Sentence examples for in a failed coup from inspiring English sources

Gbagbo's rule was not without discord, culminating in a failed coup on September 19 , 2002

Three generals have been arrested for their part in a failed coup to overthrow the sitting Burundi president, reports claim.

He is the prime suspect in a failed coup that tried, in 1996, to restore the current emir's father to the throne.

Qatar was experiencing a period of unrest, which culminated in a failed coup attempt in February , 1996 and the government was uncoöperative.

Four years later, after the GOP lost seats in midterm elections and Boehner participated in a failed coup against then speaker Newt Gingrich, he was ousted.

As an adolescent, he spent several years in Argentina, where his father, General Euclides Figueiredo, sought exile after taking part in a failed coup attempt.

That instability helped set in motion a failed coup attempt by Mr. Chávez in 1992, which first thrust him into the public eye.

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets.

Chávez was elected president in 1998 (after a failed coup in 1992), and then imposed an increasingly authoritarian regime.

The state of emergency, in place since a failed coup in July 2016, gives the police added powers, restricts the right of assembly and is likely to constrain campaigning.

Sunday's claims of voter fraud and the ballot rule change come amid an extended state of emergency in place since a failed coup in July 2016.