What's the difference between belgian and french?

Belgian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Belgium.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Belgium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
  • (2) Belgian reports suggest Hadfi was from Neder-over-Heembeek, in north Brussels, and became quickly radicalised last year.
  • (3) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
  • (4) He is said to have gone to Syria in spring this year, according to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws .
  • (5) According to a registration protocol, these time factors, together with other variables and outcome were recorded in 3083 CA cases, treated by the NICU teams of 7 major Belgian hospitals.
  • (6) At that point I was grabbed by the Belgian secret service and slammed against the glass.
  • (7) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
  • (8) Within the frame of a Belgian multicentre study of zuclopenthixol acetate and haloperidol, a group of French-speaking psychiatrists added the AMDP scales to the basic protocol.
  • (9) The company claims that its privacy policy does not break Belgian data protection laws, according to reports .
  • (10) He has won the Belgian title and two Portuguese championships.
  • (11) The recently bailed-out Belgian-French bank Dexia had a capital ratio well above regulatory limits but a leverage ratio more than 60 times its equity base.
  • (12) (The title’s spelling, with an initial K, serves to distinguish the pre-colonial civilization, which stretched as far as contemporary Angola, from the Belgian colony and current republics.)
  • (13) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
  • (14) I can tell you that’s what people live for as well.” It feels like a new age for Belgian football.
  • (15) At the other end, they at least got two goals against a Belgian team that has only conceded one goal in World Cup qualification, but the penalty had a big element of fortune about it, and there'll be concerns about Jozy Altidore yet again failing to score in a Klinsmann team.
  • (16) This time, a relatively unknown Belgian group has pledged to “expel the Islamists” and police warn that extreme-right activists are believed to be converging on Molenbeek from around Europe, even though police banned the scheduled protest and any counter protests in the city as soon as it was announced, largely in reaction to the unrest last week.
  • (17) He took a few touches and then tried to batter a shot past Mignolet at his near post but the Belgian stayed strong and managed to divert it over the bar!
  • (18) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
  • (19) A total of 2,765 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated in more than 60 Belgian laboratories from blood or normally sterile body fluids between 1 November 1980 and 31 December 1988 were serotyped.
  • (20) Belgian special forces arrested four people in the capital’s Place du Grand Sablonon Saturday afternoon, while the Brussels Metro system is expected to be shut down until Sunday afternoon at the earliest.

French


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) The language spoken in France.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of France.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (3) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (4) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (5) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
  • (6) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
  • (7) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (8) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
  • (9) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
  • (10) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
  • (11) We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis--spina ventosa--in a 5 year-old girl from a French upper class family.
  • (12) In Belgium the proportion of adenocarcinomas is much higher than in any of the French registries.
  • (13) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
  • (14) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
  • (15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (16) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
  • (17) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (18) A national distribution of 66 French patients, from 49 sibships, has been studied.
  • (19) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (20) French authors call it "the syndrome of the fifth day".

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