Grignard

[ green-yahrd; French gree-nyar ]

noun

1. (Fran·çois Au·guste) Vic·tor [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, oh-, gyst, veek-, tawr], 1871–1935, French organic chemist: Nobel Prize 1912.

Example Sentences

After Alain Grignard, deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, visited Guantanamo in 2006, he said, “at the level of the detention facilities, it is a model prison, where people are better treated than in Belgian prisons.”

From Washington Times

"Tomorrow we might not be so lucky," Grignard said.

From Washington Post

In an interview with CTC Sentinel magazine in August, Belgian counterterrorism official Alain Grignard openly acknowledged the obstacles authorities were facing.

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"Belgium counterterrorism agencies were praised for thwarting the Verviers plot, but luck played its role," Grignard said last year, referring to a terror plot that was disrupted in January 2015 in the city of Verviers.

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“Their revolt from society manifested itself through petty crime and delinquency,” Belgian counterterrorism official Alain Grignard said in an essay published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

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