Sentence examples for bloodless power from inspiring English sources

The bloodless power grab he staged in November 1970 brought stability and the first modern construction of roads, schools and hospitals.

Cory! Cory!" chant that echoed across the Philippines in 1986, as the bloodless "people power" revolt swept Mr. Marcos out of office.

It was the voice of Cardinal Sin, broadcast by a Catholic radio station, that helped to incite the largely bloodless "people power" revolution that deposed Marcos.

Since she took over after the ouster of President Joseph E. Estrada in a bloodless "people power" uprising in 2001, she has vowed to fight corruption and put the government's finances on an even keel.

But several said they were a bit surprised to find her likable, especially in light of the portrait her detractors paint of her as conniving, bloodless and power hungry.

Grayson this week said that the United States "should be pleased" about Russia's annexation of Crimea and described it as "a virtually bloodless transfer of power". A spokesman for O'Rourke said the lawmaker was traveling and unavailable for comment.

And he, Badger, was leaving the burrow that very day and flying north to confront the weasels in Hartlepool, and effect a civilised, democratic and bloodless handover of power.

Not one episode dribbled out with a weekly ration but the entire second season up for continuous viewing on our varied wireless and cable devices -- the only limits being the viewer's appetite for this dark, fatalistic (but bloodless) tale of power as well as any human need for sleep or satisfying other natural functions.

Thailand has been run by the army since Prayuth Chan-ocha, a general, seized power in bloodless coup in 2014.

1967 - Gnassingbe Eyadema seizes power in bloodless coup, political parties dissolved.

1984 April - Lansana Conte and Diarra Traore seize power in bloodless coup.