Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup.

In July 1996, former Burundian President Buyoya returned to power in a bloodless coup.

On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.

Dacko's efforts to promote economic and political reforms proved ineffectual, and on 20 September 1981, he in turn was overthrown in a bloodless coup by General André Kolingba.

Colonel Azali Assoumani seized power in a bloodless coup in April 1999, overthrowing Interim President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who himself had held the office since the death of democratically elected President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in November, 1998.

Popular unrest, together with the ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the background for a bloodless coup d ' état in July 1925.

* 1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d ' état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.

The single-party solution disintegrated in 1963, and there was a single-day bloodless coup in 1964.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on 18 February 1964.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964.

Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, temporarily commanding the First Brigade around Accra, led a bloodless coup that ended the Second Republic in January 1972.

A military junta headed by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized power on April 3, 1984 in a bloodless coup, ending Beavogui's brief rule.

On 5 May 2009, President Moussa Dadis Camara, who seized power in a bloodless coup which followed the 22 December 2008 death of President Lansana Conté, announced the recall of 30 of Guinea's ambassadors to other countries.

In late 1980, the government was overthrown in a relatively bloodless coup led by Prime Minister and former armed forces commander João Bernardo Vieira.

In September 2003 a bloodless coup took place in which the military, headed by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra, arrested Ialá, because " he was unable to solve the problems ".

Ialá was ousted in a bloodless coup in September 2003 and Henrique Rosa was sworn in as President.

HT does not engage in armed jihad or vote-getting, but works to take power through " ideological struggle " to change Muslim public opinion, and in particular through elites who will " facilitate " a " change of the government ," i. e. launch a bloodless coup.

* 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.

* 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d ' état.

* 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.

* 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

On 25 March 1941, Yugoslavia reluctantly signed the Tripartite Pact, which led to the overthrow of Prince Paul the next day in a bloodless coup by the Yugoslav military.

In March 1975, newly elected prime minister Zaki was arrested in a bloodless coup and was banished to a remote atoll.

On 19 November 1968, following progressive economic decline, the Keïta regime was overthrown in a bloodless military coup led by Moussa Traoré, a day which is now commemorated as Liberation Day.

With army backing and the support of Marshal Ye Jianying, on October 10, the Special Unit 8341 had all members of the Gang of Four arrested in a bloodless coup.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

Daddah was ousted in a bloodless coup on July 10, 1978.

Mercenary-on-mercenary warfare in Italy led to relatively bloodless campaigns which relied as much on manoeuvre as on battles, since the condottieri recognized it was more efficient to attack the enemy's ability to wage war rather than his battle forces, discovering the concept of indirect warfare 500 years before Sir Basil Liddell Hart, and attempting to attack the enemy supply lines, his economy and his ability to wage war rather than risking an open battle, and manoeuvre him into a position where risking a battle would have been suicidial.

It was a bloody sign in the Old Testament but because Christ has shed His blood, it has been transformed into a bloodless sign, i. e. washing with water.

Passover was a bloody form of Old Testament worship and also transitions into the New Testament in the bloodless form of bread and wine.

Within hours after taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by the commander of the army Brigadier General David Lansana, a close ally of Sir Albert Margai who had appointed him to the position in 1964.

His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d ' état on October 21, 1969 ( the day after his funeral ), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover.

The coup was relatively bloodless and accepted by the Zulu.

TV Guide thought it was " intelligent " in its " bloodless depiction of violence ", while Anton Bitel felt the fact that it was banned in the United Kingdom was a tribute to its artistry.

While he was in New York for a meeting of the UN, Army Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin launched the bloodless September 2006 Thailand military coup d ' état supported by anti-Thaksin elements in civil society and among the Democrat Party.

An almost bloodless conflict between Ohio and the Michigan Territory, called the Toledo War ( 1835 – 1836 ), was " fought " over a narrow strip of land from the Indiana border to Lake Erie, now containing the city and the suburbs of Sylvania and Oregon.

The Toledo War ( 1835 – 1836 ), also known as the Michigan – Ohio War, was the almost entirely bloodless boundary dispute between the U. S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan.

Upon his arrival, superiors charged him with cowardice in the quick and bloodless surrender of Fort Mackinac.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

On November 19, 1968, a group of young officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member Military Committee for National Liberation ( CMLN ), with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

On 19 November 1968, a group of young Malian officers staged a bloodless coup and set up a 14-member military junta, with Lt. Moussa Traoré as president.

Between the bloodless Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair, relations with Britain and its colonies in Canada also proved to be strained.

The invasion, conducted with commercial airliners and car carriers, is virtually bloodless.

Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup.

Released in an era where shootings were generally depicted as bloodless and painless, the Bonnie and Clyde death scene was one of the first in mainstream American cinema to be depicted with graphic realism.

On a Sunday afternoon in May, 1798 William Pitt, the then Prime Minister, who lived in Bowling-Green House on the heath, fought a bloodless battle with William Tierney, MP.

Throughout his travels Marlborough remained in close contact with the Electoral court of Hanover, determined to ensure a bloodless Hanoverian succession on Anne's death.

In November 1938, shortly after his Division had taken part in the bloodless occupation of the Sudetenland, Rundstedt retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel-General ( Generaloberst ), second only to the rank of Field Marshal.

Terror weapons can achieve an almost bloodless rout of the enemy, in contrast with no-holds-barred offensive war machines ; in Surface Detail, the Abominator-class picket ship wipes out a third of the GFCF fleet to administer the required instructive lesson.

Governor Fendall soon had a falling out with Lord Baltimore and led a bloodless revolution in 1659.

It was however a bloodless " war " with only a few shots being fired.

Livy avoids the word " sacrifice " in connection with this bloodless human life-offering ; Plutarch does not.

Thus the recovery rate is faster with bloodless surgery allowing the patient to leave earlier.

and Doc asking out Geraldine ), the potential legatees decide to pool forces and, with Jimmy as leader, decide to mount a bloodless coup the aim of which is to reverse age roles, with such policies as pensions for the young.

Eastern Rumelia was constituted as an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of Berlin, 1878, but on September 6, 1885, after a bloodless revolution, it was united with Bulgaria.