Sentence examples for at a coup from inspiring English sources

An oversize, puppetlike baby crawled on stage, an attempt at a coup de theatre.

On Wednesday, the newspaper described his party's protests as an "attempt at a coup d'etat".

It was not clear if the battle was an actual attempt at a coup.

I remember I was shopping in the market and I heard that an attempt at a coup had taken place.

At the end of the same year, Mishima committed ritual suicide after a crazy, failed attempt at a coup.

An unsuccessful attempt at a coup d'etat in February 1932, however, resulted in the decline of the movement and in the imprisonment of Kosola for three years.

THE French describe love at first sight as a coup de foudre, or a lightning bolt.

In spite of this, Western correspondents continue to shed doubt on the fact that what happened was not at all a "coup d'état".

In it, Mr. Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a citizen of a fictional Eastern European country who is stranded at Kennedy Airport because of a coup at home.

Apparently Thailand is more at risk of a coup in 2014 than any other country in Asia.

They are being shown for the first time at Inverleith House, a coup for that most beautiful of galleries and a high point of the Edinburgh Art Festival.