Sentence examples for effort a coup from inspiring English sources
The best argument for calling the impeachment effort a coup goes like this: The Brazilian Constitution says that a president can only be impeached if convicted of a serious crime.
The presenter called the effort a "silent coup" by the Obama administration and called for a congressional investigation into the issue.
In January in Libreville, the capital of nearby Gabon, a three-year power-sharing arrangement was agreed to in a last-ditch effort to prevent a coup.
They allege that these individuals were engaged in an effort to organize a coup against the civilian government.
Brazilian news outlets reported Wednesday that she will lay out the case that the impeachment effort is essentially a coup d'etat motivated purely by politics.
The National Security Archive, a group that has pressed to open the Chile files, has listed scores of documents not yet made public on covert efforts to foment a coup while Mr. Allende was in office.
Taking this order literally, President Bill Clinton's national security adviser, Anthony Lake, asked the F.B.I. in 1995 to investigate possible criminal charges (later dropped) against the C.I.A. officer Robert Baer for his efforts to organize a coup that might have ended with the killing of Mr. Hussein.
"Peace will continue to triumph over the national and international efforts to mount a coup," Maduro said at a event in which he announced new expenditures for the national police.
Rousseff has always equated the effort to impeach her with a "coup attempt" she says was organized by opposition leaders seeking to block the impact of corruption investigations.
"We are not going to give up," Mr. Gbagbo said, calling the efforts to displace him a coup d'état attempt.
But unlike Mr. Monserrate, who earned the enmity of his party for joining a coup effort that paralyzed the chamber for a month in 2009, Mr. Parker is close to the Senate Democratic leadership, and it was unclear how severely his colleagues would seek to punish him.
