After a 1986 military coup, a single party won every seat in 1993 elections.
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.
The criticism leveled at me included being "too much" of everything: I was too smart, too attractive, too athletic, too driven, too loud when I laughed, too enmeshed with my children as a single parent and the coup de gras -- I was too fearless.
Stewart, who championed the issue when barely any TV news programme or US newspaper had so much as mentioned it, was therefore credited with a single-handed political coup.
Over drinks afterwards, I congratulated Stoppard on pulling off such a coup with a single word.
Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, was ousted in an army-led July 3 coup after a single turbulent year in power.
Much of the evidence is contained in a single CD dated 2003 when the coup plans were said to have been hatched.
True, at Sotheby's Tuesday sale, a pure masterpiece by Seurat, a small plein-air study in oils, was bought for a comparatively modest $1.93 million by a single contender who made the artistic coup of the season.
A major political coup, the creation of a single European currency, is about to take place.
These two coups for democracy occurred without a single shot fired.
