Sentence examples for au from inspiring English sources

Seven top Fifa officials were arrested in dawn raids at the Baur au Lac hotel on Wednesday and seven more were charged in the US over racketeering, money laundering and tax evasion.

Having just, and very satisfyingly, reshelved my cookery books, I was puzzled to discover that not a single volume in the French section contained a recipe for coq au riesling.

I suspect that this may be more relevant to a red-wine coq au vin than this variety, but I love black pudding, and I'm tickled by the idea of sneaking some Irish blood into Roux's very French recipe, so I try it.

Place another stick of chocolate on this and roll the whole dough into a pain au chocolat shape.

She was au naturel, just nothing on but leather.

Thus enlightened, I return to the shelves to discover that, among the plethora of recipes for coq au vin, a handful concede they can also be made with riesling "along the same lines" – somewhat surprisingly, given that rich, dark coq au vin and tangy, creamy coq au riesling seem two very different spins on the same basic ingredients to me.

Haggis says he's fighting daily against the preconception that in the five years since the earthquake shattered Port-au-Prince – killing 220,000, wreaking $14bn in damage, and leaving 1.5 million homeless – Haiti should have been fixed by now.

American companies and NGOs continue to receive the lion's share of US aid funding for projects in Haiti four years after the earthquake that levelled the capital Port-au-Prince, despite US government promises to spend more money through local organisations.

In 1993, President Clinton ordered 20,000 US troops into Port-au-Prince to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.

To mark today's launch of Guardian Cities, our new website devoted to urban living and the future of cities all over the world, Guardian correspondents have spent time in six of them – New Orleans, Ishinomaki, Port-au-Prince, Banda Aceh, Christchurch and Galle – to investigate how our cities are reinvented after disaster strikes.

The UN stabilisation force is still here – although it is bitterly resented among ordinary Haitians for bringing with it a Nepalese strain of cholera which has killed more than 8,800 people, and infected 736,000 since 2010 – but on the choking streets of Port-au-Prince the NGOs and aid agencies are a shadow of their presence even two years ago.