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Je pense que les **compétences** clés reflètent cela. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 852347) - **Competence** of the Commission **Compétence** de la Commission ([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 1985602) - **Competence** of the Meeting of States Parties **Compétence** de l ' Assemblée des États parties ([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 29363010) - We need to do all we can with the **competence** we have. Nous devons exploiter nos **compétences** de manière optimale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 845961) - Powers and **competences** of ESMA Pouvoirs et **compétences** de l’AEMF ([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 2312266) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The Commission has executive powers, but legislative **competence** is a matter for the Parliament and the Council and we absolutely insist on that! Le pouvoir exécutif appartient à la Commission, mais le pouvoir législatif appartient au Parlement et au Conseil, et nous voulons le souligner. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 235639) - Obviously I have to tell Parliament this is not a matter which falls within the Commission's **competence**, but lies with the Member States of the Union. Il me faut naturellement rappeler à ce Parlement que cette matière n'est pas du ressort de la Commission mais de celle des Etats membres de l'Union. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1656095) - These issues are of course beyond the Union' s strict sphere of **competence**. We should tackle them together with other countries and institutions. Évidemment, ces sujets vont au-delà de la sphère stricte de l'Union et nous devons les aborder avec les autres pays et institutions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240584) ## 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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