Forced from office

Usage examples of ousted.

I found accounts of the Synod of Whitby that ousted the Culdee or Irish version of Christianity.

My ancestors were ousted by the daughter of the Merlin and her bastards.

The last remnant of the good brothers what used to own this place, ‘afore Bluff King Hal ousted all of the thievin’ church.

After being ousted from the planetary governorship of Arrakis, Helena's family had salvaged some of its respectability through an arranged marital alliance with the Atreides.

Every person present in the hall knew his professed hatred for the Tleilaxu, his clear support of the ousted Ixian family.

My other difficulty was that I had entered the southern part of the Otomí country, or, to be accurate, the country to which the Otomí peoples had grudgingly removed when they were gradually ousted from the lake lands by the successively arriving waves of Culhua, Acolhua, Aztéca, and other Náhuatl-speaking invaders.

He could not know that by 1990 East Germany would have ceased to exist, that Mielke and Honecker would be ousted and dis­graced, that he would be retired and writing his memoirs for a fat fee, or that Erdmute Keppel would be spending her declining years in West Germany in a place of seclusion rather less comfortable than her designated flat at Fürstenwalde.

The Philby affair had rumbled on as the ousted British SIS man had eked out a living in Beirut until his final departure to Moscow in 1963, but the Agency had remained clean.

He needed to be ousted, or at minimum sealed up, with all available speed.

But Blair’s people were concerned about the prime minister leaving the country for even eight hours because of the Maggie Thatcher precedent, when in 1990 she had gone abroad to a conference and returned only to be ousted as party leader.