What does FDM stand for?

Women Against Gordon does not have a shared candidate to replace Mr Brown, faute de mieux, with Alan Johnson -- with the exception of Ms Kelly who had a bitter argument with him over Roman Catholic adoption agencies.

He didn't want a boring job, didn't have plans after graduation, and faute de mieux, he says, enrolled in theatre school at Manchester University.

Faute de mieux was the French expression which came to mind.

So, knowing we are talking nonsense when we use it, let us use it, faute de mieux.

To appoint 'Il Duce' would be faute de mieux, so they may be right in ploughing on with Haitink, and planning a more orderly succession.

The promotion of John Curtin, en faute de mieux, has been unsuccessful, as Curtin has been progressively disclosed to have been weak, bibulous and vacillating and to have consciously permitted Australian defence forces abroad to be effectively betrayed by left-wing unions on the waterfront who prevented the shipment of munitions, equipment and urgently needed supplies to them.

Faute de mieux, nous considererons ce groupe de mots comme etant des complements resultatifs a valeur aspectuelle (designes par l'abreviation c.

It bears too a positive affirmation of a "collective us", linked to the "nationalization of the masses" (as with George Mosse), to the invention of an "imagined community" (Benedict Anderson) but also to a temporary adhesion, willy nilly or faute de mieux, to a collective project which encompasses a larger group than local community, family, or profession.