résigner

Se résignant, il ferma les yeux.
Resigning himself, he shut his eyes.
Se résignant souvent à leur sort, les femmes ne font pas valoir leur droit d'hériter.
For women, because they often resign themselves to their fates, they do not claim their rights to inheritance.
On n’entend que le bruit d’un jeu de cartes que l’on mélange, les ouvriers de GM&S se résignant à une énième partie.
The only sound is that of a deck of cards being shuffled, as the GM&S workers resign themselves to play yet another round.
Le concept marxiste de classe s’intègre pourtant difficilement à cette chaîne énumérative, dans la mesure où, en se résignant à devenir le simple maillon d’une chaîne, le prolétariat perdrait son rôle privilégié.
The Marxist concept of class is however hard to integrate into this enumerative chain, to the extent that, in resigning itself to becoming the simple link in a chain, the proletariat would lose its privileged role.
Devant la complexité du problème et ne se résignant pas à clore l'instruction de si douloureuses pétitions, le Parlement a demandé une étude scientifique indépendante au STOA et, en mai 2000, le docteur Moreno a présenté ses conclusions sous forme de trois options.
Given the complexity of the problem and without wishing to end the investigation into such distressing petitions, Parliament requested STOA to carry out an independent scientific study and, in May 2000, Doctor Moreno presented his conclusions, giving three options.
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