Sentence examples for a major coup when from inspiring English sources

Was it considered a major coup when you were cast in "Moonraker"?

Adele has a reputation for turning down big shows, and it was seen as a major coup when she agreed to headline Glastonbury this year.

Mrs. Gelb scored a major coup when she persuaded her friend Antoine, the Paris hairdresser whose clients included Greta Garbo and Claudette Colbert, to color several wigs with Clairol and place them in Saks Fifth Avenue's windows.

In May, A.M.D. had a major coup when Dell, which had been strictly an Intel customer, announced that it would begin to use A.M.D.'s Opteron chip in some of its servers.

Last month, Commerce One scored a major coup when it teamed up with General Motors gm to build an online marketplace.

The signing of Kiwi Test full-back Locke for the 2015 was seen as a major coup when announced last month.

Defections continued following the season, and the WHA scored another major coup when it signed Gordie Howe's sons Mark and Marty.

"The police can say this is a major coup, but when you get down to it, there's not much evidence there".

The roughly $35 billion deal gives San Francisco-based Uber Technologies a one-fifth stake in Didi, which won a major coup three months ago when it secured $1 billion funding round from Apple.

And they scored a major coup in May when Bain Capital signed a lease for seven floors, a tenant lured away from a building owned by Boston Properties.

Mr. Serota scored a major coup in 1964 when he bought a parcel in Nassau County that had been part of New York City's watershed system.