The representative is calling for an immediate cease-fire to the violence that is besetting the city.
Le représentant demande un cessez-le-feu immédiat face à la violence qui frappe la ville.
It is the difficulties of administration in Brussels rather than the lack of effect on the ground which is besetting their progress.
Leurs progrès sont davantage entravés par les difficultés produites par l'administration de Bruxelles que par un manque d'effet sur le terrain.
She focussed on the wave of xenophobia that is besetting Bulgarian society and the legislative measures that the Government is taking to prevent or restrict immigration.
Elle se centre sur la vague de xénophobie provoquée dans la société bulgare et les mesures législatives prises par le gouvernement pour empêcher ou restreindre l'immigration.
I hope that this mission, which is doing a very difficult job—sometimes a dangerous, but noble job—will, together with the national police of Haiti and the Government, manage to control the wanton insecurity that is besetting Haitian society.
J'ose espérer que cette mission, qui accomplit une tâche ô combien difficile, et parfois périlleuse mais noble, arrivera, de concert avec la police nationale haïtienne et le Gouvernement, à juguler l'insécurité aveugle qui frappe la société haïtienne.
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