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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