they were beginning
-commençaient
Past progressive they conjugation of begin.
The Master had told them the kingdom would come with power, and some of them thought they were beginning to discern what he meant.
Le Maitre leur avait dit que le royaume viendrait avec puissance, et certains d’entre eux crurent commencer à discerner ce qu’il avait voulu dire.
And that put me in touch with such diverse design examples as the aerogels from the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California; at that time, they were beginning to be brought into the civilian market.
Ça m'a permis d'entrer en contact avec tellement d'exemples de designs différents comme les aérogels du Lawrence Livermore Lab en Californie. A l'époque, ils commençaient à être commercialisés au grand public.
Interactionism and hermeneutics were not that new but they were beginning to succeed in their critique of these substanstialistic preconceptions without going as far as the deconstructionists and Neo-Nietzschean thinkers were doing.
L’interactionnisme et l’herméneutique, en réalité, n’étaient pas si neufs mais ils commençaient à rencontré un certain succès dans leur critique de ces présupposés substantialistes, sans tomber dans les excès des penseurs déconstructionnistes ou néo-nietzschéens.
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