écarteler

Dans l'excitation de la dernière ligne droite, les pilotes sont écartelés entre leurs multiples obligations et la nécessité de se reposer. Chacun a sa méthode…
In the excitement of the final straight before the start, the riders and drivers are torn between their many obligations and the need to rest.
À propos du secret médical, elle a rappelé que les médecins et les assistantes sociales avaient des obligations ambivalentes et pouvaient être écartelés entre l'éthique professionnelle et leurs devoirs envers la société.
With regard to medical secrecy, she noted that doctors and social workers had dual obligations and might feel torn between professional ethics and their duty to society.
Et nous sommes aussi écartelés entre la responsabilité que nous avons vis-à-vis des principes et, en fin de compte, la responsabilité que bien des gens nous attribuent, y compris pour de nombreux détails.
We are also torn between our responsibility in matters of principle and, at the end of the day, the responsibility many people see us as having for many of the details.
Mais les milliers de simples communistes, écartelés entre leur dévouement aux idées du communisme et la menace d'être exclus des rangs de l'Internationale communiste, sont infiniment plus importants.
But immeasurably more important are the thousands of rank and file Communists who are torn between their devotion to the ideas of Communism and the threatened expulsion from the ranks of the Comintern.
Les Pourtalès sont écartelés par la guerre, mais les relations restent cordiales.
Divided by war, relations within the Pourtalès family remain cordial.
Beaucoup de moines et de moniales se sentent écartelés entre deux mondes manifestement de plus en plus opposés, et sont incapables de trouver une approche équilibrée entre ces domaines en conflit.
Many monks and nuns suffer from being torn between the two evidently and increasingly opposed worlds and are unable to find a balanced approach to these areas of conflict.
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