42 résultats pour "fair"

• fairies

• Le fair play financier

  •       protéger la viabilité du football européen sur le long terme ; •       s'assurer que les clubs honorent leurs dettes en temps et en heure. Ces objectifs approuvés reflètent la vision l'UEFA qui se fait un devoir de considérer l'environnement du football de clubs européen comme un tout dans lequel chaque club évolue et en particulier la tendance inflationniste des dépenses des clubs en ce qui concerne les salaires et les indemnités de transfert. Ces dernières saisons, beau...

• Pourrait-on envisager, comme le fait d'Ormesson, que le fair-play soit appliqué à des domaines autres que celui du sport ?

  II. «Fair-play» peut-il être appliqué à des domaines autres que le sport ? • Constatons d'abord qu'il n'est pas toujours appliqué au domaine sportif dans la réalité. • Exemple tout récent: après les violents incidents entre footballeurs bulgares, sur le terrain, deux internationauxsont radiés à vie «pour violation brutale de la morale sportive» (24 juin 1985). • Voir aussi le cas de Mac Enroe fort mauvais joueur quand il trouve que l'arbitre de tennis n'a pas apprécié comme ille fallait ; célèbr...

• My Fair Lady [George Cukor] - analyse du film.

• From The Pilgrim's Progress - anthology.

  First, The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair, made agreat gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men. (I Corinthians ii.7, S.) Secondly, And as they wondered at their apparel, so they did likewise at their speech; for few could understand what they said; they naturally spoke the language ofCanaan, but they that kept the f...

• Exhibitions and Expositions.

  A Louisiana Purchase Exposition In 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, organized an exposition in celebration of the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. The exposition, which cost about $20 million, attractedalmost 20 million persons and showed a profit of about $25 million. B Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the construction and opening of the Panama Canal. More than $50 millionwas spent on this exposit...

• MY FAIR LADY

• Seattle - geography.

  Mountains. The area includes the suburban cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, and Issaquah. The Eastside has become home to dozens of high-technologyindustries including Microsoft Corporation, ATL Ultrasound, Nintendo of America, divisions of The Boeing Company, and many other firms. In the 1960s commutersheaded to Seattle jobs from homes on the Eastside. Today, the “reverse commute” from Seattle homes to jobs on the Eastside is just as heavy, and both streams oftraffic cross the same...

• MY FAIR LADY GEORGE CUKOR

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• Excerpt from Love's Labour's Lost - anthology.

  BEROWNE. I could put thee in comfort—not by two that I know.Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity. LONGAVILLE. I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move.(Reading ) “O sweet Maria, empress of my love!”— These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.He tears the paper BEROWNE. O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose;Disfigure not his shop. LONGAVILLE. ( taking another paper ) This same shall go: (Reading ) “Did not the he...

• Oscar-Preisträger.

  Beste RegieJAHR NAME ORIGINALTITEL DEUTSCHER TITEL 1929 Lewis MilestoneFrank Borzage Two Arabian KnightsSeventh Heaven SchlachtenbummlerIm siebenten Himmel 1930 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Die ungekrönte Königin 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy - 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl - 1934 Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Cavalcade 1935 Frank Capra It Happened One Night Es geschah in einer Nacht 1936 John Ford The Informer Der Verräter 1937 Frank C...

• Dallas (Texas) - geography.

  VI RECREATION Dallas contains more than 400 parks that cover a total of about 20,000 hectares (about 50,000 acres). Notable parks include Marsalis Park, which contains the DallasZoo, and the parks surrounding White Rock Lake, Bachman Lake, and Lake Cliff. City-owned greenbelts parallel White Rock Creek, Turtle Creek, and the Trinity River.Fair Park contains a number of museums, the city aquarium, and the Cotton Bowl stadium (the site of the annual Cotton Bowl college football game), as well as...

• Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet - anthology.

  Take all myself. ROMEO. I take thee at thy word.Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET. What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO. By a nameI know not how to tell thee who I am.My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,Because it is an enemy to thee.Had I it written, I would tear the word. JULIET. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred wordsOf thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.Art thou not Romeo, and a...

