Sentence examples for effect a coup from inspiring English sources

And many believe that the Guards mounted what was in effect a coup during the election.

It tried to impose a schedule composed exclusively of F.I.S. events -- in effect, a coup against the International Snowboard Federation.

First, he has several times over been voted out of office by the people he has bullied, starved and impoverished, but continues to rule through the gun and truncheon as, in effect, a coup leader.

Some in Mr Sirisena's camp claim that was an act, and that Mr Rajapaksa first explored whether the attorney-general, chief justice and heads of the army and police would agree to cancel the election in effect, a coup attempt.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 5 — In a sharp indictment of President Hugo Chávez's proposed changes to the Constitution, the former top army commander here described the proposed charter on Monday as "in effect a coup d'état" intended to abolish checks on Mr. Chávez's expanding power.

A final argument, in March, 2006 — "There were things said that should remain in the privacy of that room and our recollection," Blair writes — led that summer to what was in effect a coup, with a series of Brown allies releasing letters calling for the Prime Minister to step down.

At the same time a Baʿthist group effected a coup in Iraq.

Conflicts developed between the two leaders, and in June 1965 Boumedienne effected a coup against Ben Bella and installed himself as president.

It was in those circumstances that Col. Reza Khan, commander of the Cossack Brigade, effected a coup d'état and appointed himself minister of war in 1921, prime minister in 1923, and shah of Iran in 1925, taking the name Reza Shah Pahlavi.

The next year, when Satsuma, one of the feudal fiefs into which Japan was then divided, effected a coup d'etat at the imperial court and forced the emperor to reverse his radical policy, Sanjō took shelter in the more sympathetic Chōshū domain in western Honshu.

This is the second time Mr. Rajoelina has declared himself president, in effect announcing a coup.