The Migrant Crisis: Democracies in a Predicament Flashcards

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une guerre d’usure

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a war of attrition

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entrer en guerre

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to go to war

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une guerre totale

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An all-out war

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une fusillade

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a shoot-out

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mettre une menace à exécution

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to make good a threat

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hommes mobilisés

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men under arms

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s’engager

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to enlist

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une sentinelle

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a sentry

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une caserne

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a barracks

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être au garde à vous

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to stand at attention

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envoyer les troupes

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to dispatch troops

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un stratagème

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a ploy

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rompre les relations avec

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to sever ties with

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débarquer

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to come ashore

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envahir un pays

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to overrun a country

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bombarder

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to shell

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trainer en longueur

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to drag on

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le bilan des victimes

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the human toll/the body count

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une arme/force de dissuasion

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a deterrent

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lancer une bombe atomique

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to nuke

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un armistice

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a truce

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une crise, soulèvement

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an upheaval

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pillage

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looting, to loot

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déclencher

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to trigger off

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poser une bombe

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to plant a bomb

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faire sauter une bombe

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to detonate a bomb

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accroître, renforcer les contrôles aux frontières

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to bolster border controls

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avoir les conditions requises pour

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to be eligible for

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déraciné

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uprooted

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ouvrir les portes à l’émigration

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to lift the gates on emigration

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faire voter des lois

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to enact legislation

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être reconduit à la frontière

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to be escorted back to the frontier

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chasser les immigrés clandestins

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to root out illegal immigrants

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un clandestin

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an illegal

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un travailleur clandestin

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an undocumented worker

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un étranger en situation irrégulière

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a visa abuser

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difficultés d’adaptation

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maladjustment

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se sentir exclu

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to feel ostracized

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un sectaire

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A bigot

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profanation

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desecration

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alimenter l’inquiétude

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to stoke concern

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apaiser les tensions

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to alleviate tensions

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rétrograder

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to demote

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être réquisitionné

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commandeer

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étayer, renforcer

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to shore up

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to reinforce

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to bolster

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réprimer

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put down

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monter quelqu’un contre quelqu’un d’autre

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to pit someone against so

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indemne (pour une personne/pour un bâtiment)

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unscathed/undamaged