French system

American  

noun

1. a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.

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Example Sentences

But the uncertainties of the 12-19 June parliamentary election raise a question mark over the length of Ms Borne's tenure, and under the French system the president's powers considerably outweigh the prime minister's.

From BBC • May 17, 2022

“I had given up on the French system completely,” she said in a telephone interview.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020

The French system, meanwhile, is already covering 8 million people — a third of the country’s private sector workers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2020

Combining soap-like story arcs with political intrigue, comedy, psychodrama and cliffhangers, it cast a forensic eye over the French system of law and politics and class and race and sex and morality.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2019

He abolished the French system of collecting duties, the monopolies which were burdensome to the people, and lightened the weight of their taxes.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard