While the French government is seeking no additional compensation from Russia, France's finance minister, Laurent Fabious, told the leader of the bondholders association that "holders of Russian debt may, if they wish, present these issues to the Russian government in their own name".
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They thereby foreclosed these defendants from presenting defenses they wished to present and, in some cases, even deprived them of counsel of their choice.
John Terry merely growled an emphatic "no chance" when asked if he wished to present his thoughts.
He suggested payment of corporation tax was "a question of judgment", a matter of how a company wished to present its "corporate social responsibility".
This was the side of her father she wished to present by doing the book — human, vulnerable, but not a man of hostility.
As Iverson explains in the exhibit's catalog, "She wished to present her full life story as proof of her conviction that invention and independence are central to the creative process".
Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
Among the German tribes, noble experts were allowed to assist in litigation, not in a partisan fashion but as interpreters (Vorsprecher) for those who wished to present a case but felt uncomfortable doing so themselves.
Mr. Assange, he wrote, "is not the kind, righter of wrongs of the Web that some have wished to present to us -- he is at best a dangerous, irresponsible man, or at worst a perverse delinquent".
