Madam Chairlady was about to spring a parliamentary coup.

During this period France effectively became a dictatorship after the parliamentary coup of the radical leaders, the Jacobin.

Napoleon replied, referring to earlier parliamentary coups, "The Constitution!

Mikhalkov is a former associate of former vice president Alexander Rutskoi, a leader of last year's failed parliamentary coup.

Lugo himself formally accepted the impeachment, but called it a "parliamentary coup".

Indeed, some Iraqi leaders have started exploring new alliances to break the political logjam, possibly involving a parliamentary coup against Mr. Maliki.

A parliamentary coup might unseat Mr. Maliki personally, but it would be much tougher to shake power loose from the Shiite religious groups.

On March 11, 1990, a bourgeois-nationalist grouping of Deputies to the Lithuanian SSR Supreme Soviet carried out a parliamentary coup.

June 2009 "parliamentary coup"

It is a crucial post because if there is to be a parliamentary coup against Mr. Kohl before the next scheduled election in 1994, it must be mounted by Christian Democrats.