affaire

Example Sentences

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In France, it has become known as the Affaire Mazan, after the village near Avignon where the Pelicots lived.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

The case, part of a growing field of legal challenges to corporate climate efforts, was brought by Greenpeace France, Friends of the Earth France and Notre Affaire à Tous and supported by environmental lawyers ClientEarth.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2022

The Affaire Benalla arrived just on time to neatly puncture the euphoria of that victory.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018

One blue-rimmed plate on the wall shows two men in traditional Alsatian garb squaring up awkwardly ahead of a wrestle: “Une Affaire d’Honneur,” or matter of honor, reads the legend.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018

Away, for euery thing is Seal'd and done That else leanes on th' Affaire, pray you make hast.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William