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# encontre — French to English

How French *encontre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: encontre (65 253). By style: everyday 29 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 624 · legal and administrative 6 725 · UN documents 52 874.

## against

Used about 36 927 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 758 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 102 · UN documents ≈ 33 046).

- C'est à l'**encontre** des règles.
  That's **against** the rules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3594013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3594013) [\#3599341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3599341))

- On ne peut pas aller à l'**encontre** de ces choses-là.
  You can’t go **against** such things.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16798)

- Il y a toujours des conséquences, lorsque l'on va à l'**encontre** de la nature.
  There are always consequences when we go **against** nature.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1223252)

- Directement impliqué dans la répression et les violences à l'**encontre** de la population civile à Homs.
  Directly involved in repression and violence **against** the civilian population in Homs.
  ([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 2786078)

- Projet de prévention de la violence à l &apos; **encontre** des femmes
  Project on prevention of violence **against** women
  ([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 15130085)

## restrictive

Used about 3 643 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 3 643).

- renouvelant les mesures restrictives instituées à l'**encontre** de la Côte d'Ivoire
  renewing the **restrictive** measures imposed against Côte d'Ivoire
  ([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 1169793)

- modifiant la décision 2011/101/PESC concernant des mesures restrictives à l'**encontre** du Zimbabwe
  amending Decision 2011/101/CFSP concerning **restrictive** measures against Zimbabwe
  ([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 4795118)

- modifiant la décision 2010/231/PESC concernant des mesures restrictives à l’**encontre** de la Somalie
  amending Decision 2010/231/CFSP concerning **restrictive** measures against Somalia
  ([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 5335265)

- modifiant le règlement (UE) no 961/2010 concernant l'adoption de mesures restrictives à l'**encontre** de l'Iran
  amending Regulation (EU) No 961/2010 on **restrictive** measures against Iran
  ([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 2577106)

- mettant en œuvre la décision 2010/413/PESC concernant des mesures restrictives à l'**encontre** de l'Iran
  implementing Decision 2010/413/CFSP concerning **restrictive** measures against Iran
  ([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 4179055)

## measures

Used about 1 522 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 420 · UN documents ≈ 1 102).

- Si la Commission n’a pas statué dans ce délai de deux mois, elle est réputée ne pas avoir soulevé d’objections à l’**encontre** des mesures notifiées.
  In the event that the Commission has not acted within that two-month period, it shall be deemed not to have raised objections to the notified **measures**.
  ([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 1760381)

- 365. Dans ces deux textes, les mesures ne sont prises à l &apos; **encontre** du mineur qu &apos; après étude de sa personnalité.
  365. Under these two instruments, no **measures** are taken in relation to minors until their personalities have been assessed.
  ([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 24313684)

- Il est dès lors très probable que les ventes coréennes actuelles marginales à destination de l'Union résultent des mesures existantes prises à l'**encontre** du produit concerné.
  The current marginal Korean sales to the Union are therefore most likely the result of the existing **measures** on the product concerned.
  ([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 3416108)

- Certaines de ces sociétés (par exemple Gehrlicher) ont accusé l'institution des mesures à l'**encontre** des modules solaires chinois d'être la principale raison de leur dépôt de bilan.
  Some of these companies pointed to the imposition of **measures** on Chinese solar modules as the main reason of their insolvency, e.g. Gehrlicher.
  ([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 4270841)

## violence

Used about 820 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 820). Meaning: [violence in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/violence/).

- Pourquoi tant de violences à l'**encontre** des femmes?
  Why is there such **violence** against women?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1929885)

- Ils ont lancé des incitations à la violence à l’**encontre** des étrangers.
  They have been inciting **violence** against foreigners.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 624954)

- Les violences à l’**encontre** des femmes et les inégalités entre hommes et femmes n’ont pas disparu.
  **Violence** against women and inequality between men and women have not disappeared.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 654121)

- C'est du même poste budgétaire que relèvent les fonds attribués à la campagne européenne de mesures destinées à stopper les violences à l'**encontre** des femmes.
  Appropriations for the European campaign to combat **violence** against women come under the same budget item.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2000297)

- - Il est déplorable que la violence à l’**encontre** des femmes soit à présent devenue un phénomène mondial, ignorant les frontières nationales.
  It is a shameful thing that **violence** against women has become a worldwide phenomenon today, in the face of which national borders are of no significance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843942)

## More sentences

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

- Nous allons à l'**encontre** de la tendance en n'augmentant pas nos prix cette année.
  We're bucking the trend by not increasing our prices this year.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#12433695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12433695) [\#12433696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12433696))

- Cela irait à l'**encontre** du but recherché.
  That would defeat the purpose.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4665283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4665283) [\#13388661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13388661))

- Dans le milieu, on considère généralement cela comme un coup bas à l'**encontre** de l'industrie britannique du cigare.
  In the trade this is generally regarded as a nasty underhand jab at the British cigar industry.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Cangarejo · checked, community translation · [\#10971094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10971094) [\#14038004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14038004))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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