| As the project lurches toward banality, the characters plot, feud and leak to the newspapers, staging palace coups and office break-ins. |
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| For start-ups, landing a major brand-name customer is one of the biggest coups there is. |
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| We insist that those responsible for conspiring to wage unprovoked wars and carry out illegal coups must be tried for war crimes. |
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| The actor has worked a lot recently, but he counts this role of playing his bodybuilding idol among his best-ever casting coups. |
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| Two of the greatest Second World War intelligence coups were achieved by the Russians. |
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| Rabuka, then an army major general, led two military coups in 1987 and ruled the country for 12 years. |
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| But if there were other adventures or coups de foudre, they go unmentioned. |
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| The Commonwealth suspends or expels nations which have military coups and non-democratic forms of government. |
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| None of these visual coups comes off with much theatrical energy, and the stage action is often fatally inert. |
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| The country's all-powerful military, which has seized power in three coups since 1960, sees staunch secularism as a pillar of the state. |
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| He has often sought to justify repression on the pretexts of threatened coups against his government. |
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| Despite this, a long and complicated number of coups and upheavals continued in the country. |
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| In an atmosphere of crisis, he rammed through a series of policy coups, including floating the currency and removing interest rate controls. |
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| The situation in 2001 has been highly volatile, with two attempted coups d'état and continuing violence. |
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| His journalistic coups and exotic datelines made his old colleagues proud. |
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| In an atmosphere rife with mystery and coups de théâtre, the audience is party to a secret meeting between two boarding-school girls. |
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| No Fijian or Pakistani blue helmet was rusticated after coups in their countries. |
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| Notable for horrific violence against civilians, the insurgency also gave rise to a series of coups, counter-coups, and periods of military rule. |
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| Radical coups introduce potentially revolutionary changes into society and place members of the armed forces into positions of unquestioned control. |
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| She declared that what we are aiming at is to ensure the deterrence of military coups in the country. |
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| Latin America and the Caribbean have the ignominious record of being the region with the greatest number of military coups in the world. |
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| The fact that the coups in Mauritania and Guinea were bloodless is positive. |
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| China has dealt uncomplainingly with whatever ghastly regimes Pakistan's elections and coups have thrown up. |
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| And so the cycle of kleptocratic rule punctuated by periodic coups repeats itself, while the country as a whole degenerates to basket-case level. |
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| Since I moved to Ghana in February as west Africa correspondent for the Guardian and Observer, there have been two military coups. |
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| We used to have military coups every 10 years and Erdoğan pushed back 70 years of military domination. |
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| Thousands of Fijians, who were forced to flee after the previous coups, held protest meetings and marches in Australia and New Zealand over the weekend. |
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| In Italy, Odoacer's assumption of control and deposition of the 16-year-old emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476 was simply one of a succession of political coups and interregna. |
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| Early coups included pictures of the October anniversary parade at the time of the 1957 Sputnik launch, which he got by attaching himself to a Soviet TV crew. |
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| Africans had seen too many military coups, too many wars within and between countries, and too many people massacred, killed, maimed, displaced and turned into refugees. |
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| Nigeria's history is tainted with the blood of its citizens in everything from civil strife to military coups to ethnic skirmishes among the country's 200-or-so tribes. |
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| Acknowledging his lack of clothing experience, he has concentrated on getting the stores right while scoring two major coups in recruiting experts to oversee the fashion. |
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| Despite AU provisions against forcible seizure of power and the denunciation of military coups, over the last three years, there has been a resurgence of militarism and military rule in countries. |
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| Yet behind this besuited con trick stands predictive mathematics not that different in its day from the soothsaying coups of the number-crunchers now. |
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| With regard to Togo, ECOWAS and the EU expressed concern on the alleged plot in April 2009 to destabilise the country and reiterated their zero tolerance for coups d'état and any unconstitutional ascension to power. |
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| Nigeria may well be a major power in the region, but it also has a tradition of internal conflict, coups d'état and dictatorships, although it is fortunate that matters have been improving recently. |
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| It marked a clear break from the coups and subsequent dictatorships installed to defend economic elites that had cast a long shadow across Latin America. |
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| After leaving the judiciary, he moved with his family to New Zealand, later returning to Fiji, his experience of relocation mirroring that of many families torn from Fiji since its several coups. |
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| The country has also been affected by poverty, natural disasters, hunger, dominant party systems and military coups. |
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| His regime was plagued by attempted coups and intrigue within the military establishment. |
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| All they seem to have done, so far, is drag the country back to its old cycle of intermittent coups and torn-up constitutions. Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia are, nominally, multi-party democracies. |
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| Military coups actually do a job of delegitimising the government in power. |
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| Their units became highly politicized, being involved in a number of conspiracies and coups. |
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| They assisted in coups and installed regimes. |
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| Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa. |
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| Many thousands of soldiers were lost in battling attempted coups by figures such as Firmus, Magnus Maximus and Eugenius. |
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| Between the two coups, the four interned Awami League leaders were assassinated by army men in Dhaka Central Jail. |
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| However, when military coups began in Bangladesh during the late 1970s, there was increasing distance between the two neighbors. |
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| Another 2016 study finds that inequality between social classes increases the likelihood of coups but not civil wars. |
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| Once again, Caracas seethes with talk of conspiracies and coups. Some in the opposition hope the march will be the prelude to a general strike-cum-lock-out to topple Mr Chavez. |
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| He also helped to engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia. |
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| The Assads have been anticipating coups for 40 years and have cleverly compartmentalised the security forces. So perhaps the best outcome would be some form of negotiated transition under international auspices. |
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| During the period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, Africa had more than 70 coups and 13 presidential assassinations. |
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| Until recently, several East African countries were riven with political coups, ethnic violence and oppressive dictators. |
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| Typically a coppiced woodland is harvested in sections or coups on a rotation. |
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| Since 1932 Thailand was the theatre of 18 military coups d'etat without bloodshed passing from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy as in the United Kingdom. |
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| The boundaries of coppice coups were sometimes marked by cutting certain trees as pollards or stubs. |
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| With many more coups and killings left unsanctioned, membership is as likely to dignify rights-abusers as to correct them. What, then, is the point of the Commonwealth? |
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| President Olusegun Obasanjo has done his best to make coups a thing of the past, purging the army of politicised officers and pampering the Brigade of Guards, which sits behind the presidential villa. |
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| This system is characterized by a succession of coups and instinctive intensive, putting the final shot on vital points, and whose purpose is the surprise defeat of the aggressor, unable to overcome our attack. |
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| In reality, the real anti-democratic menace comes from the US's own allies, who launched abortive coups against both Chávez and Correa – and successful ones in Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay last year. |
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| In the late 4th century, barbarian invasions, economic decline and military coups loosened the Empire's hold on Britain. |
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| It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. |
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| Russia, which has for years tried to bully Georgia, suddenly starts being almost gushingly friendly. There are resignations and sackings galore, and talk of coups and civil war. |
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| In Turkey, the military carried out coups to oust Islamist governments, and headscarves were banned in official buildings, as also happened in Tunisia. |
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| Throughout 20th century, Peru endured armed territorial disputes, coups, social unrest, and internal conflicts, as well as periods of stability and economic upswing. |
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| Most of the military rulers, along with the civilian leaders in power during the intermissions between the coups, have behaved like kleptomaniacs. |
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