retarder

Les clans jouèrent un rôle très utile dans les autarchies locales, mais retardèrent considérablement la croissance de nations grandes et fortes.
The clans served a valuable purpose in local self-government, but they greatly delayed the growth of large and strong nations.
Bien que les travaux reprennent début 1930, des évènements comme la 2nde guerre mondiale et la Guerre Froide retardèrent encore une fois la construction.
Although the construction of the metro was resumed in the early 1930s, events like World War II and the Cold War delayed the construction once again.
Ce furent justement ceux-ci, des dizaines de milliers de personnes prêtes aux plus grands actes d’héroïsme, qui retardèrent de plusieurs semaines l’arrivée des français dans la capitale.
These tens of thousands of people ready to made the most heroic deeds delayed of many weeks the arrival of the French in Naples.
Les conflits d’intérêts entre l’administration et Iberduero, actuellement Iberdrola, qui allait vendre ses droits à Endesa, usufrutière du barrage, ainsi que les doutes quant à sa rentabilité retardèrent les travaux pendant des décennies.
A conflict of interests between the administration and the company Iberduero (today Iberdrola) together with doubts about its profitability, caused delays in its construction.
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