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  • The coup d'tat warning came in the form of a leaked memorandum that national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, had sent Bush three weeks ago describing, as the New York Times editorial put it, "how Iraq was being pulled apart by sectarian hatreds and warning that Mr. Maliki was either 'ignorant of what is going on' or unwilling or unable to stop it."

    Is White House Whistleblower Ready to Bring Down Bush? 2006

  • Lesotho King Letsie III's decision to dissolve the Government is in effect a coup d'tat, the Lesotho Council of Non-government

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The days of my stay in Berlin coincided with certain important events in Europe: the general strike in England, and Pilsudski's coup d'tat in Poland.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Lenin's point could have been carried out by means of a split in the party and a coup d'tat but not otherwise.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Now I can add more earnestly that if this fails to come about, it will be only through lack of a Bonapartist coup d'tat, and not through any fault of Pyatakov's.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Three or four years ago, when Pyatakov belonged to the same group as I did, I prophesied in jest that in the event of a Bonapartist coup d'tat, Pyatakov would go to the office the next day with his brief-case.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • WilliamValerio We do not want, coups d'tat in Venezuela, want that he goes away in 2012.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Selcan Hacaoglu 2010

  • I said it is a coup d'tat against the constitution of Nigeria because the constitution does not provide for what they did.

    Vanguard johnabayomi 2010

  • And as time progressed, the real effect of that coup d'tat and royal intervention has become clear.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • The shift amounted to a kind of coup d'tat -- not a sudden military takeover but a gradual subversion and takeover of the institutions of state power.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert, Chelsea Gr 2009

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