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The survivors also affirmed that the crews of the four Cuban government boats were dressed in civilian clothes and that they did not help them when they were sinking.
Les survivants affirment également que les membres de l'équipage des quatre navires d'Etat cubains étaient vertus en civil et n'ont pas apporté d'aide durant le naufrage.
He told me to tell you we were sinking in that shipwreck.
Il m'a dit de dire qu'on était dans le bateau naufragé.
We were sinking fast and there was a lot of water.
La voiture s'est mise à couler et l'eau à entrer.
They understood that the extreme poverty that the people of the country were sinking into could aggravate the conflict.
Elles ont compris que la pauvreté extrême dans laquelle s'enfonçaient les populations pouvait aggraver le conflit.
In other words, the very concept of sustainable development was no longer a certainty for small island developing States; the islands were sinking.
En d'autres termes, le concept même de développement durable n'est plus une certitude pour les petits États insulaires en développement ; les îles sont en train de disparaître sous la mer.
The exhibition includes paintings by a generation of upcoming young artists in the 1950s who were sinking their roots in Spanish cultural life during the apogee of Francoist Spain.
Cette exposition présente des peintures d’une génération de jeunes artistes émergents des années 1950 qui trouvent leurs racines dans la vie culturelle espagnole au moment de l’apogée de l’Espagne franquiste.
Everywhere the great mass of the working classes were sinking down to a lower depth, at the same rate at least that those above them were rising in the social scale.
Partout les grandes masses de la classe laborieuse descendaient toujours plus bas, dans la même proportion au moins que les classes placées au-dessus d'elle montaient plus haut sur l'échelle sociale.
Gershom, however, complains of a disturbance of equilibrium, with much vertigo and a frequent sense of falling, as if the vessel were sinking beneath him through bottomless space at a headlong speed.
Gershom, par contre, se plaint de troubles de l'équilibre, avec de nombreux vertiges et une fréquente impression de tomber, comme si le vaisseau s'enfonçait à toute vitesse sous lui à travers l'espace sans fond, la tête la première.
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