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Forms: prévenir, prévention. - **Prevention** is better than cure. **Prévenir** vaut mieux que guérir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#264381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264381) [\#6742083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6742083)) - Thus,—and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and terrible feature,—thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the government, **prevention**, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. Ainsi,--et dans le grossissement de l'angoisse, et dans l'illusion d'optique de la consternation, tout ce qui eût pu restreindre et corriger son impression s'effaçait, et la société, et le genre humain, et l'univers se résumaient désormais à ses yeux dans un linéament simple et terrible,--ainsi la pénalité, la chose jugée, la force due à la législation, les arrêts des cours souveraines, la magistrature, le gouvernement, la **prévention** et la répression, la sagesse officielle, l'infaillibilité légale, le principe d'autorité, tous les dogmes sur lesquels repose la sécurité politique et civile, la souveraineté, la justice, la logique découlant du code, l'absolu social, la vérité publique, tout cela, décombre, monceau, chaos; lui-même Javert, le guetteur de l'ordre, l'incorruptibilité au service de la police, la providence-dogue de la société, vaincu et terrassé; et sur toute cette ruine un homme debout, le bonnet vert sur la tête et l'auréole au front; voilà à quel bouleversement il en était venu; voilà la vision effroyable qu'il avait dans l'âme. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28693) - Consumers must participate in **prevention**. Les consommateurs doivent participer à la **prévention**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 352372) - **Prevention** of conflicts of interest **Prévention** des conflits d'intérêts ([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 4184841) - **Prevention** of armed conflict **Prévention** des conflits armés ([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 11343566) ## convention Used about 11 488 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 11 384). - There is no agreement on the **prevention** of torture, which is of extreme concern to us. Il n'existe pas de **convention** contre la torture et, c'est pourquoi, nous sommes extrêmement inquiets. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1636680) - Effective legislative measures to ensure the prohibitions and **preventions** as required by the Convention Mesures législatives effectives pour interdire et empêcher certaines activités, comme l ' exige la **Convention** ([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 15016677) - (c) Bring the legislation on return, expulsion and extradition into line with the relevant **preventions** of the Convention; c) Aligner sa législation sur le refoulement, l’expulsion et l’extradition sur les dispositions pertinentes de la **Convention**; ([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 5734798) - The Conference urges the States Parties to take or complement, as appropriate for their domestic systems and requirements, national measures in different fields related to the Convention, in order to ensure fully and effectively the prohibitions and **preventions** as required by the Convention. The Conference urges the States Parties to take or complement, as appropriate for their domestic systems and requirements, national measures in different fields related to the **Convention**, in order to ensure fully and effectively the prohibitions and preventions as required by the Convention. ([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 15011580) - 254. The new curriculum which has recently been introduced by the MoE includes some key provisions of the Convention on subjects such as: health (hygiene, physical growth, first aid, and disease **preventions**), abuse of hazardous substances, right to education, right to select one ' s profession, right to information, and more. 254. Le nouveau programme, récemment adopté par le Ministère de l ' éducation, aborde certaines dispositions importantes de la **Convention** sur des sujets tels que: la santé (hygiène, croissance physique, premiers secours et préventions des maladies), l ' abus de substances dangereuses, le droit à l ' éducation, le droit de choisir une profession, le droit à l ' information, entre autres. ([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 22475373) ## conflits Used about 2 846 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 846). - :: Substitution of a policy of reaction for a policy of conflict **prevention**; :: Choix de politiques visant à prévenir les **conflits** plutôt que d ' y réagir; ([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 9613813) ## crime Used about 2 846 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 846). - Convention on the **Prevention** and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the **Crime** of Genocide, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948 ([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 4154878) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The first step in **prevention**, however, is guaranteeing acceptable living conditions for pensioners. Mais la première des préventions est d'assurer aux retraités des conditions d'existence convenables. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 410340) - I do, however, think it problematic that the rapporteur has included measures relating to forest fire **prevention** in this regulation. Par contre, l'intégration des mesures de protection contre les incendies de forêt dans ce règlement est, selon moi, problématique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 424568) - It is they which should design and periodically evaluate systems of public procurement to enable the **prevention** of corruption. Ce sont les États membres qui devraient concevoir et évaluer régulièrement les régimes de marchés publics afin d'empêcher la corruption. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1538106) ## 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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