable colleagues, but also from the prime minister, who has traditionally served as Russia s chief economic policymaker. Indeed, since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has been all but irrelevant.