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Tom has no **principles**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5148886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5148886) [\#8990543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8990543)) - Il voulait qu'on versât aux esprits les **principes** étendus d'idées générales; il disait: Révolution, mais civilisation; et autour de la montagne à pic il ouvrait le vaste horizon bleu. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive **principles** of general ideas: he said: “Revolution, but civilization”; and around the mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13997) - Je souhaite aborder deux **principes**. In this respect I would like to address two **principles**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1784680) - **Principes** généraux des mécanismes de capacité General **principles** for capacity mechanisms ([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 4964790) - A. Obligations et **principes** généraux (art. 1er à 4) A. General **principles** and obligations (arts. 1 - 4) ([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 29553743) ## following Used about 392 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 392). - Lorsqu'elle exige un coussin pour le risque systémique, l'autorité compétente ou l'autorité désignée respecte les **principes** suivants: When requiring a systemic risk buffer to be maintained the competent authority or the designated authority shall comply with the **following**: ([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 4864394) ## law Used about 392 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 392). Meaning: [law in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/law/). - Le remboursement des versements de contributions ne va donc pas à l’encontre des **principes** généraux du droit de l’Union en matière de protection de la confiance légitime - Recovery of the annual contributions is therefore not contrary to any general principle of Union **law** concerning the protection of legitimate expectations, ([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 2526984) ## respect Used about 241 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 241). Meaning: [respect in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/respect/). - Dans ce contexte de respect des Traités et des **principes** d’autonomie nationale et de subsidiarité, une harmonisation du système s’impose. Within this context of **respect** for the Treaties, respect for national autonomy and the principle of subsidiarity, we need to harmonise the system. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 674649) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous nous sommes accrochés à nos **principes**. We hold fast to what we believe in. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#7644693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7644693) [\#2899339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2899339)) - J'ai des **principes** moraux. I have moral standards. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2700754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2700754) [\#5549499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5549499)) - J'ai certains **principes**. I have certain standards. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3305041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3305041) [\#5552250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5552250)) ## 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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