Sentence examples for french communities from inspiring English sources

A number of formal alliances were made between tribal and French communities, as were many personal alliances.

He was strongly cheered, and his first act was to hand the waiting Negro government of each of the thirteen new French communities a fine, symbolic French silk flag, the top of its staff consisting of two clasped hands…The subsequent parade's big opening point was a fly-past of a hundred and seventeen planes, the last three shedding red, white, and blue smoke.

"What have we done since then?" For many years, French military intervention in Africa functioned as the guardian of French economic interests and of the large expatriate French communities who benefited from them in cities like Libreville in Gabon and Abidjan in Ivory Coast.

Tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French communities sometimes run high, and the issue has brought down several governments, creating frequent political instability.

They found that religious norms regarding Lent were respected in all nine communities, but that May credence was found only in the French communities and in one out of three Italian communities.

Salvat et al. (1997) focused on 20 Spanish communities in the period 1918 1983 and 27 French communities in the period 1836 1990, all situated in the Cerdanya Valley (a region in the eastern Pyrenees on the border between France and Spain).

In a 1958 referendum in French West Africa, Keita successfully campaigned for Sudan to become an autonomous state within the French Community.

The French community has grown since then.

Ashford boasts a thriving French community.

The CFA (African Financial Community, formerly French Community of Africa) franc zone supplies another cautionary tale.

The British Commonwealth, or Commonwealth of Nations, and the French Community are cases of this type.