The continuing tensions generated by these disputes culminated in a bloodless military takeover in 2006 - Fiji's fourth coup in 20 years.

We hoped for a bloodless takeover, but we had to be ready in the event that words proved insufficient to win our case.

No explanation was offered for what happened to Robert de Bellême's garrison contingent or who exactly facilitated the bloodless takeover.

Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.

The permit for an additional 300 commercial bases inside the Sol System was the first step in a bloodless takeover of the Solar Imperium.

If I had done it the merest millimeter too much, I would have lost what I wanted-a bloodless takeover.

Fremont was trained as an agent of Moscow; it's a covert Soviet takeover, bloodless and unnoticed.

However, on October 20, 2011, Somali Transitional Federal Government forces seized control of the town in what a military spokesman characterised as a bloodless takeover.

I don't want to pretend that this was not a military conquest, but it was as bloodless a takeover as was feasible.

It was a bloodless takeover.