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Ils l'ont pris de **force**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#1315318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1315318) [\#7093812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7093812)) - Shall we yield to **force**? Céderons-nous à la **force**? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2229) - For a will is in **force** where there has been death, for it is never in **force** while he who made it lives. Un testament, en effet, n’est valable qu’en cas de mort, puisqu’il n’a aucune **force** tant que le testateur vit. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:17) - The Commission has therefore set up a task **force**. Une task-**force** a donc été créée au sein de la Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 395459) - Replacement **force** application points Autres points d’application des **forces** ([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 5449178) ## vigueur Used about 137 185 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 3 762 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 242 · UN documents ≈ 98 176). - The law is no longer in **force**. La loi n'est plus en **vigueur**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5121401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5121401) [\#8450280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8450280)) - It was adopted before the Single European Act came into **force**. Elle a été adoptée avant l'entrée en **vigueur** du marché unique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1685632) - Entry into **force** and application Entrée en **vigueur** et application ([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 5376315) - Date of entry into **force** Date d ' entrée en **vigueur** ([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 18146762) - Is that law still in **force**? Cette loi est-elle toujours en **vigueur** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2649832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2649832) [\#7966941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7966941)) ## entre Used about 5 502 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 198 · legal and administrative ≈ 839 · UN documents ≈ 4 463). - He raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the **forces** of the death agony. Il se souleva sur un coude, prit **entre** son pouce et son index replié un peu de sa joue, comme on fait machinalement lorsqu'on interroge et qu'on juge, et interpella l'évêque avec un regard plein de toutes les énergies de l'agonie. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 878) - Cooperation between civilians and the armed **forces** under the flag of the European Union will always be an important dimension of the overall mission. La coopération **entre** les civils et les militaires sera toujours un aspect important des opérations menées sous la bannière de l'Union européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 433350) - longitudinal **forces** due to interaction between structures and track les efforts longitudinaux dus aux interactions **entre** les ouvrages d'art et la voie. ([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 1358427) - Meanwhile, Israeli security **forces** were said to be continuing to arrest suspected Islamic fundamentalists in the Nablus and the Bethlehem areas. **Entre**-temps, les FDI ont continué d ' arrêter des fondamentalistes musulmans présumés dans les régions de Naplouse et de Bethléem. ([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 3320649) - It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other’s course at the neighboring crossroads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude **force** and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. Le pavé de Paris avait beau être là tout autour, les hôtels classiques et splendides de la rue de Varenne à deux pas, le dôme des Invalides tout près, la Chambre des députés pas loin; les carrosses de la rue de Bourgogne et de la rue Saint-Dominique avaient beau rouler fastueusement dans le voisinage, les omnibus jaunes, bruns, blancs, rouges avaient beau se croiser dans le carrefour prochain, le désert était rue Plumet; et la mort des anciens propriétaires, une révolution qui avait passé, l'écroulement des antiques fortunes, l'absence, l'oubli, quarante ans d'abandon et de viduité, avaient suffi pour ramener dans ce lieu privilégié les fougères, les bouillons-blancs, les ciguës, les achillées, les digitales, les hautes herbes, les grandes plantes gaufrées aux larges feuilles de drap vert pâle, les lézards, les scarabées, les insectes inquiets et rapides; pour faire sortir des profondeurs de la terre et reparaître **entre** ces quatre murs je ne sais quelle grandeur sauvage et farouche; et pour que la nature, qui déconcerte les arrangements mesquins de l'homme et qui se répand toujours tout entière là où elle se répand, aussi bien dans la fourmi que dans l'aigle, en vînt à s'épanouir dans un méchant petit jardin parisien avec autant de rudesse et de majesté que dans une forêt vierge du Nouveau Monde. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19246) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - A combination is a planned series of moves that are intended to **force** certain responses from the opponent, and lead them into an undesirable position. Une combinaison est une série planifiée de mouvements destinés à forcer certaines réponses de l'adversaire et à le conduire dans une position indésirable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10333467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10333467) [\#10333471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10333471)) - True artists scorn nothing; they **force** themselves to understand instead of judging. Les vrais artistes ne méprisent rien ; ils s'obligent à comprendre au lieu de juger. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#411021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411021) [\#411015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/411015)) - We can't **force** people to do that. Nous ne pouvons pas forcer les gens à faire cela. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5553851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5553851) [\#6560548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6560548)) ## 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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