Sentence examples for putschists from inspiring English sources

Either way, by invading Ukraine, and recognising both the bogus referendum and "the Goblin" (as Sergei Aksenov, the sinister leader of Crimea's local putschists, is known), he has trampled on international law and subverted the post-cold-war world order.

Its defenders claimed his presence stopped the putschists storming the building.

August 26 , 1937Perevoz, Russia September 24, 2010 Moscow, Russia Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, (born Aug. 26, 1937, Perevoz, Russia, U.S.S.R. died Sept. 24, 2010, Moscow, Russia) Soviet bureaucrat who was one of eight hard-line coup leaders, or "putschists," who in August 1991 tried to oust Soviet Pres.

Many are Russian or Russian-speaking and look on the new leaders in Kiev as putschists, or even as banderas, the slang term for Ukrainian nationalists who backed Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in the 1940s.

Mr Zelaya's only crime, in the eyes of the "putschists", he said, was that he reduced poverty and inequality.

Not only were our representatives consorting openly with putschists and a regime not recognized by any of the world's governments, they were also thumbing their noses at U.S. policy and, specifically, at President Obama, on foreign soil.

Putschist elements in the party, never persuaded that elections could bring the party to power, were growing increasingly restive.

It is not altogether clear that he had always intended to seize power for himself, however, and he may in fact have been a reluctant putschist.

This time, the putschist faction did.

Still, faced with growing criticism of the decrees, Vice President Ramón Carrizales called on citizens to "refrain from being influenced by the putschist attitudes of opposition groups" and said the decrees had "great humanist meaning".

Here are some of the adjectives he uses to describe Moktada al-Sadr, the young radical Shiite cleric: "lowlife hoodlum," "ruthless," "putschist," "hotheaded murderer," "fascist thug," "vicious" and the "enemy of civilization".