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Forms: délégation, délégations. - The **delegations** of both countries met in Geneva. Les **délégations** des deux pays se sont rencontrées à Genève. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#325611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325611) [\#6851462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6851462)) - I was part of that troika **delegation**. Je faisais partie de la **délégation** de la troïka. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 173365) - Exercise of the **delegation** Exercice de la **délégation** ([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 2860994) - 38. The **delegation** of Lebanon withdrew. 38. La **délégation** libanaise se retire. ([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 4889272) - No **delegation** was allowed to visit the besieged region. Aucune **délégation** n'a été autorisée à visiter la région assiégée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2514687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2514687) [\#8636299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8636299)) ## composition Used about 8 163 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 8 163). - Composition of the **delegation** 26 **Composition** of the delegation 28 ([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 29231702) - **Delegations** are requested to provide the Secretariat of the Commission with information regarding the composition of their **delegations**, in writing, at their earliest convenience (Mr. Alexandre De Barros (fax. (212) 963-5935)). Delegations are requested to provide the Secretariat of the Commission with information regarding the **composition** of their delegations, in writing, at their earliest convenience (Mr. Alexandre De Barros (fax. (212) 963-5935)). ([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 8289336) ## commission Used about 4 147 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 4 082). - My question is this: since that area is so important for the European Union, why is there a Commission **delegation** only in Georgia? Voici ma question: puisque cette région est si importante pour l'Union européenne, pourquoi n' y a-t-il une représentation de la **Commission** qu'en Géorgie? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1696496) - 74.-(1) The Commission may delegate to a member of the Commission, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of **delegation**, any of its powers other than - 74.-(1) The **Commission** may delegate to a member of the Commission, either generally or otherwise as provided by the instrument of delegation, any of its powers other than - ([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 16111673) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - An Arab League **delegation** is due to visit the region with a clear message for Saddam Hussein within the next few days. Dans les prochains jours, la Ligue arabe enverra une mission dans la région pour transmettre à Saddam Hussein un message précis et clair. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 431812) - See Appendix 2 to the public service **delegation** contract. Voir Annexe 2 à la CDSP. ([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 2807892) - Finally, the public service **delegation** contract does nothing to change that analysis. Enfin, le contrat de DSP ne modifie en rien cette analyse. ([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 1697449) ## 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. 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