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L'odeur est **persistante**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4502187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502187) [\#6365559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6365559)) - In the event there is absolutely no serious and **persistent** breach in Austria. En l' occurrence, il n'y a pas de graves et de **persistantes** violations en Autriche. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5299) - P – **Persistent** or recurrent impairing symptoms P – Symptômes incapacitants **persistants** ou récurrents ([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 5130839) - Convention on **Persistent** Organic Pollutants sur les polluants organiques **persistants** ([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 21500998) - Tom is **persistent**, isn't he? Tom est **persistant**, n'est-ce pas ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mouche · checked, community translation · [\#3417008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3417008) [\#4478863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4478863)) ## stockholm Used about 858 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 858). - Stockholm Convention on **Persistent** Organic Pollutants: **Persistent** Organic Pollutants Review Committee, Third Meeting, Geneva 19-23 November 2007. **Stockholm** Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants: Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, Third Meeting, Geneva 19-23 November 2007. ([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 19697949) - UNEP 2007: GUIDELINES ON BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES AND PROVISIONAL GUIDANCE ON BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES relevant to Article 5 and Annex C of the Stockholm Convention on **Persistent** Organic Pollutants, May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. UNEP 2007: GUIDELINES ON BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES AND PROVISIONAL GUIDANCE ON BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES relevant to Article 5 and Annex C of the **Stockholm** Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. ([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 28658661) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm not stubborn; I'm **persistent**. Je ne suis pas obstiné, je suis persévérant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9031938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9031938) [\#11242012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11242012)) - I am not obstinate; I am **persistent**. Je ne suis pas entêté ; je suis tenace. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9197709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9197709) [\#11312644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11312644)) - People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly **persistent** illusion. Les gens comme nous, qui croient en la physique, savent que la distinction entre le passé, le présent et le futur n'est qu'une illusion qui se maintient obstinément. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Keith and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2495436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2495436) [\#10683193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10683193)) ## 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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