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Lesson 71 : Social unrest, collective violence Flashcards

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L’agitation sociale

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Social unrest

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Manifester / la manifestation / un manifestant

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To demonstrate / a demonstration, a demo / a demonstrator

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Protester

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To protest

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La contestation

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Protest

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Un manifestant

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A protester

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Défiler / un défilé / un manifestant

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To march / a march / a marcher

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Une banderole

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A banner

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Un slogan

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A slogan

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Une pétition

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A petition

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Une pancarte

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A placard

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Réclamer/ une revendication

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To claim / a claim

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Exiger / une exigence

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To demand / a demand

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Occuper / une occupation

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To occupy / a sit-in

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Paralyser la circulation

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To block traffic

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La violence collective

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Collective violence

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La foule (en colère)

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The mob

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La violence collective

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Mob violence

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Prendre d’assaut

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To mob

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Violent - violemment

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Violent / violently

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Être le détonateur

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To ignite

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Déclencher

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To trigger / spark off

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S’affronter / un affrontement

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To clash (with) / a clash

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Se battre

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To fight

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Des échauffourées / incidents

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Fighting

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Faire une émeute / une émeute / un émeutier, un casseur

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To riot / a riot / a rioter

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Séditieux, déchaine

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Riotous

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Un meneur

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A ringleader

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Troubles, agitations / créer des troubles / un fauteur de troubles

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Trouble / to cause trouble / a troublemaker

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Agiter, perturber / un agitateur

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To agitate / an agitator

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Un hooligan / le hooliganisme

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A hooligan / hooliganism

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Provoquer / provocateur / de manière provocante

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To provoke / provocative / provocatively

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Reverser (des voitures)

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To overturn (cars)

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Incendier

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To burn out

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Détruire / la destruction / destructeur / de façon destructive

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To destroy / destruction / destructive / destructively

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Saccager

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To wreck / to vandalize

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Les décombres

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Wreckage

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Se déchainer / tout saccager

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To rampage about / around

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Des dégâts / endommager / causer des dégâts

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Damage / to damage / to do, to cause damage

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Le grabuge

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Mayhem

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Piller / le pillage / un pillard

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To loot, to plunder / looting / a looter

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La violence raciale

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Racial violence

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Lyncher qq / lynchage / les lyncheurs

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To lynch sby / lynching / the Lynch mob

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Le terrorisme

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Terrorism

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Un terroriste

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A terrorist, a bomber

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Un attentat

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A terrorist attack, a bomb attack

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Une bombe

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A bomb

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Faire sauter

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To blow up

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Un otage / une prise d’otage / prendre des gens en otage

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A hostage / hostage tacking / to take hostages

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Libérer des otages

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To release hostages

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Les bouleversements

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Upheavals

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Troubler / perturber

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To disturb

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Troubles, émeutes

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(Social) disturbances

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Se rebeller / un rebelle / une rébellion / rebelle

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To rebel / a rebel / a rebellion / rebellious

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Dans un esprit de révolte

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Rebelliously

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Se révolter contre / une révolte

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To revolt against / a revolt

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S’insurger contre

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To rise up against

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Un soulèvement

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An uprising

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Un insurgé

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An insurgent

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Une insurrection

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An insurgency / insurrection

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Une barricade

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A barricade

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La réaction

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Response

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Réprimer

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To repress / to put down

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La répression

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Repression

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Dur, répressif / durement

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Heavy-handed / heavy-handedly

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Frapper

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To beat (up)

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Matraquer

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To club

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Une matraque

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A truncheon / a baton / a bludgeon

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Matraquer

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To bludgeon

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Boucler (quartier)

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To seal / to cordon off

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Renforcer les contrôles

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To tighten controls

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Un couvre-feu

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A curfew

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Descendre dans la rue

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To take to the streets

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Manifester

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To hold a demonstration

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Une manifestation pacifique

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A peaceful protest

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Organiser une pétition contre

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To get up a petition against

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Exprimer sa colere contre

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To voice / vent one’s anger at

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Organiser une manifestation

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To stage a protest

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Agiter les banderoles

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To wave banners

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édifier une baricade

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To set up a barricade

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Un cocktail molotov

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A petrol bomb

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Lancer des bouteilles / des pierres sur

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To hurl bottles / rocks at

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Se livrer au saccage

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To go on the rampage

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Des incendies de voiture

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Car burning / torching

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Causer des dégâts

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To wreak havoc

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Une alerte à la bombe

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A bomb scare

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Un attentat à la voiture piégée

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A car bombing

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Un colis piégé

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A parcel bomb

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Un attentat suicide

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A suicide bomb attack

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L’auteur d’un attentat suicide

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A suicide bomber

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Se faire sauter

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To blow oneself up

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Revendiquer un attentat

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To claim (responsibility for) an attack

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Renforcer les effectifs de police

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To bolster the police lines

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Prendre des mesures répressives

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To crack down on

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Les unités anti-émeute

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The riot police

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Un bouclier anti-émeute

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A riot shield

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Du gaz lacrymo

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Tear gas

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Une grenade fumigène

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A smoke grenade

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Une charge à la matraque

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A baton charge

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Disperser un rassemblement

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To disperse a gathering

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Ouvrir le feu sur qq

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To fire at sby

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