Sentence examples for mistral from inspiring English sources
noun
A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
Mr Gayford attempts to recreate the claustrophobic atmosphere of the yellow house, with its small studio in which the two men were cooped up during the months of the mistral.
The navy is getting new corvettes and frigates, but the industry cannot produce bigger vessels: hence the order of two Mistral ships from France.
The French state recently bought a third of the shipyard company to save jobs and know-how.Haggling over the Mistral orders (one will be built in France, the others probably in Russia) could thus give the Kremlin bargaining clout in the coming years.
This area is also subject to the violent north winds called the mistral, which are peculiar to southern France.
One is the bora, which blows from the highlands of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the Adriatic Sea; the other is the mistral, which blows out of central and southern France to the Mediterranean Sea.
In the summer the mistral wind has a cooling effect on the coast and the islands.
In the coming weeks, as the only European country, they actually plan to help the aggressor by selling Putin's Russia brand-new huge Mistral-class amphibious assault ships.
And yet we sometimes behave as if we need Russia more than Russia needs us…" They including Britain, fearful of damage to the City of London could well continue so to behave.The most obvious evidence of this is France's determination to go through with the sale of the first of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia.
The Americans are dismayed by France's refusal to cancel the sale of two Mistral-class warships to Russia.
France's €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) sale of Mistral-class warships can proceed as planned.By coincidence, the day before the new sanctions were announced, a Dutch court ordered Russia to pay $50 billion to compensate former shareholders of Yukos, a now-defunct oil producer, for the expropriation of the company by the Kremlin more than ten years ago.
And France is going ahead with its sale of Mistral-class assault ships to Russia.In Ukraine, Mr Putin may also presume he is getting what he wants, even if Moscow is not directing day-to-day fighting in the east.
