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Qu'est-ce qui **constitue** un « discours de haine » ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#14092341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092341) [\#14092344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092344)) - To be present at executions **constitutes** a duty. Assister aux exécutions **constitue** un devoir. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12727) - The wall in Nicosia **constitutes** a threat. Le mur de Nicosie **constitue** une menace. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 770161) - All of the ELA granted by the BNB **constitutes** aid. La totalité de l’ELA accordée par la BNB **constitue** de l’aide. ([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 3117968) - Racism is a sin that **constitutes** a serious offence against God. Le racisme est un pêché qui **constitue** une offense grave contre Dieu. ([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 29485962) ## violation Used about 1 240 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 137 · UN documents ≈ 1 103). - This **constitutes** ‘provision of assistance’ to illegal armed groups in breach of the arms embargo of resolutions 1493 (2003) and 1596 (2005). Transaction assimilée à la «fourniture d'assistance» à des groupes armés illégaux en **violation** de l'embargo imposé par les résolutions 1493 (2003) et 1596 (2005). ([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 4278944) - To deny the right of other countries to choose their own systems **constitutes** in itself a violation of the human rights of their people. Refuser à d ' autres pays le droit de choisir leur propre système est, en soi, une **violation** des droits fondamentaux des peuples. ([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 21890347) - This **constitutes** a violation of norms internationally accepted regarding the compensation of victims of war and other violations. Il s ' agit là d ' une **violation** des normes internationalement reconnues concernant l ' indemnisation de victimes de guerre et d ' autres violations. ([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 2507830) ## sens Used about 552 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 552). - 31. Pardon or commutation of death sentences **constitutes** positive steps in the process of the abolition of the death penalty. La grâce ou la commutation de peine sont des mesures qui vont dans le bon **sens** pour ce qui est de l ' abolition de la peine de mort. ([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 28823316) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The binding energy between quarks **constitutes** 99 percent of proton and neutron mass. L'énergie de liaison entre les quarks représente quatre-vingt-dix-neuf pour cent de la masse des protons et des neutrons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12442036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12442036) [\#12413315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12413315)) - What **constitutes** "hate speech"? Qu'entend-on par « discours de haine » ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#14092341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092341) [\#14092335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092335)) - The first is the question: what **constitutes** a transfer? Le premier se rattache à la question suivante: Quand y a-t-il transfert? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1666215) ## 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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