Translation for 'coup de grâce' from English to Dutch

coup de grâce

genadeslag {de}

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coup

coup {de}

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grace

gratie {de}

coup d'état

staatsgreep {de}pol.

coup {de}

Tour de France

Ronde {de} van Frankrijkfietssport

cul-de-sac

doodlopend straatje {het}

chef de cuisine

keukenchef {de}gastr.werk

eau de cologne

eau de cologne {de}

Delaware <DE> [The First State]

Delaware {het} [staat van de Verenigde Staten]geogr.

Battle of Puerto de Cavite

zeeslag {de} bij Puerto de Cavitegesch.

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue <EDSA>

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue {de} <EDSA>geogr.

• This new regime delivered the "coup de grâce" to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.
• A fire in a Philips chip factory in New Mexico in March 2000 caused severe disruption to Ericsson's phone production, dealing a "coup de grâce" to Ericsson's mobile phone hopes.
• One version of this fable ends with the coup de grâce when, still high in the sky, the voyageurs complete the hazardous journey but the canoe overturns, so the devil can honour the pact to deliver the voyageurs and still claim their souls.
• In December 1874, General Arsenio Martínez Campos staged a "pronunciamiento" in Sagunto, which delivered the coup de grâce to the Republic and brought the Bourbon Restoration.
• After relocating back to the US in 1989, Moynihan formed the musical group Blood Axis and no longer produced music under the name Coup de Grâce.

• After directing his second opera "We Come to the River" in 1976, Schlöndorff followed "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" with the equally political "Coup de Grâce" (1976).
• POWs in a farmer's field, where they used machine guns to shoot and kill the grouped POWs; the prisoners of war who survived the gunfire of the massacre then were killed with a "coup de grâce" gun-shot to the head.
• She saw action at the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916), where she administered the "coup de grâce" to the badly damaged German cruiser [...].
• In 1948 Vidor announced he had purchased rights to "Sirocco", a French Foreign Legion tale based on the novel "Coup de Grace" he wanted to make with Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart. He was also preparing to do the film version of "Born Yesterday" and did a few days uncredited work on "Under Cover Man".
• The Virginia Dale stage station was established in 1862 by Jack Slade, former station manager at Julesburg, Colorado where he famously got into a dispute with Jules Beni. Beni had previously shot Slade five times but Slade survived and exacted his revenge by ambushing Beni, tying him to a fencepost and shooting off his fingers before delivering a coup de grace to the head. Slade kept Beni's ears as trophies. While station master in Julesburg, Slade met and breakfasted with Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain" and made quite an impression upon Twain. Twain wrote about his encounter with Slade in his 1872 publication "Roughing It".

• In 2002, Garcia contributed vocals to two tracks on UK band Orange Goblin's album "Coup de Grace", "Made of Rats" and "Jesus Beater".
• His first evil deed was the murder of the Norwegian petty king Vikar (Wicarus). Starkad had joined a Viking expedition with Vikar, but they found themselves stopped by a strong wind. They then had the idea that they could appease the gods by performing a blót with human blood, and decided to cast lots as to whom was to be sacrificed. Starkad made a noose of willow and put it around the king's neck in the pretense that it was only for show and not for killing. However, the knot was so strong that the king was dying, and Starkad gave him the coup de grace with his sword. Others say that the noose of willow suddenly became so strong that the king was strangled.
• Hall performed improv comedy at iO Chicago for more than a decade with various teams including Wonderbat (co-starring SNL's Alex Moffat), Electric Mayhem, and Coup de Grace and at The Playground with Boyish. He frequently would be seen showing up at Second City to do guest performances during the improv sets.
• Moynihan had founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances and cassettes and also released booklets of images and texts, the last of which was Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist". The first output from the new appellation were two songs, "Lord of Ages" (employing lyrics from Rudyard Kipling's poem on Mithras) and "Electricity", which appeared on a German music sampler. These tracks were well received in Europe and were followed by two more songs that appeared on the compilation, "Im Blutfeuer".
• Desperate but determined units of FANK soldiers, many of whom had run out of ammunition, dug in around the capital and fought until they were overrun as the Khmer Rouge advanced. By the last week of March 1975, approximately 40,000 communist troops had surrounded the capital and began preparing to deliver the "coup de grace" to about half as many FANK forces.

• The catastrophic defeat of the Spanish forces at Annual and the ensuing massacre of Spaniards at Monte Arruit delivered a "coup de grace" to the Restoration regime in that country, and what it was known as the African "adventure" became referred to as the Moroccan "mess" or "cancer". A coup d'état led by Miguel Primo de Rivera installed a dictatorship in Spain in September 1923.
• The jugular vein is the subject of an idiom in the English language: "to go for the jugular" means to attack decisively at the weakest point [...] in other words, to attack at the opportune juncture for a definitive resolution, or coup de grace.
• Early features on Trevor Brown's art appeared in Adam Parfrey's "Apocalypse Culture II", Shade Rupe's "Funeral Party 2", and in Jim Goad's "ANSWER Me!" zine. Since then his interviews and art have been featured in numerous publications worldwide, most recently on the cover of "Gothic & Lolita Bible" in Japan. His work also appears on a variety of book and record covers. He has illustrated for Coup de Grace an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's "Der Antichrist". Brown has also had several books of his art published.