Sentence examples for the pays from inspiring English sources
verb
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- He paid him to clean the place up
In some areas of central France, the pays d'élection, the provincial assemblies, ceded their right to approve taxation and disappeared altogether.
But, in those provinces where the provincial Estates survived (the pays d'état), the right to vote the amount of royal taxation also survived.
Eden is exile, not Heaven: And then their return to the pays natal, where the same old willows swept the same ragged lawns, where the same old prairie arose and bloomed as negligence permitted.
I can't say the pays has much to recommend it as the inhabitants are trop dense to parler Français but at least the taxes are minimal and my hard-earned cash doesn't get spent on Muslim illegal immigrants.
Native Americans of the pays d'en haut were from many different tribes.
The tribes of the pays d'en haut consisted of three basic groups.
Distrustful of the pays légal, the Squadristi of Italy and Freikorps of Germany were similarly established by veterans after WWI to defend the interests of the pays réel, in the process creating a "parallel authority" in their quest for legitimacy.
That broken Russia did not seem to be anymore the pays exceptionnel that the Soviet Union always considered itself.
Violence finally erupted after the Native Americans learned in early 1763 of the imminent French cession of the pays d'en haut to the British.
Gift giving had been an integral part of the relationship between the French and the tribes of the pays d'en haut.
It can mean the retention or even expansion of social paternalism for "real" members of the national community (or the pays réel as it was known to Fascist thinkers) at the expense of those who are deemed alien to the community and wrongly permitted inside it (the pays légal).
