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analogous to doing so.

French translation: équivaut à/signifie

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English term or phrase:	analogous to doing so.
French translation:	équivaut à/signifie
Entered by:	kerbager

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13:53 Sep 5, 2011

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Business/Commerce (general)

English term or phrase: analogous to doing so.

This would not violate the FCPA because (1) you are not giving anything of value to the government official, (2) you are not seeking to influence any official decision or the results of the survey, and (3) it is permissible to make reasonable and bona fide expenditures directly related to the “promotion, demonstration or explanation of a company’s products or services”, and this course of action is reasonably analogous to doing so.

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équivaut à/signifie

Explanation:
analogous to not violating the FCPA - the way i understand "doing so"

"Et en agissant de la sorte, vous ne violez pas le FCPA"

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mimi 254
Local time: 20:17

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merci
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Summary of answers provided

3 +4

équivaut à/signifie

mimi 254

(ce type de contexte) s'y prêtant

Sylvie Mathis

peut raisonnablement y être comparé

FX Fraipont

similaire

MehdiCaps

Summary of reference entries provided
	mamamia

Discussion entries: 2

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35 mins confidence:

similaire

Explanation:
Je ne crois pas qu'il soit nécessaire de traduire "to doing so" si la phrase est bien tournée.

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Note added at 42 mins (2011-09-05 14:35:48 GMT)
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Raisonnablement / assez similaire. Éviter le redondant "relativement similaire".

Le troisième point indique que, puisqu'il est permis de faire XXX et que YYY (le fameux "this") est une action / une procédure similaire, YYY est également acceptable.

MehdiCaps
France
Local time: 21:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 36

53 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

équivaut à/signifie

Explanation:
analogous to not violating the FCPA - the way i understand "doing so"

"Et en agissant de la sorte, vous ne violez pas le FCPA"

mimi 254
Local time: 20:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 86

Grading comment

merci

1 hr confidence:

peut raisonnablement y être comparé

Explanation:
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FX Fraipont
Belgium
Local time: 21:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 745

3 hrs confidence:

(ce type de contexte) s'y prêtant

Explanation:
c'est ainsi que je comprends la fin de cette phrase...

Sylvie Mathis
Spain
Local time: 21:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 102

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14 mins

Reference

Reference information:
For anyone who hasn't heard this word before, analogous means 'similar in some ways but different in others'. For example, computers and brains are analogous.

It's not a very commonly used word. Most of the examples I could find used 'analogous with', and I could only find one example that used 'analogous to', but there is no difference between 'analogous with' and 'analogous to', it's just that we more commonly say 'analogous with'.

mamamia
Italy
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

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