Plusieurs générations de tailleurs de pierre et de maçons s’attelèrent à l’ouvrage, qui dura tout un siècle (le XVe siècle).
Several generations of stonecutters and masons were harnessed with the work, which lasted a whole century (the 15th century).
DOC 5 Les parlementaires s’attelèrent eux aussi à la clarification des orientations en matière de politique de développement.
DOC 5 The clarification of the orientation for development policy was also pro moted in the Bundestag.
Ils prirent deux vaches qui allaitaient et les attelèrent au char, et ils enfermèrent les petits dans la maison.
They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.
Passant outre ces avis négatifs, les frères McLoughlin s’attelèrent à la tâche de mettre au point un bateau répondant à leurs exigences.
Not content to listen to the naysayers, the brothers went to work designing a boat that would meet their requirements.
La besogne de persuasion morale à laquelle s’attelèrent Aznar et Palacio à coups de téléphone et de réunions bilatérales ne parvint à réunir que quatre voix : les trois promoteurs et la Bulgarie. Il en fallait neuf.
The process of moral persuasion in which Aznar and Palacios worked by phone and in bilateral meetings did not succeed in pulling in more than four votes: those of the three promoters and Bulgaria.
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