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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by doemaar14 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11188601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11188601) [\#11968196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11968196)) - “Throw down the stone,” said Tristan; “it no longer **holds**.” --Mettez bas la pierre, dit Tristan, elle ne **tient** plus.» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8777) - “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who **holds** the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: Écris à l’ange de l’Église d’Éphèse: Voici ce que dit celui qui **tient** les sept étoiles dans sa main droite, celui qui marche au milieu des sept chandeliers d’or: ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 2:1) - We are appalled by the contempt in which the Commission **holds** Parliament. Nous sommes révoltés devant le mépris dans lequel la Commission **tient** le Parlement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1925594) - The MIB shall generally **hold** its meetings at the ECB's premises. Le MIB **tient** généralement ses réunions dans les locaux de la BCE. ([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 4782452) ## détient Used about 2 958 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 414 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 046 · UN documents ≈ 1 489). - Though he is no longer president, he still **holds** considerable sway among the political elite. Bien qu'il ne soit plus président, il **détient** encore une influence considérable au sein de l'élite politique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#587885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/587885) [\#589695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/589695)) - First of all, China, which **holds** the very dubious world record for the number of executions carried out there. Tout d'abord, la Chine, qui **détient** le triste record mondial du nombre d'exécutions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 289603) - ‘account holder’ means a person who **holds** an account in the registries system; «titulaire de compte», une personne qui **détient** un compte dans le système de registres; ([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 2180454) - He also **holds** the post of Minister of Tourism. Il **détient** également le portefeuille de Ministre du tourisme. ([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 1694799) - The Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies, established in 1960, is the legislature that **holds** the highest jurisdiction in the society of exiled Tibetans. L'Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple Tibétain, établie en dix-neuf-cent-soixante, est l'organe législatif qui **détient** la plus haute juridiction dans la société des Tibétains en exil. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#540378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/540378) [\#1738114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1738114)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He couldn't **hold** his temper any longer. Il ne pouvait conserver son sang-froid plus longtemps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#614436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/614436) [\#131132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131132)) - They **hold** me responsible for it. Ils m'ont tenu pour responsable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#45880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45880) [\#339511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/339511)) - Could you **hold** on a second? Peux-tu attendre un peu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4013367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4013367) [\#1182872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182872)) ## 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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