(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".
Julienne
Definition:
(n.) A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before serving, whisk the last 200ml of cream, and then decorate the mousse with whipped cream and lemon balm or caramelised julienne-cut lemon zest: let the zest simmer in a syrup made from equal quantities of sugar and water for 15-20 minutes, and then leave to cool.
(2) We broke the record by a lot", says the NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve .
(3) "Boil the kettle," snaps Sister Julienne, wimple-deep in amniotic fluid.
(4) In the six-part series, which will air early next year, Jenny lives with a community of nuns and nurses with Agutter playing sister Julienne, Little Dorrit's Ferris playing Sister Evangelina and Judy Parfitt playing sister Monica Joan.
(5) thejameskitchen.wordpress.com via GuardianWitness Serves 2 1 small Chinese cabbage A small bunch of choi sum or any other bitter dark greens like kale 2 large carrots 6 spring onions 35g plain flour Shichimi togarashi seasoning, or chilli Salt and pepper 3 eggs Oil, to fry Kewpie mayonnaise Okonomi sauce (or tonkatsu or BBQ sauce) A small bunch of coriander 1 Finely slice the cabbage and choi sum leaves (you can use the stems in a stir fry), julienne or grate the carrot, thinly slice 4 of the spring onions and mix the lot together in a bowl.
(6) This is an open struggle that cannot be taken lightly and should be taken on by everyone collectively.” Julienne Uwacu, another MP, was quoted as saying that Rwandans should “switch it off completely”.
(7) Julienne Stroeve, a sea ice researcher with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said in an email, “It would be great to have a long-term sea ice thickness dataset,” like the one Lindsay and Schweiger compiled, but there are inherent and varying biases in the data that make conclusions from such combined data hard to trust.
(8) "It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
(9) It began with Mona Hatoum creating large versions of everyday objects such as a julienne vegetable slicer, and has included Martin Creed getting people to run very fast through the galleries, Mark Wallinger recreating anti-war activist Brian Haw's Parliament Square protest, and Michael Landy replicating his parent's house.
(10) Julienne Stroece, an Nsidc ice research scientist who has been monitoring ice conditions aboard the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise, said the data suggested the Arctic sea ice cover was fundamentally changing and predicted more extreme weather.
(11) It might happen this weekend, almost certainly next week," Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, told the Guardian.
(12) As we tiptoed over to watch the filming, Jenny Agutter , who plays Sister Julienne, was waiting too.
(13) Julienne Stroeve, another NSIDC researcher, noted that this year's low minimum was reached amid cooler temperatures than the last several summers, which helped to slow melting.
(14) "It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the centre.
(15) (Billericay, Essex) Professor Julienne Elizabeth Meyer.