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may / mighthypothèse > énonciation première

mightprésupposition

cancapacité / compétence / savoir-faire

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couldhypothèse / présupposition / possibilité

The Guardian Rise p. 5 4 Fébruary 2006

Cette publicité

comprend quatre occurrences

de can :

1 Valeur de potentiel,

capacité, compétence (présent) :

I can oversee.

2 - 3 - 4 Valeur hypothétique

(conditionnel en français) :

but I couldn't manage

- If you think you could - Could you?

The Guardian Society p. 8 10 December 2008

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2008/12/10/pdfs/gdn_081210_so1_8_21413445.pdf

The Guardian p. 11 15 February 2007

Rex Morgan

Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis

20 May 2005

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/about.htm

It might have seemed unlikely that Mr. Mohsen, the founder of a San Jose company called Aptix Corporation, would try to hire a hit man to kill a federal judge who presided over a patent-infringement case. But, as a result of that civil case, Mr. Mohsen was in jail facing multiple charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice. And, according to the government, he did indeed solicit a fellow inmate to kill the judge - although he quibbled at the asking price of $25,000, saying he considered $10,000 more reasonable.

The inmate, an informant, caught the conversation on tape.

"So, now, what would you want?" the informant asked Mr. Mohsen, according to a tape transcript Mr. Mohsen's lawyer provided. "He could be shot. He could be knifed. He could be blown up or it could look like, maybe a gas leak in his house or what?"

Mr. Mohsen asked the man which approach would be "the least traceable," and though he expressed some discomfort with the idea of killing a judge, he ordered the informant to track the judge's movements.

"I wouldn't want to do it at the courthouse," he said. "Get him when he's driving around. I'm sure he goes to a golf course or something."

When Mr. Mohsen pleaded not guilty last summer to 23 criminal counts including solicitation to murder a federal judge, the case had to be assigned to a judge in Sacramento because the entire San Francisco bench recused itself from the case.