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Now France has put an air force behind its fine words, with military strikes against an Arab leader that would once have been unthinkable.

Yet, despite the long shadow that the septuagenarian casts over his country's politics, Mr Chirac's is not the only France.

"As chairman . . . I cannot take a position because we do not make recommendations, " Pachauri told Agence-France Presse in August.

Thus it was that the terror of the second leftists reversed the advance of freedom that had begun in France in 1789.

In France, there has not been a black mayor elected since 1989, when a mayor of Togolese origin was elected in a small village in Brittany.

Ludwig commissioned this castle as a tribute to one of his idols, the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, and his elaborate Palace of Versailles.

In France Chagall returned to the illustrations for The Bible which he had begun in 1931, and began painting in a new, freer style.

I'll hide there for a week, get some money out of Fagin, then escape to France.

The counterrevolution has triumphed before in France, just as reforming governments have been chucked out in Britain.

In France the riots mostly took place in poor suburbs surrounding Paris and a few other big cities.

He said the treaties will see Britain and France form a joint army expeditionary force and share aircraft carriers.

Gross domestic product rose at half the rate of slow-growing France and a third that of the US.

They masterfully describe the social conditions of England and France in 1775, the year in which Dickens sets the beginning of his novel.

She did not explicitly propose France as a role model but IMK, a German research institute close to the unions, does.

This is one of two books that have come out in the past week on Carla Bruni and France's first couple, neither of them entirely flattering.

Once this might have had official France spluttering with indignation.

228 people from Brazil to France on an Air France flight has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence.

In Europe the only other countries to have been given global strategic partner status are the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain.

In France the money tends to disappear into the sock; here it goes into circulation.

If there was an informal European Union championship for street protest then Greece and France would be the two most regular winners.

McCain was traveling in France and said the brege(breach) incidents required an apology and a full investigation.

Four centuries after his death, King Henry IV of France is being laid to rest. Or at least his head is.

The name of this ugly tool is usually attributed to a town in France.

France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness.

When my sister and I used to go on holiday in France, we'd sometimes pass the time by finding funny 'Frenglish' t-shirts.

Speaking after an economic conference in France, he said he did not believe Europe was facing another recession.

yet back to the point, france is a country of romance, fashion and charm. spring and summer are the best season o visit.

How much is the postage for this postcard to France?

Mr Sarkozy's overriding objective, at least before the crisis, was to raise France's trend rate of growth by a percentage point.

Mark: Right , It was introduced in France some time after the intranet had been adopted by quite a few people .

France's defense ministry said the ballistic missile submarines had been carrying out routine patrols when they collided.

There was an enormous row in the 1960s, when Charles De Gaulle's France vetoed British entry, which eventually took place in 1973.

Other leading historians said the need for such a law might be understandable in Germany but not in France.

It would have helped if America had written off the war loans it had made to Britain and France, but it was not prepared to do that.

Leaders from France, Britain and the United States have said the operations are necessary and that Mr. Gadhafi.

They explained, she did not leave for France at all.

Most of his group's money comes from transport and logistics, with a strong position in Africa, and from petrol distribution in France.

Public opinion might be more willing to welcome him back were he to offer some sort of confessional explanation once home in France.

"We get people from all over: Spain, Greece, France, Britain, even the US and Japan, " said the young man in charge.

What sort of gift would you bring Johnny Depp, if he were to invite you to his home in the south of France?

A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time before or since.

'I grew up in France and my family and I now live in Zurich but I have worked all over the world.

"At the end of the day, Microsoft does not pay taxes in France, " he said. "They pay the lower taxes through Microsoft Ireland. "

France failed to make it out of the opening round.

Thanks for your message. Yes, I'm handing a great time on exchange program in france. It's even better than I thought it would be.

He said the European Union, which France currently heads, could not allow such a terribly devastating and unacceptable war.

France, which is often thought of as a hive of anti-Americanism, has a strongly favourable view of the United States.

France had hosted other heads of state and government in its turn, she said, but would not identify any of them.

and she was one of the most beautiful women in France.

TWO years ago, it took three weeks and a state of emergency to end the riots in France's troubled banlieues.

At least three different kinds of clay, two from the US and one from France, seem to have antibacterial effects.

'We are receiving emissaries who are telling us that he's ready to go, ' Mr. Juppe said in an interview Tuesday with France Info radio.

