droit

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

He says that once the droit du sol has been abolished on the island, the lure will disappear.

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

So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

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.