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This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German languages.

There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French painting, that you're always in competition with other people. And if you can really turn up and make your case, it really makes a big difference from just writing the letters.

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

I think it's a bug of some sort, probably nothing serious. Now I need to rest and make sure I feel fresh for the French Open.

Italy, with all the players they've got in the French Championship and the Heineken Cup are a good quality outfit. I don't think you will see anyone smash them and I think you are going to see a big scalp for them before too much longer.

It could be good for him if people think he's just like ordinary French people, and has highs and lows. It makes him a bit more human.

It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future.

it comes as close as a French dish made in America with American ingredients can come.

It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French establishment was involved,

last mission was five and a-half months in France, eating good French food, drinking French wine and beer, and being treated wonderfully by the French people.

I think we need to fix some things within the staff and the athletes, ... I think we should take a lesson from the French and the British who have basically gotten the stick around and got it around safely. That's all we need to do. That's all we had to do: get the stick around safely and we'd be in the finals. There's no way that we should not have been in the finals.

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.

I will be meeting academics from French institutions which have a long tradition of scholarships on India,

It is a proxy battle for a more flexible employment model versus what the French like to call a social model for Europe.

I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

Our Canada is an inclusive country, built by English - and French - speaking Canadians, together with our Aboriginal peoples, who were here first, and the millions who have come since from every corner of the world. And still they come-1 million people a year make inquiries about coming to Canada.

Robert Parker is the most followed and influential critic of French wines in the world, something I witnessed recently when choosing wine for President Clinton, who automatically referred to Robert Parker as his reference for making a proper wine-buying decision,

Restaurants like the French Laundry can be very intimidating for a lot of people.

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S., and French Opens are to tennis, and what the Masters, U.S., and British Opens and PGA Championship are to golf. Each race has the history, the tradition, the honor roll of legendary champions, and a special place in the eyes of all to make them stand apart from the other events.

My mother was an au-pair living in France, also a French teacher. My parents came over to England only a few years before I was born.

My mom is Portuguese, and my dad is French Canadian. The solid foundations of those heritages, cultures and techniques, melded with my education and classical background, lead to my style of cooking.

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

Many French have problems and difficulties, ... But violence never solves anything.

Like the vast majority of French, I am shocked. I just hope that the French come to their senses and vote against him.

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.

It does the thing that all great non-fiction needs to do makes a subject interesting because of how it's covered, not because of the subject itself. I don't care about French food but I loved this book.

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

I studied, as every little French girl, the piano... I studied for 12 years and then I stopped, because I was very bored with it.

It described a person who is part French and part Spanish. As the French traveled and started settling in different parts of the world, it became a person who was part French and African, French and Native American.

It is exceptional, I grew up watching Papin, an idol of the French public, ... It means a lot to have the same number of goals as players like him and Fontaine. It shows I have been consistent.

The approach of the French Government to air transport is from another age. There was little or no financial transparency. And a result that ignores the recommendation of an independent commission makes a total mockery of the consultation process. The government should support greater efficiency rather than shirking its regulatory responsibilities.

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

I was born in Canada, went to school in Colombia and Denmark, and have worked for American, French and Swiss companies. So not much Scottish blood. But the good news is that I'm not English either!

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

I would like to remind all French men and French women to gather together to defend human rights, to guarantee the cohesion of the nation and to affirm the unity of the republic,

I would like to express to the victims, their families, every compassion and solidarity, every esteem and all the sadness which I express on behalf of all French people, I am sure,

My client was arrested following the decision of the French judiciary.

Merkel is against French protectionism, but she will not do anything to embarrass the French.

Michael was playing with Macaulay Culkin at one of the games, Thriller. He was holding the kid -- he was small, he probably couldn't reach the controls. His left hand was inside the pants of the kid ... down into the pants ... in the crotch area, ... I was shocked. I almost dropped the french fries.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?

will not accept that external conflicts pit French against French on our soil.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

We received an invitation to hold exhibits in the Brazilian embassies in Paris, France, and in The Hague, Holland. Receptivity was good, a French importer, who works in the interior design market there, bought six pieces.

