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Forms: autorité, autorités. - Tom has no **authority**. Tom n'a pas d'**autorité**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1488693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1488693) [\#1692905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692905)) - His **authority** was great. Son **autorité** était grande. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25709) - for he taught them with **authority**, and not like the scribes. car il enseignait comme ayant **autorité**, et non pas comme leurs scribes. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 7:29) - 2008 discharge: European GNSS Supervisory **Authority** Décharge 2008: **Autorité** de surveillance du GNSS européen ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377093) - APPENDIX II COMPETENT **AUTHORITIES** APPENDICE II **AUTORITÉS** COMPÉTENTES ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 214423) ## pouvoir Used about 22 259 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 507 · UN documents ≈ 21 731). - That's an abuse of **authority**. C'est un abus de **pouvoir**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · [\#4529754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529754) [\#4534354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4534354)) - and to have **authority** to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: et pour les envoyer prêcher avec le **pouvoir** de chasser les démons. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 3:15) - The Algerian **authorities**, as well as the European Union, must listen to these aspirations. Le **pouvoir** algérien doit entendre ces aspirations, l'Union européenne aussi. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 333544) - Administrative **authority** is in the hands of the multi-ethnic people; all ethnic groups are equal before the law. Le **pouvoir** administratif est entre les mains du peuple pluriethnique; tous les groupes ethniques sont égaux devant la loi. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10000040) - **Authority** corrupts its holder and debases its victims. Le **pouvoir** corrompt son détenteur et avilit ses victimes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5298309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5298309) [\#10100828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10100828)) ## compétentes Used about 4 346 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 346). - Judicial or administrative **authorities** with jurisdiction in matters covered in the Convention Instances judiciaires ou administratives **compétentes** en ce qui concerne les questions traitées dans la Convention ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 22434678) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom overstepped his **authority**. Tom a outrepassé ses pouvoirs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5374961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5374961) [\#5375288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5375288)) - I have it on good **authority** that the president will not seek reelection. Je sais de source sûre que le président ne va pas chercher à se faire réélire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1776836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1776836) [\#1800926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1800926)) - He's a leading **authority** in his field. C'est une sommité dans son domaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1475996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1475996) [\#1476794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1476794)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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