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Example sentences for: coup

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NYT columnist A. M. Rosenthal--the paper's former South Asia correspondent--argues that the coup underscores the poverty of America's policy in the region, which has long favored the efficient Pakistan to the chaotic, but truly democratic, India.
Largent is devoutly religious, looks like a male model, and stood firm as a supporter of the attempted Gingrich coup (even after it failed).
It's that sort of chagrin that's behind the rumblings of a House coup all the papers report.
Though he had been displaced from his position in the House Republican leadership as punishment for his role in the failed coup against Speaker Newt Gingrich last July, he remained popular with his colleagues.
Perhaps his most astounding coup was the monstrous Kitano tea ceremony attended by hundreds of rich and poor followers, who were all obliged to stay to the end.