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Cette salle est utilisée à diverses **fins**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#57337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57337) [\#12320485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12320485)) - However, it must be used for civilian **purposes**. Toutefois, elle doit servir des **fins** civiles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205989) - For the **purposes** of this Agreement: Aux **fins** du présent accord: ([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 290099) - For the **purposes** of this Convention: Aux **fins** de la présente 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and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11699065) - For all practical **purposes**, that word is obsolete. Pour toutes **fins** pratiques, ce mot est obsolète. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6994467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6994467) [\#8751259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8751259)) ## données Used about 938 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 938). - Insulated coaxial cables and other coaxial electric conductors for data and control **purposes** whether or not fitted with connectors Câbles coaxiaux et autres conducteurs électriques coaxiaux, pour contrôle et transmission de **données**, munis ou non de connecteurs, pour une tension ≤ 80 V ([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 1220049) ## utilisation Used about 125 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 125). - Parliament has not been able to make up its mind to decisively reject the use of Galileo for military **purposes**. Le Parlement européen n'a pas pu se résoudre à opposer un refus clair à l'**utilisation** militaire de Galileo. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291947) - The absence of timely and comparable data specifying the **purposes** on which public resources are spent is also a constraint. Une autre limite à ce débat est l'absence, dans certains cas, de données comparables sur la finalité de l'**utilisation** des fonds publics. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 322860) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - For our **purposes**, the amplitude of the waves is less important than their frequency. Pour nos besoins, l'amplitude des ondes est moins importante que leur fréquence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9034303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9034303) [\#9207125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9207125)) - Science can be used for good or evil **purposes**. La science peut être employée à bon ou à mauvais escient. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1127458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1127458) [\#1128951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1128951)) - There are no such things as functions, no **purposes**, no teleology at all in the world. Il n’y a rien du tout au monde de tel que des fonctions, des buts, une téléologie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11305389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11305389) [\#11305400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11305400)) ## 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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