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Statistical procedures are called robust if they remain informative and efficient in the presence of outliers and other departures from typical model assumptions on the data. Ignoring unusual observations can play havoc with standard statistical methods and can also result in losing the valuable information gotten from unusual data points. Robust procedures prevent this.  2, record 1, English, - robust

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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La médiane est un indicateur dit «robuste», car de nombreuses observations peuvent varier sans que la médiane soit modifiée.  2, record 1, French, - robuste

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La robustesse d'un test par rapport à un certain modèle est [...] la qualité de rester relativement insensible à certaines modifications du modèle : on constatera que les tests de moyenne ou de non-corrélation sont robustes.  3, record 1, French, - robuste

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Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Assume that A was seized of the fee simple estate in Blackacre, and that A's heir, C, was an infant aged ten years. At common law, upon the death of A, the fee simple estate would pass, by inheritance, to C. As C was an infant, the land would go into wardship and with the land also would go the child. Blackacre would become subject to the onerous feudal incidents of wardship and marriage and, as a result, financial havoc could be wrought upon A's family. To avoid this result, A would make the following disposition of Blackacre by way of a use : A would be the "feoffor to uses", B the "feoffee to uses", and C the "cestui que use". B would undertake to hold the fee simple estate to the use of A until his death and, thereafter, to the use of C, A's heir.  2, record 2, English, - feoffor%20to%20uses

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feoffor to uses : a historical term.  3, record 2, English, - feoffor%20to%20uses

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

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fieffant à usage d'autrui; fieffante à usage d'autrui : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 2, French, - fieffant%20%C3%A0%20usage%20d%27autrui

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Record 3,  Textual support,  English

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heavy snowfall warning: Expect a snowfall of 10 cm or more (15 cm in Ontario) in 12 hours or less. Travel could become hazardous. [Environment Canada weather warning.]  3, record 3, English, - heavy%20snowfall

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Heavy snowfall and extreme cold can immobilize an entire region. Even areas which normally experience mild winters can be hit with a major snow storm or extreme cold. The results can range from isolation to the havoc of cars and trucks sliding on icy highways.  4, record 3, English, - heavy%20snowfall

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[...] forte chute [de neige] quelle qu'en soit la durée, qui peut être de plusieurs jours, et sans tenir compte du vent.  7, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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avertissement de grosse chute de neige : Attendez-vous à une hauteur d'au moins 10 cm (d'au moins 15 cm en Ontario) en 12 heures ou moins. Les voyages risquent d'être dangereux. [Avertissement météorologique diffusé par Environnement Canada.]  3, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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La rigueur de l'hiver fut sans commune mesure : bordée de neige sur bordée de neige, vent vif du nord qui mord, glace et frimas pleins les bras.  8, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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L'Office de la langue française (OLF) définit comme suit l'averse de neige : Chute de neige, subite et abondante, quelquefois violente, mais de courte durée. [source : www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/officialisation/].  9, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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bordée : Selon Dagenais, dans son «Dictionnaire des difficultés de la langue française au Canada», ce mot, qui date du XVIe siècle, a signifié l'ensemble des canons rangés du même côté d'un navire, puis une décharge simultanée de tous les canons. Dagenais précise qu'il ne faut pas dire «nous avons eu une bordée de neige cette semaine» mais plutôt «il est tombé beaucoup de neige cette semaine». Or le terme «bordée de neige» est un canadianisme de bon aloi et son emploi se justifie parfaitement. Le «Trésor de la langue française» signale l'emploi de «bordée» comme régionalisme dans le sens d'une «grosse quantité de». Il relève la tournure «quelques bordées de grêlons» dans la «Chronique des Pasquier», de Georges Duhamel (Le Désert de Bièvres), 1938, p. 31. Il souligne également l'emploi de «bordée de neige» dans «Le Survenant» de Germaine Guèvremont, 1945, p. 94. Le «Dictionnaire québécois français», de Lionel Meney, nous indique que «bordée» a signifié en Saintonge une grande quantité de pluie, de grêle, etc. Enfin, mentionnons que d'autres dictionnaires, français et québécois, attestent l'emploi canadien de «bordée de neige».  10, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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Bonne, grosse, première bordée de neige.  10, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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Recevoir une bordée de neige.  11, record 3, French, - bord%C3%A9e%20de%20neige

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Record 4,  Textual support,  English

