Sentence examples for french strength from inspiring English sources

The Viet Minh had popular support and was able to dominate the countryside, while the French strength lay in urban areas.

The breakthrough of 1813 happened not because of Wellington's genius but because allied reorganisation brought, for the first time, a unified command, and because disaster elsewhere had sapped French strength.

Alarmed at this sudden increase in French strength, Ludovico, the emperor Maximilian I, the pope, and King Ferdinand II of Aragon came together in the League of Venice in March 1495 to combat Charles's power.

While the collection, which includes works by Mantegna, Botticelli, Chardin, Rembrandt and Van Dyck, may not stack up against the holdings of the Frick, the Jacquemart-André's exuberantly theatrical 1875 architecture and plush interiors play to French strength and remind us of why Frick and other American art patrons made their European grand tours in the first place.

French strength had dwindled to about 250 AMX-30B2s.

Reports reached him that the French strength at Carillon was 6,000, and that a further 3,000 were expected.

Expected reinforcements from Fort Duquesne had not arrived, the French military strength at La Galette was unknown, and its strength near Montreal was believed to be relatively high.

Now he needs to return the favor by significantly increasing French combat strength in Afghanistan.

The retreat of French industrial strength, which began in the 1970s, has accelerated in the past decade and has now reached a "critical level", the report says.

Instead, the real source of French union strength today is the statutory powers they enjoy as joint managers, along with business representatives, of the country's health and social-security system, and as employee representatives in the workplace.

Hogrel J-Y, Payan CA, Ollivier G, Tanant V, Attarian S, Couillandre A, Dupeyron A, Lacomblez L, Doppler V, Meininger V, Tranchant C, Pouget J, Desnuelle C. Development of a French isometric strength normative database for adults using quantitative muscle testing.