putsch

Example Sentences

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The military appointed General Horta N'Tam, the army's chief of staff, as the country's new leader for a transition period of one year after Wednesday's putsch.

From Barron's

The Pizzagate-pushing host said the Trump administration would have total power to run such a putsch against the opposition.

From Salon

However, the venerable flag has been co-opted by Christians who think Trump deserved a putsch because the courts refused to take his frivolous election fraud lawsuits seriously.

From Salon

Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”

From New York Times

Not for those who suffered in the “dirty war” under the junta, but for those victims of leftist guerrillas before the putsch.

From Seattle Times