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French: de jouer la carte de la transparence

English translation: to ensure maximum transparency







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French term or phrase: jouer la carte de la transparence
English translation:to ensure maximum transparency
Entered by:Michael McCain
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French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology)
French term or phrase: de jouer la carte de la transparence
This is a project for standardizing communication technologies.

un site web en accès libre a été ouvert afin de jouer la carte de la transparence sur l'évolution du projet. "Nous tenions à proposer un site très réactif permettant à l'ensemble des partenaires d'y publier des informations dans le cadre d'une structure commune afin de garantir la cohérence
JTLingos
United States
to ensure maximum transparency
Explanation:
to ensure maximum transparency as the project moves forward.
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Michael McCain
Spain
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2to make project development transparent or to make the project development process transparent
Jane Lamb-Ruiz
5 +1play the transparency card
Marian Greenfield
4 +1to be completely open and transparent about progressxxxCMJ_Trans
4to show transparency (about the project progress)
Johanne Bouthillier
3to ensure maximum transparencyMichael McCain


  


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
play the transparency card

Explanation:
The five aces in an economist's pac... transparency and credibility. If an economist is falling behind in an argument, a initiative is to play the transparency card. Even if ...
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Londres... In Libya's case, we have a country which, for some time now, has been seeking to rejoin the international community. She wants to play the transparency card. ...
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[PDF] TABLE OF CONTENTSFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
... of the fact that destinations affected by situations of conflict or acts of terrorism, have no other recourse but to play the transparency card, especially in ...
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... For its own interest the buying group must play the transparency card with its purchase prices The definition of the client’s need is not always relevant. ...
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- Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency... Second, other companies play the transparency card and send a huge quantity of information, overwhelming the recipient, who does not really know what to do ...
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FRANCE WILL HONOR ITS STABILITY PACT COMMITMENTS: RAFFARIN... domestic product, he said. As for me, I play the transparency card, Raffarin told an interviewer on LCI television. When I saw that ...
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Thailand Expat Forum -> First Cases Of Bird Flu Confirmed In ...... Sars outbreak last year, they managed to go "beyond" their f### dinosaure communist spirit in order to contain the outbreak and to play the transparency card. ...
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Indonesia IMF / US$ 5 BILLIONS TO HELP REFORMS AND RECOVERY... Not only does Indonesia intend to play the transparency card through its various policies projects but also transparency towards the IMF, as it wrote in its ...
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Marian Greenfield
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Sara Freitas-Maltaverne
32 mins

agree Armineh Johannes: armineh johannes
2 hrs

disagree Michele Fauble: not the right connotation in this context
7 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to be completely open and transparent about progress

Explanation:
if you prefer to ignore the image

xxxCMJ_Trans
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 51

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree xxxsarahl
2 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to ensure maximum transparency

Explanation:
to ensure maximum transparency as the project moves forward.


    www.theperspective.org/2004/ june/accountabilityandtransparency.html
    Reference: http://jpn.cec.eu.int/english/press-info/4-1-3-82.htm
Michael McCain
Spain
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to make project development transparent or to make the project development process transparent

Explanation:
whole idea...literally to play the transparency card put you can't use that in this context...


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Note added at 7 mins (2004-09-08 16:47:13 GMT)
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there are NO superlatives in the French....



Jane Lamb-Ruiz
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 202

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Michele Fauble
7 hrs

agree jennifer de luca: seems to be better for the context I understood
14 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to show transparency (about the project progress)

Explanation:
although "to play the transparency card" is used, I'd find the proposed expression more appropriate to the context (not talking about someone else' strategy but about "our" plan

Johanne Bouthillier
Canada
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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