When they were digging the foundations they kept coming across bones, sometimes caught up in barbed wire.
Quand ils creusèrent les fondations, ils découvrirent encore et encore des ossements, parfois emmêlés dans des barbelés.
He said people were digging holes along the river bed to find the last drops of water.
Il dit que les gens creusaient des trous le long du lit du fleuve à la recherche des dernières gouttes d’eau.
The local Serbian residents were stunned to learn that unknown individuals were digging the graves of their relatives without their knowledge and approval.
Les villageois serbes ont été stupéfiés d'apprendre que des inconnus creusaient les tombes de leurs parents à leur insu et sans leur approbation.
A group of soldiers wearing fatigues were digging a trench.
Un groupe de soldats en tenue de combat creusait une tranchée.
I went by the cemetery yesterday and saw that they were digging a new grave.
Hier, je suis passé par le cimetière et j'ai vu qu'ils creusaient une nouvelle tombe.
And extra fees, often hidden or unpredictable, were digging into margins.
Avec en plus des frais supplémentaires, souvent cachés ou imprévisibles, qui rongeaient les marges.
Young boys, who were tending goats grazing on the slopes, were digging in the seam and breaking up the pieces as they dug them out.
De jeunes garçons, qui surveillaient des chèvres qui broutaient sur les pentes, étaient en train de creuser dans la veine et de casser les morceaux qu’ils en sortaient.
While they were digging through everything, the officer who instigated this whole thing asked for my passport and called in to see if I had any warrants out on me.
Pendant qu'ils étaient en train de fouiller tous nos bagages, l'officier qui a provoqué tout ceci, m'a demandé mon passeport et a demandé à voir si je n'avais aucun procès-verbal sur moi.
However, we also cannot accept a protectionist approach such as the strategy where we were digging our own grave and running away from our responsibilities towards the rest of the world, particularly the less-developed areas.
Mais, d'autre part, nous ne pouvons pas non plus accepter la voie protectionniste qui reviendrait à creuser notre propre tombe et fuir devant nos responsabilités vis-à-vis du monde, notamment des espaces moins développés.
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