had bred
-avais élevé
Past perfect conjugation of breed. There are other translations for this conjugation.

breed

Legal protection in the workplace had for some time been able to offset that disadvantage, but it had bred a disadvantage of its own: employers had shown an increasing tendency to hire men rather than women.
La protection de la législation du travail a pu, pendant un certain temps, compenser ce désavantage, mais cela a fini par engendrer un nouveau désavantage, les employeurs étant de plus en plus portés à engager des hommes plutôt que des femmes.
Success had bred success and the country's largest operator had gone international.
Le succès a engendré le succès et le plus grand opérateur du pays est actuellement passé international.
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