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It will not be a palace affair, replete with a “patriotic,” television-driven mobilization of the masses against terrorists and the Western nemesis.
The foundations of Putin’s neo-feudal regime, one suspects, may be cracking, even if the palace has yet to tremble.
On April 7, 2009, Moldova made headlines when peaceful protests against unfair elections were hijacked by a small number of provocateurs who attacked the parliament building and presidential palace.
There are already rumors about a palace coup within Kadima, aimed at replacing Olmert with either the deputy prime minister, the veteran Shimon Peres, or the popular foreign minister, Tzipi Livni.
Just last week, following allegations of massive fraud during the country’s recent presidential election, thousands of protesters marched on the presidential palace.
The bomber was Abdullah Asiri, a Saudi citizen and Al-Qaeda member who had returned from Yemen, claiming to have renounced terrorism and wishing to surrender directly to Prince Muhammad in his palace.
Keynes RebornTOKYO – In the fourth century, Japan’s emperor looked out from a small mountain near his palace and noticed that something was missing: smoke rising from people’s kitchens.
Three years later, the palace gates were in disrepair and the stars shone through leaks in the roof.
The people were so grateful to the emperor – who became known as Nintoku (Emperor with Virtue and Benevolence) – that they volunteered to repair his palace.
But he worked tirelessly to restore the influence of the palace.
The king summoned the Thai junta leader and the leader of the protest to his palace in the center of the city, and on live television both men prostrated themselves before him while he demanded an end to the bloodshed.
By 2014, he had taken over the presidential palace and surrounded himself by a guard meant to evoke Ottoman splendor, a fairly transparent effort to compensate for his inability to shape regional developments according to his – much less his country’s – interests.
Khrushchev was ousted in a palace coup sponsored by the KGB and blessed by the military.
The country’s activist mothers and grandmothers follow in the Latin American tradition of predecessors like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who in 1977 began to march in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to protest the mass disappearance of children under the military dictatorship.
Embarrassed and furious - my attire made me a butt of Walesa's mocking remarks - I walked up the stairs of the palace where the talks were to be held.
Some of the most important industrial leaders also pleaded – in secret “night visits” to the presidential palace – for a national path involving devaluation and a weak currency.
But, if Assad’s regime is sufficiently weakened and his removal – whether through military collapse or a palace coup – becomes imminent, Russia may decide to cut its losses rather than further damage its credibility in the Arab world by supporting Assad’s regime to the bitter end.
On the evening of November 9th, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki invited my delegation to a banquet in the former palace of Prince Radziwill.
Its demise could come via a military coup or a palace coup; a worker uprising or a peasant uprising; a consequence of economic failure or something that simply reflects the banality of the entire place.
While it is easy to get caught up in the swirling tales of palace intrigue that have followed, I suspect that Bo’s removal holds a far deeper meaning.
Slowly, it snaked down the medieval streets behind Prague Castle and into the square in front of the president's palace.
Her comment was an explicit reference to Allende’s last speech from the besieged La Moneda palace on September 11, 1973, when he declared that some day, much sooner than later, “we will reopen the great promenades down which free men pass.”
He will preside over a deeply polarized country, where conservative forces find themselves outside the presidential palace for the first time ever.
What in the past would have been a straightforward palace coup spilled out onto the pages of newspapers and into the corridors of Parliament.
Parliamentary ratification did not simply provide a rubber stamp to a palace coup; its approval was conditional.
To make the point that all institutions are equally suspect, he created an exhibition entitled “Fuck off,” in which he shows photographs of himself with an obscene hand gesture in front of famous monuments: the Doge’s palace in Venice, once the commercial capital of the world, the Eiffel Tower, the White House, and the Forbidden City in Beijing.
According to ancient myth, King Minos of Crete owed his hegemony to the Minotaur, a tragic beast imprisoned under Minos’s palace.
His forces have already clashed with rival units in Mukalla and surrounded the presidential palace in Aden.
The first “revolutionary” statement of Egypt’s new grassroots Tamarod (rebel) movement demanded that Morsi leave within two days or face a march on the presidential palace.
Whereas only a few hundred showed up to support the fraudulently elected Mubarak during the revolution, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians rallied for two consecutive weeks in Rab‘a al-‘Adawiyya square, near the presidential palace, to express their solidarity with Morsi.
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