Sentence examples for minor coups from inspiring English sources

Mr. Paul's campaign has been engineering minor coups at Republican party conventions in several states.

Occasionally, there were minor coups; a 4-­year-­old would ask me to draw a pirate ship or a dinosaur, then tell me that I was the world's greatest artist.

I've called it a minor coup, and that's probably a minor understatement.

To be fair to Howard, he has pulled of a minor coup of sorts.

Lobster-asparagus risotto, spread out flat on a large plate, pulled off a minor coup.

The re-signing of Kade Kolodjashnij until the end of 2018 is at least a minor coup.

For the Thunder, a franchise still carving an identity after leaving Seattle last summer, landing Krstic is a minor coup.

Épernon then carried out the minor coup d'état that made Marie de Médicis regent for Henry's infant son Louis XIII, but she did not include him in her government.

As Mr. Goldberg wiped the sweat from his furrowed brow and gave Mr. Berger a warm handshake, it was clear he considered the slim margin a minor coup.

Trump's arrogation of congressional power qualifies as a minor coup d'état: he has explicitly commandeered the most important constitutional power the power of the purse from the legislative branch, openly and in pure pretext.

Still, the big picture has looked much more sunlit than stormy, which is no minor coup considering the rambunctious British news media and the country's economic travails lately.