We eat fried eggs, biscuits and gravy, French toast, things like that. Let's just say they won't set us at a two-person table anymore. So we have enough elbow room, they set us at a four-person table.

We named her Josephine after the character in 'La Femme Nikita,' ... That's the French version, directed by Luc Besson, not the American film with Bridget Fonda.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

We had a long discussion. I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.

We have a good chance of beating France because Marat is here. I think the French are afraid of him, just by his very being here even if he does not play. They have all been beaten by him.

You and a guest will fly round-trip coach from Los Angeles to New Orleans for a six-night stay at the Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel, within walking distance to the French Quarter,

We have to keep the same team spirit in the French Cup.

We have had some great battles with the French over the last few years and I'm sure our next match will be just as tough.

We have had an improvement in the French economy, pointing to an improvement in employment too. We will have a slow drop in unemployment, reflecting slow increases in employment.

We'll rebuild, of course, ... But what made New Orleans is the polyglot, the tapestry, the mosaic, the gumbo. So the French Quarter gets most of the attention, but the Quarter feeds from the arteries of the neighborhoods.

Today the heart of every French man and every French woman beats in unison with those of their brothers and sisters in Martinique,

Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it's very silent. And the design of it is interesting. It's weird to have this New York bar... the jazz singer... the French restaurant, all in Tokyo. It's this weird combination of different cultures.

Today's figure highlights the fragility of the industrial outlook in France. French industrial activity isn't showing significant signs of improvement.

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.

We had explored the possibility of the French sending us Mirage, and the French were willing; and when this became known, the Americans reacted by announcing publicly that they would not allow those armaments to enter Nicaragua and that they would bomb the Nicaraguan ports.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

We are hoping that the French government will second a technical director to Kenya in line with a promise they made last year.

We'll have American cuisine with a French or Italian influence depending on the season. We want a seasonal menu that'll change four times a year.

You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He IS French, people.

We are saddened by the statements of the French prime minister and of President (Jacques) Chirac.

We are opposed to the use of the Social Security number in tracking students. It will drop like a rock. It will create a central ministry of higher education similar to what the French use. I don't think a single commission member will come out in support of it.

The overriding idea of the program is to speak French and build the students' self-confidence and self-assurance in themselves.

When I get up in the morning, I smell baking grease. When I go out on my lanai, I smell greasy hamburgers. I smell greasy fish. I smell greasy French fries, all day long.

To me, this is an issue for the French people. They seemed very concerned about it, and frankly I don't care what they think. And I don't think Lance does either.

We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.

The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of Britain and it was greeted by the nation with huge relief,

We call on every French person and every person who values life to demonstrate against the headscarf law,

We only got the report from the French laboratory. Our information about Lance Armstrong came from the sport newspaper L'Equipe.

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

We will discuss with the owners whether we go for the French Champion Hurdle.

This result is something which concerns the French public ... not Turkey,

There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

There is absolutely no discussion of punishment for the moment in the French approach.

There is a big 'Trust me' in this deal, particularly with the French government retaining a stake. But the key issue is job cuts.

There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight.

We knew that French bibliophiles would be horrified to see their books falling into a trough like candy or soda. So we installed a mechanical arm that grabs the book and delivers it safely.

We think that it is about time to end the French exception that goes against European wishes and lift the TIPP (special petrol tax) on those oils as well as make them legal.

We also knew that Olivier Rochus had won the doubles at the French Open . But it was logical that we won and had the match been played in the United States, it would not have taken close to three hours but an hour and a half without doubt.

With a technical capacity equal to our other European recovery labs, the French location will be able to provide enhanced service to customers in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and all French-speaking African countries.

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

There are already many producers who are doing better than the national average but that is not to say they can't do exceptionally well. Our average born alive is just 10.7 when our major competitors in Europe are at least 1.5 pigs per litter better than that. It is not impossible to achieve significant improvement. Just four years ago the French were sixth in the European league table and now they are at the top. If they can do it, so can we.

There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.

When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

The players are writing a beautiful page of the club's history and also of French football history.

We will certainly not give up the fight to protect America's horses from the French and Belgium dinner plates. This points to the need for Congress to pass a permanent ban for horse slaughter for human consumption.

When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.