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1. Soon thereafter, he was detained for his alleged involvement with an Ewe coup plot
2. It was said in some quarters that the drama of the finale had been arranged as the final coup de grace in the search for the ultimate televisual experience
3. the drama of the finale had been arranged as the final coup de grace
4. “Those two gentlemen you met in the Park today allowed for the coup de grace, you might say, of the slow inroads I've made into the grip these northern New York manufacturers have on the markets in New England
5. to become widespread - what a coup that would be for
6. required to deliver his coup
7. coup oeil, it seemed to be relatively new, modern
8. ’ She recoiled at that, and he continued, ‘of course having me hostage would be such a coup for you’re little organisation
9. Inside the coup, she dumped the pellets into the hanging feeder
10. She left the chicken coup and broke another trail to the barn
11. My most personally satisfying coup was selling that penthouse
12. “Perhaps he thought you had been killed in the coup
13. It was obvious her capture would be a coup for the Darangi
14. They didn’t want anyone with any power getting ideas of a counter coup
15. The coup was taking longer than expected, but had been a success overall
16. The Governor's smart coup in arresting all the chief men, had robbed the warriors of their leaders; and the open failure of the fetish power had demoralised them thoroughly, but every precaution had to be taken
17. How could she possibly plot a government coup in a filthy base reeking of fish guts?
18. “You see, Longleaf, the problem began when Sheriff Bilge and I hatched a plan a few months ago, one for the big coup that would have set us up for life
19. warships were sent to restore the peace following a recent military coup
20. I really don’t think there was ever a time when the Army considered a coup d E’tat which is the normal way in Africa
21. One episode that NIS was involved in was the failed coup de e'tat attempt to take over the island of Seychelles by using many former Rhodesian soldiers in 1981
22. The GW Bush administration carried out a final coup, against Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide
23. The Shah claimed to be part of an ancient dynasty, when in fact he was put in power in 1953 by a CIA coup, overthrowing the elected President Mossadegh
24. Socialist Salvador Allende was legally elected in 1970, and Nixon immediately conspired with the CIA and phone company AT&T to overthrow him with a blockade, strikes, paid agitators, until finally a military coup brought him down
25. The Church Committee of the US Congress concluded the CIA was not directly involved in the coup itself
26. In the Dominican Republic, the Carter administration prevented a military coup
27. The press, always tame and wanting more crackers, parroted it as a major coup, literally crowing it from the rooftops in some cases
28. Was Tucker plotting a military coup? The poor guy’s mind was jumping all over the place
29. He also owned Remington and would supplies arms for the coup as well as $300 million in funds
30. Roosevelt dealt with the coup by leaking the story to to the press
31. Some of her advisers were also GW Bush's, and indeed one Clinton adviser lobbied hard for support for a coup in Honduras
32. It seemed the ministry was contemplating whether or not a military coup could put chisels to good use, in preference to the usual swords, scimitars, bows, steamers, slingshots, siege engines and the good old knives it already possessed
33. didn’t plan a coup, the spread would remain safe, fun, and boozy
34. Their eyes widened at this social coup
35. His bold initiative to bring freedom to a key state smack dab in the midst of the world’s largest problem – fanatical Islam - will go down as a coup in world events unless we get a pacifist as next president who is willing to throw it all away
36. This was considered a great coup given considering the earlier caution
37. What judges in America have wrought, following transnational principles, Judge Bork asserts, “is a coup d’etat—slow moving and genteel, but a coup d’etat nevertheless
38. America was faced with a coup d’etat, a revolution to change the state; in this case the United States of America
39. The coup was to make way for a newly
40. Her parties were nearly always well attended, but this as a coup, even she hadn’t dared to imagine
41. plans for Honduras and is, in fact, planning a coup to take over the
42. for Doc that had been a coup
43. “The Coup of the World”
44. Pops, who was in Raleigh on business at NC State at the time, heard she was staying in “my” hotel, and thought it would be a coup for me
45. Wittan was killed because Obiman planned a coup that would leave himself as ruler of Finitra, and Obiman considered Wittan to be formidable, while his son Dren was judged an easier enemy
46. Yazadril’s nation is surrounded by Finitra, and Alilia is closely allied with him, so they were cursed in the hope that the deaths of their children and their ensuing strife would weaken them and prevent their impeding the coup
47. “Yes!” answered Judah, his tone rising along with the corners of his mouth as he anticipated a coup adding, “Our leader, Moses, was given permission for the journey you mention by Pharaoh himself
48. I KNOW EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE COUP,
