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Meaning: [criminal in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/criminal/). - Ils peuvent très bien le faire pour éviter des sanctions **pénales**. They can do this purely to avoid **criminal** sanctions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199815) - \[nombre total de sanctions **pénales** (3)\] \[total number of **criminal** sanctions (3)\] ([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 4345027) - Lois et réglementations **pénales** existantes Existing **criminal** or penal laws and regulations ([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 22526632) - Nous savons également qu'il n'y a pas d'harmonisation des lois **pénales**. We also know that **criminal** legislation has not been harmonised. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1891071) - Section 7 — Poursuites **pénales** parallèles Section 7 Parallel **criminal** prosecution ([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 4169227) ## penal Used about 3 253 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 128 · UN documents ≈ 3 012). Forms: penal, penalties. - Les mesures **pénales** ne fonctionnent pas. Nous devons punir sévèrement les clubs en termes de pénalités financières, comme cela vient d'être fait. **Penal** measures are not working: we have to come down hard on the clubs in terms of financial penalties, as has now been done. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905329) - Particuliere Jeugdinrichtingen — (Institutions **pénales** pour jeunes délinquants) Particuliere Jeugdinrichtingen — (**Penal** Institutions for Juvenile Offenders) ([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 1419017) - Il est également préoccupé par les graves sanctions **pénales** appliquées en cas de délit d ' " atteinte aux biens " commis par les enfants. Concern is further expressed at the aggravated **penal** penalties regarding “property offences” committed by children. ([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 6125900) - Il est manifeste que bon nombre d'États membres rencontrent des problèmes lorsqu'il s'agit de soumettre ce type de criminalité à des sanctions **pénales** effectives. Clearly, there are quite a lot of Member States which have problems imposing effective **penalties** for this type of crime. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 79270) - Les trains ont été livrés en retard et c’est pourquoi les clauses **pénales** et les intérêts prévus à l’accord de programme ont été imposés et retenus. The delivery of the units was late, and therefore the **penalties** and interest envisaged in the programme agreement were imposed and withheld. ([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 1695498) ## prosecution Used about 23 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 23). Meaning: [prosecution in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prosecution/). - C'est cela qui est inquiétant et c'est pour cette raison que les poursuites **pénales** doivent être possibles dans l'intérêt de ces enfants. That is what is disturbing about it. In the interest of children, therefore, **prosecution** must continue to be possible. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977465) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Même si nous pouvons le déplorer, nul ne doit être soumis à des sanctions **pénales** pour avoir utilisé un matériel protégé par droit d'auteur. Even though we might frown on it, nobody should be criminalised for personal use of copyright material. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1356314) - Nous devons avoir des normes communes, non seulement pour pouvoir effecteur les poursuites **pénales** à l'intérieur de l'Union européenne mais aussi pour pouvoir conclure les nécessaires accords internationaux. For that reason, we need to establish common standards, not only because of law enforcement within the European Union, but also because of the need for international agreements. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1866412) - 7. Indiquer ce qui a été fait pour ériger en infractions **pénales** la vente d ' enfants, la prostitution des enfants et la pornographie mettant en scène des enfants. 7. Please indicate the measures that have been taken to criminalize the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. ([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 26098980) ## 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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