Sentences with phrase «palace coup»

This charmingly loopy, iconoclastic story about a crotchety ogre (voiced by Mike Myers), an upstart donkey (Eddie Murphy), a princess with a beauty secret (Cameron Diaz), and a contemptible nobleman with a Napoleonic complex (John Lithgow) isn't only a funny, sprightly fable for all ages about not judging a book by its cover; it's also a kind of palace coup, a shout of defiance, and a coming - of - age for DreamWorks, the upstart studio that shepherded the project with such skill and chutzpah.

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.

Small wonder that the Cameronisation of the Conservative party sometimes seems more palace coup than cultural revolution.

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.

After another series of palace coups, Menahem came to the throne in Israel.

And a crown prince snatched from a bloody palace coup is raised in secrecy while a wizard grooms him for the day he reclaims the throne.

He was describing a palace coup in progress at Guinness PLC, one of Bain's largest clients.

'' «She's trying to do a palace coup,» said Peter Sealey, a Sausalito, Calif., business and marketing consultant.

But two factors distinguished this commotion from earlier power struggles: This was not a palace coup, but a grassroots revolution fueled by a strong sense of denominational alienation by many ordinary Baptists who resented the elitist rule of the Baptist bureaucrats who ran the machine at the time.

In AD 626, Tai - tsung came to the Chinese throne by a palace coup with the help of some Buddhist priests.

To mention every skirmish or palace coup would stretch the account beyond all reasonable bounds.

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.

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 palace coup was led by Gen. F.W.K. Akuffo and was in power from July 5, 1978 to June 4, 1979.

Of course, when in power PiS may well betray its social promises, a palace coup may demote Mrs Szydło, and extreme demands of the old party guard may resurface.

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.

But before he could even clear that mess in 1984 — no thanks to his junta's fatal failure to communicate its own actions — reactionary forces overthrew him in a palace coup.

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.

Dicker points out that McLauglin has been trying to engineer a palace coup for the la... st two years and wants Silver to vacate the Assembly Speaker post.

There must be no attempt at a palace coup, the democratic process of the party has produced a decisive result.

That's why only Purnell moved against Brown and without a palace coup there'll be no peasant's revolt from the backbenches.

Dr. Kofi Abrefah Busia who was elected in the 1969 elections was also ousted from power in 1972 by an I.K Acheampong led military junta which also suffered in a palace coup in 1978 led by FWK Akuffo.

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.»

Prices rose while living standards fell, leading to a palace coup by Gen Ibrahim Babangida on 27 August 1985.

The Progress people would scheme for a palace coup and failing that would consider taking their nasty little right - wing nostrums elsewhere.

So does American mercenary Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), though his idea of help involves using Wakanda's advanced weaponry for global conquest, and he's not above staging a palace coup to do so.

This charmingly loopy, iconoclastic story about a crotchety ogre, a rakish donkey, a princess with a beauty secret, and a contemptible nobleman with a Napoleon complex isn't only a funny, sprightly fable for all ages about not judging a book by its cover; it's also a kind of palace coup, a shout of defiance, and a coming - of - age for DreamWorks, the upstart studio that shepherded the project with such skill and chutzpah.

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.

A palace coup felled United Educators of San Francisco President Kent Mitchell and his cabinet in 2003, when the union's secretary, Dennis Kelly, and his colleagues took over the office, winning 60 percent of the vote.

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.