long

He had longed for this day throughout the years of his training.
Il avait attendu ce jour pendant toutes les années qu’avait duré sa formation.
Indeed, this position offered the support and the circumstances which he had longed for his entire life.
En effet, cette position, le soutien et les circonstances dont il avait tant attendu pour l'ensemble de sa vie.
Angels had longed to bring relief to the divine sufferer, but this might not be.
Des anges avaient désiré apporter un soulagement à cet Être divin qui souffrait, mais cela ne pouvait se faire.
My soul knew that it was the world I had longed for, a path to the home of my soul.
Mon âme savait que c'était le monde que j'avais tant aimé, un chemin vers la maison de mon âme.
Many times he had longed to leave this place, find different work, build another kind of life.
Il avait déjà eu envie de partir, à plusieurs reprises, envie de trouver un autre travail, bâtir une autre vie.
Yet there came to her also doubts and disappointments, and she had longed for the time when His glory should be revealed.
Cependant elle connaissait, elle aussi, les doutes et les déceptions, et elle soupirait après le moment où il manifesterait sa gloire.
The inspiration born of democratisation - that we had longed to see - quickly gave way to intolerance and arbitrary arrests.
Le souffle de la démocratisation - que nous avions appelée de nos vux - est vite retombé pour céder la place à l'intolérance et aux arrestations arbitraires.
They had waited their whole lives for this moment, just as their medieval predecessors had longed for the end of the world, and just as my grandmother waited for the Oprah Winfrey Show to come on Channel 8 every day at 4 o'clock.
Ils avaient attendu ce moment toutes leurs vies,et comme ma grand-mère attendait l'Oprah Winfrey Show
They had waited their whole lives for this moment, just as their medieval predecessors had longed for the end of the world, and just as my grandmother waited for the Oprah Winfrey Show to come on Channel 8 every day at 4 o'clock.
Ils avaient attendu ce moment toutes leurs vies, comme leurs prédécesseurs du Moyen-Âge avaient attendu la fin du monde avec impatience, et comme ma grand-mère attendait l'Oprah Winfrey Show sur Channel 8, chaque jour, à 16h.
I remember holding my three-month-old beautiful daughter whom I had just named Oma, which in my dialect means "truth and justice," as that was what I had longed so much for all this time.
Je me souviens avoir tenu dans mes bras ma belle fille de trois mois que je venais d'appeler Oma, ce qui dans mon dialecte signifie « vérité et justice », et je l'avais tant attendue durant si longtemps.
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