On n'enferme pas les gens juste parce qu'ils pourraient faire quelque chose.
You can't lock somebody up because you think they might do something.
Il n'enferme pas ces gars là à moins qu'ils n'aient une bonne raison.
They don't pull these guys in unless they've got good cause.
On n'enferme pas une fillette ordinaire dans un tel cagibi.
Doesn't take a box like that to lock up an ordinary little girl.
La France s'y emploie et réussira ce pari à condition qu'elle n'enferme pas le principe des 35 heures dans le schéma dépassé des horaires de travail hebdomadaire.
France is working on this and will succeed in meeting this challenge, provided that it does not enshrine the principle of the 35-hour working week in the outdated system of weekly working hours.
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