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Forms: ministre, ministres. - The **minister** had to resign. Le **ministre** a dû démissionner. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adjusting and adjusting · checked, community translation · [\#274266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274266) [\#494017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/494017)) - No one spoke to him, not even the **Minister**. Personne ne lui parla, pas même le **ministre**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22771) - and Ira the Jairite was chief **minister** to David. et Ira de Jaïr était **ministre** d’état de David. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 20:26) - The Prime **Minister** will recognise this failing. Le Premier **ministre** reconnaîtra ce manquement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 696123) - **Minister** of State Security. **Ministre** de la sûreté de l'État. ([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 4337331) ## conseil Used about 691 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 531 · legal and administrative ≈ 159). - Will the Council of **Ministers** respect referendums held in several Member States? Par ailleurs, le **Conseil** respectera-t-il le résultat des référendums prévus dans plusieurs États membres? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1809741) - See conclusions of the meeting of the Council of Economic and Finance **Ministers**, 3.6.2003. Voir conclusions de la réunion du **Conseil** ECOFIN du 3 juin 2003. ([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 544121) - We take a positive position as regards increasing the use of qualified majority voting in the Council of **Ministers**. Nous sommes favorables à l'extension de la majorité qualifiée au **Conseil**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 127767) - In accordance with Article 15(3) of the ACP-EC Agreement, the Council of **Ministers** shall take its decisions by common agreement of the Parties. Conformément à l’article 15, paragraphe 3, de l’accord ACP-CE, le **Conseil** se prononce par commun accord des parties. ([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 18440) - The instrument they make use of, ladies and gentlemen, is the secrecy of their deliberations and the secrecy of voting in the Council of **Ministers**. Le moyen dont ils font usage, mes chers collègues, c'est le secret des délibérations et le secret des votes au **Conseil**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1607586) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **minister** had to face a barrage of questions from the press. Le Ministère dut faire face à une montagne de questions de la presse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#275748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275748) [\#341901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/341901)) - the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to **minister** in the priest’s office. les vêtements d’office pour le sanctuaire, les vêtements sacrés pour le sacrificateur Aaron, et les vêtements de ses fils pour les fonctions du sacerdoce. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 39:41) - You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may **minister** to me in the priest’s office. Tu oindras Aaron et ses fils, et tu les sanctifieras, pour qu’ils soient à mon service dans le sacerdoce. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 30:30) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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