Example sentences of "a [noun sg] d'état " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal leaders last week accused the assemblymen of plotting a coup d'état of ‘ unforeseeable consequences ’ . |
| 2 | Add the two together and the answer Trent found most obvious was a coup d'état . |
| 3 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 4 | It seems that Louis-Napoleon , through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking , overestimated the strength of Bonapartist feeling in France and foolishly decided to attempt the overthrow of the government of Louis-Philippe by means of a coup d'état . |
| 5 | It seemed as if the conservative group were determined to drive the president towards a coup d'état , from which they could benefit — for he was a guarantee of order and stability — but from participation in which they could be legally , if not morally , absolved . |
| 6 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 7 | Second , the political response to a rapid deterioration in the economy implies a greater probability of a coup d'état or a battening down of the hatches by the government . |
| 8 | ‘ Has Ngune got the backing to attempt a coup d'état ? ’ |
| 9 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 10 | It refers to a much smaller group of politicians who hold executive office temporarily ( following a coup d'état , revolution , election or other succession process ) as presidential appointees , or members of a majority party , coalition or military junta , and we shall use the concept in this sense . |
| 11 | At the very least , political action by a military organization will include acting as a pressure group within the policy-making process on questions of weapons procurement ; at the other end of the spectrum there is full-scale military intervention as manifested in a coup d'état , in which the military , or a part of it , overthrows the government and assumes governing power itself . |
| 12 | With the government and ruling Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) under continuing pressure from opposition parties , unions and students [ see pp. 38278-79 ] , it was given out on July 30 that disaffected junior soldiers had attempted a coup d'état a week earlier . |
| 13 | a coup d'état , not these little stings of green |
| 14 | But if they challenge the bureaucratic-military oligarchy for dominance , they are likely to be confronted by a coup d'état . |