Sentence examples for a quick coup from inspiring English sources
In some cases a "failing" school is closed by a quick coup de grace.
The coup leaders promise a quick return to civilian rule.
A notion reinforced by the homegrown senator Andrew Johnson, who refused to yield his seat upon Tennessee's secession, East Tennessee's defiant Unionism encouraged political leaders like Lincoln to believe that a quick war would topple the Confederate "coup" launched by slaveholding aristocrats.
The UN secretary general's special envoy to West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, met with Diendere on Thursday and "demanded an end to the coup d'etat" and a quick resumption of the country's political transition, the UN political chief, Jeffrey Feltman, told reporters after briefing the UN security council.
Then, while Hetherington was making a quick trip to Israel, Scott carried out a coup.
Rather than a single, quick, and decisive coup d'état resolving a US foreign policy problem, each CIA-led regime change has been, almost inevitably, a prelude to a bloodbath.
But there is absolutely no doubt what it was - a remarkable, quick and mostly bloodless coup d'etat.
There could be a coup, a counterrevolution".
WHEN is a coup not a coup?
