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 Translation for 'to embrace sb sth' from English to French
embrasser qn./qc.to embrace sb./sth.
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Partial Matches
étreindre qn.to embrace sb.
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donner l'accolade à qn.to embrace sb.
englober qc.to embrace sth. [include]
comprendre qc. [englober]to embrace sth. [include, comprise]
enceindre qc. [rare]to embrace sth. [encircle, surround]
enserrer qc. [enfermer]to embrace sth. [encircle, surround]
être inhérent à qc. to embrace sth. [include or contain sth. as a constituent part]
qn. a hâte que qn./qc. fasse qc.sb. can't wait for sb./sth. to do sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to move sb/sth. away from sb./sth.
placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.
habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.
enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
soustraire qn./qc. à la vue de qn.to hide sb./sth. from sb.'s view
assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]
confondre qn./qc. avec qn./qc. (d'autre)to mistake sb./sth. for sb./sth. (else)
tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
accolade {f}embrace
étreinte {f} [affectueuse]embrace
s'embrasser [entre personnalités]to embrace
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Usage Examples English
  • So government decided to create a different slogan to embrace Kentucky as a whole while also encouraging more people to visit the Bluegrass.
  • a philosophical treatise and collection of poems where he criticises Russian colonial policies and encourages other Kazakhs to embrace education and literacy.
  • Emperor Meiji, the new ruler, staged a New Years' feast designed to embrace the Western world and countries in 1872.
  • Frustration with abolitionism, spiritualism and labor reform caused Lum to embrace anarchism and radicalize workers.
  • Kissinger—along with William Perry, Sam Nunn, and George Shultz—has called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and in three "Wall Street Journal" op-eds proposed an ambitious program of urgent steps to that end.

  • He stated that the first woman to embrace Islam was Khadijah.
  • Although the first telephone lines were installed by the Falkland Islands Company in the 1880s, the Falkland Islands Government was slow to embrace telephony.
  • The Nobel Committee also stressed that Wiesel's commitment originated in the sufferings of the Jewish people but that he expanded it to embrace all repressed peoples and races.
  • The author exhorts the church repeatedly to embrace a specific view of salvation, which he then explicates.
  • Grateful for their kindness and protection, Donaldson decided to embrace his role as "punk" and do his best to keep his men happy.

  • His openness to embrace new styles combined with a vivid imagination helped mold new styles of architecture and consequently helped push the limits of construction.
  • The Department of Defense Ada mandate was effectively removed in 1997, as the DoD began to embrace commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology.
  • Originally, another subject of the split was whether to embrace devolution as a first step to full independence (or as the sole step if this was what the electorate wished) or for it to be "all or nothing".
  • Benedictine Oblates endeavor to embrace the spirit of the Benedictine vow in their own life in the world.
  • He suggests that it was a major strategic blunder, turning neighboring nations such as Ukraine to embrace the United States and other Western nations more.

  • The concept of autonomy can therefore be seen to embrace not only judgement, but also self-interest and a continuous process of critical evaluation of ethics and procedures from within the profession itself.
  • The Great Jubilee of 2000 was a call to the church to become more aware and to embrace her missionary task for the work of evangelization.
  • Oldfield continued to embrace new musical styles, with "The Songs of Distant Earth" (based on Arthur C. ...
  • Outside of Western classical music, "mode" is sometimes used to embrace similar concepts such as "Octoechos", "maqam", "pathet" etc. (see #Analogues in different musical traditions below).
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