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Meaning: [undertake in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/undertake/). - Maintenant, il est vrai que je crois que ce pays suit un chemin dangereux lorsqu'il autorise un degré trop grand de centralisation des fonctions gouvernementales. Je m'y oppose - dans certains cas, le combat est plutôt désespéré. Mais, pour parvenir au moindre succès, il est assez clair que le gouvernement fédéral ne peut pas éviter ou échapper aux responsabilités dont la masse des gens sont fermement convaincus qu'il devrait les **entreprendre**. Les processus politiques de notre pays sont tels que, si le règne de la raison n'est pas employé dans cet effort, nous perdrons tout - même jusqu'à un changement dans la constitution, possible et radical. C'est ce que je veux dire par mon insistance constante sur la « modération » dans le gouvernement. Now it is true that I believe this country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a degree of centralization of governmental functions. I oppose this — in some instances the fight is a rather desperate one. But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be **undertaken** by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything — even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1091938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1091938) [\#3521169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521169)) - Depuis, il avait tout quitté pour «**entreprendre** Paris». Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to “**undertake** Paris.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15689) - Il y a quelques mois, j'ai demandé à la Commission d'**entreprendre** une initiative pilote dans ce domaine. Some months ago I asked the Commission to **undertake** a pilot initiative on this. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1634462) - **entreprendre** toute autre activité nécessaire à l’exécution de sa mission. **undertake** any other activity necessary to fulfil its tasks. ([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 2823675) - Activités que le secrétariat devra **entreprendre** Activities to be **undertaken** by the secretariat ([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 24856313) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Elle lui conseilla d'**entreprendre** un régime strict. She advised him to go on a strict diet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#886895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/886895) [\#1368918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1368918)) - On lui conseille d'**entreprendre** un régime strict. He is advised to go on a strict diet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#296057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/296057) [\#2035837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2035837)) - Quelles démarches devrions-nous **entreprendre** ? What steps should we take? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4834930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4834930) [\#4837985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4837985)) ## 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/). ## 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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