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Meaning: [credentials in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/credentials/). - Bien entendu, nous n’avons pas été en mesure de vérifier les **pouvoirs** de son successeur à temps pour cette séance. Of course, we cannot proceed to verify his successor’s **credentials** during this sitting. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 600229) - A. **Pouvoirs** des délégations A. **Credentials** of delegations ([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 17568928) - Rapport de la Commission de vérification des **pouvoirs** Report of the **Credentials** Committee ([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 16459057) - 15. Rapport de la Commission de vérification des **pouvoirs**. Report of the **Credentials** Committee. ([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 15070755) - i) Adoption du rapport sur la vérification des **pouvoirs** (i) Adoption of the report on **credentials** ([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 6410156) ## powers Used about 24 966 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 178 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 267 · UN documents ≈ 16 478). - J'abuse de mes **pouvoirs**. I'm abusing my **powers**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11759378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759378) [\#11759376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759376)) - La vilenie des esclaves est un produit direct du despote; un miasme s'exhale de ces consciences croupies où se reflète le maître; les **pouvoirs** publics sont immondes; les coeurs sont petits, les consciences sont plates, les âmes sont punaises; cela est ainsi sous Caracalla, cela est ainsi sous Commode, cela est ainsi sous Héliogabale, tandis qu'il ne sort du sénat romain sous César que l'odeur de fiente propre aux aires d'aigle. The villainy of slaves is a direct product of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein the master is reflected; public **powers** are unclean; hearts are small; consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22933) - Nous devons donner aux comités de niveau 3 davantage de **pouvoirs** de décision. We need to give level three committees more decisive **powers**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1046567) - Article 67 **Pouvoirs** et fonctions des chefs des délégations de l'Union Article 67 **Powers** and duties of Heads of Union Delegations ([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 2710436) - 58. Une question a été posée au sujet des **pouvoirs** conférés aux autorités pour maintenir l ' ordre public. 58. A question had been asked about the **powers** of the authorities to maintain law and order. ([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 20467380) ## authority Used about 19 504 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 530 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 495 · UN documents ≈ 16 478). Forms: authorities, authority. Meaning: [authority in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/authority/). - Tom a outrepassé ses **pouvoirs**. Tom overstepped his **authority**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5374961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5374961) [\#5375288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5375288)) - et il a ici des **pouvoirs**, de la part des principaux sacrificateurs, pour lier tous ceux qui invoquent ton nom. Here he has **authority** from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 9:14) - Les **pouvoirs** publics choisissent l'offre la moins chère, pas la plus verte. Public **authorities** choose the cheapest offer, not the greenest one. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1153374) - **Pouvoirs** adjudicateurs: paragraphes 1 et 4 Contracting **authorities**: paragraphs 1 and 4 ([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 3865694) - Le paragraphe d) du même préambule dispose : " Le peuple est la source des **pouvoirs**. Paragraph (d) of the preamble reads: “The people is the source of **authority**. ([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 2701365) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous avons vu que sous Bouteflika, la concentration des **pouvoirs** a conduit à un abus de pouvoir. We have seen how, under the Bouteflika regime, the concentration of power led to abusive power. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8550779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8550779) [\#11838073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838073)) - Adriano a utilisé ses **pouvoirs** de nouveau. Adriano used his abilities again. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11729809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11729809) [\#11958201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958201)) - Abruti. Je n'ai déployé que 1% de mes **pouvoirs**. Fool. I've only unleashed 1% of my power. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#10124070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10124070) [\#10781390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781390)) ## 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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