Franco

"Franco" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Franco has blue jeans.

In 2019, 37 percent of the voters of the ruling conservative Spanish party responded "no" to the question of whether Franco had been a dictator.

James Franco stars as a young outdoorsman who makes an unthinkable decision when his arm is trapped by a boulder in a remote canyon.

They're nothing but a miserable bunch that of people who miss the Franco regime.

Like Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni is interested in religion to the extent that it benefits her rule.

The French action in granting asylum to active Spanish anti-Franquists has always been considered by Franco to be a hostile act.

Regional autonomy was a key driver of the Spanish Civil War—Franco and the nationalist army opposed the left-wing Republican government’s extension of autonomy to Catalonia and the Basques.

The anglos have seen the whole of the country, and the continent, as hospitable, while the francos have over a long period come to view Quebec as their real homeland.

Something similar had occurred in Canada, where first of all the sector is divided between anglos and francos; […]

“Language is always an issue in Quebec and here’s a play that both anglos and francos will have a language problem with,” Ackerman says.

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Other Franco-American journalists didn’t see it his way, notably the editor of the Jean-Baptiste a newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts. A journalistic debate began on the merits of repatriation, some newspapers calling those Francos who returned to Québec traitors while other papers used the same epithet to describe those Francos who remained in New England.

As will be demonstrated, it provided very good analytical material for reflection on the relationships between Anglos and Francos in Quebec. […] Firstly, the Francos of Quebec are perceived as being in general agreement on their collective name, which name others are also seen to recognize.

Because of my earlier interest in ethnic relations in New England—e.g. the Anglos and Francos in New Hampshire and Maine (Khleif 1973)—and my familiarity with British community studies, I became interested in Welsh-English relations and did fieldwork on that subject in 1973–1974.

In my own case in the area of Mile-End (a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Greeks, Portuguese, Anglos, Francos), my back balcony (or more precisely, la galérie) is a mere foot and a half wide and joins me with my two neighbors, women with whom I often converse.

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