Il avait écarté les ténêbres.
And he lifted darkness off the earth.
Elle avait écarté cette pratique, la considérant comme lex specialis.
It had dismissed such practice as constituting lex specialis.
On avait écarté cette option.
That's why we ruled it out.
Quarante ans après Herzl, il fut écarté comme il avait écarté Herzl, et pour la même raison fondamentale.
Forty years after Herzl, he was cast aside as he had cast Herzl aside, and for the same essential reason.
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