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([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6224) - Instead, efforts must be **directed** at making institutions drug-free. Les efforts devraient plutôt être dirigés **vers** l'élimination de la drogue dans les prisons. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 426174) - In addition there are high spare capacities in China that could also be **directed** to the Union market. En outre, il existe en Chine d'importantes capacités inutilisées qui pourraient être dirigées **vers** le marché de l'Union. ([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 4246811) - They must be **directed** forwards without causing undue dazzle or discomfort to oncoming drivers and other road users. 6.3.6. Ils doivent être orientés **vers** l ' avant sans éblouir ni gêner indûment les conducteurs des véhicules venant en sens inverse ou les autres usagers de la route. ([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 24788808) - Marius **directed** his steps towards the church. Marius se dirigea **vers** l'église. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13800) ## dirigée Used about 1 484 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 91 · legal and administrative ≈ 264 · UN documents ≈ 1 127). - Life is an offensive, **directed** against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. La vie est une offensive **dirigée** contre le mécanisme répétitif de l'Univers. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tijlan and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2347536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2347536) [\#2348956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2348956)) - He was scrutinizing everything around him in the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his head, **directed** in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there was nothing in his air which resembled fear. Il considérait tout dans le bouge autour de lui comme un homme qui comprend où il est tombé, et sa tête, tour à tour **dirigée** vers toutes les têtes qui l'entouraient, se mouvait sur son cou avec une lenteur attentive et étonnée, mais il n'y avait dans son air rien qui ressemblât à la peur. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17293) - EU policy at this time should be **directed** entirely at the Belarusian people. La politique européenne devrait actuellement être entièrement **dirigée** vers la population bélarussienne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142789) - PROHIBITION OF **DIRECTED** FISHING IN CCAMLR AREA INTERDICTIONS DE PÊCHE **DIRIGÉE** DANS LA ZONE RELEVANT DE LA CCAMLR ([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 927404) - 19. The Parties confirm that the interaction among the five countries is not **directed** against other States and is open in nature. Les Parties réaffirment que la coopération entre leurs cinq pays n ' est **dirigée** contre aucun autre État, et reste ouverte à d ' autres. ([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 6821034) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In mathematics, a quiver is a **directed** graph. En mathématiques, un carquois est un graphe orienté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#367103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367103) [\#367105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/367105)) - Most movies are written and **directed** by men. La plupart des films sont écrits et réalisés par des hommes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3231968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3231968) [\#12335150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12335150)) - A regional observatory will be **directed** to monitor the execution of the plan. Un observatoire régional sera chargé du suivi de la mise en œuvre du plan. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by witbrock and sciuro · checked, community translation · [\#430069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430069) [\#429920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429920)) ## 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. 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