Sentence examples for under french rule from inspiring English sources

They became French citizens during the 130-odd years that the nation was under French rule.

Five years later additional territories in the south were placed under French rule.

The coal and metal industries of Hainaut (under French rule, the département of Jemappes) and Liège also flourished.

As a result, this region of Lithuania retained the separate administrative and judicial system introduced under French rule.

Under French rule there was no autonomy as there had been under the Spanish and Austrian regimes.

Lübeck was under French rule from 1811 to 1813 and after 1815 was a member state of the German Confederation.

A police spokeswoman, though, unidentified under French rules, said that she had no information about tear gas and that the two employees were "slightly inconvenienced" but fine.

An Interior Ministry spokesman, who would not be identified by name under French rules, confirmed the arrest of 12 people, three in what he called "a first wave this morning," and nine in what he called a separate, later operation.

One complicating feature of all this is that under French rules, CGT on property sales reduces on a sliding scale after five years of ownership and expires altogether after 30 years.

But under French rules, its debt is just 10 billion euros ($8.7 billion), says Harrington. "A lot of analysts will use that number to do their valuations," he says, "and Vivendi really should have corrected them".

The 25-year-old Wilkison won the second-set tiebreaker, 7-5, to force a third set which, under French rules, may not end with a tiebreaker.