we had placed
Past perfect we conjugation of place.
Ideology, in fact, is usually conclusive, because of its tendency to make us find at the end of the path just what we had placed there at the beginning.
Si l’idéologie est en effet irréfutable, c’est parce qu’elle a tendance à nous faire trouver au bout du parcours ce qu’on y avait mis au début.
I believe we must welcome this historic success of the Convention, which has produced a democratic draft whose contents largely correspond to the hopes we had placed in this enterprise.
Je crois que nous devons saluer ce succès historique de la Convention, qui a produit un projet démocratique dont le contenu correspond largement aux espoirs que nous avions mis dans cette entreprise.
We committed ourselves to withdraw the reservations we had placed on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Nous nous étions alors engagés à retirer les réserves que nous avions formulées au sujet de la Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes.
One important achievement in Hong Kong was agreement on the development package, which was made possible by the determined pressure we had placed on other developed countries in the months prior to Hong Kong.
Un résultat de taille obtenu à Hong Kong est l’accord sur le paquet « développement », qui a pu être conclu grâce à la pression résolue que nous avions placée sur d’autres pays développés dans les mois précédant la conférence de Hong Kong.
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