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1 pretext for violence
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2 violence
n1) сила; ярость2) насилие; принуждение; произвол; вооруженное столкновение; ожесточенность•to appeal for an end to the violence — призывать / обращаться с призывом положить конец насилию
to attack an enemy with violence — ожесточенно нападать на противника / врага
to condone violence — попустительствовать насилию; закрывать глаза на насилие
to curb violence — ограничивать насилие; сдерживать волну насилия
to curtail increased violence by extremists — обуздывать распространившиеся акты насилия со стороны экстремистов
to defuse political violence — разряжать обстановку и уменьшать число вооруженных политических стычек
to do violence to smth — грубо нарушать что-л.
to end violence — положить конец насилию; прекращать насилие
to halt violence — положить конец насилию; прекращать насилие
to quell violence — положить конец насилию; прекращать насилие
to smother the propaganda of those advocating violence — препятствовать пропаганде тех, кто выступает за насилие
to stamp out / to stem violence — положить конец насилию; прекращать насилие
to touch off a new wave of ethnic violence — служить толчком к новой волне насилия на этнической / национальной основе
to use violence — применять силу / меры принуждения
to use violence as political tactics — применять силу в качестве политического средства / как политическое орудие
- actual violenceto use violence to extract confessions from prisoners — прибегать к насилию для того, чтобы вырвать признание у арестованных
- alcohol-related violence
- antigovernment violence
- armed violence
- background for the violence
- cessation of violence
- challenged violence
- communal violence
- continuing wave of violence
- crime-related violence
- curb to violence
- deadlocked violence
- domestic violence
- drugs-related violence
- election-related violence
- electoral violence
- end to violence
- escalation of the violence
- ethnic violence
- explosion of violence
- extremist violence
- factional violence
- gang violence
- gruesome violence
- gun violence
- high level of violence
- incitement to violence
- intercommunal violence
- interethnic violence
- massive violence
- mounting campaign of violence
- mounting political violence
- mounting toll of violence
- naked violence
- nationalist violence
- official violence
- on the brink of violence
- organized violence
- outbreak of violence
- outburst of violence
- paramilitary violence
- personal violence
- police violence
- politically motivated violence
- pre-election violence
- pretext for violence
- public violence
- racial violence
- recourse to violence
- renewal of violence
- renewed violence
- renunciation of violence
- right wing violence
- rising tide of violence
- sectarian violence
- selective violence
- senseless violence
- separatist violence
- several months free of violence - sporadic violence
- stifle of violence
- street violence
- student violence
- surge in violence
- suspension of violence
- terrorist violence
- the day was marred by violence
- tribal violence
- upsurge of violence
- use of violence for political reasons
- violence against human rights
- violence blighted the nation for so many years
- violence broke out
- violence claimed 30 lives
- violence continues unabated
- violence erupted
- violence escalates
- violence flared in various parts of the country
- violence from the right
- violence goes on unabated
- violence has died down
- violence is growing by the day
- violence is widespread
- violence of invective
- violence rises
- violence subsided
- wave of violence
- week of violence
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3 arremeter contra
v.to come against, to charge against, to charge at, to charge into.Los soldados acometieron el fuerte The soldiers rushed against the fort.* * *(v.) = lambast [lambaste], flail away at, hit out (at/against), take + a swipe at, swipe, lam, lam into, lay into, lash out at/against/on, have + a go at, go to + town on, lash out (on), take + a swat atEx. Correctly, the author finds that the realities of antebellum reform are too complex either to laud the reformers' benevolence or to lambast them as fanatics.Ex. His novels flailed away at ignorance and indecency and his editorials were partisan, personal, fervent, and emotional.Ex. She has hit out at rumours that she is a man-eater.Ex. Republicans have been taking a swipe at Canada by saying that the country doesn't do much when it comes to global problems.Ex. This time the pup simply got too close to the cat while she was just sitting there, so she swiped him.Ex. Pretty soon he was lamming me on every pretext he could find.Ex. The girl stared at him for a moment thunderstruck; then she lammed into the old horse with a stick she carried in place of a whip.Ex. How anyone can get a buzz from laying into someone is beyond me; it's not nice to see it happen - too many times have I seen people beaten up over nothing.Ex. McCain also lashed out at evangelicals in 2000 and now he's kissing their butt saying he's a Baptist.Ex. In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.Ex. He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.Ex. The company is too tight to lash out on anything for the employees, even tools to increase productivity.Ex. I get pretty tired of ignorant people taking swats at the Catholic religion for 'worshiping statues'.* * *(v.) = lambast [lambaste], flail away at, hit out (at/against), take + a swipe at, swipe, lam, lam into, lay into, lash out at/against/on, have + a go at, go to + town on, lash out (on), take + a swat atEx: Correctly, the author finds that the realities of antebellum reform are too complex either to laud the reformers' benevolence or to lambast them as fanatics.
