Sentences with phrase «bloodless coup»
A "bloodless coup" refers to a change in government or leadership that happens without violence or shedding of blood. It implies a peaceful and nonviolent transition of power. Full definition
1983 - Major - General Muhammadu Buhari seizes power in bloodless coup, ushering in a period of 16 years of government overthrows and political instability, capped by the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections.
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The subtitle to The Oath is «The Obama Whitehouse and the Supreme Court,» but the book could also have been subtitled «Harvard Law School's Bloodless Coup of the American Government.»
In 1995 a bloodless coup in which Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa deposed his father set the stage for the modernization of the country's oil and gas industries and for stunning economic growth.
You are freaking out about gun control but your country has already been taken over in a bloodless coup by Wall Street.
It took six years, 1986 to be precise, three years after the Shagari government had been dislodged from office via a bloodless coup before the dismissed six were reinstated — thanks to a Supreme Court judgment.
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed why Former Head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, was overthrown in a bloodless coup on July 29, 1975.
He was to be replaced by David Miliband in a «bloodless coup».
NO is the story of how in 1988, a group of dedicated and media - savvy people took a sham election in Chile and turned it into a bloodless coup that remains the only modern example of removing a dictator using only the power of the ballot box.
She was using the authority void to give directions to the kids and I, and I started to think she would pull off a bloodless coup given the chance.
Consistent with Douglas's nonlinear treatment of historical events within his practice, his version sets the action within the context of Portugal's so - called «Hot Summer» of 1975, which ended the turbulent period between the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 (a bloodless coup to end Europe's longest dictatorship) and the ratification of a new constitution.
It was the sacking of the vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, which made the armed forces engineer a bloodless coup to force Mugabe into retirement.