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  • I've always like the dogfights in Galactica, and starting with the coup detat episode, "The Oath", they also show they know how to write close range, shipboard combat as well.

    Thoughts On Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 So Far 2009

  • Over the past twenty-four hours the OVP has released a flurry of statements and legal briefs, some lucid, some hastily drafted and bordering on incoherent, which have caused observers to speculate that the Vice President may nearing resignation, coup 'detat, or some other form of extra-constitutional action never before seen in the history of the republic.

    Cheney's Last Stand 2007

  • But more importantly Ieuan drew attention to the fact that so much of Plaid's manifesto is in the Labour-Plaid document - and more importantly that the reson detat sic of the party has been included, namely the constitutional future of Wales.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Two months after Francos right-wing coup detat in 1936, Koestler arrived in Madrid, to cover the civil war for two publications.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • Two months after Francos right-wing coup detat in 1936, Koestler arrived in Madrid, to cover the civil war for two publications.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • This “October Surprise†was actually a coup detat against a sitting president.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: War for Fun and Profit 2006

  • HARRIS: It was a very isolating time but at the end of the day our laws were sufficient and we elected a president without a drop of blood spilled and no coup detat.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2005 2005

  • In a joint statement released late Thursday the various groups said they were "convinced that the action taken by His Majesty has no basis in the constitution and is thus tantamount to a coup detat."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • This all changed when a coup detat, orchestrated from the shadows by a religious cult, brought about a total regime change.

    WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals 2010

  • This all changed when a coup detat, orchestrated from the shadows by a religious cult, brought about a total regime change.

    WN.com - Articles related to Film documents survival stories of tigers, other animals 2010

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