caresser

GRÉGOIRE III : Nous avions caressé ce projet avec peut-être un optimisme excessif, comme si c’était quelque chose que l’on pouvait réaliser du jour au lendemain.
GRÉGOIRE III: We worked on that with too much euphoria perhaps, as if it could be achieved from one day to the next.
Il a en effet semblé pendant un moment que le gouvernement allait pouvoir asseoir son autorité et nous avions caressé l'espoir qu'il arriverait par exemple à concrétiser son intention de résoudre la question chypriote sur la base du plan des Nations unies.
For a while it seemed that the government would indeed be able to establish its authority and we had also hoped that it would, for example, be able to make good its intention to resolve the Cyprus issue on the basis of the UN plan.
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