1.   But his victory in the Ames poll was considered a stunning political coup at the time, which briefly gave his campaign a big lift.

2.   Democrats insisted that Americans were witnessing nothing less than a political coup.

3.   During House debates on articles of impeachment, Democrats insisted that Americans were witnessing a political coup.

4.   Everyone sensed that a political coup was coming.

5.   Failing to get what he wanted, Jeffords exited the meeting, walked upstairs, and handed Breaux the political coup he wanted.

6.   George Pataki had promised an on-time budget his first year in office, a feat that would have been a major political coup.

7.   It also loomed as a potential political coup for Yeltsin, who could claim to have restored prices to pre-reform levels.

8.   It would be a corporate and technological breakthrough for Disney, whose hand-drawn animation is world famous, as well as a political coup.

9.   Still, the outcome was a stunning political coup for the White House, Senate Democrats and their allies in organized labor.

10.   That same year, the US Board of Immigration Appeals granted political asylum to a woman who had been raped by armed men in Haiti during the political coup.