How To Use countercoup In A Sentence
- But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
- Mr. Chávez even suggested that Honduras's military should stage a countercoup to restore Mr. Zelaya. Hopes Fade for Quick End to Honduran Political Crisis
- Nor is there anyone of stature to lead a countercoup. The Sun
- Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, the feared security chief who led a countercoup against Greece's military leaders and provoked Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has died. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
- As far as he was concerned, the countercoup had failed and he had little hope of ever returning to Tehran. The Prize
- The shah took back power in 1953 and kept Iran under tight control to prevent a countercoup by the communists. The Coming Revolution
- Eisenhower authorized the CIA to cooperate with the British in an operation that was actually a countercoup because the Mossadegh government had forced the Shah of Iran to abdicate. Eisenhower 1956
- The two Western countries believed they were not supporting a coup—that was what Mossadegh was carrying out—but rather a countercoup by the Shah and Zahedi.14 The Prize
- Holed up in his own headquarters, he began to improvise a countercoup. The People Vs. The Plotters
- Within other bodies of the power elite and see if they can essentially stage what could amount to be a countercoup. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2009
