The former army officer seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994 and once pledged to lead Gambia for a billion years.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
What she had done was to lead a stealthy if not quite bloodless coup.
Giles Whittell Spitfire Women of World War II (2007)
It might almost have been a bloodless coup.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The bloodless coup which drove him into exile in 2006 might have been the end of him as a politician.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Martial law was imposed when the government was ousted in a bloodless coup after months of political turmoil in the capital Bangkok.
The Sun (2014)