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Forms: obtenir, obtention. - Being blind did not prevent him from **obtaining** a doctorate in mathematics. Être aveugle ne l'a pas empêché d'**obtenir** un doctorat en mathématiques. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#10714954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10714954) [\#11060061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11060061)) - However, at the moment when Master Florian Barbedienne was reading the sentence in his turn, before signing it, the clerk felt himself moved with pity for the poor wretch of a prisoner, and, in the hope of **obtaining** some mitigation of the penalty, he approached as near the auditor’s ear as possible, and said, pointing to Quasimodo, “That man is deaf.” Cependant le greffier, au moment où maître Florian Barbedienne lisait à son tour le jugement pour le signer, se sentit ému de pitié pour le pauvre diable de condamné, et, dans l'espoir d'**obtenir** quelque diminution de peine, il s'approcha le plus près qu'il put de l'oreille de l'auditeur et lui dit en lui montrant Quasimodo: «Cet homme est sourd.» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2963) - That is the second way of **obtaining** redress. C'est la deuxième manière d'**obtenir** réparation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 345351) - Conditions for **obtaining** a fishing authorisation Conditions préalables à l'**obtention** d'une autorisation de pêche ([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 3329935) - (d) **Obtaining** freezing or seizure orders abroad d) **Obtention** de décisions de gel ou de saisie à l ' étranger ([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 8786613) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the **obtaining** of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, Car Dieu ne nous a pas destinés à la colère, mais à l’acquisition du salut par notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 5:9) - to which he called you through our Good News, for the **obtaining** of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. C’est à quoi il vous a appelés par notre Évangile, pour que vous possédiez la gloire de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TH 2:14) - All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family **obtaining** an inkling of the case. Toutes ces révolutions s'accomplissaient en lui sans que sa famille s'en doutât. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13641) ## 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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