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La Cour de justice a établi que l'**article** 308 ne pouvait être utilisé en lieu et place de modifications au traité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 193575) - The period **laid** down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month. La période prévue à l'**article** 4, paragraphe 3, de la décision 1999/468/CE est fixée à un mois. ([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 488542) - Recalling the role of the secretariat of the Convention as **laid** down in its article 19, Rappelant le rôle du secrétariat de la Convention énoncé à l ' **article** 19, ([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 12868013) - The objectives of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) are **laid** down in Article 105 of the EC Treaty. Les objectifs du Système européen de banques centrales (SEBC) sont énoncés à l'**article** 105 du traité instituant la CE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 909609) - The period **laid** down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at two months. La période prévue à l'**article** 4, paragraphe 3, de la décision 1999/468/CE est fixée à deux mois. ([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 866834) ## règlement Used about 12 675 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 92 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 071 · UN documents ≈ 511). - It is the case that in some respects the proposed regulation has surprised us with extremes which had not been **laid** out in the White Paper. Il est vrai que par certains aspects, certains points de cette propositions de **règlement** qui ne figuraient pas dans le Livre blanc nous ont surpris. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227979) - Nomenclature of countries **laid** down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1833/2006 (OJ L 354, 14.12.2006, p. 19). Nomenclature des pays fixée par le **règlement** (CE) no 1833/2006 de la Commission (JO L 354 du 14.12.2006, p. 19). ([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 1600203) - Engine The test engine shall comply with the specifications **laid** down in Annex 1 to this Regulation. Le moteur d ' essai doit être conforme aux spécifications de l ' annexe 1 du présent **Règlement**. ([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 19266148) - Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 has **laid** down the general rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature. Le **règlement** (CEE) no 2658/87 fixe les règles générales pour l'interprétation de la nomenclature combinée. ([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 2726754) - The provisions on the scrutiny of the commercial documents are **laid** down in Council Regulation (EC) No 485/2008 \[16\]. Le **règlement** (CE) no 485/2008 du Conseil \[16\] établit les dispositions relatives à la vérification des documents commerciaux. ([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 3070797) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Everyone inside the company knows that layoffs are coming, but no one knows if they're going to be **laid** off. Tout le monde dans la boîte sait que des licenciements vont survenir mais personne ne sait s'il va être licencié. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3385900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3385900) [\#3386288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3386288)) - After some hesitation, he **laid** the book on the desk. Après quelques hésitations il posa le livre sur le bureau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#53412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53412) [\#11709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11709)) - Tom is very **laid** back. Tom est quelqu'un de décontracté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4666870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4666870) [\#6564231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6564231)) ## 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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