Sentence examples for French clauses from inspiring English sources

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According to the DGF investigation, the company only sends Google Ireland contracts, but they are written in French with French clauses, and therefore considered French contracts.

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When told that her "fiancé" was a resister who was to be executed, she begged to be allowed to save her honour and legitimise her expected child by marrying him under a French legal clause which allowed an engaged couple to wed if one of them is about to die.

Given French voters' views, the clause makes Turkish entry talks pretty pointless.

However, French MPs rejected a clause in an earlier draft of the bill imposing a minimum BMI – measured according to height and weight – on those working in the fashion and advertising industry.

Later in the document, they say that "the receipts and contracts of Google Ireland are written in French, and have a clause conferring jurisdiction to the French courts".* It is therefore considered a French contract by French laws.

But a clause in the French constitution (a sop for the anti-Turkey camp from the previous president, Jacques Chirac) obliges France to hold referendums before approving new accessions after Croatia's.

Manchester City are ready to pay the €50m (£39m) release clause to sign the French defender Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao as Pep Guardiola steps up his recruitment drive for next season.

Its Polish unit has now filed for creditor protection and the French unit will follow, triggering cross-default clauses in Spain.

French MPs also voted for a further clause in the health bill making it illegal to glorify anorexia on the internet.

The agreement contained a flimsily worded clause at the end to the effect that other nations would be welcome to join at a "later stage" when their efforts could be married to the existing programme – serving to anger French officials even more than if the clause had been omitted.

Since Labouchère admitted that the clause was inspired by the French penal code, which protected children and adolescents but did not criminalise consensual same-sex acts in private, Montgomery Hyde maintains that he "must have had in mind primarily the corruption of youth".

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