Sentence examples for french divided from inspiring English sources
It is interesting but chilling to see the carelessness with which the British and French divided up this area under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.
The Arabs had expected independence in exchange for their rebellion against Ottoman rule during World War I, but in a secret 1916 pact known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, the British and French divided the Levant.
Jules et Jim is about many things: about friends, Austrian and French, divided by war; about the nature of friendship itself; about a woman - the life force called Jeanne Moreau - who cannot decide who she loves.
And if you look at that now you have to think about how the way the great powers - basically Britain and the French - divided up Arabia shapes the world even today". So audiences may be surprised to discover that much of the new play takes place not under desert skies but inside the solid Hertfordshire home of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend.
Instead, the victorious British and French divided them up amongst Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
The Kurds joined a long line of peoples betrayed by the Versailles settlement to World War I when the British and French divided up the Middle East.
About 4,000 French soldiers are serving alongside 6,000 United Nations peacekeepers in the former French colony, divided since rebels tried to oust the president in 2002.
A poll showed the French are divided about the tactic, though slightly more favor it than oppose it.
His narrow win indicated the French remain divided over how best to tackle the enormous economic challenges facing the country.
A century after British and French diplomats divided the Ottoman Empire's eastern territories into feeble (and ultimately short-lived) mandates, the resulting states are crumbling beyond repair.
Zango (founded in 1825) was the more prominent Hausa-Daura kingdom, and in 1903 04, after the British and French had divided the three Daura polities, the British installed Zango's king, Malam Musa, as the new emir of Daura.
