we were beginning
-commencions
Past progressive we conjugation of begin.
So at the conference we were beginning to think of the future.
Donc, à la conférence, nous avons commencé à réfléchir sur l’avenir.
And that truth is, or was, in the 20th century, that while we were beginning to develop endangered species movements, we didn't have an endangered people's movement.
Cette vérité est, ou était, qu'au 20e siècle, au moment où nous commencions à développer la protection des espèces menacées, il n'existait pas de mouvement pour la protection des peuples.
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