• Baseball.

  pitcher or argue a call with an umpire. Two or more coaches, positioned closer to the field, assist the manager by communicating with the players. For example,managers may decide what pitches should be thrown, when batters should swing at a pitch, and how runners should move around the bases. The manager relays thesedecisions through special hand signals that the coaches repeat to communicate to the players. Umpires are responsible for interpreting and enforcing the rules of play. They rule on...

• Excerpt from The Two Gentlemen of Verona - anthology.

  JULIA. Is he among these? HOST. Ay; but, peace! Let’s hear 'em. SONG:Who is Silvia? What is she,That all our swains commend her?Holy, fair, and wise is she;The heaven such grace did lend her,That she might admirèd be. Is she kind as she is fair?For beauty lives with kindness.Love doth to her eyes repair,To help him of his blindness;And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us singThat Silvia is excelling;She excels each mortal thingUpon the dull earth dwelling.To her let us garlands...

• Civil Rights Movement in the United States - U.

  The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in Northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businessesin all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott thosebusinesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of blackchildren. The bla...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...

• Constitution of the United States.

  chief executive should have the power to veto legislation, should be elected by Congress or the people, should be eligible to run for reelection, and should command thearmed forces. Some delegates even hoped for a limited monarchy. Not until September 8, more than three months after the convention started, did the final shape ofthe presidency emerge: a single leader, elected to a four-year term and eligible for reelection, with authority to veto bills enacted by Congress. The president was alsog...

• Constitution of the United States - U.

  chief executive should have the power to veto legislation, should be elected by Congress or the people, should be eligible to run for reelection, and should command thearmed forces. Some delegates even hoped for a limited monarchy. Not until September 8, more than three months after the convention started, did the final shape ofthe presidency emerge: a single leader, elected to a four-year term and eligible for reelection, with authority to veto bills enacted by Congress. The president was alsog...

• Excerpt from Pericles - anthology.

  To any. LYSIMACHUS. Yet let me obtain my wish. Helicanus draws a curtain revealing Pericles lying on a couch HELICANUS. Behold him. This was a goodly person, Till the disaster that one mortal nightDrove him to this. LYSIMACHUS. Sir King, all hail! The gods preserve you!Hail, royal sir! HELICANUS. It is in vain. He will not speak to you. LORD. Sir,We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager, Would win some words of him. LYSIMACHUS. 'Tis well bethought.She questionless, with her sweet harmonyA...

• Amerikanischer Film.

  1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wem die Stunde schlägt), Sam WoodHeaven Can Wait (Ein himmlischer Sünder), Ernst Lubitsch 1944 Cover Girl (Es tanzt die Göttin), Charles VidorLaura (Laura), Otto PremingerTo Have and Have Not (Haben und Nichthaben), Howard Hawks 1945 Mildred Pierce (Solange ein Herz schlägt), Michael CurtizThe Lost Weekend (Das verlorene Wochenende), Billy WilderThe Spiral Staircase (Die Wendeltreppe), Robert Siodmak 1946 Gilda (Gilda), Charles VidorMy Darling Clementine (Tombstone/...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Proserpine - anthology.

  the furrow, the seed failed to come up; there was too much sun, there was too much rain; the birds stole the seeds—thistles and brambles were the only growth.Seeing this, the fountain Arethusa interceded for the land. 'Goddess,' said she, 'blame not the land; it opened unwillingly to yield a passage to your daughter. I can tellyou of her fate, for I have seen her. This is not my native country; I came hither from Elis. I was a woodland nymph, and delighted in the chase. They praised mybeauty, bu...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  and its vibrant public square, frequented by street performers, soon became among the most popular landmarks in the city. West of the Pompidou Center is Les Halles, the site of the central market of Paris from the 12th century until 1969. The market was subsequently replaced by the Forum LesHalles, a multilevel underground complex featuring a shopping mall, museums, the Paris film library ( vidéothèque ), and a sports center. The street level of Les Halles features a garden, the Jardin des Halle...

