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  • Tony Blair's trouble in keeping up with current events seems to extend to the EU referendum situation, where the indications are that he is not abreast with the polls showing the French "nons" are losing ground.

    "Quand je vois ça je vote 'oui'" Richard 2005

  • Actually it is the French "nons" who have attracted MacShane's ire and, according to The Times, he has managed to mortally offend them as well.

    MacShane cons the French Richard 2005

  • It bases this conclusion on a poll conducted by the CSA institute, which appears in today's Le Parisien, showing the "nons" at a mere 52 percent, a loss of four points compared with the last poll, released yesterday.

    "Nons" waning? Richard 2005

  • In the sixth consecutive opinion poll on the French EU referendum since 17 March, the "nons" come out once again as the clear winners.

    Six down and still "non" Richard 2005

  • Jerome Sainte-Marie, director of BVA-Opinion, states that greatest increase in the "nons" have come from the Left, delivering an additional seven points, but even Chirac's UMP supporters have increased their opposition by one point.

    As you were Richard 2005

  • So it is with Chirac and his answer to yesterday’s poll showing the "nons" two points ahead.

    Something original please Richard 2005

  • Suggestions that Mike Geoghegan had threatened to resign as chief executive of HSBC have been dismissed as "offensive" and "nons ense" by the bank.

    Cable Posts a Capital Proposition 2010

  • This move helped create the two sine qua nons of a consumer economy: a disciplined, productive workforce, and workers capable of buying the products they produced.

    Ian Fletcher: Economics: How to Cure a Sick Discipline 2010

  • For him, in truth, there are only two sine qua nons -- all must have access to quality health care and costs must be contained.

    Neil McCarthy: The Dog Days of August 2009

  • Geaney, Jane, 1999, “A C.itique of A.C. Graham's Reconstruction of the ˜Neo-Mohist C.nons,™”

    Mohist Canons Fraser, Chris 2009

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