Translation for 'to go on sth' from English to French

to go on sth. [base conclusions on]

s'appuyer sur qc. [argument, théorie]

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to go back on sth.

reprendre qc. [promesse]

revenir sur qc. [décision, promesse]

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to go easy on sb./sth.

épargner qn./qc.

to go on before sb./sth.

précéder qn./qc.

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to go a bundle on sth. [coll.] [idiom]

être emballé par qc.

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to go on (and on) about sth.

épiloguer sur qc.

to go on a forage for sth.

aller faire provision de qc. [bois]

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to go on watch

prendre le quartnaut.

to go on reconnaissance

partir en reconnaissancemil.

aller en reconnaissancemil.

to go on holiday

aller en vacances

partir en vacancestourismeVocVoy.

to go on-site

aller sur le terrain [aussi fig.]

to go on [persist]

se prolonger

to go on forever

s'éterniser

to go on strike

faire grèveoccup.

se mettre en grèveoccup.

to go on board

s'embarquernaut.

to go on crutches

béquiller [marcher avec des béquilles] [fam.]TechMéd.

to go on [light]

s'allumer [lampe]

to go on patrol

aller en patrouilledr.mil.

to go on foot

aller à pattes [fam.]

to go on work experience

faire un stage en situationoccup.

to go on a cruise

partir en croisièrenaut.tourisme

to go away on business

partir en déplacementoccup.

to go out on call

se déplacer [médecin, artisan]

to go on a diet

se mettre au régime

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• In a 1952 article in "ARTnews", Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting" and wrote that "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
• Iraq's strategic reserves had been depleted, and by now it lacked the power to go on any major offensives until nearly the end of the war.
• Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career but had intense ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle.
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• In 1270, Prince Edward left the country to go on crusade in the Holy Land.
• International pressure on Henry grew, and in May 1172 he negotiated a settlement with the papacy in which the King swore to go on crusade as well as effectively overturned the more controversial clauses of the Constitutions of Clarendon.
• Ellen tells them that she has kept on the pub since her husband's death and that Fanny is now at a dancing-school and determined to go on the stage.
• Bush was to blame for the infection, saying that she was preparing to go on a fishing trip at the time to avoid seeing Bush on television during the then-ongoing 2000 Republican National Convention.
• She (Sunita Deshpande) was to go on to become an accomplished writer in her own right.

• After becoming a fugitive from the law, Banner is forced to go on the run and over the years learns various skills in order to both survive and remain under radar of those who are hunting him.
• Dilana, Magni Ásgeirsson, and Toby Rand with his own band Juke Kartel were the three runners up and accepted an offer to go on tour with Supernova.
• The buzz around this drastic change prompted him to go on a Spanish-language television station to deny that he was ill, or that he hated being dark-skinned, or that his new skin tone was the result of steroid use.
• In this case, the plaintiff could not be assisted by "res ipsa loquitur" and had to go on to prove that the flat tyre was caused by the transport company's negligence.
• Similar to his argument for abortion rights, Singer argues that newborns lack the essential characteristics of personhood—"rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness"—and therefore "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living".

• Collaboration between the University and Ferranti later produced the Ferranti Mark I, the first mass-produced computer to go on sale.
• Work is not glorified either, since the plot revolves around a group of villagers using their vacation time to go on a trip up the Volga and Moscow Canal to perform in Moscow.
• German crusaders were sent, or more likely decided to go on their own accord as they were known to do.
• Ruth opted to go on his trip, despite Barrow advising him that he was making a mistake; in any event, Ruth's asking price was too high for the notoriously tight-fisted Navin.