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By style: everyday 186 · literary 330 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 9 407 · legal and administrative 17 012 · UN documents 225 185. ## demande Used about 29 519 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 392 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 671 · UN documents ≈ 23 457). - Hence, my request to Parliament to the effect that we should not again cast doubt **upon** the directive, as Mrs Breyer thinks we have to. D' où la **demande** suivante au Parlement : nous ne devons pas à nouveau mettre en doute la directive, comme Mme Breyer croit devoir le faire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 32760) - **upon** application by the holder of the authorisation. le titulaire de l'autorisation en fait la **demande**. ([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 241306) - The provision of technical cooperation services, **upon** request, to developing countries; a) La fourniture de services de coopération technique, sur **demande**, aux pays en développement ; ([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 10854335) - The rapporteur has proposed that the Commission be called **upon** to give the ECB powers to exercise supervision over the EIB. Le rapporteur a proposé que l'on **demande** à la Commission d'attribuer à la BCE les compétences nécessaires pour qu'elle exerce un contrôle sur la BEI. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 284748) - Member States shall make all information regarding penalties available **upon** request. Les États membres mettent à disposition, sur **demande**, toutes les informations en matière de sanctions. ([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 1571516) ## fois Used about 19 369 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 196 · legal and administrative ≈ 354 · UN documents ≈ 18 765). - Once **upon** a time, there lived a cruel king. Il était une **fois** un roi cruel. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#63669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/63669) [\#1214604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1214604)) - A light broke in **upon** his spirit and mine. Quelle lumière éclairait à la **fois** son esprit et le mien! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 4099) - She said, “The Philistines are **upon** you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him. Elle dit alors: Les Philistins sont sur toi, Samson! Et il se réveilla de son sommeil, et dit: Je m’en tirerai comme les autres **fois**, et je me dégagerai. Il ne savait pas que l’Éternel s’était retiré de lui. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 16:20) - So I must compliment him once again on his report, and I hope that this initiative of the European Parliament will be acted **upon**. Je le félicite donc encore une **fois** et j'espère que cette initiative prise par le Parlement européen ne restera pas lettre morte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1930824) - where the provisions governing the instruments require their principal amount to be written down **upon** the occurrence of a trigger event, the write down shall reduce all the following: lorsque les dispositions régissant les instruments prévoient que leur principal est réduit s'il se produit un événement déclencheur, cette réduction du principal porte à la **fois** sur: ([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 2947390) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Rummaging around in boxes, I stumbled **upon** an old family photo. En fouillant dans des cartons, je suis tombée sur une vieille photo de famille. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3272742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272742) [\#3272743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272743)) - Sunlight acts **upon** the skin. La lumière du soleil agit sur la peau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12736816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12736816) [\#12867123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12867123)) - You must not cast a spell **upon** someone inside the school. Tu ne dois pas jeter un sort sur quelqu'un à l'intérieur de l'école. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#269919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269919) [\#1336222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336222)) ## 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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