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Le tourisme est un secteur économique de première importance et un levier de diversification pour les régions.

Excerpts of Charest's instructions to the new cabinet Ed Hollett 2007

MORS, _m. _, levier de la bride qui passe dans la bouche d'un cheval et sert à le gouverner.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

Galloway, a great manufacturer, or, rather, a huge levier of the taxes of dividends and interest upon manufacturing enterprises, could not but be uneasy.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

` ` No sae bad as that, '' said the Glaswegian, --- ` ` no a'thegither and outright sae bad as that; but he became a levier of black-mail, wider and farther than ever it was raised in our day, a through the Lennox and Menteith, and up to the gates o '

Rob Roy 1887

Seeing, however, that his chance of escape was hopeless, he at length consented to pay the levier of black-mail his iniquitous dues.

John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Berthier, Intendant (say, Tax-levier) of Paris; sycophant and tyrant; forestaller of Corn; contriver of Camps against the people; -- accused of many things: is he not Foulon's son-in-law; and, in that one point, guilty of all?

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Vous aurez ainsi créé les moyens d'unir le Canada avec les autres nations dans le magnifique et bienveillant système d'échanges internationaux, plan qui ne doit pas seulement être considéré sous le point de vue commercial, mais comme un grand levier moral qui resserrera les liens qui unissent les différentes nations de la terre en une seule famille.

Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1833

"I doubt not," answered Robin, "he is a levier of toll and tithe, which I shall put him upon proof of his right to receive, by making trial of his might to enforce."

Maid Marian 1822

"No sae bad as that," said the Glaswegian, -- "no a'thegither and outright sae bad as that; but he became a levier of black-mail, wider and farther than ever it was raised in our day, a through the Lennox and Menteith, and up to the gates o 'Stirling Castle."

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

"No sae bad as that," said the Glaswegian, -- "no a'thegither and outright sae bad as that; but he became a levier of black-mail, wider and farther than ever it was raised in our day, a through the Lennox and Menteith, and up to the gates o 'Stirling Castle."

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801