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To chip at an opponent's, gain, lack, lose, play havoc with one's confidence.  2, record 4, English, - confidence

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Confidence is dwindling.  2, record 4, English, - confidence

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

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Acquérir de la, être en, miner la confiance.  2, record 4, French, - confiance

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

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[...] un buen globo a tiempo puede minar la confianza del más pintado.  1, record 4, Spanish, - confianza

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

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The second scourge of the weather is hail. This has, it is true, a more localised effect but the havoc that it brings is considerable in the small area that it sweeps. The grapes which have been split by hailstones lose their juice which in turn causes rot to set in, which lowers the quality of the already greatly reduced harvest. Certain vineyard areas have installed anti-hail guns but it must be admitted that their success is far from complete.  1, record 5, English, - anti%2Dhail%20gun

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Frost is a risk well known to local orchardists, but the sudden hail storms which occur regularly between September and January constitute a particularly selective threat to the young fruit crop. ... alternative means were sought to combat hail. One such device was the ’hail gun’, originating in France and first introduced into an Ardmona orchard in time for the 1986-7 season. Certainly not a recent invention and lacking scientific support for its efficacy, the hail gun has gained a strong following among orchardists. Costing about $30,000 each, hail guns are electronically operated and powered by exploding acetylene; the benefits were demonstrated, to the satisfaction of some, during a damaging storm in 1987. Their precise mode of action remains uncertain.  3, record 5, English, - anti%2Dhail%20gun

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

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De tout temps les agriculteurs ont tenté de lutter contre la grêle, mais tous les essais de lutte contre ce phénomène se sont jusqu'à présent révélés vains. Parmi les procédés les plus anciennement utilisés figure le canon paragrêle, lançant des charges explosives dans les nuages réputés grêligènes. L'inefficacité de ce canon, conçu sans bases scientifiques, est maintenant reconnue par tous les experts.  3, record 5, French, - canon%20paragr%C3%AAle

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grêlifuge : Se dit des appareils, engins (canons) ou pièces d'artifice (fusées), employés pour lutter contre la grêle.  4, record 5, French, - canon%20paragr%C3%AAle

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Record 6,  Textual support,  English

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The zebra mussel, a European invader that reached the Great Lakes in ballast water from ships... has wiped out all twelve species of native mussels in Lake Erie. It reached the upper Illinois River via canals in 1989, but the flood substantially hastened its spread. It is virtually certain to cause similar havoc in its new home.  2, record 6, English, - havoc

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

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(OMU) (Bulletin)  3, record 6, French, - ravages

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Record 7,  Textual support,  English

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As a result of unfavourable weather, especially winter frost, wheat output dropped to 3.5 million tonnes, whilst the output of barley was 1.3 million tonnes compared to 1.5 million tonnes in 1996.  2, record 7, English, - winter%20frost

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The winter frost has played havoc with many plants and created some foliage damage.  3, record 7, English, - winter%20frost

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

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Les gelées d'hiver ne provoquent qu'assez rarement des dégâts car elles se produisent au moment du repos végétatif des plantes qui sont alors assez résistantes au gel. Par contre, lorsque les températures descendent suffisamment bas pour provoquer des dégâts, ceux-ci peuvent être très étendus, en touchant par exemple des cultures de blé sur des régions entières; toutefois la présence d'une couche de neige peut efficacement protéger la partie souterraine de la plante.  2, record 7, French, - gel%C3%A9e%20d%27hiver

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Record 8,  Textual support,  English

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A small watercourse, sometimes a steep-walled, flat-floored channel, created by occasional rainfall in arid regions of the Americas.  2, record 8, English, - arroyo

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Such rains create havoc by destroying mud walls and houses... and by sending swirling torrents down the wadis of the Sahara or the "arroyos" of the North American deserts.  3, record 8, English, - arroyo

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

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Lors de ruissellements importants, l'écoulement est intermittent [...] Les cours d'eau des régions sèches ont des noms particuliers : «oued» au Sahara [...] «arroyo» aux États-Unis [...]  1, record 8, French, - arroyo

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Record 9,  Textual support,  English

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A "Friday the 13th" computer virus struck personal computers in Britain yesterday, wiping out program files and annoying businesses. The virus affected computers made by IBM, and compatible models. It resembled one which wreaked havoc with computers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem last year, and later spread to Europe.  1, record 9, English, - Jerusalem

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

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Virus du vendredi 13.  1, record 9, French, - J%C3%A9rusalem

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