Sudden deposition of a government; illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus.
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Examples for "coup "
1 Amnesty International said coup leaders had arrested several members of Toure's government.
2 France and Germany condemned the coup , with the UN expressing serious concern.
3 However the union's latest venture could yet be its most successful coup .
4 The army seized power weeks later in a coup on May 22.
5 The coup in Haiti has been the site of state-sponsored political violence.
1 Israeli officials have watched political turmoil since Mubarak's overthrow with growing wariness.
2 Western air support helped Libyan rebels to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi last year.
3 Russian troops poured into Chechnya in 1999 to overthrow a separatist government.
4 They should help overthrow the regime that turned good men into criminals.
5 The object of this was the overthrow of British dominion in India.
1 However, it has long been plagued by political instability and military coups .
2 Fiji's political history is complex but best known internationally for its coups .
3 The former Portuguese colony has seen several coups since independence in 1974.
4 Fiji has had four coups - the last one 11 years ago.
5 Lesotho has seen a series of military coups since independence in 1966.
1 The putsch lasted a week and the government was restored last Wednesday.
2 The Communist putsch in Germany was smashed by the German government.
3 The army denied a putsch was imminent, saying police could handle the protests.
4 It's only a matter of time before putsch comes to shove.
5 A decade later, rivals waged a short-lived putsch against Chavez himself.
1 Dos pajaros al un golpe ! (Two birds with one stone.)
2 "Nowe maie alle Helle open to golpe thee downe," etc.
1 But the time had passed for coups d'état .
2 Lamoignon was skilled in coups d'état .
3 As long as the marshal was at the Elysee, foreign governments were not afraid of coups d'état or revolutions.
4 Failed civilian governments and a series of army-led coups d'état conditioned rising young generals to see themselves as politicians.
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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