• International Criminal Court.

  only exercise its jurisdiction when a national court is unwilling or unable to carry out the investigation or prosecution. For example, the ICC might intervene when agovernment’s judicial system has collapsed or is actively shielding a person from criminal responsibility. The court may hold accountable any person aged 18 or older at the time of the crime without regard to the individual’s official duties or functions. Therefore, heads ofstate, legislators, and other high-ranking government offic...

• St. Louis (city) - geography. I INTRODUCTION St. Louis (city) or Saint Louis,

  Between 1940 and 1990 the black population in metropolitan St. Louis nearly tripled. Blacks are most heavily concentrated in three areas in the St. Louis metropolitanregion: East Saint Louis, the North Side close to downtown, and an east-west belt extending from the waterfront to beyond Forest Park. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, areas to the north and south of the central business district were settled by immigrant working families from Germany, Ireland,and many Eastern European countrie...

• faire trade

• CHRONOLOGIE DE L'ÉVOLUTION INTÉRIEURE DES ÉTATS {1945-1975) e ÉTATS-UNIS - Présidence Truman (démocrate), 1945-1953. Politique du Fair Deal : maintien...

  CHRONOLOGIE DE L'ÉVOLUTION INTÉRIEURE DES ÉTATS {1945-1975) e ÉTATS-UNIS - Présidence Truman (démocrate), 1945-1953. Politique du Fair Deal : maintien du contrôle de l'État sur le capital; augmentation de la part. des travailleurs dans le revenu national; progression du pouvoir syndical, malgré la loi Taft-Hartley (1947) qui réglemente le droit de grève. - Présidence Eisenhower (républicain), 1953-1961. Lutte contre le communisme à l'intérieur (MacCarthy). - Présidence Kennedy (démocrate), 1961-...

• Jean d'ORMESSON, L'Équipe-Week-end

• Fairy and Fairy Tale Fairy and Fairy Tale, in folklore, a diminutive supernatural creature, generally in human form, dwelling in an imaginary region called fairyland; and the stories of its interventions through magic in mortal affairs.

• dialogue anglais fairtrade

  demonstrations or we can help organizations as Oxfam with money. We can donate old stuff like cloths or toys. A - We should do it together one day. It will be really nice.  

• COMMENTAIRE COMPOSE: "Le Chant de la petite hypertrophique, Jules Laforgue, le sanglot de la Terre

  d'exclamation sont régulières. Par ailleurs, le poème est fait sous la forme d'une chanson comme le suggère le titrece qui pourrait être pensé aux gémissements des enfants à leur guise.Tout au long du texte, l'enfant grandit. Le lecteur pourrait penser que la première partie de ce poème est en faitseulement sentir lorsque l'auteur a perdu sa mère quand il était enfant et la deuxième partie de ce qu'il a comprisquand ils sont mûrs.Au début de la chanson, l'enfant est sûr de trouver sa mère à l'ut...

• From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - anthology.

  And she urged it on him eagerly, and ever he refused,And vowed in very earnest, prevail she would not.And she sad to find it so, and said to him then,“If my ring is refused for its rich cost -You would not be my debtor for so dear a thing—I shall give you my girdle; you gain less thereby.”She released a knot lightly, and loosened a beltThat was caught about her kirtle, the bright cloak beneath,Of a gay green silk, with gold overwroght,And the borders all bound with embroidery fine,And this she p...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: The Trojan War - anthology.

  As in a dream. Dimly I could descryThe stern black-bearded kings, with wolfish eyes,Waiting to see me die. 'The tall masts quivered as they lay afloat,The temples and the people and the shore;One drew a sharp knife through my tender throatSlowly,—and—nothing more.' The wind now proving fair the fleet made sail and brought the forces to the coast of Troy. The Trojans came to oppose their landing, and at the first onset Protesilaus[mythological king of Phylace, in Thessaly] fell by the hand of...

