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La **méthode** est usée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and fleur74 · checked, community translation · [\#8893128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8893128) [\#3649784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3649784)) - Mme. Rosémilly was fair, with blue eyes, a mass of light waving hair, fluttering at the least breath of wind, and an alert, daring, pugnacious little way with her, which did not in the least answer to the sober **method** of her mind. Mme Rosémilly était blonde avec des yeux bleus, une couronne de cheveux follets envolés à la moindre brise et un petit air crâne, hardi, batailleur, qui ne concordait point du tout avec la sage **méthode** de son esprit. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 55) - We welcome the open coordination **method**. Nous saluons la **méthode** ouverte de coordination. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 361498) - TYPE III TEST **METHODS** **MÉTHODES** D’ESSAI DU TYPE III ([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 5443924) - II. **Method** of work II. **Méthodes** de travail ([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 26505626) ## travail Used about 1 347 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 90 · UN documents ≈ 1 258). - Given the Convention' s working **method**, the lion' s share of these costs, however, will be accounted for in terms of the normal activities of national parliaments and European institutions. Eu égard au mode de **travail** de la Convention, la part du lion échoira cependant aux activités ordinaires des parlements nationaux et des institutions européennes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 295120) - IV. **METHODS** OF WORK REGARDING THE AGENDA ITEM ON VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IV. METHODES DE **TRAVAIL** CONCERNANT LE POINT DE L ' ORDRE DU JOUR RELATIF AUX VIOLATIONS DES DROITS DE L ' HOMME ([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 4043536) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In Singapore, one **method** of punishing criminals is to whip them, or hit them several times on the back with a cane. À Singapour, une façon de punir les criminels est de les fouetter, ou de les frapper plusieurs fois avec une canne, sur le dos. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#52479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52479) [\#602765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/602765)) - You cannot solve this problem with the usual **method**. Ce problème ne peut être résolu de la manière habituelle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by omfgitsasalmon and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1103154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1103154) [\#470682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/470682)) - Do you use any **method** of birth control? Utilisez-vous une quelconque forme de contraception ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9982124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9982124) [\#9982731](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9982731)) ## 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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