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Forms: contractante, contractantes. - Obviously a text only becomes final once it has been signed by the **contracting** parties. Bien entendu, un texte ne devient définitif qu'une fois signé par les parties **contractantes**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 455336) - IUU activities carried out by Non-**Contracting** Party vessels Activités INN exercées par des navires de parties non **contractantes** ([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 1316703) - (b) Assist in recruiting new **contracting** parties; b) Aider à recruter de nouvelles parties **contractantes**; ([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 15331855) - This means that the Community's role as a **contracting** party would be reduced to a mere façade. Cela revient à dire que la Communauté, partie **contractante**, se contenterait de continuer à jouer un rôle de façade. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 117337) - The same **Contracting** Party shall not assign the same number to another vehicle type. Une même partie **contractante** ne peut attribuer ce numéro à un autre type. ([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 5537116) ## parties Used about 934 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42 · UN documents ≈ 892). Forms: partie, parties. - The ICC is based on a treaty which only binds its **contracting** parties. La CPI repose sur un traité qui n'engage que ses **parties**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 369393) - (a) Situation concerning the application of the TIR Convention in **Contracting** Parties: a) Situation relative à l ' application de la Convention TIR dans certains pays **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 29869547) - The Russian Federation is not a **contracting** party to this Convention. La Fédération de Russie n'est pas **partie** à cette convention. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360403) - The European Atomic Energy Community and the Member States are **contracting** parties to all these conventions. La Communauté européenne de l’énergie atomique et les États membres sont **parties** à toutes ces conventions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 805822) - It is in the interests of all **contracting** parties that the bottom line issues that remain outstanding are debated, resolved and finalised. Il est dans l'intérêt de toutes les **parties** en présence que les questions essentielles encore en suspens soient débattues, résolues et finalisées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 221892) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Algeria's economy is **contracting**. L'économie algérienne se contracte. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10080076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10080076) [\#10925496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925496)) - Is Algeria's economy **contracting**? L'économie algérienne est-elle en train de se contracter ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10132147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10132147) [\#10925533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925533)) - The priest gazed at her with the eye of a hawk which has long been soaring in a circle from the heights of heaven over a poor lark cowering in the wheat, and has long been silently **contracting** the formidable circles of his flight, and has suddenly swooped down upon his prey like a flash of lightning, and holds it panting in his talons. Le prêtre la regardait de l'oeil d'un milan qui a longtemps plané en rond du plus haut du ciel autour d'une pauvre alouette tapie dans les blés, qui a longtemps rétréci en silence les cercles formidables de son vol, et tout à coup s'est abattu sur sa proie comme la flèche de l'éclair, et la tient pantelante dans sa griffe. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5221) ## 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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