Holed up in his own headquarters, he began to improvise a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference

Now, a coup, I don't think so, because a coup would only spark a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008] Reference

An expected countercoup briefly installed Khalid Musharaf, a pro-Mujib figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [1975, Aug. 15] Reference

Constantine, then only 26 and on the throne barely three years, attempted a countercoup in December.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greece's Royal Couple] Reference

Mr. Chávez even suggested that Honduras's military should stage a countercoup to restore Mr. Zelaya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes Fade for Quick End to Honduran Political Crisis] Reference

A military countercoup deposed the military junta that had overthrown the ruling council of state on Jan. 16.    From Wordnik.com.  [1962, Jan. 1] Reference

Perhaps three months, perhaps less, and then there'd be a countercoup, or Gamal would be placed under house arrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharaohs-in-Waiting] Reference

Within other bodies of the power elite and see if they can essentially stage what could amount to be a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2009] Reference

It's later in the day Abdulkashim was shot down and the countercoup erupted in Novokuznetsk, and media reaction is dribbling in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Of Storms]

It was not only the day of victory but also the day of the counterattack, the countercoup, the general strike, and the advancement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH] Reference

Kong Le found support from the Soviets, who assisted him in defeating Gen. Phoumi Nosavan's countercoup forces at the capitol city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballenger, Orville R.] Reference

Through coup and countercoup, Party rule and brief democracy, fall of the ruble and rise of millionaires, the prosecutor had always bobbed to the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stalin's Ghost]

Beyond those immediate observations, we know far less at the moment than we need to know about the events leading up to the coup and countercoup in Venezuela.    From Wordnik.com.  [South of the Border, Democracy Works] Reference

There have been rumors since yesterday that Musharraf -- that there's been a countercoup within the army, that Musharraf has been urged to hand over power to the senate chairman.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007] Reference

But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup] Reference

If the Shah was part of any coup, it was clearly a countercoup against Mossadegh, who, in accordance with the Iranian constitution, did not have the authority to remove the Shah from power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Baker-Hamilton Panel on Iraq tells us the obvious about the need to change course] Reference

Concerned with the growing potential for serious unrest after a countercoup attempt was bloodily put down by the regime, the United Kingdom and the EU in November issued a travelers advisory for The Gambia, which brought a halt to tourism almost immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Soldiers loyal to Chavez called for a massive countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

In 1975, a countercoup overthrew Portugal's Communist-led revolution of the previous year, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

He was the principal organizer of a countercoup by younger officers against President George Papadopoulos, who as a colonel was a leader of the earlier coup.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

On several occasions in the 1990s, the Saudis simply invaded Qatar to remind it who was boss and, following Sheikh Khalifa's deposal, Riyadh tried to manipulate his return by organizing a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Country experts have argued that Camara, who is not believed to have been at the stadium during the massacre, did not have the power to arrest Toumba, as it could have prompted him to lead a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference

In Mauritania in 2005, officers ousted the last dictator, then held the country's first free and transparent vote - even though a countercoup a year later put the desert nation back into the hands of the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [13WHAM: Top Stories] Reference

In just 47 hours, a coup d'etat ousted President Chavez and a countercoup returned him to power, in an extraordinary showing of the will and determination of a dignified people on a revolutionary path with no return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dandelion Salad] Reference

It is the first time that the 45-year-old leader has left Guinea since seizing control in a coup last December and he canceled multiple trips abroad, sometimes leading his private plane idling on the tarmac, for fear of a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference

Two months later, after a countercoup was discovered and crushed, the leadership launched a series of Stalinist-style purges, cleansing the higher reaches of the government and the military of suspected rivals and opponents — a process that expanded across the decades into one of the great horror stories of our time, but even at the start was spectacular enough, marked by public executions and bodies strung up in the squares of Baghdad for all the citizens to admire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Accuser] Reference

Hardly the stuff of a countercoup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Hostage-Takers] Reference