Sentence examples for pulled off the coup from inspiring English sources

Charles had begun to buy during his stay in Spain, and four years after the trip he pulled off the coup of the Gonzaga collection.

In 1993 she was named secretary of energy for the state, and pulled off the coup of vastly increasing power production, ensuring the state was spared the power cuts that plagued the rest of the country.

Although Gough has never done a play in London, his Edinburgh shows (he's occupied the Royal Botanical Gardens for the last four years, and before that pulled off the coup of doing a show at the Folly on Carlton Hill) have won every prize going: Fringe Firsts (he can't remember whether he's got four or five), the Evening News Award, the Guardian's International Student Drama Award.

"At the time no one could believe it in football when Cardiff City pulled off the coup.

"Crystal Palace have pulled off the coup of signing Wilfried Zaha on a permanent deal so they will feel more confident of survival.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was under serious pressure to bring in a striker after Olivier Giroud was ruled out injured for three months - especially after Manchester United pulled off the coup of landing Radamel Falcao, who had been strongly linked with the Gunners.

He acknowledged that pulling off the coup of bringing a large symphony of 165 here on such a high-profile visit would likely raise his standing in North Korea and help him with projects there.

The buttoned-up Lane Pryce came into Mad Men at the start of the third season, as part of a hostile British take-over of Sterling Cooper, remaining to become the company's chief cost-cutter and then pulling off the coup that allows the formation of the new agency at the season's close.

Redknapp will look to bring the best out of forward Junior Hoilett, who has yet to fulfil hopes QPR had for him after pulling off the coup of signing him from Blackburn amid fierce competition.

HE MAY be an unpopular lame-duck president, but George Bush can still pull off the odd coup.

Mr. Whitworth, however, pulled off the real coup.