Rossy said he had watched passenger ferries cutting a path between the Britain and France as he tore through the air.

She adds that France is ready to help in the reconstructionof Iraq, but it will not take action unless within the UN framework.

I never heard her song, but I owe Josephine my life, as does france. Next day, I was in london.

We were in Italy, France, and England and the only time we used it was for getting into the next country.

Because he had never been abroad, Cody decided to take a trip to France.

He said that other countries like France and Germany had already issued recommendations to limit exposure to electromagnetic fields.

The king of France bade Cordelia to go with him, and be queen of him and of fair France, and reign over fairer possessions than her sisters.

So, it's a bit of a dilemma, because we've just been invited to go skiing in France.

In reality, France was no more supportive of the Tunisian regime than many others who saw it as a bulwark against Islamism.

Having cycled for the previous 12 days across Belgium and France to get here, there was no denying that it came as a disappointment.

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's ever-helpful president, had to call a few places personally and ask them to open.

One of the plant closures will be in France, but Sony would not name the other sites to be affected.

France has always been supportive on the lift of the European Union's arms embargo on China, he said.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and often-outspoken President Nicolas Sarkozy of France did not reveal a preference before the meeting.

The operation took place in France following consultation between the Chelsea medical department and a leading neurosurgical specialist.

The main destination of this vacation was the Coted'Azur in France, but it was a bit far to drive on one day, particularly with a baby.

For your next vacation, why there not consider visiting Paris? Paris is the capital of France and is one of the liveliest cities in Europe.

Americans are right that such advances are imperilled when leaders like Nicolas Sarkozy of France say Turks have no place in the EU.

How was one [living in France] supposed to know whether or not to worry about a radioactive cloud?

Returns in Germany, France and Italy seem to have been close to US levels.

Later on I took him to Dover to see our heavy batteries glaring across the Channel at the coast of France-for us Germany.

As you describe it, France seems to be very much like Japan.

There was no mention of an overhaul of IMF board seats that generated a pre-summit fight between the US, Britain and France.

Yet he is the prisoner of his culture, unable to adapt to the ways of France or to understand his "assimilated" offspring.

There he was, and there was the decree; he had been taken in France, and his head was demanded.

When the spy had gone, he said to his wife, 'Can it be true? If it is, I hope that Miss Manette keeps her husband away from France.

Wei said Yi was the first Chinese player trained in France to sign a pro contract and he hoped there would be more like him in the future.

Did you know about him in France when you were playing there, before you came to play in England?

Austrian driver Gerhard Plattner was behind the wheel a week ago, driving the car through Spain and France on his way to Frankfurt.

President Obama said the U. S. , Britain, France, and Arab states agreed the cease-fire must be implemented immediately.

In an attempt to make up for complicity and dithering in Tunisia and Egypt, France has stuck its neck out over Libya.

In France, information flow from the care delivery sector to the occupational medicine sector is often slow or incomplete.

This was an ill-conceived statute that grew out of the quasi-war with France and which expired three years later.

SO FAR, France's creditworthiness has not come under as much scrutiny as that of other euro members.

No one can say that France Telecom chairman Didier Lombard has had an easy time since returning from his summer break.

Theo van Gogh died six months after his older brother shot himself in a wheat field at the age of 37 in Auvers, France, in July 1890.

Investigators say they've located and recovered part of a flight data recorder from an Air France crash that killed 228 people back in 2009.

During the First World War, Zeppelins were used in bombing raids over England and France. They were referred to as "terrors of the sky" .

Did you know about him in France when you were playing there, before you came to play in England?

For more than a year, Marshall and his generals had been planning the secret Allied invasion of France.

Germany's economy is often more volatile than that of neighbours like France.

Austrian driver Gerhard Plattner was behind the wheel a week ago, driving the car through Spain and France on his way to Frankfurt.

President Obama said the U. S. , Britain, France, and Arab states agreed the cease-fire must be implemented immediately.

In an attempt to make up for complicity and dithering in Tunisia and Egypt, France has stuck its neck out over Libya.

In France, information flow from the care delivery sector to the occupational medicine sector is often slow or incomplete.

This was an ill-conceived statute that grew out of the quasi-war with France and which expired three years later.

SO FAR, France's creditworthiness has not come under as much scrutiny as that of other euro members.

