Sentence examples for french domination from inspiring English sources
The resultant establishment of the Bourbon dynasty initiated French domination of Spain's political and cultural life.
French domination of 19th-century art is comparable to northern domination of 15th-century printmaking.
Cycling is no longer only a European sport and it is far from French domination.
With the French domination of the peninsula, during the late 1790s, Ferdinand III was forced to flee from the duchy.
Except for brief French domination during the Napoleonic Wars, the city remained under papal control until it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.
National feeling in Europe, stirred by French ideas and by contact with Frenchmen, in turn gave rise to the first resistance against French domination.
It was an unusually forthright U.S. intervention in the murk of euro-affairs, reflecting geostrategic concerns that a British exit would destabilize Europe, leave it under German-French domination, reduce the free-market voice within it, and deprive a multitude of British-based American corporations of the benefits of the vast single European market.
That film, as you may recall, was a stirring piece of agitprop, a gritty, cinema-verite-style re-creation of the urban terrorist campaign that precededed Algeria's liberation from French colonial domination in the early sixties...he evinced a remarkably steady kind of lucidity particularly in the scene that has been haunting us.
Benjamin Krause, country director for the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, portrayed the project as a mostly Haitian endeavor, bowing to the sensitivities of a country that threw off French colonial domination but has wrestled with foreign intervention, and the level and form of international aid to accept, ever since.
Fears of French-German domination are nothing new.
But Mr. Chirac's effort to take a leadership role on Iraq has opened deep divisions within Europe, in part because France is suspected of having a hidden agenda to restore French-German domination of Europe.
