Sentence examples for french statement from inspiring English sources

Chirac clearly felt that the time had come to make a tough, resoundingly "French" statement on secularism.

The French statement did not say which side of the border the soldiers were on, and it did not explain why the soldiers were patrolling so far north.

The French statement said that further investigation was necessary to "verify those initial results and determine the exact causes of the explosion".

But the French statement also emphasized the importance of diplomacy as opposed to military pressure as the best way to achieve success.

The French statement said that Mr. Mba and Louis Bigmann, Speaker of the National Assembly, had been seized along with their principal aides and taken to a military camp.

By the pale standards of diplomacy in the Algerian conflict, this was a remarkably pugnacious French statement about its former colony, and it provoked predictable outrage from President Liamine Zeroual's Government in Algiers.

But French statements have not been supported by any unilateral action.

The British and French statements reinforced a sense that the window for diplomatic efforts to halt the 18-month-old conflict might have closed, as new crackdowns by the Syrian military were reported in the Damascus suburbs.

Alexandr Vondra, the former Czech foreign minister, said he was surprised by Mr. Sarkozy's comments, which, he said, had contradicted French statements on missile defense at the last NATO summit meeting in Bucharest, Romania.

In addition, the Chinese-French statement calls for increased support for developing countries that are facing the brunt of climate-related disasters, for low-carbon technology, and for "cooperative projects in areas of mutual interest".

I hope that Dr. Mehmet Oz, who featured the rat study on his popular television show, will tell his viewers about the French academies' statement.