Ex: His novels flailed away at ignorance and indecency and his editorials were partisan, personal, fervent, and emotional.Ex: She has hit out at rumours that she is a man-eater.Ex: Republicans have been taking a swipe at Canada by saying that the country doesn't do much when it comes to global problems.Ex: This time the pup simply got too close to the cat while she was just sitting there, so she swiped him.Ex: Pretty soon he was lamming me on every pretext he could find.Ex: The girl stared at him for a moment thunderstruck; then she lammed into the old horse with a stick she carried in place of a whip.Ex: How anyone can get a buzz from laying into someone is beyond me; it's not nice to see it happen - too many times have I seen people beaten up over nothing.Ex: McCain also lashed out at evangelicals in 2000 and now he's kissing their butt saying he's a Baptist.Ex: In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.Ex: He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.Ex: The company is too tight to lash out on anything for the employees, even tools to increase productivity.Ex: I get pretty tired of ignorant people taking swats at the Catholic religion for 'worshiping statues'. -
4 meterse con
v.1 to provoke, to annoy, to pick on, to bother.María se metió con su hermMaría Mary provoked her sister.2 to pick a quarrel with, to fool around with, to pick a fight with, to mess around with.Ricardo se metió con el matón Richard picked a quarrel with the bully.María se metió con el vecino Mary fooled around with her neighbor.3 to fool around with, to bugger about with, to bugger around with, to fool about with.María se metió con el vecino Mary fooled around with her neighbor.* * ** * *(v.) = needle, pick on, tease, twit, taunt, jeer, lam, have + a go at, roast, give + Nombre + a good roastingEx. She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.Ex. By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.Ex. I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.Ex. Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.Ex. The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.Ex. Taunts from her Hispanic students spurred a Japanese-American teacher to develop a multicultural unit that helped children appreciate the culture they had previously jeered.Ex. Pretty soon he was lamming me on every pretext he could find.Ex. In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.Ex. The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.Ex. What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.* * *(v.) = needle, pick on, tease, twit, taunt, jeer, lam, have + a go at, roast, give + Nombre + a good roastingEx: She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
Ex: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.Ex: I like to be considered one of the team, to joke with and tease the employee but that sure creates a problem when I have to discipline, correct, or fire an employee.Ex: Don't be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that you have of me, because it is identical with the past knowledge that I have of you, and in twitting me, you twit yourself.Ex: The writer describes how he spent his school days avoiding bullies who taunted him because he was a dancer.Ex: Taunts from her Hispanic students spurred a Japanese-American teacher to develop a multicultural unit that helped children appreciate the culture they had previously jeered.Ex: Pretty soon he was lamming me on every pretext he could find.Ex: In the 1980s that meant having a go at all the trendy lefties and pacifists, and so our main issues were class politics and violence.Ex: The critics, however, roasted her for playing a tragic French heroine with a flat Midwestern accent.Ex: What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.
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