Coups-d-tat Sentence Examples

The men of the 14th century, who commanded armies and executed coups detat at eighteen, were often worn out by sixty.

Its internal weakness, between the danger of anarchy and the opposition of the monar chists, was extreme; and it soon became discredited by its own coups detat and by financial impotence in the eyes of a nation sick of revolution, aspiring towards peace and the resumption of economic undertakings.

Political and financial coups detat were not enough for the directors.