• Excerpt from Sense and Sensibility - anthology.

  was just arrived, and quitted not his hold till he had seated her in a chair in the parlour. Elinor and her mother rose up in amazement at their entrance, and while the eyes of both were fixed on him with an evident wonder and a secret admiration whichequally sprung from his appearance, he apologised for his intrusion by relating its cause, in a manner so frank and so graceful, that his person, which wasuncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression. Had he bee...

• Crafts.

  VI POTTERY Ceramic objects can be molded completely by hand or thrown (shaped) on a potter's wheel, a device with a rotating horizontal disk. When the clay hardens, it is fired ina high-temperature oven, or kiln, to strengthen it. To make the object waterproof, glazes may then be applied and the piece fired again. Although hand construction iseasy to master, throwing on the potter's wheel requires practice. Several simple tools are used by potters, including sponges, trimming tools, wooden sha...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Hercules - anthology.

  '…amidst the gardens fairOf Hesperus and his daughters three,That sing about the golden tree.' The poets, led by the analogy of the lovely appearance of the western sky at sunset, viewed the west as a region of brightness and glory. Hence they placed in it theIsles of the Blest, the ruddy Isle Erytheia, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the Isle of the Hesperides. The apples are supposed by some to bethe oranges of Spain, of which the Greeks had heard some obscure account...

• Reiten: Medaillengewinner der Olympischen Sommerspiele.

  1968 GBR: Derek Allhusen(Lochinvar), RichardMeade (Cornishman V),Reuben Jones (ThePoacher) USA: Michael Page (Foster),James Wolford (Kilkenny), J.Michael Plumb (Plain Sailing) AUS: Wayne Roycroft(Zhivago), Brien Cobcroft(Depeche), William Roycroft(Joburg) 1972 GBR: Richard Meade(Laurieston), MaryGordon-Watson(Cornishman V), BridgetParker (Cornish Gold) USA: Kevin Freeman (GoodMixture), Bruce Davidson(Plain Sailing), J. MichaelPlumb (Free and Easy) FRG: Harry Klugmann(Christopher Rob), Ludwi...

• San Antonio (city, Texas) - geography.

  The SBC Center is the home venue for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the San Antonio Silver Stars of the Women's NationalBasketball Association (WNBA). The dome also serves as the site for the Alamo Bowl, an annual post-season college football game. Large themed amusement parks inthe San Antonio area are Fiesta Texas and Sea World of Texas. San Antonio’s major annual event is the Fiesta, a ten-day celebration in late April with carnivals, ethnic feasts, art...

• From The Scarlet Letter - anthology.

  “Mercy on us, goodwife,” exclaimed a man in the crowd, “is there no virtue in woman, save what springs from a wholesome fear of the gallows? That is the hardestword yet! Hush, now, gossips; for the lock is turning in the prison-door, and here comes Mistress Prynne herself.” The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence ofthe town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff...

• Honolulu - geography.

  of Brigham Young University. The state’s largest museum, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, is located in Honolulu. It contains a large collection of Polynesian archaeological artifacts, as well asmany exhibits on Hawaiian history and culture. The museum also has an extensive entomological collection with more than 13 million specimens. Other importantmuseums include the Honolulu Academy of Arts, known for its extensive collection of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art; the Contemporary Museum, wit...

• Mexican Revolution.

  growing economic and social difficulties. Although Madero called for free and democratic elections, and a ban on reelection at all levels of government, he offered little tourban workers seeking higher wages and better working conditions, or to indigenous people seeking the restoration of their traditional lands. Madero’s intention was tolead a political rebellion, not a social revolution. Despite the political nature of the plan, it became a rallying point for poor and working-class Mexicans, m...

• United States Government.

  Article II establishes an executive department headed by a president and vice president. The article further describes the powers of the offices, the manner of election,and the qualifications for office. Of special significance is the president’s constitutional role as commander of the nation’s armed forces, which assures civilian controlover the military. Because the president is the head of the armed forces and only Congress can declare war, the authority of the military is diffused and its po...