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arrêt

American  
[uh-ray, -ret] / əˈreɪ, -ˈrɛt /

noun

plural

arrêts
  1. a judgment, sentence, or decree issued by a civil court or a sovereign.


Example Sentences

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For several days there was media silence in France about the exchange, but Dan Israel of the French news website Arret sur Images later broke the story.

From BBC

In his new book, “Berlin, 1933,” Daniel Schneidermann, a French media critic and the founder of Arrêt sur Images, a French analogue to Media Matters for America, examines the work of American, British, and French correspondents posted in Berlin in the nineteen-thirties, to investigate how acutely the foreign press understood the threat of Nazism.

From The New Yorker

The clue was in a street sign that read arrêt – or “stop” in French.

From The Guardian

But, according to the website Arret sur Internet, he said: "Maybe there were some errors in the service, that happens sometimes in the middle of August - I recognise that. "But this article showed in the Google search results and did my business more and more harm, even though we have worked seven days a week for 15 years.

From BBC

The French news Web site Arrêt Sur Images pondered on Friday why the murders had so dominated French media attention, taking up 16 minutes of prime time on a main public news channel that dedicated only 4 minutes to Thursday's moves by the European Central Bank to save the euro.

From New York Times