Sentence examples of "poids" in French

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La justice de ce pays, c'est un peu deux poids deux mesures : il y a la justice des pauvres et la justice des riches. Justice in this country is a bit of a double standard: there is the justice of the poor and the justice of the rich.
Le poids lourd traversa devant ma voiture. The truck cut in front of my car.
Cela m'ôte un poids de la poitrine. That takes a load off my chest.
Elle ne fait pas le poids avec moi. She is no match for me.
Prendre trop de poids n'est pas bon pour la santé. Becoming too fat is not good for the health.
Marie veut perdre du poids, mais Tom croit qu'elle ne devrait pas. Mary wants to lose some fat, but Tom thinks that she shouldn't.
Chacun de ces ascenseurs est capable de supporter le poids de dix personnes. These elevators are each capable of carrying ten persons.
L'accident a été un argument de poids en faveur des nouvelles mesures de sécurité. The accident was a strong argument for new safety measures.
Le destin de Tom et Mary hantait sans cesse l'auteur, accablé par sa propre impuissance à en assumer le poids. The destiny of Tom and Mary ceaselessly haunted the author, weighed down by his own powerlessness to assume it.
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