Paul Farmer

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

American Educator

Pablo Picasso

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Spanish Painter

Holly Hunter

It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two.

American Actress

Fabrizio Moreira

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

Ecuadorian Politician

Philip Roth

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

American Novelist

Jalal Talabani

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Iraqi Politician

Jejomar Binay

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

Filipino Public Servant

Elliott Abrams

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

American Lawyer

Kamisese Mara

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Fijian Statesman

Fethullah Gulen

I have always been against coups, and I cursed them.

Turkish Activist

Refers to a sudden, forceful change in leadership, involving military or rebel involvement.

Forceful Change

Often implies a period of political instability or conflict within a nation.

Political Instability

A coup attempt might fail and can lead to consequences for the plotters.

Not Always Successful

Highlights a well-executed strategy in any competitive field, like business or sports.

Strategic Success

Often used to describe an unexpected triumph or a masterstroke against odds.

Unexpected Victory

A deliberate act aimed at killing a prominent figure, usually politically motivated.

Targeted Killing

Suggests a secret plan by a group to do harm, implying intrigue and conspiracy.

Conspiracy Undertones

 years as king this King actually started measuring and managing around happiness in Bhutan and including just recently taking this country from being an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy with no bloodshed no coup in Bhutan for those who don't know is the newest democracy in the world

Measuring what makes...

 please do it peacefully. This is not just philosophy or morality. A lot of studies have shown that it's the peaceful protests that are more successful at challenging these would-be dictators and reversing coup attempts. It's the peaceful ones, why? Because when the protests turn violent,

What if a US presidential...

 and managing around happiness in Bhutan -- including, just recently, taking his country from being an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy with no bloodshed, no coup. Bhutan, for those of you who don't know it, is the newest democracy in the world, just two years ago.

Chip Conley: Measuring...

 Because of the timing of his death so soon after the coup, rumors swirled that he had died of sadness or even been assassinated, but the hospital recorded his cause of death as cancer. Today, Neruda’s lines are recited at protests and marches worldwide. Much like his life,

Romance and revolution:...

 that will change significantly and a coup and power train so our solution to the bandwidth problem is we need to build infrastructure within the country there's a lot of infrastructure that exists for us to talk to the rest of the world but we need to beautiful show that

Growing Africa’s digital...

 some of this uncultivated land back to the people while compensating the landowners. But he was overthrown in a CIA-sponsored coup. The military was protecting against the seizure of private property and communist takeover. They were protecting corporate profits

History vs. Che Guevara...

 in the way we looked, in the way we played music, in the way we had intellectual life. And most of all, in the way that we fought for democracy. These are some of the shots actually from my film. These are some of the images of the coup.

Shirin Neshat: Art in...

 ago this helmet we used to protect ourselves saw a heads dunga hunt sabino expects that even with his armor on he'll be wounded during teen coup that's the whole point in the contest the villagers will be fighting to entertain

Men Clobbering Each...

 but the princess saw he was not at peace. After talking for hours, Satyavan told her of his plight. His parents had once been wealthy rulers, until his father was blinded and overthrown in a violent coup.

Savitri and Satyavan:...

 nails its prey in midair and brings it back to the nest once back home the hunter administers the coup de Gras so then what they're gonna eat doesn't attack them a bat is a rare delicacy for these

Coup

The act of seizing control of a government by force.

Often appears as...

A surprise, clever move or action.

Often appears as...

A murder of a highly ranking political or social figure.

Often appears as...

Forceful Change

Political Instability

Not Always Successful

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