Nous aurions pu fournir mille explications à ces citoyens, mais toutes auraient résonné comme de piètres excuses et donné lieu à une chasse aux sorcières, empêchant ainsi la résolution pratique du problème.
We could have given these citizens a thousand explanations but all would have sounded like feeble excuses and would have invited a search for the guilty parties, thereby preventing the practical solution of the problem.
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