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French: régime d’exception

English translation: emergency regime







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French term or phrase:régime d’exception
English translation:emergency regime
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Social Sciences - Anthropology
French term or phrase: régime d’exception
Talking about changes in overseas France regarding the indigenous issue:
"Ces changements sont le produit d’une histoire coloniale caractérisée par des idéaux républicains plus rhétoriques qu’assumés et de cadres institutionnels fondés sur l’arbitraire, les inégalités instituées et les régimes d’exception"
AJK1
France
regime with emergency powers
Explanation:
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3. Le Burkina Faso depuis son accession à la souveraineté nationale a connu, à l'instar d'autres Etats africains, ses régimes démocratique et d'exception.

http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/be5aef802e39b728802564c2003867b1?Opendocument

3. Since becoming an internationally recognized sovereign State, Burkina Faso, like other African States, has been governed by democratic regimes and regimes with emergency powers.
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/c890d4d0425787ba802564c2003806b4?Opendocument
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Philip Taylor
Ireland
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks for all your help. After further research, it seems it's actually 'emergency regime', but you put me on the right track.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4regime with emergency powers
Philip Taylor
4 +2case-specific regulatory systemsMerit
3 +1ad hoc regimesJosephine79
4exceptional regimesSylvia Smith
3unlawful / illegal situationsPhilippe Boucry


  

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case-specific regulatory systems

Explanation:
The régimes d'exception means regulations specific to the outre mer, if I've understood correctly.

This is "régime" in the sense of regulations/system, and not government, though they are for the most part estbalished by, and administered by government.


Merit
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Elizabeth Lyons: or "rule by exception"
4 mins
  -> Thanks, but I think Phillip is right.

agree Philippe Boucry: rule by exception
42 mins
  -> Emergency powers as Phillip says.
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unlawful / illegal situations

Explanation:
a sugestion
Parts of the French Empire were not ruled according to "la loi républicaine", supposedly applicable to all and sundry, but by local governors etc who chose not to apply it, always for a very good reason, of course...

Philippe Boucry
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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regime with emergency powers

Explanation:
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Note added at 27 mins (2005-09-13 17:17:07 GMT)
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3. Le Burkina Faso depuis son accession à la souveraineté nationale a connu, à l'instar d'autres Etats africains, ses régimes démocratique et d'exception.

http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/be5aef802e39b728802564c2003867b1?Opendocument

3. Since becoming an internationally recognized sovereign State, Burkina Faso, like other African States, has been governed by democratic regimes and regimes with emergency powers.
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/c890d4d0425787ba802564c2003806b4?Opendocument


Philip Taylor
Ireland
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Note from asker to answerer
Thanks for all your help. After further research, it seems it's actually 'emergency regime', but you put me on the right track.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Philippe Boucry
32 mins

agree Nick Lingris
4 hrs

agree Jane Lamb-Ruiz: yes and ain't it gross
7 hrs

agree Merit: You're right, I went off in another direction...
8 hrs
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exceptional regimes

Explanation:
My understanding is that these are leaders [regimes] who consider themselves above the law, or who are formed outside of the law. This seems to fit with the tone of arbitrary and institutionalized inequalities.

So "exceptional" as in an exception to the law. Or perhaps "exclusive" regimes.

Sylvia Smith
France
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ad hoc regimes

Explanation:
I understand "regimes d'exception" to mean that basically they make it up as they go along, as it suits them, regardless of the republican ideals they are supposed to follow. I think someone else suggested a "case by case" basis: rather than applying the same rules to all.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc
Josephine79
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree verbis
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