ancien régime

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• If the armed forces protect the ancien régime, then the revolutionary opposition is unable to seize power.

  Academic text (2004)

• When the military is willing to use force to protect the ancien régime, democratic revolutionaries cannot prevail.

  Academic text (2004)

• On the contrary: it could only lead to the return of the bad ancien régime.

  Blog text (28)

• The second is the economic legacy of ancien régimes and, in particular, the recent experience of the country with structural adjustment.

  Academic text (1993)

• If, however, the armed forces do not protect the ancien régime, then the revolutionaries usually do come to power.

  Academic text (2004)

• Inside the residence was the uncomfortable elegance of the ancien régime.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The reception of foreign ambassadors was one of the most important court rituals of the ancien régime, and one of the most spectacular.

  Academic text (1996)

• Military interventions tend to be based on either the need to restore the ancien régime or the desire to rearrange social order.

  Academic text (1994)

• Consequently, many have interpreted the decline and collapse of the ancien régime as an opening for the assertion of civil society in Africa.

  Academic text (1992)

• Indeed, despite her many notable contributions to the art and politics of the ancien régime and the French Revolution, Labille-Guiard has received remarkably little scholarly attention.

  Academic text (2007)

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