Sentence examples for instigate a coup from inspiring English sources

He has already served one term as ambassador to Austria, in 2001, following claims that he was preparing to instigate a coup against Mr Nazarbayev.

Having failed to gain the backing of a European state power to place Radama on the throne and bring the treaty into effect, Lambert decided to instigate a coup d'état independently.

The Dai Li join Azula to instigate a coup d'état of Ba Sing Se; and Zuko, having tried to ignore his past obsession, relapses when the Avatar appears to rescue Katara.

The shadow party he has built here greatly resembles those he created in other countries before instigating a coup.

South Sudan's Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told the BBC that the rebels would have to acknowledge that they had instigated a coup attempt.

On July 27 , 1990 a Muslim organization called Jamaat al Muslimeen instigated a coup against the government of Trinidad & Tobago.

In the early 50s, Mohammed Mossadegh, the country's democratically elected prime minister, began making efforts to nationalize the country's oil industry, which had been largely controlled by the British and French until the CIA and MI6 instigated a coup against him in 1953.

Rumors traveled through the capital that McClellan might resign, or instigate a military coup, if Scott were not removed.

Bilge assumed leadership of the T'u-chüeh, a tribe of Turks in control of southern Central Asia, when his brother instigated a palace coup against the old ruler.

Before the general election when the Conservatives had a majority, there were worries that the repeal bill would be a mechanism for instigating a Tory coup, using it as an opportunity to further refashion the country in their image.

That indictment, which refers to Flynn as "Person A," says that Kian and Flynn worked together on an illegal campaign to do the bidding of the Turkish government, which was seeking to extradite a cleric living in the United States that the Turkish government accused of instigating a failed coup in 2016.