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Fournir

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To grant

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A la suite de

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In the wake of

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Célébrité

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Stardom

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Continuer à exister

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To live on

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Respectant

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Sticking to

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Ce n’est pas étonnant

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It´s no wonder

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Entraîner quelqu’un ds la haine

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Has mired in hatred

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Un acolyte

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A sidekick

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Un outsider

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An underdog

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Un royaume insulaire, centre sur lui même

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A turn-off-the-lights-at-night sort of kingdom

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Foyer

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Hotbed

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Les exemples ne manquent pas

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Examples are legion

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Mettre en place

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SET up

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A la suite de

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In the aftermath of

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Le plus important

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Foremost

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Le mot d’ordre

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The leitmotiv

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Faire renaître de ses cendres

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Make it rise from its ashes

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Promesse

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A pledge

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Un rêve illusoire

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A pipe dream

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Symboliser être la parfaite illustration

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Epitomize

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La quintessence

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The quintessence

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Soutenir épauler

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To buoy up

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Déboulonne

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Debunk

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Sérieux authentique

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Bona fide

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Ahurissant sidérant

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Flabbergasting

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Conduire mener a

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Usher in

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Un retour en arrière

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A u-turn

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Dépérir

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Wilt

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Parti en courant

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Rang off

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Omniprésent

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Ubiquitous

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Manifestement

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Blatantly

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Reap

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Moissonner récolter

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Bénéfices présentes depuis longtemps

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The long touted benefits

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Féroce compétition

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Cutthroat compétition

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A saciete

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Ad nauseam

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Gaspiller

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Squander

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Périphérie

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Outskirt

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En un clin d’œil

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In a twinkle of an eye

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Mettre en danger

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Jeopardize

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Supporter la compétition

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Withstand the compétition

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Amortir

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Cushion

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Une nouvelle opportunité

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A second bite of a cherry

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Un grand nombre

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A plethora of

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Mesures inefficaces

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Whishy-washy

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Beaucoup de bruit pour rien

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Much ado about nothing

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Scénario catastrophe

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Doomsday scénario

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Imminent/ se profilant

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Looming

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Mot d’ordre

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Watchword

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Un pivot

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A linchpin

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La pierre angulaire

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The cornerstone

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S’immiscer

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To crop up in

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Gonfler

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To swell

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Contrecarrer

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Thwarting

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Chimérique / fantaisiste

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Fanciful

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Faire profil bas

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To hunker down

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Supprimer

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To scrap

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Se moquer

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To scoff

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Blasé

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Stale

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Compléter

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To top up

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Coïncider / se recoupe

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To overlap

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Réformer remanier

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To overhaul

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Pester contre

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To rail against / to lambast

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Un seuil

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A treshold

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Louche/ douteux / peu sur

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Dodgy

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Défectueux

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Flawed

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Titres d’état

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Gilts

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Refourguer/ distribuer

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To flog

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Raviver

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Rekindle

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Déjà ancien

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An already long running

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Régir

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To govern

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Préciser

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To point out

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Cela concerne…

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… Are at stake

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Refaire surface

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Resurface

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Nécessairement

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Is bound to/ is likely to

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D’abord et avant tout

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First and foremost

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S’élever à …

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Runs into

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To reckon

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Estimer

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D’une grande portée

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Far reaching

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To steer

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Entraîner

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Il a beau

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However hard

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Incessamment

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Relentlessly

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Lutter / mettre un frein a / stopper

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To clamp down

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Dans le contexte

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Against the backdrop of…

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Plus d’un…

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Many a/ many an…

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Outwardly

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En apparence

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D’autant plus que

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All the more … As

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Bouc émissaires

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Scapegoats

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Tout au contraire

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Quite the reverse

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Dorénavant

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Henceforth

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Accélérer

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To hasten

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