Sentence examples for for coup from inspiring English sources

[10] The term coup is short for coup d'état, as in: (violent) takeover of the state.

The EU has welcomed the constitutional changes, which, among other things, make it possible for coup plotters to be tried henceforth in civilian courts.

Hoon thought Brown had little future and said so, calling for coup No 5, which turned out to be the least effective of the lot of them.

Various takes on that assertion quickly surfaced around the region, including descriptions of the ouster as a "parliamentary coup," a "constitutional coup," even a "golpeachment," merging the Portuguese terms for "coup" and "impeachment," which spread throughout social networks in Brazil.

The garish suits are crucial because the inspiration for Coup Fatal comes from the sapeurs – the famous Congolese dandies who strut the war-torn, poverty-stricken streets of Kinshasa wearing the nattiest pieces of European tailoring.

Urdu, a distorter of tongues, pilfering as it does from Persian, Hindi, but largely Arabic, uses the masculine word for coup d'etat – inqilab – for revolution, rather than the accurate feminine: thawra.

Their armies are often no match for coup-plotters with foreign expertise and weapons.

"Not one dollar for coup-mongers," he said in a televised speech.

But cadres are for coups.

"We knew there were preparations for coups," Fırat told me.

There should be no place for coups in the democratic Americas.