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Synonym: coup d'etatputschtakeoverSimilar words: couplea couple ofdo upgo upsoupgroupcontrol groupcourtMeaning: [kuː]  n. 1. a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force 2. a brilliant and notable success. 
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121. In March 1988, a group of junior officers attempted a coup.
122. Ford management chalked up its most significant coup over working practices in 1985 when 500 job titles were reduced to 58.
123. Following the coup the ruling junta made few changes to economic policy.
124. It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night.
125. There were still those among the Shah's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible.
126. Rumblings from recent abortive coup plots coupled with an erosion of army discipline have reportedly weakened Guei's grip on the military.
127. Since this month's mutiny, Guei has arrested 35 officers, including four colonels, for attempting a coup.
128. The measures represent a major coup by central government against local government and the unions.
129. News reports in December indicating that there had been an attempted coup were subsequently dismissed by Jawara as groundless rumours.
130. Actually, the master criminal was carrying out his greatest coup[Sentencedict.com ], to murder and replace the world's most influential intelligence.
131. No army corps commander can ever be sure he has enough authority over his units to contemplate a coup.
132. The military high command, led by coup leader and Armed Forces C.-in-C.
133. It was a coup for the youngest daughter to have gathered the scattered family in the Midwest for a weekend.
134. This experience shaped the political ambition that led ultimately to his coup of 23 July 1952.
135. Kabila was shot on Tuesday last week, allegedly by a lone bodyguard in what may have been a coup attempt.
136. It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991.
137. An attempted coup in August was frustrated by the timorous behaviour of the Abuna, who stayed away from a crucial meeting.
138. In the days immediately following the coup attempt there were a number of demonstrations in support of Djohar.
139. The chaotic situation gave an opening for the military coup.
140. Warning of coup Senior ministers warned foreign journalists on Oct. 16 of a possible conservative-led coup against Yeltsin and the reforms.
141. The prisoners are accused of plotting a coup against the Government.
142. Alongside these individual contributions, Gloucester's northern connection also provided the muscle behind his coup.
143. President Gamul Abdel Nasser had dissolved the organization after a failed coup attempt in Alexandria in which he claimed it was involved.
144. June 1983 After the coup in October 1979, the Ministry of Education was passed to liberal intellectuals.
145. Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that democratic activists were being arrested for proclaiming Niyazov's support for the coup.
146. Previously the coup allegations have been launched against the manner by which Bush obtained the presidency.
147. A particular coup for the firm was the contract to supply the rapidly expanding Marks and Spencer chain.
148. For Stewart, the Athens dispatches were a journalistic coup of the first rank.
149. The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983.
150. After a succession of Presidents, in 1964 the military took control following a bloodless coup.
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