palace revolution
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“I think the time is right for a palace revolution/ but where I live the game to play is compromise solution,” shouts Jagger in the song’s second verse.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2016
He was forced to resign under pressure of a palace revolution led by a majority of his own board of directors.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he had turned 71 and still was not ready to relinquish command, impatient subordinates staged a palace revolution and kicked him upstairs to be chairman of the board.
From Time Magazine Archive
The groom himself had to put up with a little good-natured palace revolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
The truth appears to be that he came to the throne as the leader of a palace revolution at a time of great unrest.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
