Bloodless in a sentence

Better that than bloodless platitudes and far better than the shedding of actual blood.

In 1983, a bloodless overthrew Nigerian President Shehu Shagari's government, replacing him with Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

The rest of the interview doesn't specify what scene gave him a start, but there's one solid scare that fits the description, and it's a surprisingly bloodless, creature-less moment.

We all are in one accord with fighting crime but becareful what all you agree with as most are convinced the Commissioner of Police is a failure and only interested in fulfilling his role in the bloodless takeover attempt.

Her spontaneous patriotic act gave a largely bloodless coup its name: the Carnation Revolution.

While still rudimentary - voice-cloning models can't yet relay convincing Sudanese dialects - the use of Deepfakes is now routinely used on Sudan's violent, if bloodless, alternative battlefield: social media.

David makes the case for a relatively bloodless “Calexit,” and Michelle prefers a “velvet divorce” to a violent civil war.

The sultan deposed his father in a bloodless coup with British support in 1970 and set Oman on a path to development, using its oil wealth.

Three days of official mourning have been declared with flags flown at half-mast for 40 days, for the Western-backed Qaboos, 79, who had ruled since taking over in a bloodless coup in 1970 with the help of former colonial power Britain.

The mass mobilisation, which has seen hundreds of thousands protest nationwide, has so far been largely bloodless, despite sporadic scuffles with counter-demonstrators from the established political parties.

Two years before in March 1979, the New Jewel Movement, led by Maurice Bishop, had seized power in a bloodless coup in Grenada, and had drawn close to Cuba – a matter of grave concern to the US administration.

Zimbabwe’s army has always been accused of meddling in politics but for years denied this until November 2017 when then Commander Defence Forces and now Vice President Constantino Chiwenga led a bloodless mutiny that toppled then President Robert Mugabe.

Both men sometimes wrote schematic, slightly bloodless prose – but their certainty and breadth of reference could be intoxicating to politicians used to Westminster’s often insular culture.

The bloodless revolt was quickly put down by then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who promised to look into their allegations.

The Department of Home Affairs' bloodless response – it directed inquiries to the Papua New Guinea authorities – and failure to tell the man's widow in Myanmar, shook Karapanagiotidis and his team.

This bloodless attitude will prove crucial when the "Deal of the Century" is announced by Trump.

A bloodless coup in August 1985 had brought Major General Ibrahim Babangida to power in Nigeria, and Rawlings took advantage of the change of administration to pay an official visit.

A further dispute about the line of the border through the island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca resulted in another almost bloodless standoff in the Pig War of 1859.

Ambalika turns pale and bloodless upon seeing him, and thus her son Pandu is born pale and unhealthy (the term Pandu may also mean 'jaundiced' citation ).

But there's hardly any violence at all in Star Wars (and even then it's presented as essentially bloodless swashbuckling).