Sentence examples for public coup from inspiring English sources

But Johnson, the chief executive of Black Entertainment Television, which is based in Washington, gained a substantial public coup when he bought the Charlotte team: he is the first African-American principal owner of a major professional sports franchise.

It was a remarkable letter, a clinical and very public coup-de-grace delivered to an eminent, mortally wounded elder.

The South Vietnamese won in large part because the Americans had spent so much on the country, and could not afford to abandon it and lose to the communists over the matter of military rule, as a communist takeover would be a big public relations coup for the Soviet bloc.

Given the considerable viewership on Friday, that decision proved to be a public relations coup.

Their donation has given Salmond a public relations coup and significantlyboosted his referendum war chest.

And for modern Mexico, it is undoubtedly a considerable public relations coup.

It's obviously a public relations coup to be the first sequencer in space.

For Kleiner Perkins, the Powell connection is a tremendous public relations coup of course.

Sometimes, Mr. Pollner said, a major public relations coup could be useful.

The association is more than a public relations coup for Emory.

It's rare to hear al-Qaida backers talking forlornly about an American public relations coup.