When we discussed the Council's report about a year ago, the threat to peace in Iraq was looming over our heads.
Lors de nos débats sur le rapport du Conseil il y a environ un an, la menace à la paix en Iraq planait sur nos têtes.
The deadline was looming, so I went to work on the report.
L'échéance approchait, alors je me suis mis sérieusement au travail sur le rapport.
However, the shadow of the genocide was looming up above all their works.
Toutefois, l’ombre du génocide plana sur tous leurs travaux.
A political crisis was looming.
Une crise politique se profilait à l'horizon.
As the U.S.-led imperialist invasion of Iraq was looming, in January 2003 train drivers in Scotland refused to move a freight train carrying munitions to a NATO military base.
Pendant la préparation de l’invasion impérialiste de l’Irak dirigée par les Etats-Unis, en janvier 2003 les cheminots en Écosse ont refusé de déplacer un train de marchandises transportant des munitions destinées à une base militaire de l’OTAN.
That system worked relatively well, but with the frequent closures, which cut many villages off from the outside, and the prolonged curfews and restrictions placed on the movement of people and vehicles, a serious water shortage was looming.
Ce système fonctionne assez bien ; or le bouclage fréquent du territoire, qui coupe de nombreux villages du monde extérieur, l'introduction de couvre-feu prolongés et de restrictions au mouvement des personnes et des véhicules menacent de provoquer un manque d'eau.
Interested parties claimed that the Indian market was de facto protected during the IP from imports from a variety of sources, including the PRC, because the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation was looming since the beginning of 2012.
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Interested parties claimed that the Indian market was de facto protected during the IP from imports from a variety of sources, including the PRC, because the initiation of an anti-dumping investigation was looming since the beginning of 2012.
Certaines parties intéressées ont avancé que le marché indien était de facto protégé, pendant la période d'enquête, contre les importations de diverses origines, notamment chinoises, parce que l'ouverture d'une enquête antidumping était imminente depuis le début de l'année 2012.
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