s'appliquer

Je n'ai pu constater qu'elle s'appliquât aux plantes, ce qui aurait beaucoup ébranlé ma confiance en sa valeur, si la grande variabilité des plantes ne rendait pas extrêmement difficile toute comparaison des degrés relatifs de cette variabilité.
I cannot make out that it applies to plants, and this would have seriously shaken my belief in its truth, had not the great variability in plants made it particularly difficult to compare their relative degrees of variability.
Je n'ai pas pu déterminer qu'elle s'appliquât aux plantes, et ce fait m'aurait fait concevoir des doutes sérieux sur sa réalité, si l'énorme variabilité des végétaux ne rendait excessivement difficile la comparaison de leurs degrés relatifs de variabilité.
I cannot make out that it applies to plants, and this would have seriously shaken my belief in its truth, had not the great variability in plants made it particularly difficult to compare their relative degrees of variability.
Il n'envisageait rien qui s'appliquât à un niveau inférieur.
Nothing that applied below that level was in his mind.
Il ne serait pas concevable que l'épuisement international s'appliquât à la marque nationale alors que la marque communautaire y échapperait.
It would be inconceivable for the international exhaustion to apply to the national trade mark and the Community trade mark to be exempt.
Bien que cette disposition ne s'appliquât pas aux enfants témoins, le Ministère de l'intérieur a recommandé que les données personnelles relatives à ces enfants ne soient pas rendues publiques.
Although that provision did not cover child witnesses, the Ministry of the Interior had issued a recommendation that personal data about child witnesses not be made public.
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