Sentence examples for like a coup from inspiring English sources
No doubt BNP Paribas's domestic rivals, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale, would like a coup of their own.
Ideally, the US and its allies would like a coup within the Syrian government that would get rid of Assad and his family, but otherwise maintain the status quo.
"It sounded like a coup".
In 1972, Davis staged what looked like a coup d'état.
The leave campaign had never looked more like a coup.
And I've had my share of foreign-soil adventures, like escaping a coup attempt by Hugo Chávez in 1992, when Guns N' Roses was playing in Venezuela.
While it seems doubtful that the partnership could ever reach an HTC/Beats level of cooperation, it still seems like quite a coup for Nokia.
Some people would like to claim that a coup is not a coup if there were demonstrators in the streets calling for the removal of the democratically elected president.
Yet this year when Egyptian senior officers contemplated a democratically elected government behaving in ways not to their liking, they promptly mounted a coup and overthrew it.
In the early days of the charity this felt like something of a coup and hugely helped our credibility.
