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Le Système européen est responsable du **maintien** de la stabilité des prix. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2020377) - **Maintaining** inefficient market structures **Maintien** de structures de marché inefficaces ([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 5629735) - II. **Maintaining** international peace and security: II. **Maintien** de la paix et de la sécurité internationales : ([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 1533457) - **Maintaining** the quota system is the sole guarantee of market and price stability. Le **maintien** du système des quotas est la seule garantie de stabilité du marché et des prix. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 875997) - **Maintaining** the authorisations granted to laboratories in the Member States **Maintien** des autorisations accordées aux laboratoires des États membres ([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 2008398) ## maintenir Used about 10 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 813 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 403 · UN documents ≈ 8 005). Forms: maintenant, maintenir. - Sleep is important for weight loss and for **maintaining** a healthy weight. Le sommeil est important pour perdre du poids et pour **maintenir** un poids sain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6637342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6637342) [\#6638038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6638038)) - **Maintaining** the debt is unacceptable. Il est inacceptable de **maintenir** la dette. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 643482) - **maintaining** future-oriented functionality of BAWAG-PSK, **maintenir** BAWAG-PSK en activité pour l’avenir; ([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 1363870) - The international community faces a critical test in **maintaining** stability. La communauté internationale a la tâche critique de **maintenir** la stabilité. ([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 23758181) - Software engineering is the discipline of designing, developing, and **maintaining** high-quality software. Le génie logiciel est la discipline qui permet de concevoir, développer et **maintenir** des logiciels de qualité. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Naityahia and Naityahia · checked, community translation · [\#13965111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13965111) [\#13965108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13965108)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I spend a few hours a day **maintaining** my website. Je passe quelques heures par jour à entretenir mon site web. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909502) [\#1391206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1391206)) - **Maintaining** a criminal in the jail is very expensive. Garder un criminel en prison est très dispendieux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1327499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1327499) [\#1328921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328921)) - “So this is as much as to say, perverse and thieving knave that you are, that you permit yourself to be lacking in respect towards the Auditor of the Châtelet, to the magistrate committed to the popular police of Paris, charged with searching out crimes, delinquencies, and evil conduct; with controlling all trades, and interdicting monopoly; with **maintaining** the pavements; with debarring the hucksters of chickens, poultry, and water-fowl; of superintending the measuring of fagots and other sorts of wood; of purging the city of mud, and the air of contagious maladies; in a word, with attending continually to public affairs, without wages or hope of salary! «C'est donc à dire, maître pervers et rapinier que vous êtes, que vous vous permettez de manquer à l'auditeur du Châtelet, au magistrat commis à la police populaire de Paris, chargé de faire recherche des crimes, délits et mauvais trains, de contrôler tous métiers et interdire le monopole, d'entretenir les pavés, d'empêcher les regrattiers de poulailles, volailles et sauvagine, de faire mesurer la bûche et autres sortes de bois, de purger la ville des boues et l'air des maladies contagieuses, de vaquer continuellement au fait du public, en un mot, sans gages ni espérances de salaire! 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