Sentence examples for tries a coup from inspiring English sources

"And if the military tries a coup again, we are ready to come out, to die for democracy".

"They tried a coup and it failed.

He said he would not try a coup.

They tried a military coup, backed by the US in 2002; when that failed they tried to topple the government with an oil strike.

They tried a military coup, backed by the U.S. in 2002; when that failed they tried to topple the government with an oil strike.

Already some rightwing Labour figures are being primed to try a mini-coup of their own, echoing the Tory claim that the second largest party shouldn't lead a government.

At least the director acknowledges that Chávez, a former lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan army, once tried an unsuccessful coup almost a decade before he was elected to power.

Belgium, Greece, and Portugal staged a last-minute attempt at a coup, trying to have the fourth "bucket" dropped as unacceptable from the negotiations, participants in the dinner said.

Adolfo Marugan, the director of the Spain-based Association for Democratic Solidarity, said: "He tries to organise a coup every one or two years.

I'm trying to mount a coup".

"Those who are trying to make a coup?