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Recent Examples of ouster On Capitol Hill, both Waltz and Hegseth are facing growing calls from Democrats for their ouster, as Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, pushes for an inspector general to promptly probe what happened. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025 Protests in Gaza calling for an end to the war with Israel and for Hamas' ouster gathered momentum Wednesday, with hundreds of demonstrators for a second day displaying rare dissent against the militant group that has run the Palestinian enclave for nearly two decades. Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025 His ouster, along with the accompanying instability and popular discontent that lingered after him, helped pave the way for Ansar Allah's advances, ultimately seizing the capital in 2015. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025 Howard and Tindall were part of a group that held a news conference at City Hall in May of 2023 and called for Platt’s ouster. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • Protesters have called for the expulsion of Haitian migrants during incidents that have turned violent.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The outcome of that review may determine that financial fines or expulsion from future competition is necessary.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Late in 1979, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah's extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that severed diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S.
    Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said the US Supreme Court had rejected Rana’s plea to stay his extradition, but did not answer further questions about the case.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This was next-gen performance born from racing and applied to touring, and it was all driven by a 260 hp, 3.3-liter Colombo V-12—with 275 cc of displacement per cylinder, hence the moniker—mated to the aforementioned five-speed manual transaxle.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In this powerful act of social and political resistance, this community centered nonprofit aims to fight off displacement and create opportunities for families and individuals to remain in their own neighborhoods.
    Alyza J Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Many immigrants are opting to risk detention and deportation, even as the Trump administration narrows their pathways to stay.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The controversy around the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia intensified yet again Wednesday.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025

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