devancer
- Examples
D'autres, plus forts que lui, le devançaient dans l'eau. | Others stronger than he would plunge in before him. |
Elle se douchait toujours immédiatement après s'être levée, mais les fourmis la devançaient toujours. | She always showered immediately after getting up, but the ants were always there before her. |
Aux débuts de la construction de l’Union européenne, les responsables politiques devançaient l’opinion publique. | In the early period of building the European Union, political leaders were ahead of public opinion. |
Autrefois, ces pays devançaient largement l'ouest de l'Europe dans le domaine du transport ferroviaire, mais ils ont perdu cet avantage et leur environnement est particulièrement vulnérable. | These countries once had a huge head start over the west of Europe in the area of rail transport, but it has thus been lost, and their environment is particularly vulnerable too. |
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