Racial Issues Flashcards

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Au détriment de

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At The expense of

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Une couturière

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A seamstress

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Garder à l’esprit

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To bear in mind

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Prospérer

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To flourish, To thrive, To prosper

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Etre impartial à

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To be unbiased to

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Avoir conscience des races

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To be race conscious

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Le drapeau confédéré

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The confederate flag

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Décharger quelqu’un de, acquitter quelqu’un de, épargner quelqu’un d’un problème

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To absolve

To spare sb The trouble of

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Criblé de balles, semé d’embûches

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Riddled with, fraught with

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Garanti par les forces de l’ordre / conserver précieusement

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Enshrined

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Pairs

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Peers

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Considérer, estimer

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To consider, To deem, To rate

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Un étudiant dont la demande d’admission à ete acceptée

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An enrollee

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Courir le risque de

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To stand to

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Conflict , tensions, violent disagreement

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A strife

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Détaillant, personnes qui vendent dans des petits commerces

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Retailers

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Un projet de loi

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A bill

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Les alentours d’une chambre des députés étatiques

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State House Ground

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S’attarder, rester, Tenir bon

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To linger on

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Indiquer

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To signal

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Éviter, esquiver

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To dodge, To dock, To steer from

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Volontiers

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Gladly, willingly

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Élargir/Restreindre l’écart

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To Widen/narrow The gap

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Il est grand temps que

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It is high Time

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Etre habitué à

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To be accustom to

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Prétendre

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To claim

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Touché par la pauvreté

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To be poverty-striken

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Ne pas du tout se soucier de quelque chose

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To do not care a straw about stg

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Supposé, présumé

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Alleged, assumed

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Gouffre

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Chasm

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Apparaître, surgir

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To loom

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Poches de pauvreté

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Pockets of poverty

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Sans préjugés

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To be prejudice-free

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Modifier

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To tweak

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Louche, suspect, effrayant

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Creepy

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Effrayant, qui fait peur

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Frightening

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Battre à plates coutures, écraser

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To trounce

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Etre tenace

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To be dogged, tormented

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Obtenir quelque chose de force de qqun

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To wrest sth/sb

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Une violente protestation

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A riot

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Cligner des yeux

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To blink

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Rapidement

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Swiftly

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Aigre-doux / Mitigé

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Bittersweet

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Contourner

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To bypass

45
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Corruption

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Bribery

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Etre impliqué dans qqch

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To be enmeshed in

To be involved in