Sentence examples for like coup from inspiring English sources
This 5-year-old knows words like "coup" and "cadre," but also asks: "What are bombs?
And then there are rogue statues, like "Coup de Tête," erected by an artist in Doha, which depicts an infamous encounter between French striker Zinedine Zidane and Italy's Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final.
And "The Clockmaker" — moved from the upstate New York setting of the book to Lyon, France — is a sprawling tale, much livelier than later Tavernier films like "Coup de Torchon" and "Round Midnight," with polished work by the great French actors Philippe Noiret as a conservative provincial father whose son goes on the run and Jean Rochefort as a sympathetic detective.
CLINTON IN CHIEF It looked like coup d'état, c'est moi: former President Bill Clinton back in the White House press room, holding an impromptu but long-winded news conference about the tax compromise bill, and also about Haiti and arms control.
With old and not so old favorites like "Coup de Couperin," "Paper Tiger" and "Yo Shakespeare" among the many works on its schedule, Ballet Tech sets up shop at 8 tomorrow night for a five-week spring season at the Joyce Theater.
"Brian says he saw me play and his jaw hit the floor and he said, 'I've got to be in a band with this woman.' We started jamming in his rehearsal space and then my basement the week after that, and the band was born - it was like coup de foudre!" (that's Français for lightning bolt, mes chères).
"I don't know much about Thai politics because I live abroad, but I don't like coups, that's for certain," he said.
No one likes coups; but surely Captain Camara could only be better than his shockingly corrupt and despotic predecessor, President Lansana Conté, whose death sparked the army uprising.
No doubt BNP Paribas's domestic rivals, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale, would like a coup of their own.
Compare these statistics to regime survival after other forms of leadership transition, like coups, revolts or term limits.
It's steadying, and probably helps explain our resistance, over more than two centuries, to things like coups.
