Sentence examples for Two coup from inspiring English sources

One member of the Justice Committee investigating the extrajudicial killings was Antonio Trillanes IV, who has led two coup attempts.

Mr. Pérez faced two coup attempts in 1992, the first of which was led by Mr. Chávez, thrusting the then-unknown lieutenant colonel into the national spotlight.

In Venezuela, the officers who led two coup attempts in 1992 were soon let out of prison, to avoid more army unrest.

After bloody price riots in 1989, two coup attempts and the removal of President Carlos Andrés Pérez on corruption charges, the electorate was demanding fundamental change.

Personally quiet and self-effacing, Compaoré seemed content to leave the public business of politics in Upper Volta (renamed Burkina Faso in 1984) to the more charismatic Sankara and the other two coup organizers.

In the last three years, there have been more than a half-dozen unsolved political assassinations here, including of the longtime president and the former army chief of staff, as well as at least two coup attempts, besides the successful coup.

Fiji, which had suffered two coups in 1987 and another in 2000, experienced yet another last December.

In 22 years of independence, it has been disrupted by two coups, secessionist tensions and that ill-advised war.

They have, after all, rigged all the four previous polls presided over by their master, who has also staged two coups.

NANCY, FRANCE — The Opéra National de Lorraine scored two coups this season by programming two operas that were difficult to pass up.

The Mauritanian military, which has staged two coups since 2005, says it is vying with militants for the trust of the country's civilian population.