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Coup
Definition:
(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.