Sentence examples for over coup from inspiring English sources

The Bangkok Post reported in October 2006 that Sonthi was grooming Anupong to be his successor by giving him responsibilities over coup logistics, a greater task than had been assigned to Saprang.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf unilaterally redrew Pakistan's Constitution today, imposing 29 amendments that expand his control of the country he took over by coup in 1999 -- changes that undermine coming parliamentary elections meant to return the nation to democracy.

Sometimes they just toss the magazine aside and head into the examining room to take over, a coup d'état of body custody in the name of a higher good.

The African Union has regularly suspended member-states over coups d'etat, re-admitting them when they return to constitutional rule.

And with CNN under Zucker favoring sensational trials over coups and riots in places like Egypt, Al Jazeera could find a breaking news audience very fast.

We have an election and a coup over and over again.

Erdoğan has ruled Turkey under a state of emergency since then, leading a crackdown on independent media, jailing over 47,000 people on terrorism charges, and dismissing over 100,000 public officials over alleged coup links, according to Human Rights Watch.

The current president, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, took over in a coup six years later.

At the same time, Lenin fell terminally ill in Moscow, and Trotsky watched as Stalin took over in a coup".

So far, the generals say they don't want to take over — and a coup would be disastrous.

He became the effective head of government soon after the Baath Party took over in a coup in 1968 and formally assumed the presidency in 1979.