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J'abuse de mes **pouvoirs**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11759378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759378) [\#11759376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759376)) - The villainy of slaves is a direct product of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein the master is reflected; public **powers** are unclean; hearts are small; consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. La vilenie des esclaves est un produit direct du despote; un miasme s'exhale de ces consciences croupies où se reflète le maître; les **pouvoirs** publics sont immondes; les coeurs sont petits, les consciences sont plates, les âmes sont punaises; cela est ainsi sous Caracalla, cela est ainsi sous Commode, cela est ainsi sous Héliogabale, tandis qu'il ne sort du sénat romain sous César que l'odeur de fiente propre aux aires d'aigle. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22933) - The delegation of **powers** to the Commission is also moving in the same direction. La délégation de **pouvoirs** à la Commission va elle aussi dans ce sens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1568539) - **Powers** and duties of authorising officer **Pouvoirs** et fonctions de l'ordonnateur ([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 4943570) - **Powers** of the Chairperson **Pouvoirs** du/de la Président(e) ([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 22559823) ## puissances Used about 11 108 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 082 · UN documents ≈ 10 014). - Hostilities resumed between the two **powers**. Les hostilités ont repris entre les deux **puissances**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5621436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621436) [\#10519930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10519930)) - and tasted the good word of God and the **powers** of the age to come, qui ont goûté la bonne parole de Dieu et les **puissances** du siècle à venir, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 6:5) - Sixty years ago, Nazi **powers** were jointly defeated by nations of Europe. Il y a soixante ans, les **puissances** nazies ont été vaincues par les nations d’Europe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 676807) - The nuclear **Powers** have a particular responsibility in this respect. Les **puissances** nucléaires ont une responsabilité particulière à cet égard. ([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 10151328) - Hostilities between the two **powers** resumed. Les hostilités ont repris entre les deux **puissances**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5621438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621438) [\#10519930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10519930)) ## compétences Used about 6 211 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 773 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 433 · UN documents ≈ 3 004). - Well, give Europe those **powers**, at long last! Et bien, donnez enfin à l'Europe ces **compétences**! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1370874) - The provisions conferring such **powers** should therefore be deleted. Il y a donc lieu de supprimer les dispositions qui confèrent ces **compétences**. ([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 3023713) - 3. It exercises the **powers** which the law grants to law-enforcement agencies. 3. Exercice des **compétences** attribuées aux organes de police judiciaire. > > . ([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 22292497) - It transfers substantial new **powers** to the EU, some of them in extremely sensitive areas of national interest. Il transfère des nouvelles **compétences** substantielles à l'UE, dont certaines dans des domaines d'intérêt national extrêmement sensibles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1034373) - The Executive Director shall be authorised to sub-delegate those **powers**. Le directeur exécutif est autorisé à sous-déléguer ces **compétences**. ([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 4669154) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the **powers** of the mind. Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#410326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410326) [\#410325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410325)) - A water wheel **powers** the mill. Une roue à eau actionne le moulin. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9006326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9006326) [\#12439156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12439156)) - No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its **powers** of acting and reasoning as fear. Aucune autre passion ne prive aussi efficacement l'esprit de toutes ses facultés de raisonnement et d'action que la peur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#714843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/714843) [\#1548418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1548418)) ## 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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