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A more colloquial quasi-synonymous expression in French would be en tout bien tout honneur. hors de combat lit. "out of the fight": prevented from fighting or participating in some event, usually by injury. hors concours lit. "out of competition": not to be judged with others because of the superiority of the work to the others. hors d'œuvre
Voting defines the opinion of the mayority and is a decision – the volonté de tous or the will of all. The volonté générale or general will is a consultation to find jointly a mayority decision. Translations which do not take into account this difference – voting without a deliberation and voting after the effort of finding a mayority ...
"Ticket tout" is a British term for a scalper, someone who engages in ticket resale for more than the face value of the ticket. In recent years some British ticket touts have moved into Internet ticket fraud. [3] In the sports betting world, a tout is someone who sells picks of winners against the spread and the over/under.
A majority is more than half of a total. [1] It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. For example, if a group consists of 31 individuals, a majority would be 16 or more individuals, while having 15 or fewer individuals would not constitute a majority.
This new version is sports-specific, however, as a partnership between The New York Times and The Athletic. As the NYT site instructs, for Connections Sports Edition, you "group sports terms that ...
President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce.
French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]
between 2008 and 2012, better performance than 87% of all directors The W. Frank Blount Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2010, if you bought shares in companies when W. Frank Blount joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 29.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -14.3 percent return from the S&P 500.