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coup d'etat

NOUN
  1. a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

How To Use coup d'etat In A Sentence

  • The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
  • In November 1963 a military junta staged a coup d'état and killed President Diem.
  • In this scenario, Lin and his high military commanders, sensing's treachery, plotted a preemptive coup d'etat.
  • Two strands of discontent finally worked together at the end of April 1258, with a coup d'état by the English baronage, demanding both a political purge and administrative reform.
  • Shortly after the coup d'etat that brought Qaddafi to power, he unceremoniously ordered all Italians to leave Libyan territory.
  • Freedom of expression is therefore, one of the very first freedoms to be curtailed when a democracy is being undermined, either as a prelude to a coup d'état or as an early step in the process of gradual tyrannization.
  • The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
  • As hated as JFK had become in nationalist conservative circles LBJ was the de facto president who benefited from and protected the members staging the coup d'état. Easter Lemming Liberal News
  • A pro-democracy national strike two weeks ago brought the kingdom to a standstill and elicited an angry response from Mswati that the stayaway was a front for a planned coup d'etat. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The carefully controlled plan, the coup d'état they are preparing for, will collapse in a whirlwind of treachery and counterplots, and eventually they will be forced to abandon it.
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