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Example sentences for: affaire

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L'affaire Brown was worth maybe one story in Slate . When you reach the point of needing a roundup, you might want to re-examine your editorial priorities.
The commentariat doesn't have much that is new to say about Issue 2-- l'affaire Lewinsky . Everyone thinks that Monica Lewinsky's long awaited testimony is just around the corner.
The oversight is not the result of an effort to avoid downbeat or offensive sides of Degas, but rather a failure to understand the seismic shift in French society caused by "l'affaire ." Photography and French nationalism were also linked in Degas' mind.
When President Clinton's budget for fiscal year 1999 came out on Feb. 2, we were all engrossed in l'affaire Lewinsky and the spin the White House was putting on it--right-wing conspiracy, executive privilege, Talmudic definitions of adultery, and so on.
Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.