prétendre

Le FMI n'a pas eu à connaître d'affaire où un tiers aurait prétendu avoir été induit en erreur par un fonctionnaire qui aurait abusivement déclaré agir dans l'exercice de ses fonctions officielles.
The IMF has not dealt with a situation in which a third party claimed that he believed that an official was acting in his official capacity when he was not, but that the third party was misled to the belief by misrepresentations of the official.
Ces objectifs, quiconque aurait prétendu, dans la Grèce de 1993, que l' économie du pays allait les atteindre en sept ans seulement n' aurait pas été pris au sérieux.
If anyone had said back in 1993 that Greece would achieve these objectives in just 7 years, they would have been laughed at.
Selon la légende, il aurait vu le jour en 1910 à Paris, lorsqu’un bistrotier qui servait le croque-monsieur aurait prétendu pour rire à ses clients que la préparation contenait de la viande d’homme.
According to legend, it was created in Paris in 1910 when a bistro owner, when serving a croque-monsieur to his customers, joked that it contained human meat.
On aurait ainsi attribué trop superficiellement à certains comportements humains un caractère permanent et immuable et, à partir de là, on aurait prétendu formuler des normes morales universellement valables.
Consequently, in too superficial a way, a permanent and unchanging character would be attributed to certain kinds of human behaviour, and, on the basis of this, an attempt would be made to formulate universally valid moral norms.
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