Sentence examples for a coup at from inspiring English sources

They haven't changed in a coup at Westminster.

"What are the chances of 20 governments having a coup at the same time?" one Washington official asked.

Now he thinks only about how he can marshal the votes needed to retain the Uefa presidency and launch a coup at Fifa.

De Man attempted a coup at Editions de la Toison d'Or by sending a fallacious report to Berlin blaming Didier for mismanagement of the company.

At the end of the war, encouraged by the liberal ideas of the American occupation, a group of left-wing journalists staged a coup at the paper.

Supporters of Muhammad Morsi, ousted in a coup at the beginning of July, were marching to demand that the army should restore him to the presidency.

In 1928 he attracted some $6 million from the Rockefeller Foundation's International Education Board for the construction of a 200-inch reflector; this was a major coup at a time when overall support for science in the United States was hardly robust.

Labour MPs attempted to turf him out of his office in a botched coup at a time of national crisis, and 172 members of the parliamentary Labour party voted no-confidence in his leadership.

Turkey invaded the island in 1974 to stop a coup aimed at uniting Cyprus with Greece.

Within a month, Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka mounted a coup aimed at securing a Fiji in which the ethnic Fijians would not be dominated by immigrants or their descendants.

Cyprus has been divided along ethnic lines since a 1974 Turkish invasion in the wake of a coup aiming at union with Greece.