Word: etats
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...Order will be restored, and the criminals will be punished." EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, President of Georgia, after protesters stormed the former Soviet republic's parliament and forced him to flee the hall in what he later described as a coup d'etat...
...supports, at least partly, the head-scarf cause. A 1989 ruling by the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest legal body, stated that outward manifestations of religious faith by students are not "incompatible with the principle of secularity." But the Conseil also noted that "ostentatious or militant" displays of crucifixes, yarmulkes or head scarves constituting acts of "pressure, provocation, proselytism or propaganda" should be banned. The Conseil failed to define precisely what it meant by "ostentatious or militant" displays, and the Education Ministry left it up to individual schools to determine what was a violation and what...
...national revolution has begun," he shouted. Not quite. Adolf Hitler was forcing the issue. With Germany seething at the spineless Weimar government over the humiliating terms of the World War I armistice, Hitler sensed an opportunity. Just before 9 p.m., his Nazis launched a putsch, or coup d'etat, taking three powerful officials hostage. With hundreds of his Storm Troopers surrounding the hall, he compelled the trio to support him. But Nazi euphoria was fleeting; Hitler's three "supporters" slipped away and denounced him. Police opened fire on the Nazis when they took to the streets the next day. Hitler...
...Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Iraqi nationalists quickly became disillusioned with their new, Western masters. The Revolution of 1920 left hundreds of British casualties. The British, America's main ally in this latest invasion, managed to implant a friendly monarchy. But the Hashemites were finally overthrown in a coup d'etat in 1958. It was in those bloody days that Saddam Hussein's terrible political career was born...
...collegial manner won Lenoir high marks from foreign colleagues, and many in Brussels cheered her selection by Raffarin. Lenoir's European bona fides are accompanied by experience within France's power élite, whose male domination she challenged early on. In 1986, Mitterrand named her to the Conseil d'Etat - a governmental policy advisory panel - and in 1988 she was tapped as chief of staff of the then leftist government's Justice Ministry. In 1992 she became the first woman ever appointed to the Conseil Constitutionel - France's equivalent to a supreme court - where she acted as that body...