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Forms: lutte, lutter. - The European Anti-fraud Office, known by the French acronym OLAF, is responsible for **combating** fraud against the EU. L'Office européen de **lutte** antifraude, connu sous l'acronyme français de l'OLAF, est responsable de la lutte contre la fraude contre l'UE. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ronin1134 and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4297085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4297085) [\#4299694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4299694)) - **Combating** crime is simply a pretext. La **lutte** contre la criminalité est un simple prétexte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 123749) - Cooperation in **Combating** Terrorism Coopération dans la **lutte** contre le terrorisme ([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 116007) - A. **Combating** organized crime A. **Lutte** contre la criminalité organisée ([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 16311645) - One of its priorities is **combating** poverty and discrimination. L'une de ses priorités est la **lutte** contre la pauvreté et la discrimination. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1023280) ## contre Used about 1 536 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 323 · legal and administrative ≈ 86 · UN documents ≈ 1 127). - We will have to support those forces that are **combating** these abuses; the caravans of hope are coming together. Nous devrons soutenir les forces qui luttent **contre** ces abus. Les caravanes de l’espoir se rassemblent. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 551991) - **combating** the proliferation of chemical, biological and toxin weapons. en luttant **contre** la prolifération des armes chimiques, biologiques et à toxines. ([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 218775) - (a) developed country Parties should take the lead in **combating** climate change and the adverse effects thereof; a) Les pays développés parties doivent prendre la tête du combat **contre** les changements climatiques et leurs effets néfastes; ([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 21126258) - I should add that PNR may be useful in **combating** other kinds of serious crime that are nothing to do with the world of organised crime. J'ajoute que le PNR pourrait être utile dans le combat **contre** d'autres crimes sérieux, qui ne relèvent pas du crime organisé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147253) - To increase regional security by **combating** large-scale illicit possession of firearms through awareness-raising and collection campaigns. Renforcer la sécurité régionale en luttant **contre** la détention illicite d'armes à feu à grande échelle, en menant des campagnes de sensibilisation et de collecte. ([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 3887909) ## terrorisme Used about 1 235 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108 · UN documents ≈ 1 127). - It has also said, though, that **combating** terrorism effectively means bringing an end to the conditions which provide its breedingground. Mais nous avons également dit que le **terrorisme** est efficacement combattu en mettant fin aux éléments qui constituent son bouillon de culture. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1594280) - 4. To intensify cooperation, as appropriate, in exchanging timely and accurate information concerning the prevention and **combating** of terrorism; 4. Intensifier la coopération, selon que de besoin, en échangeant dans les meilleurs délais des informations précises concernant la prévention et la répression du **terrorisme** ; ([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 13344837) ## criminalité Used about 108 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108). - The June List is in favour of increased cooperation and greater exchange of information between the Member States with a view to **combating** organised cross-border crime. . La Liste de juin est favorable à un renforcement de la coopération et de l’échange d’informations entre les États membres, de manière à combattre la **criminalité** organisée transfrontière. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 732912) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine myself to **combating** your arguments. Vous discutez mes idées, il sied que je me borne à combattre vos raisonnements. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 901) - Thus, for instance, and we insist upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were **combating**, was not precisely Louis Philippe. Ainsi, par exemple, insistons-y, ce que combattaient les chefs de l'insurrection de 1832, et en particulier les jeunes enthousiastes de la rue de la Chanvrerie, ce n'était pas précisément Louis-Philippe. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26902) - The first concerns the development of the strategy of vaccinations, which are an extremely important weapon in **combating** the threat from infections diseases. La première concerne le développement de la stratégie de vaccination, qui est une arme capitale pour combattre la menace que posent les maladies infectieuses. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 557027) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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