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