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En dépit de

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Despite

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Encore

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Still/again

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Enjeu

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What’s at stake/issue

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Entraider

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To help each other

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Environ

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About/roughly/approximately

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Expulser/renvoyer/déporter

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To expel

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Facture d’électricité

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Electricity bill

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Falloir

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Be needed/have to

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Faute de

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Due to a lack of

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Grâce à

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Thanks to

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Guère

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Hardly

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Il n’y aura plus de…

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There will be no more

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Ils auraient dû

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They should have

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Jusqu’il y a peu de temps

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Until (quite) recently/a short time ago/not long ago

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L’appui

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Support

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L’augmentation/la hausse

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The increase

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L’entretien d’embauche

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Job interview

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L’espoir

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Hope

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L’infraction

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Offence/crime

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La délinquance/criminalité juvénile

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Juvenile delinquency

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La lutte

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The struggle/the fight/the battle

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La majorité/la plupart de

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Most

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La mobilisation

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Rallying

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La réinsertion

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Reintegration

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La traversée maritime/de la mer

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Sea crossing

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Le plus dur à supporter

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The hardest/most difficult (thing) to bear/stand/put up with

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Le pot de vin

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Bribe

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Le rebondissement

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Unexpected development

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Le sommet

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Summit

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A l’échelle mondiale

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On a global scale

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À savoir

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Namely/that is to say

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Aboutir

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To result in

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Aidons-les

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Let’s help them

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Atteindre

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Reach

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Au fil des (années)

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Over/throughout (the years)

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Avec méfiance

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Suspiciously/distrustfully/warily/with suspicion

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Avoir du mal à

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To have difficulty doing

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Avoir hâte de

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Cannot wait to

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Avoir lieu

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To take place

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40
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Bras de fer

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Power struggle

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Celles-ci

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These/the latter

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Ces derniers temps

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Lately

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Cesser de

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To stop to/to cease to

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Ceux qui

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Those who

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Chez cette tranche d’âge

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Among/within this age group/age bracket

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D’une part…d’autre part

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On one hand…on the other hand

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Demeurer/rester

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Remain

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Depuis longtemps

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For a long time

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Dès

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From

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Détournement

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Misappropriation

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Devrions-nous/devrait-on

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Should we?

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Dont

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Of which/including

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Empirer

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To get worse/to worsen

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Emprisonner/incarcérer/écrouer détenir/derrière les barreaux/sous les verrous

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To put in prison

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Le taux

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Rate

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Le taux de récidive

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Rate of reoffending

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Les délits

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Crimes/offences

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Les mineurs

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Minors

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Les parties d’extrême droite

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Extreme right wing parties

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Les pays occidentaux m/de l’Ouest

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Western countries

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Les plus démunis

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The poorest/most disadvantaged/deprived/the LEAST well-off/those in greatest need/the most unfortunate/the LEAST unfortunate

*(least and not less)

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Mal à l’aise

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Ill at ease

63
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Maladies graves

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Serious illnesses

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Menacé

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Threatened

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Mettre en cause

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To charge/to accuse

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Mieux vaut

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It would be better

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Milliard

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Billion

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Monter d’un cran

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To take up a notch

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N’était plus

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Was no longer

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Néanmoins

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Nonetheless/even so/nevertheless

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Obliger à

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To oblige

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Organisation syndicale

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Representatives of the trade union

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Organisations patronales

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Employers’ organisations

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Oser

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To dare

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OTAN

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NATO

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pas forcément

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Not necessarily

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Pas la peine de

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There is no point in/ don’t bother/ it’s pointless, useless, a waste of time/ not (even) worth it

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Personnel formé

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Trained staff

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Poser votre candidature pour

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Applying

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Poursuivre en justice

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To prosecute/ bring before the courts/ take to court/ being before the law

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Pourtant

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However/nevertheless

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Présent…depuis

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Have been…since

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Prêt à

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Ready to

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Quatre coins du monde

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Four corners of/all over/every part of the world, globe, planet,earth

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Quoique/bien que

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Although

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Relever le défi

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To rise to the challenge

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Résoudre

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To solve

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S’installer

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To settle

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Selon (certains)/d’après (certains)/ selon (quelques-uns)

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According (to some)

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Subsister

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To survive

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Subvenir à ses besoins

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To support/to provide for

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Tenter de

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To try to

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Toucher

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Touch/affect (also earn a salary)

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Tout en essayant de

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While trying to

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Travail au noir

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Moonlighting

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Un tiers

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A third

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Venir de

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Just

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Viser à

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To aim to

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