7 sentences with 'conspiracy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conspiracy and other words derived from it.
• « Darius I came to power after leading a conspiracy that may have assassinated Cambyses II's younger brother Bardiya, who had ruled briefly. »
• « However, the Duke of Guise led a conspiracy to convince the king that only the death of Henry and his followers would truly end the threat of religious division, and with the king's approval Catholic forces launched a massacre on St Bartholomew's Day, 24 August, in which more than 2,000 Protestants were killed. »
• « Various conspiracy theories surrounded him, especially those that claimed he was a secret Catholic; it turns out that he had drawn up a secret agreement with Louis XIV to re-Catholicise England if he could, and proclaimed his Catholicism on his deathbed. »
• « A conspiracy of English legislators thus invited William of Orange, a Dutch military leader and legislator of the Dutch Republic, to lead a force against James. »
• « Thus, in July 1794 a conspiracy of concerned Revolutionaries succeeded in arresting, briefly attempting and then executing Robespierre as a tyrant. The Committee of Public Safety was dissolved. »
• « In 1799, Napoleon was chosen to join a new three-man conspiracy that succeeded in seizing power in a coup; the new government was called the Consulate, its members "consuls" after the most powerful politicians of the ancient Roman Republic. »
• « Thus, when the Russian armies returned home from the Congress of Vienna, a conspiracy of liberal officers emerged, intent on creating a liberal political order for the Russian state once the ageing, fanatically religious and arch-conservative Tsar Alexander I died. »