Sentence examples for backed a coup from inspiring English sources

In 1997, the RUF backed a coup by the Sierra Leonean army.

It backed a coup by Greek-Cypriot soldiers sympathetic to enosis.

But they turned with a vengeance and backed a coup that briefly ousted him in 2002.

In 1963, the C.I.A. backed a coup to install the Baath Party in Iraq.

He also made a decision he would bitterly regret — he backed a coup in Vietnam that would ensnare the United States in war.

If the Ukrainian people had not panicked and backed a coup, the west would have found another way to pressure Russia.

The Saudi foreign minister accused Iran, which helps Hizbullah, of "backing a coup".

When a socialist candidate finally wins the presidential election, Trueba backs a coup.

This week Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, using exceptionally fierce language, accused Iran of "backing a coup" in Lebanon.

He said he was not sure if it was even worth talking to the rebels, whom he accused of backing a coup attempt in Khartoum last month.

Today, a multitude of newly empowered actors make a series of choices — the Muslim Brotherhood President appeasing the military, say, or liberal Egyptians backing a coup — that have wholly unpredictable consequences.