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Hundred Days
noun
- the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- a special session of Congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933, called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which important social legislation was enacted.
hundred days
plural noun
- French history the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's arrival in Paris from Elba on March 20, 1815, and his abdication on June 29, 1815
Example Sentences
“Trump is asserting a particular theory about executive power, but that’s really all he has,” Ekbladh said, “and that has defined his first hundred days — disrupt, break, defund.”
Unfortunately, it's only been a hundred days.
In his first 65 days in office, Vladeck reported in a recent post, Trump issued 100 executive orders, besting the record set by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first hundred days, when he issued 99.
But he admits, "I'm starting to think now about legacy. How long will this last beyond me? Having said that," he interjects, "I love what I do. I spend a hundred days a year in Europe, and I can hardly wait to get on the plane and go over there again."
"Every year since, I've spent a hundred days in Europe making mistakes, taking careful notes," he says.
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