No one can say that France Telecom chairman Didier Lombard has had an easy time since returning from his summer break.

President Obama said the U. S. , Britain, France, and Arab states agreed the cease-fire must be implemented immediately.

In an attempt to make up for complicity and dithering in Tunisia and Egypt, France has stuck its neck out over Libya.

In France, information flow from the care delivery sector to the occupational medicine sector is often slow or incomplete.

This was an ill-conceived statute that grew out of the quasi-war with France and which expired three years later.

SO FAR, France's creditworthiness has not come under as much scrutiny as that of other euro members.

No one can say that France Telecom chairman Didier Lombard has had an easy time since returning from his summer break.

Theo van Gogh died six months after his older brother shot himself in a wheat field at the age of 37 in Auvers, France, in July 1890.

Investigators say they've located and recovered part of a flight data recorder from an Air France crash that killed 228 people back in 2009.

During the First World War, Zeppelins were used in bombing raids over England and France. They were referred to as "terrors of the sky" .

France says, I AM GOING back. . . England, said slowly, wait for me, Italy said, 2 days as you and I together back to. . .

SO FAR, France's creditworthiness has not come under as much scrutiny as that of other euro members.

No one can say that France Telecom chairman Didier Lombard has had an easy time since returning from his summer break.

Theo van Gogh died six months after his older brother shot himself in a wheat field at the age of 37 in Auvers, France, in July 1890.

Investigators say they've located and recovered part of a flight data recorder from an Air France crash that killed 228 people back in 2009.

During the First World War, Zeppelins were used in bombing raids over England and France. They were referred to as "terrors of the sky" .

France says, I AM GOING back. . . England, said slowly, wait for me, Italy said, 2 days as you and I together back to. . .

Search aircraft have stepped up the hunt for an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.

France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.

The first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. It had a modest participation of only 293 athletes from 17 countries.

France says, I AM GOING back. . . England, said slowly, wait for me, Italy said, 2 days as you and I together back to. . .

Search aircraft have stepped up the hunt for an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

Iran said it had resumed uranium enrichment, prompting Russia and France to call on Tehran to halt its work.

France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.

The first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. It had a modest participation of only 293 athletes from 17 countries.

France and Belgium may be able to stand behind Dexia but supporting entire banking systems is beyond the capacity of many sovereigns.

The company has struggled ever since it was formed by the merger of France's Alcatel and Lucent Technologies of the U. S. five years ago.

Mr Duvalier arrived on an Air France flight a little before six in the evening, and a few hundred people greeted him outside the airport.

If Europe is to play a bigger role in geopolitics, much will depend on how much France and the UK can do together.

It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

Mr Duvalier arrived on an Air France flight a little before six in the evening, and a few hundred people greeted him outside the airport.

If Europe is to play a bigger role in geopolitics, much will depend on how much France and the UK can do together.

It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.

On reading it, he found tat a servant of the family in France had been put in prison, through no fault of his own.

He said that included references to a recently passed law in France banning the face-covering veil, which Muslim extremists have criticized.

Competitive pressure could then force France to leave the euro as well, bringing the monetary union to an end.

Michel Barnier, France's agriculture minister, recently said it was a mistake to leave "feeding people to the mercy of the market" .

Air France even believes it will quickly be able to make money by buying Alitalia, one of the weakest airlines in Europe.

France's mainstream parties should be careful. At a time of crisis, populist sloganeering can prove dangerously effective.

America's policy of trade with Britain and France continued to be a serious issue.

Air France even believes it will quickly be able to make money by buying Alitalia, one of the weakest airlines in Europe.

France's mainstream parties should be careful. At a time of crisis, populist sloganeering can prove dangerously effective.

America's policy of trade with Britain and France continued to be a serious issue.

Grosso has had a fine first season in France since moving there from Inter last summer, and won a domestic double of league and cup.

She was a patron of the arts and letters and a leader of fashion who exercised considerable influence on the public policy of France.

Could you tell me how much this parcel is to France?

Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, reigned as King of France for 72 years, longer than any other European monarch.

An American guidebook that he had picked up in France had said that he would be afforded a wide, sweeping view of the city from there.

On these terms, France and Britain might be able to support the Palestinians, and the German government could abstain.

If Communist parties grew in Italy and France, they at least did not take control, and these nations remained oriented towards the West.

