Sentence examples for french desire from inspiring English sources

A French desire to see some (notionally) francophone countries in the EU undermined officials' attempts to be tough on the vital questions of judicial reform and organised crime.

The reason for the mildness appeared to lie in the French desire to play a peacemaking role in the Middle East.

Some analysts here attribute the policy to the French desire to maintain what they like to call "privileged" relations with Arab states.

But the French desire to maintain the threat of military action to bolster diplomacy "was marginalized by the entente of the two big powers," said Pierre Haski, co-founder of the Rue89 news Web site in Paris.

As for the French desire to implement a draft directive from the European Commission in favour of "consultation and information at the national level" for companies with as few as 50 workers, the bosses are appalled.

If the French don't do what the Germans demand, and the Germans what the French desire, the project of European union might collapse, and, with it, seventy or so years of national purpose and hope.

He agreed to French desires for a common currency, but only if it could be a mirror of the Deutsche mark, for decades the European monetary standard.

American leaders are therefore forced either to limit such actions or to accept a cost to their soft power when they go ahead despite foreign complaints.Were the euro to play more of a global role, as was once thought likely and as the French occasionally desire, these trade-offs would become more acute for European policy makers.

But do the French truly desire the sort of ever-closer binding together implicit in the plans of, say, Jacques Delors (see article), who would bless the emergence, sooner rather than later, of a sort of European federation?"Europe", to be sure, is a work in progress.

Even so, tensions remained: William remained very suspicious of Louis, thinking that the French king desired "Universal Kingship" over Europe; Louis described William as "my mortal enemy" and saw him as an obnoxious warmonger.

"Mademoiselle Chambon" belongs to a long line of French films exploring desire and the consequences of acting on it.