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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the quotation.
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- noun French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979)
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Examples
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The so-called Monnet approach -- named after the key architect of European integration, the French official Jean Monnet -- is designed to generate a consensus among European diplomats for limited projects of practical cross-border cooperation.
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The transformation was wrought by visionary leaders such as Monnet, Schumann, Spaak, and Marshall, who understood that modern nations can enrich their futures more through cooperation than conquest.
Presidents Speech To Future European Leaders ITY National Archives 1994
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Monnet Ispat, which recently bought a coal mine in Indonesia, expects to sign an initial pact for buying another coal mine, in Mozambique, over the next three months, Mr. Jajodia said, but declined to provide details.
Monnet Ispat to Raise Funds from Share Sale in Unit Saurabh Chaturvedi of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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Dr. Monnet brought all these to the world's attention.
Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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Monnet Ispat, which recently bought a coal mine in Indonesia, expects to sign an initial pact for buying another coal mine, in Mozambique, over the next three months, Mr. Jajodia said, but declined to provide details.
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Jean Monnet, the founding father of the EU, believed that European unity was “not an end in itself, but only a stage on the way to the organised world of tomorrow.”
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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One of the founders of what became the European Union, Jean Monnet, once said: "Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions."
Robert Hormats: German Unity: Lessons for the 21st Century Robert Hormats 2010
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Unsurprisingly Mauer and Monnet are silenced by successive administrations to promote destructive oil drilling in the Arctic.
Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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One of the founders of what became the European Union, Jean Monnet, once said: "Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions."
Robert Hormats: German Unity: Lessons for the 21st Century Robert Hormats 2010
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One of the founders of what became the European Union, Jean Monnet, once said: "Nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions."
Robert Hormats: German Unity: Lessons for the 21st Century Robert Hormats 2010
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