How To Use Coup d'etat In A Sentence
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The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
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In November 1963 a military junta staged a coup d'état and killed President Diem.
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In this scenario, Lin and his high military commanders, sensing's treachery, plotted a preemptive coup d'etat.
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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.
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Shortly after the coup d'etat that brought Qaddafi to power, he unceremoniously ordered all Italians to leave Libyan territory.
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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.
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The second scenario is a military coup d'état by the hardliners.
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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
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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
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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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In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’.
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Muna warned that elections in themselves are not enough because sometimes a legally elected government takes office and simply "ties up the system," leaving a coup d'etat the only option for change.
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This was the coup d'état of his grandfather Louis XV and chancellor Maupeou against the parlements.
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The trouble is linked to turmoil that culminated in the coup d'etat that ousted President Marc Ravalomanana last week.
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When the Spanish Civil guard stormed the parliament in Madrid in the attempted coup d'etat of 1981, the kids at my school gathered to discuss the breaking news.
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They claimed she was making strange demands of the budget, she claimed it was a coup d'état by radical prohibitionists who had infiltrated the organization.
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In November he precipitated a second coup d'état.
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My lecturer used this anecdote as a rough guide to those regimes where the leadership was out of touch with reality, and were on the slippery slope to a coup d'état or being thrown out.
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There was not, then, and the honest co-authors of the _coup d'état_ admit it now to their intimates, with playful delight, there was not any "Jacquerie," it is true; but the trick has told.
Napoleon the Little
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A cough is simply an effort of the lungs or bronchiæ to remove some offending intruder that ought to be doing duty elsewhere; and may we not call neuralgia _a cough of a nerve_ to get rid of a disagreeable oppression -- nature's legitimate _coup d'état_ to put down and transport those "_red socialist_" particles that would interfere with the regularity of its constitution?
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
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Thanks for the lecture on the use of the term coup d'état and it's synonym "take-over".
Cincinnati Herald: Edith Thrower Is NAACP Prez
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He said Tuesday's conviction was 'politically motivated' and 'a carry forward of the coup d'etat' against him, the Associated Press reported.
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In betraying his supporters, Zelaya capitulated, meaning he'll support coup d'etat authority.
Honduran Accord Solidifies Coup E'Etat Rule
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His seizure of power in 1969 was a ‘revolution’ rather than a coup d'état.
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Today he is on the wrong side of what many analysts consider an ultraconservative coup d'etat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo.
Shakespeare
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Security officials also have warned of plots by retired military officers to recruit soldiers on active duty to launch a coup d'état.
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But if the pressure weakens, out of an ill-advised effort to placate Moscow, Putin and his Kievan friends will be able to consummate their coup d'etat.
BIG BROTHER AND 'LITTLE RUSSIANS'
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Like people who use the phrase "me-time" (as distinct, one always wonders, from what exactly?) there is something vaguely comic about a room full of Manhattan women – who, if they were any more assertive, could launch a coup d'etat – "empowering" themselves via chants about how great they all are.
Eat, pray, cash in
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He would be chillier than an accountant's ledger, crueler than a general on the night of a coup d'état.
SACRAMENT
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I submit to you that what took place on November 22, 1963 was a coup d'etat.
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Plans for the coup d'etat in Yanaon, then a small French colony in India, are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11, 1954, but nothing actually happened that night.
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Opposition parties said they were continuing plans to hold a peaceful march in Lome Saturday to protest what they called a coup d'etat.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The hyperinflation resorted to after the coup d'état completed the financial destruction of these foundations.
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The upper classes of Europe in the same spirit applauded what they called the salvation of society by the _coup d'etat_, the massacre on the Boulevards and the lawless deportation of the leaders of the working men in France.
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