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Spanish
Conjunction
en tanto que
- while; whereas
2017 July, “Día crucial”, in Frontera.info:Eso, ya de por sí notable, cobra mayor notabilidad si se considera que el novio, don Geroncio, era señor octogenario, en tanto que su desposada, Pomponona, era mujer joven y de exuberantes atributos corporales.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2015 November 22, “Columna”, in El País:Y concluye: “Si los partidarios de la conservación del orden no dan muestras de ceder un ápice en sus posiciones, es natural que sus adversarios pierdan la paciencia y pasen a propugnar métodos de arrollamiento, en tanto que los grupos inmovilistas buscan por su parte instrumentos de violencia para impedir a aquéllos lograr su propósito”.- And he concludes: “If the supporters of the preservation of order do not show signs of yielding an iota in their positions, it is natural that their opponents lose patience and begin to advocate methods of overrun, while the immobilist groups themselves seek instruments of violence to prevent those from achieving their purpose”.
Usage notes
- Although it looks similar, it has a different meaning to the French expression en tant que.