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Il y a plusieurs **forces** à l'œuvre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6732170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6732170) [\#6732186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6732186)) - From the proper employment of **forces** results public power. Du bon emploi des **forces** résulte la puissance publique. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18280) - After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his **forces** were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, Après cela, Sanchérib, roi d’Assyrie, envoya ses serviteurs à Jérusalem, pendant qu’il était devant Lakis avec toutes ses **forces**; il les envoya vers Ézéchias, roi de Juda, et vers tous ceux de Juda qui étaient à Jérusalem, pour leur dire: ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 32:9) - It was NATO **forces** that protected the rest of Europe from this nightmare. Ce sont les **forces** de l'OTAN qui ont protégé le reste de l'Europe de ce cauchemar. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1358256) - Fatigue test with pedalling **forces** Essai de fatigue avec les **forces** de pédalage ([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 4076109) ## ont Used about 9 908 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 373 · UN documents ≈ 9 535). - Of course, the current situation is that we still have national border control **forces** which work well and have proved themselves. Bien entendu, nous disposons encore aujourd'hui d'organes nationaux de protection des frontières qui fonctionnent bien et qui **ont** fait leurs preuves. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1832536) - 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) - This, though, given the way things stand, would be no more than tinkering with symptoms, for, as various Members have described today, the **forces** at work are quite different. Cependant, compte tenu de la situation, cela ne permettrait que de traiter les symptômes, les causes étant ailleurs, comme plusieurs intervenants l’**ont** expliqué aujourd’hui. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 725547) - Special task **forces** promote specific areas of safety concern such as use of machinery, fire prevention, construction and so forth. Des équipes spéciales **ont** pour rôle de promouvoir la sécurité dans des domaines particuliers (utilisation des machines, prévention des incendies, bâtiment, etc.). ([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 6164664) - No political consideration can be higher than the protection of human life which any political action and therefore any armed **forces** have the specific task of serving. Aucune considération politique ne peut être supérieure à la protection de la vie humaine que toute action politique et, par conséquent, toute force armée **ont** le devoir spécifique de servir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1811986) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Life doesn't teach us how to be strong, but it **forces** us to. La vie ne nous apprend pas à être fort mais elle nous oblige à l'être. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13855504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13855504) [\#10482273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10482273)) - I'm ashamed of what I have to say, my lady, said Leuwen, but my duty as a gentleman **forces** me to say it. Je suis honteux de ce que j'ai à dire, madame, reprit Leuwen, mais enfin mon devoir d'homme d'honneur veut que je parle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1331924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1331924) [\#1331919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1331919)) - The President says we must beef up our military **forces**. Le président dit que nous devons renforcer notre puissance militaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Quazel · checked, community translation · [\#23032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23032) [\#1011061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1011061)) ## 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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