contrive

This means that the future must be envisaged with great hope if everyone, beginning with yourselves, contrives to make it sure with competence and humanity.
C’est dire que l’avenir doit être envisagé avec beaucoup d’espoir si chacun, à commencer par vous-mêmes, prend les moyens de l’assurer avec compétence et humanité.
In his novel which simply hives with falsehoods, Kessel contrives to portray me in such an odious light that, at least in those passages where he borrows from the writings of Gerassimenko and Arbatov, he should have named his sources!
Dans son roman révoltant de mensonges, le jeune écrivain Kessel s'ingénie à me dépeindre d'une manière si odieuse qu'il lui aurait fallu, au moins que dans les passages où il s'inspire des écrits de Guérasimenko et Arbatov, citer ses sources.
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