(a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) 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.
(3) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(4) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(5) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(6) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(7) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(8) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(9) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(10) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(11) It also has one of the highest female university rates anywhere in the world.” The UAE-based Rotana hotels is planning to open a number of hotels in Iran, and France’s leading hotelier, Accor, is involved in at least two four-star hotels in the country.
(12) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(13) France has given £34m and we have got to get our partners to make a step change.
(14) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(15) An epidemiological survey carried out in 460 public and private institutions chosen at random country-wide in France made it possible to study injuries whose treatment had necessitated an anaesthetic.
(16) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(17) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(18) Moscovici added that France wants the summit to set up a eurozone banking union, which would take on responsibility for propping up failing banks and guarantee depositors' savings across the 17 countries.
(19) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(20) Britain and France formally announced this week they would abstain, along with Portugal and Bosnia.
Napoleon
Definition:
(n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.
Example Sentences:
(1) Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically.
(2) It’s Berezina,” one leading Socialist said, referring to Napoleon’s defeat while retreating from Russia.
(3) The only time he came near to directing a Hollywood movie was a projected film about Napoleon with Al Pacino .
(4) But Napoleon had stolen the treasures of Italy, and some are still in Paris.
(5) It wasn't until the peninsular war that Britain actually deployed ground forces against Napoleon.
(6) It is not, however, always a bad thing – some historians have credited the season with stopping advancing armies from Napoleon to the Nazis.
(7) Someone who says "I take inspiration from Napoleon.
(8) What seemed to me to be clearly anti-Jewish discrimination has never been regarded that way in France; it was always accepted by Jews as an integral part of the Republican model, echoing back to the emblematic Napoleonic contract that gave them citizenship.
(9) What is the evidence that Napoleon was afflicted with thrombosed hemorrhoids?
(10) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(11) The loss of titles such as 3rd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, with a history dating back to the days of Napoleon, when it was formerly known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, will be painful.
(12) But its real claim to fame was because it was the Duke of Wellington who bought it from Napoleon's sister with all the stuff that was in it."
(13) When France was close to bankruptcy during the Napoleonic wars, the US government snapped up Louisiana at three cents an acre, in what is still regarded as the best real estate coup in history.
(14) Movies like Napoleon , J'Accuse!, La Roue are extraordinary.
(15) Hair powder was taxed to pay for the Napoleonic wars.
(16) History of proctology is illustrated by some important figures and events: St. Fiacre, Felix the surgeon who operated on King Louis XIV's fistula and the acutely thrombosed hemorrhoidal prolapse of Napoleon.
(17) In France and every other European country with a Napoleonic code, you cannot access public services or find work without a card.
(18) Unsurprising when you consider that Napoleon was wrong about lots of things, such as being really tall, invading Russia and speaking clearly on his deathbed so that those in the vicinity could make an accurate note of his comments for posterity, but in this case he was dreadfully, spectacularly wrong.
(19) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
(20) As part of the tsarist army the Cossacks pursued Napoleon's forces across Europe , finally camping on the Champs Elysées in 1814.