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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un armistice

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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
to plant a bomb
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faire sauter une bombe
to detonate a bomb
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accroître, renforcer les contrôles aux frontières
to bolster border controls
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avoir les conditions requises pour
to be eligible for
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déraciné
uprooted
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ouvrir les portes à l'émigration
to lift the gates on emigration
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faire voter des lois
to enact legislation
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être reconduit à la frontière
to be escorted back to the frontier
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chasser les immigrés clandestins
to root out illegal immigrants
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un clandestin
an illegal
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un travailleur clandestin
an undocumented worker
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un étranger en situation irrégulière
a visa abuser
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difficultés d'adaptation
maladjustment
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se sentir exclu
to feel ostracized
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un sectaire
A bigot
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profanation
desecration
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alimenter l'inquiétude
to stoke concern
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apaiser les tensions
to alleviate tensions
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rétrograder
to demote
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être réquisitionné
commandeer
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étayer, renforcer
to shore up
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to reinforce
to bolster
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réprimer
put down
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monter quelqu'un contre quelqu'un d'autre
to pit someone against so
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indemne (pour une personne/pour un bâtiment)
unscathed/undamaged