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# sanctions — English to French

How English *sanctions* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sanctions (63 224). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 4 356 · legal and administrative 4 048 · UN documents 54 817.

## sanctions

Used about 52 323 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 902 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 879 · UN documents ≈ 44 539).

- I doubt if **sanctions** will work.
  Je doute que les **sanctions** fonctionneront.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4498136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4498136) [\#9729858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9729858))

- Where needed, we must have **sanctions**.
  Si nécessaire, il faut des **sanctions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1327763)

- **SANCTIONS** BY MEMBER STATES
  **SANCTIONS** APPLIQUÉES PAR LES ÉTATS MEMBRES
  ([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 424687)

- D. **Sanctions** and remedies: criminal, civil or
  D. **Sanctions** and remedies: criminal, civil or
  ([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 16746029)

- I doubt that **sanctions** will work.
  Je doute que les **sanctions** fonctionneront.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10710141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10710141) [\#9729858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9729858))

## application

Used about 2 368 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 84 · UN documents ≈ 2 284).

- In this context, Article 24 of Directive 95/46/EC imposes an obligation on Member States to lay down **sanctions** for infringements of the provisions adopted pursuant to that Directive.
  Dans ce contexte, l'article 24 de la directive 95/46/CE fait obligation aux États membres de sanctionner les violations des dispositions prises en **application** de ladite directive.
  ([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 885979)

- 1. If the Court imposes **sanctions** with respect to article 70, this rule shall apply.
  Si la cour prononce une peine en **application** de l &apos; article 70, les dispositions de la présente règle sont applicables.
  ([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 9414203)

- Monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the **sanctions** measures imposed by the Council in its resolution 1572 (2004)
  :: Suivi de l &apos; **application** effective des mesures de sanction imposées par le Conseil dans sa résolution 1572 (2004)
  ([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 16442541)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- As regards **sanctions**, there is already existing legislation to be taken into account.
  Certains textes portant sur le sujet doivent entrer en ligne de compte.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1220372)

- If these efforts continue to be blocked, we are ready to take additional measures by way of **sanctions** directed at the Zimbabwean authorities.
  Et si ces efforts devaient, de manière continue, être bloqués, nous sommes prêts à prendre des mesures additionnelles de sanction à l'égard des autorités zimbabwéennes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1152762)

- Firstly, on the subject of Syria, like Mr Verhofstadt, I would like to know what is stopping Europe from placing President Assad on the EU **sanctions** list?
  Premièrement, sur la question de la Syrie, et comme Guy Verhofstadt l'a déjà demandé, qui empêche, en Europe, de mettre Assad sur la liste?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1553555)

## Grammar

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