"coup" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dr. Mossadegh was ousted in 1951 in a coup engineered by the American and British intelligence services with the aid of the Shah's military.
- Nor is the general a plausible opponent of military coups, having engineered several himself.
- Everyone had known what she was in for when the match was announced, but it had been a politically-sensitive marriage; another coup engineered by that old fox Ieyasu.
- In May 2006, Bill Stefaniak replaced Brendan Smyth as the ACT Leader of the Opposition in a coup engineered by Mulcahy.
- In June 1996 she was ousted as head of the Indonesian Democratic Party in a coup engineered by pro-Suharto forces.
- He therefore approved United States participation in Operation Ajax, a coup engineered by British intelligence and the CIA to depose Musaddiq.
- Beginning with a 1954 coup engineered by the Central Intelligence Agency, cold war security concerns dictated nearly every aspect of the relationship with this impoverished country.
- When Turkish soldiers landed on northern Cyprus in 1974, after a coup engineered by the military junta then ruling Greece, Greek clergymen and custodians of Orthodox holy sites fled southward.
- The country has recently had a near miss of a political coup engineered by a security company.
- Cyprus has been partitioned since 1974, when Turkey occupied northern Cyprus after a coup engineered by the junta then ruling Greece.
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