Citations:pour encourager les autres

English citations of pour encourager les autres

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• 1804, A Report of the Debate in the Imperial Parliament on Wednesday, March 7th, 1804 […], page 64:

  The country has suffered severely, and somebody is to blame—somebody should be censured, if it were but pour encourager les autres.

• 1825, Harriette Wilson, Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs of Herself and Others, volume 2, page 107:

  I do not recollect that any of us were very agreeable that night, though we talked a great deal. Hertford’s subject was death, pour encourager les autres.

• 1878, John Henry Gray, China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of Her People, volume 1, page 55:

  The name of the prisoner and the nature of his offence are written on the cangue in large letters, “pour encourager les autres.”

• 1927 June, U. P. A., “L’Oiseau rouge”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 48, number 6, page 464:

  Whenever trouble threatened, Avitabile hanged a few of the citizens from the walls of Government House pour encourager les autres; and when trouble did occur, he doubled the hangings and had a daily roster for suspension with a next-for-the-noose column.

• 1978 February 2, Donald Gould, “What price human dignity?”, in New Scientist, page 303:

  It seems that, pour encourager les autres, a number of princesses of the blood royal were forced to witness the happening […]

• 2011 May 7, Roger Cohen, “Women Against the Hangman”, in The New York Times:

  In college, her class was taken to see people Qaddafi had hanged — pour encourager les autres.

• 2014 April 25, Will Self, “Give the freedom of the city to our urban explorers”, in Evening Standard:

  No doubt TfL feels it’s necessary to obtain a conviction pour encourager les autres.

• 2016 March 1, Nicholas Wright, “Can Britain's bureaucracy handle a Brexit?”, in The Guardian:

  Indeed, some may wish to make withdrawal as painful as possible pour encourager les autres.

• 2023 March 25, Martin Vander Weyer, “Why was Credit Suisse allowed to linger for so long?”, in The Spectator:

  ‘Pour encourager les autres,’ I wrote 18 months ago, wouldn’t it be better ‘to move the depositors to a safer bank and close the repeat offender down’?

• 2023 July 1, Catherine Lough, “Genghis Khan ‘a Blairite before his time’”, in The Daily Telegraph:

  He added jokingly: “So very inclusive, in fact, there were a couple of places where everybody was murdered and butchered, pour encourager les autres.”