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Forms: souveraineté, souverainetés. - **Sovereignty** resides in the people. La **souveraineté** réside dans le peuple. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#265851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265851) [\#12453051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12453051)) - The Rights of Man, the **sovereignty** of the people, sapristi! Les droits de l'Homme, la **souveraineté** du peuple, sapristi! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18645) - No, to a further abandonment of **sovereignty**. Non, à un abandon supplémentaire de **souveraineté**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1724860) - State of the Union 2018 – The Hour of European **Sovereignty**, 12 September 2018. État de l'Union 2018 — L'heure de la **souveraineté** européenne, 12 septembre 2018. ([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 4851725) - · National Director of **Sovereignty** and Boundaries. Direction nationale chargée de la **souveraineté** et des frontières. ([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 11843450) ## nationales Used about 430 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 430). - Recognition of the **sovereignty** of States to determine their own national priorities is fundamental to the success of an effective development strategy. La reconnaissance de la responsabilité des États souverains dans la formulation de leurs priorités **nationales** est déterminante pour le succès d ' une stratégie de développement effective. ([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 785615) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its **sovereignty** be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever. Dans le temps de ces rois, le Dieu des cieux suscitera un royaume qui ne sera jamais détruit, et qui ne passera point sous la domination d’un autre peuple; il brisera et anéantira tous ces royaumes-là, et lui-même subsistera éternellement. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 2:44) - This is only logical: diplomacy is a matter of State **sovereignty**. Et c'est logique: la diplomatie relève des fonctions régaliennes des États. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1557045) - Each aquifer State has **sovereignty** over the portion of a transboundary aquifer or aquifer system located within its territory. Chacun des États de l ' aquifère est souverain sur la portion d ' un aquifère ou système aquifère transfrontière se trouvant sur son territoire. ([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 18378971) ## 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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