Sentence examples for intellectual coup from inspiring English sources

Putting an untroubled face on some otherwise extreme-seeming views about truth was perhaps his defining intellectual coup.

Distressed by most historians' overwhelming preoccupation with the modern world, an unusual coalition of scholars is trying to stage an intellectual coup, urging their colleagues to look up from the relatively recent swirl of bloody conflicts, global financial exchanges and technological wonders and gaze further back, toward humanity's origins.

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Lévy became such an overnight success he was dubbed a 'publicity philosopher', and the group was suspected of being, in one TV commentator's words, 'an intellectual marketing coup'.

Turkey's intellectuals opposed the coup.

Even more astounding was the fact that the court also ruled against the coup's intellectual authors and leaders, including Raoul Cedras and Roger Biamby, who have been living in exile and who now might be subject to extradition.

Prior to the game's release, Newsweek called Atari's procurement of the intellectual property its "biggest coup".

Following the coup, Iranian intellectuals no longer viewed Americans as missionaries, democrats, teachers, nurses and doctors, but as oilmen, spies and military men.

Leave aside Erdogan's pernicious softening up of the military along with other secularist academics, journalists and intellectuals for allegedly plotting mysterious coup attempts.

In 1973, inspired by socialist change at home, he went back to Chile, only to be arrested, along with other intellectuals, after Pinochet's right-wing coup.

But, on the face of it, the Doha deal is still a big win for poor countries.First, they scored a coup with a declaration that intellectual-property rules should not stop poor countries gaining access to cheap medicines.