Meaning of coup de force | Babel Free

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A sudden, violent act.

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“On 26 August 1718, in a remarkable coup de force⟳, Orléans crushed the political audacity and embryonic constitutional pretensions of the Parlement.”

“The undecidable issue⟳ between these different institutions and procedures had in the end⟳ to be determined at the boundary of all of them, through coups de force⟳.”

“It can, of course, always be argued that the acceptance of democracy by the Communists and by the Catholic Church was a matter⟳ of power relations: the church had everything to lose⟳ from a struggle⟳ for power, and the strategic balance between the Soviet Union and NATO barred the French and Italian Communist Parties from any possibility of a coup de force⟳.”

“Then, in a remarkable coup de force⟳, he convinced Lilienthal to set⟳ up a naval reactors branch at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)—and had himself appointed its head.”

“On 9 March⟳ 1945, […] the Japanese launched a coup de force⟳, overthrowing eighty years of French rule⟳ in a matter⟳ of days.”

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