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  • Partout où le poids de la tradition est importante il y est difficile d'impulser le progrès tel le conçoit le monde contemporain.

    Global Voices in English » Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms 2009

  • She is rather “avoir du poids” which is very unlike the “Barbie doll” stereotype.

    Prehistoric pin-up « Mudpuddle 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    la frangine - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    Characters 2009

  • Time thus throws its flyweight avoir du poids on the side of the political class in the lengthy finger-pointing and buck-passing contest between the politicians and the financial community about whose responsibility the crisis was.

    Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012

  • "Oh, I'm chic alright," she says, patting her stomach, reminding me of her perennial battle with le poids.

    mother-in-law 2010

  • Des hommes se jettent en avant de la roue pour la faire tourner grâce à leur poids.

    Grande roue indienne The Nag 2009

  • Time thus throws its flyweight avoir du poids on the side of the political class in the lengthy finger-pointing and buck-passing contest between the politicians and the financial community about whose responsibility the crisis was.

    Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor Conrad Black 2012

  • Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck).

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

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