(n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
Example Sentences:
(1) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(3) The US initially condemned the 2009 coup in Honduras against the leftwing leader José Manuel Zelaya but has subsequently supported the administration of Porfirio Lobo.
(4) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(5) The west African nation, once seen as a pillar of democracy in the troubled region, has been split in two since a coup in March.
(6) We stayed together for several more years, until I swapped her for a flashy Mazda coupe.
(7) Of course, if the wheels are falling off the regime, people will try to find a way out, but it is much more likely that they will simply defect, rather than try to pull off a coup and then negotiate a deal for the regime.
(8) Their endorsement would be a significant coup for Farage’s party as it seeks to build on the two by-election victories following the defection of Tory MPs, Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell.
(9) What happened in Crimea is unconstitutional and resembles ... a coup supported by the Russian government and the Russian military.
(10) After a night of chaos and bloodshed, Yıldırım said the government would consider reintroducing the death penalty, which would allow it to execute those behind the coup, the country’s fifth in 60 years.
(11) All these freedoms have been crushed in the aftermath of the coup.
(12) Mike Coupe, Sainsbury’s chief executive, said: “Our customers want us to offer more choice and for that choice to be faster than ever, driven by the rise of mobile phone and digital technology.
(13) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(14) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
(15) Derbies generally struggle to live up to their billing and this one had no chance of matching the hype and hope that went before, yet until Scholes applied his splendid coup de grâce it bore an unexpected resemblance to a mere end-of-season game.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
(17) Judge Aydin Akay was detained in September as part of a crackdown on the judiciary following the coup attempt.
(18) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
(19) According to the Honduran human rights group COFADEH, more than 300 civil society campaigners have been murdered since the coup.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gunfire breaks out in Istanbul during attempted military coup For more than two hours, Erdoğan was nowhere to be seen and could only make an eventual statement to broadcasters via FaceTime.
Ouster
Definition:
(n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
(2) He accused the regime of holding double standards, arguing that it had not yet disarmed nationalist militias who supported the ouster of former president Viktor Yanukovich.
(3) The Brotherhood, after all, believes that something has been stolen from it, and thus intends to fight rather than join any political process that would legitimize Mohamed Morsi's ouster.
(4) It pains some of us because, to be honest, we never ever organised his ouster.
(5) Since his ouster, he has largely been kept out of the public eye, appearing only in carefully managed court sessions in which he has frequently shouted defiantly, insisting he is still Egypt's president.
(6) Authorities have killed hundreds of Islamists and jailed thousands since the military ouster in July 2013 of the Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.
(7) Staff at the newspaper wrote an open letter supporting Kovalsky, calling his ouster an “act of intimidation”.
(8) This was shortly after his final episode of the Tonight Show, and served as a highly professional first public statement after his ouster by NBC execs.
(9) Caught up in this febrile discourse was also the alleged ungovernability of the electorate , a panic that peaked around the time of Campbell Newman’s ouster as Queensland premier in January.
(10) Lavrov made no mention of western charges that Russia has sent troops and heavy weapons into eastern Ukraine in support of pro-Russian rebels there , who have taken over a number of key industrial cities after the ouster of former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich.
(11) The recall effort is continuing – critics say Persky is still a danger in civil court – and on Friday, the campaign is organizing, including Willingham, a rally in San Jose to decry Turner’s release and push for the judge’s ouster.
(12) Edison Lobao, of the PMDB, who voted for Rousseff’s ouster, said: “I couldn’t have voted differently regardless of who was the president.
(13) In a televised briefing with President Vladimir Putin, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said proposals made by John Kerry, the US secretary of state, were “not suitable” because they took the situation created by the coup as a starting point, referring to the ouster of Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president, Viktor Yanukovych.
(14) Last season ended badly for Cincinnati, a first round playoff ouster.
(15) Only days before Yanukovich's ouster, Russia announced surprise military maneuvers, which it then set in motion along the border and in the Black Sea.
(16) According to surveys by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 80% of those who endorsed Morsi's ouster would also rise again if their aspirations aren't met.
(17) It appears however a step closer to banning the group, whose legality was disputed even before Morsi's ouster.
(18) Tea Party leaders Todd Courser, who resigned in September while facing expulsion, and Cindy Gamrat, who was expelled, are seeking the Republican nominations in special primary elections, which come less than two months after their 11 September ouster.
(19) This hope was bolstered by a clip posted earlier Monday morning by TMZ, the entertainment news website that began the process that led to Sterling’s ouster when they released audio tapes of him making racist comments to a female companion .
(20) I do think he’s aware of that and he has a way to fix it.” Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to three years in prison by Egyptian court Read more The long-running trial is entangled in the wider political conflict between Egypt and Qatar, where al-Jazeera is based, following the Egyptian army’s 2013 military ouster of the Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi , a Brotherhood member.