poids in a sentence

Examples

1. In 1985, he was forced to accept a Bulgarian name, Naum Shalamanov, winning a few championships under his nom-de-poids, and then defecting in Australia.
2. In 1920 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his " Lanceur de Poids et Coureur " ( " Shot Putter and Runner " ).
3. The album was a nominee for Folk Album of the Year at the 2013 F�lix Awards, losing to Les sS
   urs Boulay's " Le poids des confettis ".
4. The CIPM meets annually at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures ( BIPM, Bureau international des poids et mesures ), and discusses reports presented to it by its Consultative Committees.
5. He was presenter of until June 2011 self-titled radio programme " Lafortune vous sourit " in 2011, closely followed by " Les poids lourds de retour"
6. In 1874, the company was commissioned to manufacture the kilogram reference standard, made from 90 % platinum and 10 % iridium, and held in the Bureau international des poids et mesures.
7. Starting in 1968, the Callendar-Van Dusen Equation was replaced by an interpolating formula given by a 20th order polynomial first published in the The International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968 by the Comit?International des Poids et Mesures.
8. The " livre poids de marc " or " livre de Paris " was equivalent to about 489.5 grams ( 7, 555 gr ) and was used between the 1350s and the late 18th century.
9. Instead we must choose some physical object, say the Standard Metre at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures ( International Bureau of Weights and Measures ), or the wavelength of cadmium to stand in as our unit of length.
10. TWSTFT is being evaluated as an alternative to be used by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in the determination of International Atomic Time ( TAI ), as a complement to the current standard method of simultaneous observations of GPS transmissions.