droit

Example Sentences

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In France, they call it “le droit à la déconnexion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

In fact, strictly speaking, the droit du sol is not an automatic right in France, as it is for example in the US where a birth certificate is enough to get a passport.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024

“It’s about what the French call droit moral,” he says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020

But the way the campaign played out, with the release of the tape, it was almost as if people were talking about droit du seigneur all over again.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016

Ils avaient le droit d'arracher tous les ans un criminel � la peine de mort: droit de gr�ce, droit r�galien reconnu par la monarchie absolue des papes.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.