estaban afirmando
-they/you were asserting
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Las ideas frecuentemente entraban en contradición con los principios profesados y con lo que estaban afirmando los propagandistas del partido.
The ideas often clashed with professed principles and with what the party propagandists were saying.
Cuando decidieron colocarlas solas, sin aparente utilidad, estaban afirmando su sitio en la tierra; se sustentaban sobre ellas con solo mirarlas, en la oscuridad del tiempo desconocido.
When they decided to put them on their own, without an apparent purpose, they were stating their place on earth; they felt supported just by looking at them, in the darkness of the unknown time.
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