Lukashenko mistakenly believed Tikhanovskaya would pose no challenge to him - but after she appeared to have won massive support, she was driven out of the country.

One of my favorite quotes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Egypt was driven out of Gaza in the 1967 war and the Strip was occupied by Israel, which built settlements and placed Gaza's Palestinian population under military rule.

Such an approach asks us to believe that in the online world, an effective “marketplace of ideas” ensures that good ideas will drive out bad ones and that truth triumphs over falsehood.

On Friday they drove out, coping with pet accidents as they went.