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 Translation for 'to the utmost' from English to French
au max {adv} [fam.]at the utmost
au maximum {adv}to the utmost
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plus grande discrétion {f}utmost discretion
plus grand respect {m}utmost respect
affaire {f} de prime importancematter of utmost importance
ne pas mesurer ses effortsto try one's utmost
faire grand cas de qc.to attach utmost importance to sth.
écrire qc. avec une majuscule [loc.]to attach utmost importance to sth. [idiom]
attacher une importance capitale à qc.to consider sth. to be of utmost importance
lathe
lesthe
2
l'essentiel {m}the essentials {pl}
dr.
le barreau {m}
the Bar
littérat.F
La Plaisanterie [Milan Kundera]
The Joke
géogr.pol.
La Haye {f} [siège du gouvernement des Pays-Bas]
The Hague
littérat.théâtreF
L'Avare [Molière (1668)]
The Miser
littérat.F
Les Initiés [Hella S. Haasse]
The Incrowd
relig.
les fidèles {f.pl}
the faithful
géogr.
les Everglades {m.pl} [zone humide subtropicale du sud de la Floride]
The Everglades
mil.
assiégés {m.pl}
the besieged {pl}
littérat.théâtreF
Les Mouches {noun} [Jean-Paul Sartre]
The Flies
internet
le Web {m}
the Web
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Usage Examples English
  • Telescopes of such great length were naturally difficult to use and must have taxed to the utmost the skill and patience of the observers.
  • As the most orchestral of the four movements, the "Final" exploits the resources of the three players to the utmost, and Ravel rounds off the entire work with a brilliant coda.
  • Mezzobarbo denied these charges to the utmost and had numerous and prominent supporters.
  • According to Siegmund's own account, Friedrich was "one of the first in Austria to recognize the greatness of Richard Wagner and to exert himself to the utmost in propagating his music and his ideas".
  • The aim of the Society was "to develop to the utmost the Russian national culture, to intensify traditional Russian–Latvian relations, and cooperate with the representatives of all nationalities of the Republic".

  • They should get hitched to something which would make them strain to the utmost, something that would be challenging.
  • At a press conference in Sittard on 26 September 2008, Blom announced his retirement from the sport, feeling that, after various injuries and operations, his body no longer allowed him to strain it to the utmost.
  • who recruits Shefford for a dangerous mission in which his "second sight" talents will be taxed to the utmost.
  • To establish an order of society which is free from hindrance in the way on an all round development of its individual members, which fosters the growth of human personality in all its aspects and goes to the utmost limit in progressively eliminating social political or economic exploitation and inequality, the profit motive in the economic activity and organisation of society and the anti-social concentration in any form.
  • They will return determined to use those efforts to the utmost".

  • In 1937, he was summoned before the War Ministry and accused of ignoring a draft notice from the Italian Royal Navy—one day before he was to write a final examination on Italy's participation in the Spanish Civil War, based on a quote from Thucydides: "We have the singular merit of being brave to the utmost degree."
  • Milton used the flexibility of blank verse, and its capacity to support syntactic complexity, to the utmost.
  • At his prime Mustafà possessed a voice of superior strength and beauty, and he mastered the trills and coloraturas to the utmost perfection.
  • On 6 May, the fourth day of the strike, he declared in the House of Commons that the strike was illegal and argued that it was not entitled to the legal privileges of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 and that the union bosses would be "liable to the utmost farthing" in damages for the harm that they inflicted on businesses and for inciting the men to break their contracts of employment.
  • Hating his people for mistreating him, Mano decided to destroy them all by touching the ground and "straining his power to the utmost"; he obliterated his planet, causing it to explode.

  • Represents the EOD mission [...] to prevent a detonation and protect the surrounding area and property to the utmost.
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