Sentence examples for stop the French from inspiring English sources
But that didn't stop the French.
The key was to stop the French pack.
"You can't stop the French from doing anything.
Munster are a side who can move mountains; can they stop the French Ferrari?
He was later killed by François Ravaillac who wanted to stop the French king waging war against Spain.
A former conservative Prime Minister, Edouard Balladur, speaking at a televised hearing held by a special National Assembly committee, led a parade of high-ranking former officials who denied charges that France had not done all it could to stop the French-trained ethnic Hutu forces that carried out most of the slaughter of a sizeable part of Rwanda's ethnic Tutsi minority.
"If this is not stopped the French people will no longer be French and will become subject to the invading populations from the third world and other countries," he said, according to the Press Association, the British news agency.
Troops flouted international law by stopping the French ambassador and searching his diplomatic car in pursuit of the renegade soldier who wounded Captain Moussa "Dadis" Camara, the leader of the Guinean military junta.
Similarly, Libya's relations with France have survived armed confrontations between the two nations' forces in Chad and a threat by Colonel Qaddafi two years ago "to strike a severe blow by boycotting French products and stopping the French from investing in our country". About 1,200 French citizens are employed in Libya, but only 5percentt of France's oil is Libyan.
Greenpeace climate campaigner Lawrence Carter says: "Total, a French company who can't frack in their own country because the French government has stopped the French countryside being ripped up, have now turned their sights on the UK countryside, where the UK government seem happy to allow the industrialisation of our green and pleasant land.
