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Examples

  • Je vous envoie une belle fleur-de-lys (la fleur officialle de l'etat de Tennessee).

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Apparently by "I" she does not actually mean herself, but rather the United States (l'etat c'est moi?).

    Obama And Edwards Fault Hillary Over Iran Comments 2009

  • Mais en attendant ma mere m'engueule parce qu'elle doit faire la route mais vu l'etat dans lequel je suis meme une journee de 3h comme ajd'hui me fout sur les rotules car il faut compter en plus 2heures de route (allé + retour) du coup ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • One would think this was a no-brainer, but not apparently to the mayor, who believes that l'etat c'est lui.

    Leonie Haimson: Reporting On The Bloomberg Campaign: Too Little Too Late 2009

  • Du coup ... ben j'ai pas eu le droit a l'adresse du patron parce que je touchais pas d'aide ... ca coute rien de mettre sur l'annonce "reservé aux handicapé deja assisté par l'etat"!! ca eviterai de bouffer mon forfait portable que j'ai du mal a payer!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • And under his view of a "unitary executive" -- all federal departments and agencies are de facto extensions of the President's own corporeal being ( "l'etat c'est moi"), one may assume that if the President does not feel bound by the laws he signs, government agencies (i.e., his agencies) are not bound by those laws, either.

    Mickey Edwards: The Erosion of American Constitutional Principle 2008

  • Je vous envoie une belle fleur-de-lys la fleur officialle de l'etat de Tennessee.

    baba cool - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • N'empeche c la premiere fois que j'ai le droit a quelque chose de la part de l'etat!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • They haven't all been turned into pod people -- as former Surgeon General Carmona's courageous testimony demonstrated -- but it also demonstrated how these people will jettison anyone who isn't on board the "l'etat, c'est W" train.

    "Mm-hmm. Mmm-hmm." Rogers 2007

  • Et avec tout ca, la manette n'arrete pas de trembler a tel point que quand l'etat de panique cesse il m'arrive parfois de me rendre compte ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

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