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Je n'ai pas rempli mes **obligations**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6257552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6257552) [\#11472639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11472639)) - Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal **obligations**, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. Ne nous lassons pas de le répéter, songer, avant tout aux foules déshéritées et douloureuses, les soulager, les aérer, les éclairer, les aimer, leur élargir magnifiquement l'horizon, leur prodiguer sous toutes les formes l'éducation, leur offrir l'exemple du labeur, jamais l'exemple de l'oisiveté, amoindrir le poids du fardeau individuel en accroissant la notion du but universel, limiter la pauvreté sans limiter la richesse, créer de vastes champs d'activité publique et populaire, avoir comme Briarée cent mains à tendre de toutes parts aux accablés et aux faibles, employer la puissance collective à ce grand devoir d'ouvrir des ateliers à tous les bras, des écoles à toutes les aptitudes et des laboratoires à toutes les intelligences, augmenter le salaire, diminuer la peine, balancer le doit et l'avoir, c'est-à-dire proportionner la jouissance à l'effort et l'assouvissement au besoin, en un mot, faire dégager à l'appareil social, au profit de ceux qui souffrent et de ceux qui ignorent, plus de clarté et plus de bien-être, c'est là, que les âmes sympathiques ne l'oublient pas, la première des **obligations** fraternelles, c'est, que les coeurs égoïstes le sachent, la première des nécessités politiques. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21641) - Publication and translation **obligations** of certain types of companies ( **Obligations** de publication et de traduction de certaines formes de société ( ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1165875) - Transfer of rights and **obligations** Transfert des droits et **obligations** ([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 3757652) - C. Rights and **obligations** of the depositary bank Droits et **obligations** de la banque dépositaire ([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 16665780) ## engagements Used about 18 961 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 263 · UN documents ≈ 18 697). - In view of the **obligations** we have assumed in regard to CO2 reduction, it is urgently necessary to establish ambitious efficiency targets. Vu les **engagements** que nous avons contractés en vue de la réduction des émissions de C02, il est impératif de fixer des objectifs d'efficacité ambitieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2013357) - Unliquidated **obligations**/total liabilitiesf **Engagements** non réglés/total du passiff ([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 18197718) - As I pointed out to Commissioner Borg only last month, we must pay particular attention to our international moral **obligations** to Africa. Comme je l'ai indiqué au commissaire Borg le mois dernier, nous devons prêter une attention particulière à nos **engagements** moraux internationaux vis-à-vis de l'Afrique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1057936) - Unliquidated **obligations** - future periods **Engagements** non réglés (exercices à venir) ([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 14754078) - The European Parliament should encourage the Commission to take stricter action against the Member States which have not yet fulfilled their **obligations** arising from the directive. Le Parlement européen doit encourager la Commission à se montrer plus ferme avec les États membres qui n'ont toujours pas répondu à leurs **engagements** contenus dans la directive. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1899398) ## nous Used about 3 204 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88 · UN documents ≈ 3 116). - Lisbon and the Internal Market are the tools we need in order to respond to globalisation and to discharge our **obligations** to the world at large. Lisbonne et le marché intérieur sont les instruments dont **nous** avons besoin pour apporter notre réponse à la mondialisation et pour endosser notre responsabilité à l'échelle mondiale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 417682) - We have equal rights and we have equal **obligations**. **Nous** sommes égaux en droits et en devoirs. ([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 10381945) ## leurs Used about 3 116 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 116). - Spain and Switzerland with their **obligations** to report on strategies and policies 13 de rendre compte de **leurs** stratégies et politiques 13 ([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 24546771) ## matière Used about 3 116 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 116). - Although this has generally resulted in a better understanding of the criteria for raising **obligations**, some certifying officers were still misinterpreting the guidance. Même si cela a entraîné de façon générale une meilleure compréhension des critères applicables en la **matière**, certains agents certificateurs continuaient de mal interpréter les directives. ([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 2467260) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the **obligations** of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. Ils auront le soin de tous les ustensiles de la tente d’assignation, et de ce qui est remis à la garde des enfants d’Israël: ils feront le service du tabernacle. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 3:8) - It is better to make use of the resourcefulness of the parties involved than to impose **obligations** on them in this area by means of legislation. Il est préférable de faire appel à l' inventivité des personnes concernées que de vouloir leur imposer quelque chose au moyen de lois ou de règlements. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2013306) - The installation should have an approach in place that corresponds to the reporting **obligations** under Article 6 and Article 14 (Special reports) of Regulation (Euratom) No 302/2005. L’installation devrait avoir une approche en place pour l’établissement des rapports obligatoires prévus à l’article 6 et à l’article 14 (rapports spéciaux) du règlement (Euratom) no 302/2005. ([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 1731315) ## 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. 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