An American guidebook that he had picked up in France had said that he would be afforded a wide, sweeping view of the city from there.

On these terms, France and Britain might be able to support the Palestinians, and the German government could abstain.

If Communist parties grew in Italy and France, they at least did not take control, and these nations remained oriented towards the West.

Aon France will use satellite photos obtained by the French weather bureau to calculate how much money subcribers should receive.

It's just fantastic to be there after missing out on the last two, particularly given how we qualified against France.

France, once a counterweight to the economics of deflation, seems now to think it has no option but to acquiesce.

On the left the man of north-west France had assembled in good order, ready to sacrifice their lives for the king.

" Attending the ceremony Rosemary New Zealand ambassador to France Banks welcomed the bilateral relations, said the " historic moment.

Q. In France you were allowed to use your strategy to beat Felipe, which surprised him a bit.

Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top. Wagner was master of music and people did not forget their own artists. France had.

Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top. Wagner was master of music and people did not forget their own artists. France had.

Mr. Hadida fell in love with stamps while growing up in southern France, and he joined a local philatelic association in his early twenties.

France, in particular, seems to be a major target since it has been slow to adopt GM crops despite outside pressure.

Koster took the advice, and made his way first to France and then to America.

He added something that people wanted from him in France and that was to score goals.

If it goes ahead, France would be the first big country to adopt such a tax, which exists in Scandinavia.

The credit controversy was re-ignited by an advertisement for the "Higgs Hunting" meeting that took place in Orsay, France, last week.

Du Rhode said he was trying to stay calm. He believes France is undergoing a period of major change - and he is for that.

France went into the finals as favourites for the finals having reached the semi finals of the World Cup some two years previously.

Some countries, notably France, dreamed of a multipolar world in which America would no longer be the only power.

Some countries, notably France, dreamed of a multipolar world in which America would no longer be the only power.

This week, by contrast, he said he wanted "to make all five years effective for France" .

Those included a suitcase with an Air France ticket and a backpack with a computer inside.

IN 1918, Edith Wharton stood in front of a crowd of American soldiers and told them she would get out of her grave to witness for France.

Several IMF officials said the U. S. , Germany, France and the U. K. were among those who held that position.

France is one of the countries where blogging has had an above-average acceptance, so they decided to use a blog.

Only a few days before, France had also begun to feel the first numbing blows of our weapons.

Small, but it is in France's top schools, because it is out of a number of artists: philosophers, biologists, as well as the president.

Austria and France provide "care holidays" , where a professional helper takes over for a week or two.

"People don't understand that the power to decide the fate of these factories is not in France, " he said.

Austria and France provide "care holidays" , where a professional helper takes over for a week or two.

"People don't understand that the power to decide the fate of these factories is not in France, " he said.

In Italy or southern France, a man will greet a woman by kissing her on the back of her hand or on both cheeks.

As she was returning to France, Christophe caught a glimpse of her on the train.

I would have liked to see them get a real test like france, germany or italy, maybe that would wake the players up a bit.

When he said France it meant wine, women, money in the pocket, easy come, easy go. It meant being a bad boy, being on holiday.

However, Mr Depardieu seems to be chiefly attracted by Russia's flat 13 per cent income tax, as he seeks refuge from high taxes in France.

Thus Nicolas Sarkozy a few years ago, when crafting the image of a crusading politician ready to take aim at France's elite.

France is expected to announce its own plan, Thursday. But it is unclear how much of the funding involved is actually new money.

Could you tell me how much it would cost to send this to France by regular mail?

Could you tell me how much it would cost to send this to France by regular mail?

If, however, it turns out to be a perfect storm that brought down the Air France flight, I'll be curious to see how the industry reacts.

Yet at least since 1968 (some would go back further, to 1789), strikers and demonstrators have had an almost mystical status in France.

He said the Sudanese government was in contact with the governments of both Libya and France.

First, it would be possible to drive over to France for a holiday or to pick up a few cases of cheap Sancerre.

France is scrambling to regain its position as a world leader in nuclear power, before it misses out on an expected boom in the industry.

She said that although in France things could take more time the system nevertheless protected people more.

How much do you know about France?

The idea was that anyone could do it, whether they were in a small village in France or a city like Sydney.

This and much else is the subject of a special issue of the Bank of France's Financial Stability Review.

This and much else is the subject of a special issue of the Bank of France's Financial Stability Review.

