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Les connaissances représentent le point **focal** et le moteur de tout modèle de compétition. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584174) - Non-“space-qualified” “**focal** plane arrays” as follows: “matrices plan **focal**” non “qualifiées pour l’usage spatial”, comme suit: ([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 2619713) - Point **focal** de la Tunisie Point **focal** de la Tunisie ([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 13956181) - I believe that the result of this work is a balanced report of which the **focal** point is the increase in legal certainty. Je crois que le fruit de ce travail est un rapport équilibré dont le point **focal** est l'accroissement de la sécurité juridique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1385261) - b. Incorporating “**focal** plane arrays” specified in 6A002.a.3.f.; or b. comportant des “matrices plan **focal**” visées à l’alinéa 6A002.a.3.f; ou ([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 2619821) ## point Used about 2 255 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 45 · legal and administrative ≈ 103 · UN documents ≈ 2 107). - I think that we have been very successful and that that is a **focal** point of this budget. Je pense que nous y sommes parfaitement parvenus et qu'il s'agit d'un **point** essentiel de ce budget. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1760088) - acting as a **focal** point for the exchange of information on the development of alternative approaches; de faire office d’interface pour l’échange d’information sur la mise au **point** de méthodes alternatives; ([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 2052683) - This **focal** point will need to be fluent in English. Ce **point** de contact devra parler couramment anglais. ([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 27987697) - The Danube region is an important **focal** point for EU cohesion policy programmes. La région du Danube est un **point** de convergence essentiel pour les programmes de politique de cohésion de l'UE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1502965) - The **focal** point shall undertake any necessary coordination with the competent authorities concerned. Le **point** de contact entreprend toutes les actions de coordination nécessaires avec les autorités compétentes concernées. ([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 684147) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is the **focal** point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation. Le spectacle se présente à la fois comme la société même, comme une partie de la société, et comme instrument d’unification. En tant que partie de la société, il est expressément le secteur qui concentre tout regard et toute conscience. Du fait même que ce secteur est séparé, il est le lieu du regard abusé et de la fausse conscience ; et l’unification qu’il accomplit n’est rien d’autre qu’un langage officiel de la séparation généralisée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6976069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6976069) [\#6976070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6976070)) - This should also be the **focal** point of the European contribution. C'est sur cet aspect que doit se concentrer avant tout la contribution européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 149625) - Other amendments have been tabled, but I wanted to set out the **focal** points of our approach. D'autres amendements ont encore été déposés, mais je tenais à présenter l'approche de notre groupe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 363508) ## 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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