Sentence examples for french opposed from inspiring English sources

Public opinion is running strongly against him; a poll published this weekend in the conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro showed about two-thirds of the French opposed to military action against Syria.

From 1946 to 1954, the French opposed independence, and Ho Chi Minh led guerrilla warfare against them in the first Indochina War that ended in the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu on May 7 , 1954

His 4,500 French opposed 2,600 Russians, and forced them back toward Stein, while pressing an attack along the river.

Jones was once so gung ho about W.'s attempts to impose democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan that, after the French opposed invading Iraq in 2003, he helped lead the effort to rename French fries "freedom fries" and French toast "freedom toast" in the House cafeteria.

A French opinion poll released Tuesday indicated that 56percentt of the French oppose Turkey's membership.

Seventy-three per cent of the French oppose having Roma living near their homes.

The bill does not mandate state aid for artificial insemination or other assistance in procreation for same-sex married couples, however, which many French oppose.

Germany, more sensitive to the small members, suggests a "double-majority" system which would add a population-weighted vote to the normal qualified majority; but the French oppose this because it would give the Germans greater weight than themselves.The question of voting weights has already caused considerable friction.

Valeurs Actuelles, a right-wing newsweekly, got the petition rolling last week with a cover picture of an ancient stone chapel under a headline that translates as "Hands off my church!" Inside, the Catholic writer Denis Tillinac penned a moving appeal to defend France's religious heritage; an opinion poll showed that 67percentt of the French oppose Boubakeur's suggestion.

Writer interprets Mme's capitulation to official French (as opposed to her own Portuguese-French patois) as an indication that she, like many French people today, is feeling linguistically bankrupt when it comes to describing what is going on in their country.

The family held French citizenship but opposed French colonialism.