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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | French term or phrase: placets politiques | context: au contraire les assassins étaient toujours glorifiés par les placets politiques
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30 mins confidence:   political approval
Explanation:
Placet = it is approved in latin.
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Note added at 33 mins (2008-07-30 00:22:02 GMT)
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Or better, "it is approved of"
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-07-30 00:49:11 GMT)
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Placet = Active present of the latin verb placeo = to be pleasing, to please, to be welcome or acceptable, etc.
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12 hrs confidence: highly placed politicians
Explanation:
Methinks my learned colleagues may have been a bit hasty in choosing the Latin term. (Sources, examples???) I'd look for other options as well. You could have:
Des haut placés politiques = highly placed politicians
or
Des hauts placés (politiques,...)= higher-ups, highly placed officials (politicians,...)
or even, if a bit garbled:
Sur la place politique = in politics, in the political world...
or (not very common, but possible):
Sur les places politiques
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Though the coup was effected by killing some highly placed politicians, it failed to assume the power it had wrestled from them. The only source from which ...
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... Ferdinand Nahimana, Felicien Kabugu, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza (see “Related Cases”), as well as with other highly placed politicians, notably those who, ...
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Perez Yannick
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et plus les groupes de pression bien organisés sur la place politique ..... Political Control The Journal of Law, Economics & Organisation Vol 3 Fall pp ...
http://www.grjm.net/documents/Yannick-Perez/Perez_RMI_VF.pdf
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