losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown
relative by marriage; affinity
to be sacked; to be dismissed
viceroy; governor-general
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
product; produce; result; fruit
to have a reason; to have an excuse
to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge
to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
to side with (someone); to support (someone)
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
piling up; accumulating; forming a (huge) pile; lying in piles
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
imprisonment; incarceration
to persist in; to carry out; to have one's own way; to push through; to carry through
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
fall; decrease (in income)
injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
centre; center; pivot; central nervous system
to hang on to; to hang from; to hound; to keep after (someone); to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
bureau director; office chief
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
accepting; consenting; agreeing; submission; compliance; agreement
quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute
organs of the state; machinery of the state
snake in one's bosom; treacherous friend
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved
person of paramount authority; supreme wielder of power
substantial; real (as opposed to nominal)
rebellion; uprising; insurrection; (arch.) treason
having no memory of (having done something); having nothing to do with; having no knowledge of; knowing nothing about
to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)
death (of an emperor); demise
government official; clerk