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BREAK CYCLE [4 records]

Record 1 2024-12-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grammar
  • Phraseology
CONT

After going through a six-week alcoholism-therapy program in 1993, Sampson found a job as the custodian at the Friendship Centre and got himself off welfare. ... "I can be happy in saying that ... we broke that cycle."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grammaire
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Éviter la traduction littérale «briser le cycle», expression dénuée de sens, à moins qu'un déterminant ne soit ajouté. (Ex. : le cycle de la dépendance).

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé

Spanish

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Record 4 1992-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
OBS

Source pour la première appellation : section de traduction du Service correctionnel du Canada.

Spanish

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