Sentences with phrase «of palace coups»
After another series of palace coups, Menahem came to the throne in Israel.
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He was describing a palace coup in progress at Guinness PLC, one of Bain's largest clients.
In AD 626, Tai - tsung came to the Chinese throne by a palace coup with the help of some Buddhist priests.
This next theory suggests that there might've been some sort of intentional Steve Harvey situation here, wherein ESPN wrested the results away from the committee and staged a palace coup to keep the Buckeyes on the outside looking in.
Wolde, 65, whose plight has drawn the attention of Amnesty International and the International Olympic Committee, had been a captain in the Palace Guard of Haile Selassie before the emperor was deposed in 1974 by a military coup.
Liverpool and West Ham United are involved in a head to head battle to secure the services of Crystal Palace star Yohan Cabaye, according to reports from the Brentwood Gazette Crystal Palace most certainly pulled off a major coup by securing the services of Yohan Cabaye from Paris Saint - Germain during the summer and while the
Crystal Palace managed to secure the services of James Tomkins for a fee of around # 10 million recently and while the transfer has been seen as a bit of a coup for the Eagles, many West Ham United fans are baffled as to why their club decided to allow the defender to leave.
This general betrayed Acheampong by informing the rest of the impending reshuffle and that resulted in his overthrow through a palace coup on July 5, 1978.
The NRC later metamorphosed into the Supreme Military Council (SMC), but a palace coup saw General Acheampong being replaced by Lieutenant - General F.W.K. Akuffo in I978 as the Chairman of the SMC and Head of State of Ghana.
Some two years down the line, however, there is clamor for the reinstatement of Kwabena Agyepong, while nobody is giving a toss about Paul Afoko, who is seen to have suffered a palace coup by his Vice at the time, Freddy Blay.
Silver undermined the coup, remained in the palace and banished Michael Bragman to an island of obscurity for the rest of his career.»
There must be no attempt at a palace coup, the democratic process of the party has produced a decisive result.
In 2005, Zarb replaced his long - time friend Maurice Hank Greenberg as head of the American International Group, in what Greenberg termed as a «palace coup.»
I guess Far Far Away is more hidebound by sexist tradition than we'd realized, and anyway, keeping Fiona off the throne keeps her free to try to fend off a palace coup — with the help of some other fairy - tale gals — by Charming while Shrek is off seeking Artie.
When the coup d'état failed, the private Venezuelan networks refused to broadcast the news that Chávez had been restored back to power as a result of hundreds of thousands of pro-Chavez supporters surrounding Miraflores Palace demanding him back and as a result of sectors of the military turning to support Chavez.
Whoever it is, the parent organizations lost no time in pulling up the drawbridge, ensuring that the only people who could make a substantial change in the operations of a dysfunctional union — the rank - and - file members — were instead presented with a palace coup and a fait accompli.
Alyss Heart, heir to the Wonderland throne, was forced to flee through the Pool of Tears after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd.
Burden was part of this revolutionary aesthetic palace coup.
... if Republicans merely redirect the flow of public largesse from traditional Democrat constituencies to traditional Republican constituencies... then the American people will have been witnesses to a tawdry palace coup rather than a glorious revolution.
I stayed in a hotel in Santiago opposite the partially destroyed palace where Allende himself had been killed on the first day of the coup in a bombing raid by planes of Chile's own air force.