David Cameron has not only reduced the UK's top tax bracket while French candidates threaten to raise it, he has announced that fleeing French bankers are welcome in the City.
The Sunday Times wrote it off as "pretentious, banal, badly written and boring" and the Times said that Mr Houellebecq, who French critics like to bracket with Albert Camus, was no more a novelist of ideas than Benny Hill.
Above a ground story of rusticated stone rises a double-height screen of columns bracketing giant French windows with garlands, cartouches, scrolls and other details applied in profusion.
The somewhat uncertain data on crime costs suggest that the economic impact is comparatively low, but the costs of crime and rape were probably underestimated, because they did not include the value of statistical life, which may be greater than that of accidents (between €1999 0.5 to 1.5 million in Europe and French estimations were the lowest bracket estimate) [ 57, 58].
Bilingual dictionaries that translate from foreign languages into Russian usually employ the IPA, but monolingual Russian dictionaries occasionally use pronunciation respelling for foreign words; for example, Ozhegov's dictionary adds нэ́ in brackets for the French word пенсне to indicate that the е does not iotate the н.
There were also the frankly faux, like the French Provincial-style settee and the inexpensive brackets that McKay painted himself to display tchotchkes ranging from vintage Venini glass to the Lucite clock that once sat on his grandmother's television.
However, on French insistence, the paragraphs on Arak were put back into brackets, meaning they were open to negotiation again.
The original French or Italian names on the labels are noted in brackets.
Bracketed by Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue, Mr. Ruttenstein had the air of a pasha, albeit one in need of beta blockers.
This, Powell thought, "suggested old-fashioned French bourgeois life rather than the modes of today's lower income brackets".
