counter-coups

Of course, all these maneuvers were as nothing compared to the byzantine coups and counter-coups going on between Chiang and his own in-laws, the fantastically rich, influential and profoundly treacherous Soong family.

Still Forgotten Andrew Roberts 2011

As the era of sudden and violent armed movements, coups and counter-coups, religious fanaticism and anticlerical outrages faded into memory, Mexico entered the World War II period a nation seasoned and matured by some of the most wrenching growing pains ever witnessed in history.

The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 3 2008

As the era of sudden and violent armed movements, coups and counter-coups, religious fanaticism and anticlerical outrages faded into memory, Mexico entered the World War II period a nation seasoned and matured by some of the most wrenching growing pains ever witnessed in history.

The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 3 2008

As the era of sudden and violent armed movements, coups and counter-coups, religious fanaticism and anticlerical outrages faded into memory, Mexico entered the World War II period a nation seasoned and matured by some of the most wrenching growing pains ever witnessed in history.

The Mexican Revolution - consolidation (1920–40) part 3 2008

She was then bought by the unscrupulous Raleigh, a survivor of "coups and counter-coups, calorie plagues and starvation," who now "squats like a liver-spotted toad in his Ploenchit 'club,' smiling in self-satisfaction as he instructs newly arrived foreigners in the lost arts of pre-Contraction debauch."

Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl," winner of the Nebula Award 2010

We want to see the renewal of a genuine democratic foundation that can rid Fiji of the damaging culture of coups and counter-coups that have so damaged its economy, community and international reputation over the past 20 years.

Launch of the Lowy Institute Melanesia Program - Speech - Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs - The Hon Duncan Kerr MP 2008

Haitians developed a new pro-democracy movement to counter their oppression; finally overthrowing the Duvaliers in 1986, though, they were soon under siege by five years of coups and counter-coups.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Haitians developed a new pro-democracy movement to counter their oppression; finally overthrowing the Duvaliers in 1986, though, they were soon under siege by five years of coups and counter-coups.

TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: The US-French-Canadian Axis Against Haiti 2007

Back and forth, oppression kept re-emerging in a series of coups and counter-coups from 1963 to 1968.

Hope Amidst Despair Harry Barnes 2007

A series coups and counter-coups followed, until this man intervened.

CNN Transcript May 21, 2005 2005