Traduction de «because his wife had just passed » (Anglais → Français) :

We did not pay much attention to this issue that I am now going to mention at the time of my sister's funeral, but I had a grieving constituent phone me because his wife had just passed away and he said “In the middle of my sorrow, I go to buy a casket for my wife, and the casket is $3,000 and the government wants another $210 in taxes, in GST, on the casket”.
Nous n'avons pas porté attention à la chose au moment des funérailles de ma soeur, mais j'ai reçu un téléphone d'un électeur chagriné qui venait de perdre sa femme et qui m'a dit: «Au beau milieu de ma peine, j'ai dû acheter un cercueil pour ma femme; le prix du cercueil était de 3 000 $, auquel il a fallu ajouter 210 $ en taxes, en TPS».

I had a police constable, he is non-native but his wife is native and he took the little box and crossed the ``X'' because his wife had a status card so when he crossed that little box said that his family was native they took his son immediately out of mainstream education and put him in alternate education.
J'ai eu un constable non Autochtone, mais dont la femme est Autochtone, et il avait coché la case parce que sa femme avait sa carte d'Indienne inscrite, et quand il a coché cette petite case, désignant sa famille comme étant autochtone, ils ont immédiatement sorti son fils du réseau scolaire normal et l'on inscrit à l'éducation spéciale.

His wife had just died and he got a letter from the band saying “You are out of here”. Is that the way to treat Canadians, aboriginal or otherwise?
Est-ce une façon de traiter des Canadiens, autochtones ou autres?

In the first case, in an incomprehensible moment of despair, a surgeon killed his two children because his wife had left him.
Dans le premier cas, lors d'un moment incompréhensible de désespoir, un chirurgien a tué ses deux enfants parce que sa femme l'avait quitté.

We eventually realised that he was showing his Christian customers his grief at the death of Karol Wojtyła, who had just passed away.
Finalement, nous avons réalisé qu’il montrait à ses clients chrétiens son chagrin à cause de la disparition de Karol Wojtyła, qui venait de mourir.

He and his wife had just donated somewhere in the neighbourhood of $1 million.
Sa femme et lui venaient de faire un don d'environ un million de dollars.

I was particularly struck by a family mentioned in a paper just three days ago: the husband had lost his job in construction and the wife had to take two part-time jobs in order to keep their family of three children and the husband in their house.
J’ai été particulièrement frappé par l’exemple d’une famille évoqué dans la presse il y a trois jours: le mari a perdu son emploi dans le bâtiment et son épouse a dû prendre deux emplois à mi-temps pour entretenir son mari et leurs trois enfants dans leur maison.

It was also claimed that since the end of 1997, when Mr Houshang Erfany-Far and his wife separated, the latter had carried on an 'unbelievable struggle' with the support of Mr Korakas to 'destroy and expel and drive him out of Greece', using means which were only available to her because Mr Korakas had been first a member of the Greek Parliament and was now an MEP.
Est également évoqué le fait que depuis la fin de l'année 1997, date à laquelle M. Houshang Erfany-Far et son épouse se sont séparés, cette dernière a, appuyée en cela par M. Korakas, livré "une lutte incroyable" pour "anéantir" et "chasser" le plaignant de Grèce, en utilisant tous les moyens dont ils disposaient grâce à la qualité d'ancien député grec et de député européen de M. Korakas.

He told how he had been beaten, how he feared daily for his wife and his family and, just as we have also heard, he feared what would happen to him when he returns on 17 March.
Il m'a raconté la manière dont il avait été battu, à quel point il craignait chaque jour pour la vie de sa femme et de sa famille, et il m'a également dit, comme nous venons de l'entendre, qu'il avait peur de ce qui allait lui arriver lorsqu'il rentrerait dans son pays le 17 mars.