Directory Definition

Directory Sentence Examples

• Clearly, then, the Directory was doomed.

• The Directory was guilty of even greater abuses in dealing with the assignats.

• In this Assembly he proposed that " a confession of faith, a catechism, a directory for all the parts of the public worship, and a platform of government, wherein possibly England and we might agree," should be drawn up. This was unanimously approved of, and the laborious undertaking was left in Henderson's hands; but the " notable motion " did not lead to any immediate results.

• To avoid disbanding it, which might, as after the peace of Basel, have given the counter-revolution further auxiliaries, the Directory appointed Bonaparte chief of the Army of England, and employed Jourdan to revise the conscription laws so as to make military service a permanent duty of the citizen, since war was now to be the permanent object of policy.

• For the constitution of the year 1795 which inaugurated the period of the Directory (1795-1799) see French Revolution.