were — French to English

How French were is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: were (57 729), weres (1). By style: parliamentary 2 · legal and administrative 26 · UN documents 57 702.

there

Used about 8 246 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 8 243). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Amazon Final Transcripts [vice-président et directeur responsable du marché allemand au sein d'Amazon Deutschland Services GmbH, Munich, Allemagne], 4 novembre 2014, point 588: 11-20: «Yes. There isn't and there wasn't a European transportation carrier, so we had to deal with Royal Mail in the UK, Deutsche Post in Germany, and with LaPoste in France. At that time we had to deal with Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post or LaPoste. There was not much alternative. Some small couriers were starting to grow, but we had to negotiate with the quality of service, the type of the support, and the type of delivery with the three big players in those three countries.».

  Amazon Final Transcripts [Senior Vice President Product Management – Retail, Amazon Corporate LLC, US], 4 November 2014, par. 588: 11-20: ‘Yes. There isn't and there wasn't a European transportation carrier, so we had to deal with Royal Mail in the UK, Deutsche Post in Germany, and with LaPoste in France. At that time we had to deal with Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post or LaPoste. There was not much alternative. Some small couriers were starting to grow, but we had to negotiate with the quality of service, the type of the support, and the type of delivery with the three big players in those three countries’.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4514789

• There were 43 deaths by lynching -- an increase of 169 per cent.

  There were 43 deaths by lynching -- an increase of 169 per cent.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29148509

• Rapport NERA: «The results of an event study analysing the effect on share and bond prices of the announcement on 12th July 2002. The study shows that there is a strong positive effect: as a result of the statement, market participants believed the cash flows that France Télécom would generate were going to be higher than they would have been otherwise. Moreover the effect is strongly statistically significant: it is not the result of random fluctuations in prices 愦灭※ The market believed that, as a result of the statement, the French Authorities would offer more support to France Télécom than they would do in the absence of any costs of non-performance».

  NERA report: ‘The results of an event study analysing the effect on share and bond prices of the announcement on 12 July 2002. The study shows that there is a strong positive effect: as a result of the statement, market participants believed the cash flows that France Télécom would generate were going to be higher than they would have been otherwise. Moreover the effect is strongly statistically significant: it is not the result of random fluctuations in prices 愦灭※ The market believed that, as a result of the statement, the French Authorities would offer more support to France Télécom than they would do in the absence of any costs of non-performance’.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4540915

• By mid-2014, there were approximately 5,000 spontaneous returns from Yemen.

  By mid-2014, there were approximately 5,000 spontaneous returns from Yemen.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 30200923

• Amazon Final Transcripts, [vice-président chargé de la propriété intellectuelle, Legal, Amazon Corporate LLC, États-Unis], 20 novembre 2014, point 4270: 13-25: «Q. [愦灭※] the IP steering committee meetings. Was there a procedure for those? [愦灭※] A. We would meet annually. I would come in and do a presentation of intellectual property changes, some of the disputes that were ongoing. We would do a review of the foreign filing recommendations, so that would be where we would file an application in the United States, our recommendation as far as whether we should file that outside of the United State, principally – well in Europe for each of those, and we would have a recommendation of yes or no. We would go through these with the business leaders, the technology leaders, and they would approve or reject the ideas or our recommendations.».

  Amazon Final Transcripts, [Vice President Intellectual Property, Legal, Amazon Corporate LLC, US] 20 November 2014, par. 4270: 13-25: ‘Q. [愦灭※] the IP steering committee meetings. Was there a procedure for those? [愦灭※] A. We would meet annually. I would come in and do a presentation of intellectual property changes, some of the disputes that were ongoing. We would do a review of the foreign filing recommendations, so that would be where we would file an application in the United States, our recommendation as far as whether we should file that outside of the United State, principally – well in Europe for each of those, and we would have a recommendation of yes or no. We would go through these with the business leaders, the technology leaders, and they would approve or reject the ideas or our recommendations.’

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4514630

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• «Whereas announcements were made on 29 November by President Leonid Kuchma that he would support a new election,» (Considérant que le président Leonid Koutchma a annoncé le 29 novembre qu’il serait favorable à de nouvelles élections,)

  ‘Whereas announcements were made on 29 November by President Leonid Kuchma that he would support a new election,’

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 628253

• Deux citations supplémentaires: "Established principles of international law such as respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of states were ignored" [Les principes établis du droit international, au rang desquels le respect de la souveraineté et de l'intégrité territoriale, ont été ignorés]; "falling back from civilised standards of political interaction in Europe is a consequence" [Il en a découlé un recul des usages civilisés en matière d'interaction politique en Europe].

  Two more quotations: 'Established principles of international law such as respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of states were ignored'; 'falling back from civilised standards of political interaction in Europe is a consequence'.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1296303

• Voir aussi Amazon Final Transcripts: [Vice President Sales International, Amazon Corporate LLC, US, former Head of European Third Party Business (such as Marketplace), LuxOpCo, Luxembourg], 4 novembre 2014, point 827: 18-23: «[愦灭※] the team in Luxembourg, the onboarding team played a really big role of, like, you know, working and building. So either adding tools, as I talked about, you know, they build a lot of tools, you know, in the process or working with the technology teams that were building».

  See also Amazon Final Transcripts: [Vice President Sales International, Amazon Corporate LLC, US, former Head of European Third Party Business (such as Marketplace), LuxOpCo, Luxembourg], 4 November 2014, par. 827: 18-23: ‘[愦灭※] the team in Luxembourg, the onboarding team played a really big role of, like, you know, working and building. So either adding tools, as I talked about, you know, they build a lot of tools, you know, in the process or working with the technology teams that were building’.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4514756

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