49. Had Lansdale been in the palace with Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem before the coup that killed Diem in 1963, scant weeks before Jack Kennedy himself was assassinated, things might have been different
50. had not engineered the coup that killed Diem, it had been perceived to give tacit approval
1. She had hinted at a relationship before, so even if he lost on purpose, it was a fairly good bet that she would attempt to hook up with him regardless, especially factoring in the limits of recreation and the amount of time they were to be couped up in a confined space
2. MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable, a buck's head couped or
1. In every single case except mercenary invasions, these invasions, coups, or threats were ordered by US presidents
2. Their fair monitoring and other mediation efforts likely prevented or helped to prevent thirteen coups or civil wars
3. Their coups and conquests were being coordinated and sponsored by another party
4. “Quite valuable for close city fighting; attempted coups in the throneroom, that kind of thing
5. 'Political coups are the thing today
6. As a result, while Europe and Asia flew into a controlled frenzy of “What can we do?” activities and Africans took advantage of the situation by escalating their favorite pastimes of coups and carnage to new depths of depravity, in the good ol’ US of A it was business as usual
7. Hermes continued, “He hopes to protect the potency of the biological weapon McAdams has already sold to numerous foreign coups
8. Plague’s home was not an obvious setting for high-level international security coups
9. Heavygame shots liked to be in a position to cap the tales of their rivals, and journalists were not averse from sensational coups, even when imagination had to aid fact in the process
10. Through two successive coups and a guerra civil, he’d kept the Bandito beans harvested and the Exigentes rolled and a black market in American-made munitions profitable
11. examples of coups in, 270–283
12. examples of coups in distressed investing in, 270–273
13. examples of coups in distressed investing in, 278–280
14. Portugal: Portugal was suffering from serial military coups when in 1928 the finance minister, Dr Antonio Salazar, restored a bit of stability
15. Ghana fell into a descending spiral of civil war and tribal conflict, with endless military coups, until in 1979 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings took charge, had all his rivals executed, and set about building up Ghana’s wrecked economy and re-establishing democracy
16. This was the first of many coups in the 1970s and 1980s
17. Argentina’s answer to any economic problem was ‘If in doubt, stage a military coup’: Between 1930 and 1973 Argentina had thirty military coups
18. Other states in Latin America have had their share of economic ups and downs and military coups
19. Despite all its troubles, India was still a democracy (see the preceding section); Pakistan has been ruled by a succession of generals with a few periods of democratic rule in-between the military coups
20. They killed hundreds of people in Northern Ireland but their most spectacular coups were a series of bomb attacks in mainland Britain, including one that came within an ace of killing the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher
21. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat
22. The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular coups d'etat and should be repressed
23. The country had a lengthy history of coups and the undeniable fact was that Pakistan performed better under military rule
24. Coups were the national pastime in Pakistan and the timing was perfect
25. Martha is the patron saint of Tarascon See "Port-Tarascon," I, iv (pp 73 ff)--faisait les cent coups
26. Of course this was a rare occasion—an occasion on which zero had turned up no less than three times within a dozen rounds; yet in such an event there was nothing so very surprising, seeing that, only three days ago, I myself had been a witness to zero turning up THREE TIMES IN SUCCESSION, so that one of the players who was recording the coups on paper was moved to remark that for several days past zero had never turned up at all!
27. Likewise, as soon as ever roulette was drawing to a close and the head croupier had called "Les trois derniers coups," most of them were ready to stake on the last three rounds all that they had in their pockets—and, for the most part, lost it
28. Three days ago I had heard that, during the previous week there had been a run of twenty-two coups on the red—an occurrence never before known at roulette—so that men spoke of it with astonishment
29. The well-bred gentlewoman had seized, without second thought, the letter lying open at her feet, read it, gasped over it, paled over it, hated and disbelieved it—crushed it in her hand, and, with the now crumpled sheet between glove and palm, she was on her way to verify its purport; to make sure of the fact which women, if they would but know it, are many times happier in ignoring; to prove to herself what? That her husband was unfaithful to her; that she must either “cease to love him”—by the operation of one of those unbalancing coups de foudre which, we are told, turn honey to gall and love to hate in the human breast at one revolution—or that with the discovery she must also acknowledge, no matter what he did, she would love him still, and would, therefore, curse an enlightenment which should only give her a useless bitter grief to suffer for the rest of her life