The president met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday for a briefing on her meetings in France and Georgia.

Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, tsarist Russia and Holland were all very interested in this land of ours.

He said France had also suggested "exchanging" Colin, the child, and his mother, Chloe, for an officer, but that had also been rejected.

France also hopes to commission a repository by then but seems to have made less progress at the administrative level.

Thierry Henry was isolated up front for France throughout the tournament, and he never really got the support he deserved.

She ought to be better able to speak French than you are, because she was born and bred in France.

I've spent quite a bit of time in France and always welcome the opportunity to practice the language.

Analysts are eyeing France for signals on how much decision-making power countries are prepared to cede, starting with bank supervision.

France is at the forefront of the field, but surgery like this has never been carried out in the United States.

First played in thirteenth-century France, tennis was an indoor sport, with players using the palms of their hands to hit the ball.

It was a time when those central governments not well-organized, the great monarchies in France and Spain haven't developed.

The British government, which had borrowed heavily to fund a war against France, enjoyed the luxury of two bidders for its debt.

By early Saturday, he was still awake -- and still did not know who had won the latest stage of the Tour de France.

Le Point of France: Mr. Prime Minister, North Africa has been experiencing tremendous changes since the beginning of the year.

Air France is now moving quickly to put in newer versions of the speed sensors. But the cause of the crash is still under investigation.

How much time did you spend in France?

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie's doctor said the actress gave birth to a girl and a boy, in France at 8 pm Saturday.

Henri Serandour had said he was against athletes wearing such a badge bearing France's name.

Up to a point, foreign policy will remain in the president's hands, as it always has under France's fifth republic.

This year's Golden Globe nominations reveal something of a love affair between Hollywood and France.

In France you shouldn't sit down in a coffee bar until you have shaken hands with everyone you know.

Air France and British Airways ran a regular transatlantic service to New York with an average flight time of just three and a half hours.

Hermione also took a trip to France with her parents during one summer holiday, which included at least a stop in Dijon (OP20).

Such talk is revolutionary even on the right, which has done little over the years to trim France's benefit culture or to root out fraud.

He could read more than five languages and was the U. S. minister to France for several years.

An acquaintance of mine who lives in England and had never been outside until last summer, decided to go over to France for a trip.

One Republican senator complained that he thought he had "woken up in France" .

to you to adopt the customary practice that has been used in the Sino-France trade?

He said the gap was narrowing, at least with France, based just on last year's figures, while officials were awaiting figures for 2005r.

Meanwhile, the terrorist organization, EAT, is provoking violent revolution, trying to force the governments of Spain and France to concede.

If he had to put his money on any one candidate, Beattie says he would put it on Christine Lagarde, France's finance minister.

France and Poland have called for his release, but support for him in Hollywood provoked an angry backlash.

At least 50 people have been killed in storms that have lashed parts of Spain, Portugal and France, officials say.

He turns then to France, which, out of a growing sense of Gallic identity, rejected the Italian influence in the early 17th century.

His wife, newly suspicious and with no money of her own, wants to take the children home to France.

Diplomats from the United States and France are said to be close to resolving differences over a resolution to end the fighting.

Yet its old colonial master, France, is under-represented, although during the 1990s it had been the top western investor in Vietnam.

S& P said the error wasn't triggered by 'any ratings surveillance activity, ' quashing talk that it was set to downgrade France.

Your reserves teammate Chris Mavinga was part of the France team that beat Spain in the final. Did he give you a bit of stick afterwards?

He would get very great receptions here, as he did in Ireland, and no doubt would do in France.

A neglected but crucial aspect of the Strauss-Kahn case was that France has no extradition treaty with the US.

Then we have research center in Grenoble, France where the focus is all on linguistics, machine learning.

"In such a great final, Li Na deserved the win, " the official Xinhua news agency commented of her victory in France.

In fact, the US rates nearly double Great Britain's, at least four times those of France and Germany, and more than ten times that of Japan.

How much is the postage for this printed matter to France?

"Monsieur Bertuccio, " said the count, "did you never tell me that you had travelled in France? "

Girard left his native France in 1947 at the age of 24, initially for only a year, but has since made the US his home.

Germany and France are trying to put flesh on the bones of a crisis resolution plan in time for the EU summit.

He said it was dangerous for France to be seen as part of a "western bloc against the Arab and Muslim world" .