Sentence examples for french promises from inspiring English sources
French promises of fiscal scrupulousness and budgetary rigor?
It was not too soon, after thirty years of reform talk and broken French, promises.
The movement for independence began during World War I (1914 18) and gained momentum after French promises of greater self-rule in Algeria went unfulfilled after World War II (1939 45).
They arrived just as a new generation of French Algerians were starting high school in the cités where they were born — young citizens with French expectations and, maybe because of this, not much patience for French promises and French intolerance and French exclusion camouflaged by a very French rhetoric of equality and integration.
The French promise action during their presidency of the G20 this year, but I doubt they will manage to move the Davos consensus.
The Germans abandoned their insistence on immediate reform of the EU's farm policy, in return for a French promise that its cost would be capped from 2007 on, at the 2006 level plus 1% a year.
A period of difficult negotiations followed involving the British and French promise to Italy of territories along the eastern Adriatic in the secret Treaty of London (1915), while the South Slavs debated between themselves over the nature of the future Yugoslav state.
Some historians have accused Poincaré and his supporters of a willingness to go to the brink of war rather than seek a negotiated settlement or use restraint on the Serbs and Russians; Poincaré's state visit to St . Petersburgat the height of the crisis has been seen as an occasion for a French promise of full support to Russia.
Mr. Doucet, who writes and sings in Cajun French, promised "separations, blood, deaths -- the good stuff" before he sang "Recherche d'Acadie," a waltz with Celtic roots about the history of the Acadians, who were driven out of England, France and Nova Scotia before ending up in southern Louisiana.
The French promised a billion dollars for the Green Climate Fund, a significant amount you might think, but miles from the goal of getting a hundred billion a year by 2020.
Most importantly, they see the French promise of "liberté, égalité, fraternité" as having an equal application to them.
