French: moyennant une certaine inertieEnglish translation: through a kind of inertia 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | moyennant une certaine inertie | | English translation: | through a kind of inertia | | Entered by: | Mark Nathan |
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Social Sciences - Geography / report entitled "Sur la relation transports/urbanisme" | | French term or phrase: moyennant une certaine inertie | Cannot work out how/where this fits structurally in the sentence, and what exactly it refers to.
Context:
"Les coûts individuels et collectifs du système ont été pris en charge par les fruits de la croissance économique, ce qui permet de comprendre pourquoi l'intensité de la dynamique de croissance externe des villes peut être mise en relation, moyennant une certaine inertie, avec l'intensité de l'activité économique générale."
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| Clarification request(s) and responsePatrice: 12:27am Jan 22, 2007: While I chuckled about the idea of a vehicle "gaining inertia" (losing ertia, haha??? Sorry Mark not making fun of you..this text is so wordy!). I think Mark's interp. is valid.."...can be linked to its inertia in the face of intense economic activity" ..
Patrice: 12:28am Jan 22, 2007: ..and if it were me I would just reword the sentence to express the meaning in possibly a fairly different, but accurate, way.
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| | through a kind of inertia | Explanation:
The way that the infrastructures and various factors enabling people to live outside cities have developed has been like a vehicle gaining inertia.
Maybe what they are driving at....(geddit?) |
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| which includes some inertia
Explanation:
I think it means that "l'intensité de la dynamique de croissance externe des villes" has a similar pattern to "l'intensité de l'activité économique générale" but with a time-lag which the writer implies is caused by what looks like "une certaine inertie".
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