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Les anciens comptables comme Robert McNamara s'étaient levés dans des positions élevées.
Former accountants like Robert McNamara had risen to high positions.
Je me sentais comme si sept soleils s'étaient levés en moi.
I felt like seven suns have risen inside of me.
Certains des autres clients s'étaient levés de leurs chaises et sont partis.
Some of the other customers had gotten up from their chairs and left.
Des millions d'hommes s'étaient levés, l'énergie, l'initiative, l'enthousiasme, ne manquaient pas.
Millions of men had risen, and energy, initiative and enthusiasm were not lacking.
Donc, je ne leur proposais pas de se lever, mais de rester debout une fois qu'ils s'étaient levés.
So I was not proposing that they should rise but only that they should remain standing once they had risen.
Était-ce le Reichstag, étaient-ce les comités populaires qui s'étaient levés pour les Hongrois, ou bien était-ce le peuple de Vienne, et lui seul, qui avait pris le fusil pour soutenir le choc de la première bataille pour l'indépendance hongroise ?
Was it the Diet, was it the popular committees, who had risen for Hungary, or was it the people of Vienna, and they alone, who had taken to the musket to stand the brunt of the first battle for Hungary's independence?
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