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Auparavant,nous avions tenté de nous informer avec toutes sortes de bijoutiers parisiens.
We had previously tried to gain information from all sorts of Parisian jewellers.
Et que nous avions tenté de l'en empêcher.
She said that you and I were there to stop her.
Nous avions tenté de convaincre ceux qui, pourtant partisans du service public, nous expliquaient que l'essentiel avait été préservé.
We had tried to convince those who, although they supported the public service, explained to us that the essentials had been safeguarded.
Sur la question des maladies rares, nous sommes aussi parvenus à un compromis qui est plus satisfaisant que ce que nous avions tenté d'obtenir la première fois.
On the issue of rare diseases, we have also achieved a compromise that is better than what we were pursuing first time round.
Il y 10 ans à peine, si nous avions tenté de tenir un débat public sur ce thème, les membres de la communauté des Nations Unies auraient été quelque peu étonnés.
Just 10 years ago, if we had tried to hold such an open debate, the members of the United Nations community would have been puzzled.
Nous avions tenté, en première lecture, d'augmenter cette ligne LIFE, qui n'atteint même pas 1 % du budget global, il faut le rappeler, pour la porter à la hauteur des politiques affichées par l'Union elle-même.
We made an attempt, at first reading, to increase this LIFE heading, which, I must point out, does not even represent 1% of the overall budget, with the aim of bringing it into line with the policies much-publicised by the Union itself.
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