batten

I hope that before the summit, people will not have battened down their national budgets.
J'espère que les budgets nationaux ne seront pas encore clôturés avant l'échéance du sommet.
This is quite understandable, for their entire rule depends on a diametrically contrasting notion, on a screaming inequality, the entire horror and evils of which have battened upon the backs of the workers.
C'est assez compréhensible, toute leur domination repose sur une idée diamétralement opposée, sur une inégalité criante, dont toute l'horreur et les maux se sont abattus sur le dos des travailleurs.
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