Sudden deposition of a government; illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.
1 A coup d' état is an event with immediate obvious and decisive results.
2 This coup d'état was described as the suppression of a Royalist conspiracy.
3 In the past this kind of situation might have led to a coup d'état .
4 My guess is he offered you power through the League... A coup d'état , maybe?
5 Cloud that the coup d'état occurred which made Napoleon first-consul.
6 Honduras has seen a steep increase in violence since the coup d'état in June last year.
7 After three years the boy king of a sudden coup d'état assumed the reins of Government.
8 Then I remembered that it was the 2d of December, the anniversary of Louis Napoléon's coup d'état .
9 Next a coup d'état and an emperor.
10 For another hour they discussed the details of the coup d'état that was to overthrow the government of Pal-ul-don.
11 They have added Slave States by a coup d'état : shall we wait until they have added Cuba and Mexico?
12 There was a time in Latin America when you could perpetrate a coup d'état , shoot a few protesters, and simply move on.
13 Or, believing that the party does not belong to Tony Blair, we could rise up against the coup d'état which overthrew the legitimate philosophy.
14 There was gladness and exultation now that Louis Napoleon had accomplished a coup d'état and established a throne upon the ruins of the republic.
15 I don't think there was ever any danger of a coup d'état , at least as long as Marshal MacMahon was the chief of state.
16 This violent party, who wished to substitute a coup d'état for a sentence, to follow no law, no form, but to strike Louis XVI.
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