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Metternich
[ met-uhr-nikh; English met-er-nik ]
noun
- Prince Kle·mens Wen·zel Ne·po·muk Lo·thar von [prins, , kley, -mens , ven, -ts, uh, l , ney, -paw-m, oo, k , loh, -tahr f, uh, n, loh-, tahr], 1773–1859, Austrian statesman and diplomat.
Metternich
/ ˈmɛtərnɪç /
noun
- MetternichKlemens17731859MAustrianPOLITICS: statesman Klemens (ˈkleːməns). 1773–1859, Austrian statesman. He became foreign minister (1809) and made a significant contribution to the Congress of Vienna (1815). From 1821 to 1848 he was both foreign minister and chancellor of Austria and is noted for his defence of autocracy in Europe
Other Words From
- Met·ter·nich·i·an adjective
Example Sentences
Now, continuing his pandering to the most primitive portion of the GOP base, this Missouri Metternich is opposing what no one is proposing — giving Ukraine a “blank check.”
At the dawn of the 19th century, Prince Metternich of Austria famously negotiated a century of peace among the European kingdoms that had fought one another nonstop for a hundred years.
M.B.Z.’s leading role in this ongoing counterrevolution, as a sort of latter-day Metternich, has changed his country’s reputation.
The idea is that Jared Kushner, Trump’s Metternich, will somehow succeed where more than a century’s worth of diplomacy has failed.
Metternich’s Austria and Alexander I’s Russia were the early prototypes of the modern police state.
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