What's the difference between macron and marron?

Macron


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (2) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (3) In a political landscape with a strong hard left and far right, Macron faces the challenge of trying to win a parliamentary majority for his fledgling political movement En Marche!
  • (4) Macron and Trump will attend the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Élysée on Friday morning, before the Trumps return to Washington.
  • (5) After Trump had described his “America first” approach to trade , Macron reportedly took out his mobile phone in order to illustrate his thoughts on the issue.
  • (6) Macron, a former investment banker and senior civil servant who grew up in a bourgeois family in Amiens, served as deputy chief of staff to Hollande but was not part of the Socialist party.
  • (7) Trump, on his inaugural foreign tour, which has also taken in stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel, has a lunch date with the newly elected French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Brussels.
  • (8) Macron pledged to fight racism, and called for a thorough investigation into the recent killing of a Parisian woman believed to be linked to anti-Jewish sentiment.
  • (9) Macron’s defiant, alpha-male handshake with Trump when they first met in Brussels in May played well at home in France.
  • (10) Almost all media in France are drawing on polls that have shown since mid-February that Fillon, a former prime minister, is trailing in third place behind Macron and the Front National candidate, Marine Le Pen , for the 23 April first round.
  • (11) If it has a grand theme, it is what Macron describes in his book, Revolution , as a “profound democratic revolution” to restore faith in mainstream politics.
  • (12) So the question now is: will Europe succeed in defending the deep values it brought to the world for decades, or will it be wiped out by the rise in illiberal democracies and authoritarian regimes?” Macron said the key to reconciling European people with the European project was to tighten rules on workers and make it harder for companies to employ cheaper labour from other EU countries or shift production to lower-wage countries, undercutting others.
  • (13) The Guardian view on the French campaign: a defining election | Editorial Read more The Kremlin denied in February that it was behind media and internet attacks on Macron’s campaign.
  • (14) Macron’s fledgling “neither right nor left” political movement, La République en Marche (La REM), and its smaller centrist ally Democratic Movement (MoDem) needed 289 seats to have an absolute majority.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emmanuel Macron ‘out-alphas Trump with a knuckle-crushing handshake’.
  • (16) An opinion poll on Monday put Le Pen seven points clear of the centrist outsider Emmanuel Macron and his conservative rival François Fillon, who are tied on 20%, in the first round.
  • (17) Asked if the door really remained open for Britain to go back on Brexit – after his recent remarks , taken as an encouraging sign by opponents of a hard Brexit, that there may be room for compromise – Macron said: “The door is open until the moment you walk through it.
  • (18) Key figures on the centre of the Socialist party could jump ship to Macron after Hamon’s win.
  • (19) The official Twitter account of Fillon’s party, Les Républicains , published a caricature of Macron depicting him as a hook-nosed banker in a top hat cutting a cigar with the communist symbol of the red sickle.
  • (20) Macron hit back by publicly slapping down the general at the annual summer military garden party, telling army generals in a speech: “I am the boss.” Macron’s speech surprised military observers and was seen by some as a shocking humiliation of De Villiers.

Marron


Definition:

  • (a.) A large chestnut.
  • (a.) A chestnut color; maroon.
  • (a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If public health and local government can successfully combine their respective expertise, added Marron, the end result could be that public health can then "drive the political agenda" both locally and nationally.
  • (2) U.S.A. 84, 7036-7040; McPherson, Perlak, Fuchs, Marrone, Lavrik & Fischhoff (1988) Biotechnology 6, 61-66] at the N-terminus.
  • (3) Singer Emma Marrone, who represented Italy in this year's Eurovision song contest, said Scuccia's success was "an insult to showbusiness" because the nun was not talented enough.
  • (4) The venerable castagna , once an essential foodstuff for poor Italians and now the basis of the sugary marron glace , is facing a double threat from the east, experts claim.
  • (5) Marron agreed the changes were an ideal opportunity to tackle deep-seated problems.
  • (6) Follow-up thought: A lot of coaches will now be asking what that pick says for Ryan Nassib - the quarterback who new Bills head coach Doug Marrone coached at Syracuse.
  • (7) Marron, head of the Public Health England transition team, acknowledged the challenge of working with local politics, but spoke of how public health as a result can "drive the political agenda" locally and nationally.
  • (8) But, Marron said, its closeness to government will prove an advantage and ensure that its expert advice is heeded.
  • (9) Public health also has powerful political support, Marron told the debate.
  • (10) Others were in place at upper river Eden, the rivers Lowther, Eamont, Kent, Bela, Cocker, Marron and Derwent as well as upper river, Derwent, Stonethwaite Beck and Derwent Water.
  • (11) Joining Guardian public services editor David Brindle – who chaired the main discussion – were Jonathan Marron, head of the department of health 's Public Health England transition team, chief executive of the Association of Directors of Public Health Nicola Close, chair of Skills for Care Professor David Croisdale-Appleby and joint director of public health at Camden Quentin Sandifer.
  • (12) The creation of the new NHS Commissioning Board means the Department of Health will in future do a lot less to set health policy, so public health professionals will have more freedom to lead, Marron said.
  • (13) Typical "glomeruli" consisting of a varicosity of "rosette" joined to the dendritic claws of the granule cells, and "en marron" systems with perikarya of type II Golgi cells were easily recognised.
  • (14) An exotic type of contact was described in the last decade, in the rat cerebellar cortex, under the designation of synapse en marron.
  • (15) Jonathan Marron, the Department of Health's director of PHE transition, also stressed in one of the earlier debates that PHE's closeness to the Department of Health will mean that its advice is taken seriously by officials and ministers.
  • (16) As well as audience members a number of speakers were invited to attend: Nicola Close, chief executive, Association of Directors of Public Health; Professor David Croisdale-Appleby, chair, Skills for Care; Jonathan Marron, director, Public Health England transition, Department of Health; and Dr Quentin Sandifer, joint director of public health, Camden.

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