Sentence examples for some sort of coup from inspiring English sources

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"But there is always some sort of coup with Helgi.

Mr Bo's visit, after Mr Wang's attempted defection, to old pals high up in the army fuelled fears that he was planning some sort of coup.

In recent weeks, rumors that he would remove General Wiranto have mingled with rumors that the military might strike back with some sort of coup.

Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, told The Daily Telegraph that Mr Salmond should not try to "overthrow the will of the Scottish people in some sort of coup".

At one end of the spectrum, very unlikely but still possible, was some sort of coup in Moscow that would lead to an attempted re-clamp down in East Germany and a rebuilding of the Wall.

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One shadow cabinet source said their response was "genuine and spontaneous", but denied there was "some sort of organised coup".

"What we have to make sure is that this isn't some sort of palace coup whereby powerbrokers of Fifa are hoping to usher Sepp Blatter out but retain power and control for themselves," he said.

Mark F. Brown, the new tribal chairman for the Mohegans, acknowledged that there was a perception that the elections represented some sort of a coup and said that this notion had to be overcome.

Even if there is not a "hard" coup, some sort of softer military-judicial coup is possible perhaps like the state of emergency imposed last year in Bangladesh putting a civilian front on a government backed by the army and palace.

On the other side, if the think tank were to suddenly be installed as government in some sort of center-left coup d'etat, it would move to raise taxes on just about everything.

"It is possible, of course, that this will be the sort of coup which 'resets' the political arena and quickly restores civilian rule.

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