But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

O believers, you should not usurp unjustly the wealth of each other, but trade by mutual consent and do not destroy yourselves. God is merciful to you.

O believers, you should not usurp unjustly the wealth of each other, but trade by mutual consent and do not destroy yourselves. God is merciful to you.

Do not usurp one another's property by unjust means nor offer it to the judges so that you may devour knowingly and unjustly a portion of the goods of others.

Do not usurp one another's property by unjust means nor offer it to the judges so that you may devour knowingly and unjustly a portion of the goods of others.

Now God, angered at this attempt to usurp his power, destroyed the tower, and then to ensure that it would never be rebuilt, he scattered the people by giving them different languages confused them by giving them different languages.

On the contrary, what we have seen is a dangerous process in which oligarchies are being built, where a small group of countries usurp the right to take decisions without taking into account the vast majority of countries that ultimately represent the overwhelming majority of the global population.

CAMBRIDGE China s rise has raised many questions for the West, with some wondering whether it is set to usurp a struggling Europe s global leadership role. As one columnist put it, there is nothing much European governments can do in East Asia, save serve as marketing managers for their domestic businesses.

Cuba therefore considers that the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) erodes the international unity that should exist in the area of non proliferation and counter terrorism and, in practice, seeks to usurp the role of the United Nations and the international treaties and intergovernmental bodies that already exist in the area of disarmament and arms control.

There are some among the people of the Book who return a whole treasure entrusted to them yet some there are who do not give back a dinar until you demand and insist, because they say It is not a sin for us to (usurp) the rights of the Arabs. Yet they lie against God, and they know it.

There are some among the people of the Book who return a whole treasure entrusted to them yet some there are who do not give back a dinar until you demand and insist, because they say It is not a sin for us to (usurp) the rights of the Arabs. Yet they lie against God, and they know it.

Israel and Saudi Arabia, seemingly the most unlikely of allies, have come together to contain their common enemy Iran, with its mushrooming influence in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. Iran not only threatens Israel (and the region) with its desire for a nuclear capability and its Shi a proxy militants it is also seeking to usurp the traditional role of moderate Sunni Arab regimes as the Palestinians defenders.

In Sunni eyes, the Shia not only dominate the oil rich areas of Iran, Iraq, and the eastern region of Saudi Arabia, but are through the actions of Hezbollah attempting to usurp the role of protector of the central dream of all Arabs, the Palestinian cause. It is because the Saudi royal family derives its legitimacy from a strict form of Sunni Islam and doubts the loyalty of its Shia population that the Kingdom has turned on Hezbollah.