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  • 3 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 4 plantear

    v.
    me planteó sus preocupaciones he put his concerns to me, he raised his concerns with me
    2 to propose (proponer) (solución, posibilidad).
    plantean una solución radical al cambio climático they are proposing a radical solution to climate change
    3 to put forward, to discuss, to raise, to present.
    María aventuró una sugerencia Mary ventured a suggestion.
    4 to propose to.
    * * *
    1 (pregunta) to pose, raise; (cuestión) to raise; (acuerdo) to suggest
    2 (problema, dificultad) to cause, give rise to
    3 (trazar un plan) to plan, outline
    4 MATEMÁTICAS (problema) to formulate
    1 to consider
    * * *
    verb
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=exponer)
    a) [+ situación, problema] to bring up, raise

    plantéaselo todo tal como es — explain o put the situation to him exactly as it is

    planteado el problema en estos términos... — with the problem expressed o put in these terms...

    b) (Mat) [+ ecuación, problema] to set out
    2) (=proponer) [+ cambio, posibilidad] to suggest
    3) (=causar) [+ problema] to pose, create
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (Mat) < problema> to set out
    b) ( exponer)
    2) (causar, provocar) <problemas/dificultades> to create, cause
    2.
    plantearse v pron
    1) ( considerar) <problema/posibilidad> to think about, consider
    2) ( presentarse) problema/posibilidad to arise

    se me planteó una disyuntiva — I came up against o I was faced with a dilemma

    * * *
    = pose, articulate, posit, put forward, put forth.
    Ex. This illustrates the puzzle that differential policies pose for users.
    Ex. From time to time librarians do catch a fleeting glimpse of how others see them when some journalist or academic does articulate this widespread phobia.
    Ex. We can choose to turn our backs on these principles with fatuous arguments which posit their anachronism and the nonexistent intelligence of computing machinery.
    Ex. One of the key recommendations put forward in the programme was the confirmation of the responsibility of the national bibliographic agency for establishing the authoritative form of name for its country's.
    Ex. Relevant cultural policy issues are explored, and recommendations are put forth for enhancing Canadian cultural sovereignty through book publishing.
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    * plantear a la luz de = discuss + in the light of.
    * plantear dificultad = pose + difficulty.
    * plantear dificultades = raise + difficulties.
    * plantear dudas = raise + doubts.
    * plantear la necesidad = articulate + the need.
    * plantear la posibilidad = raise + possibility.
    * plantear la posibilidad de = discuss + the possibility of.
    * plantearle a Alguien una cuestión = put before + Nombre + an issue.
    * plantearse = conceptualise [conceptualize, -USA], flirt, teeter + on the edge of.
    * plantearse dudas = have + second thoughts.
    * plantearse un objetivo = adopt + goal.
    * plantear una cuestión = bring forth + issue, issue + arise, pose + question, raise + argument, raise + issue, raise + point, open up + issue.
    * plantear una idea = raise + idea.
    * plantear una posibilidad = pose + possibility.
    * plantear una probabilidad = pose + possibility.
    * plantear un desafío = pose + challenge.
    * plantear un problema = pose + dilemma, pose + problem, raise + question, raise + concern, raise + issue, raise + problem, articulate + problem.
    * plantear un reto = pose + challenge.
    * problema + plantearse = problem + come with.
    * volver a plantearse = reconceive of.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (Mat) < problema> to set out
    b) ( exponer)
    2) (causar, provocar) <problemas/dificultades> to create, cause
    2.
    plantearse v pron
    1) ( considerar) <problema/posibilidad> to think about, consider
    2) ( presentarse) problema/posibilidad to arise

    se me planteó una disyuntiva — I came up against o I was faced with a dilemma

    * * *
    = pose, articulate, posit, put forward, put forth.

    Ex: This illustrates the puzzle that differential policies pose for users.

    Ex: From time to time librarians do catch a fleeting glimpse of how others see them when some journalist or academic does articulate this widespread phobia.
    Ex: We can choose to turn our backs on these principles with fatuous arguments which posit their anachronism and the nonexistent intelligence of computing machinery.
    Ex: One of the key recommendations put forward in the programme was the confirmation of the responsibility of the national bibliographic agency for establishing the authoritative form of name for its country's.
    Ex: Relevant cultural policy issues are explored, and recommendations are put forth for enhancing Canadian cultural sovereignty through book publishing.
    * plantear a la luz de = discuss + in the light of.
    * plantear dificultad = pose + difficulty.
    * plantear dificultades = raise + difficulties.
    * plantear dudas = raise + doubts.
    * plantear la necesidad = articulate + the need.
    * plantear la posibilidad = raise + possibility.
    * plantear la posibilidad de = discuss + the possibility of.
    * plantearle a Alguien una cuestión = put before + Nombre + an issue.
    * plantearse = conceptualise [conceptualize, -USA], flirt, teeter + on the edge of.
    * plantearse dudas = have + second thoughts.
    * plantearse un objetivo = adopt + goal.
    * plantear una cuestión = bring forth + issue, issue + arise, pose + question, raise + argument, raise + issue, raise + point, open up + issue.
    * plantear una idea = raise + idea.
    * plantear una posibilidad = pose + possibility.
    * plantear una probabilidad = pose + possibility.
    * plantear un desafío = pose + challenge.
    * plantear un problema = pose + dilemma, pose + problem, raise + question, raise + concern, raise + issue, raise + problem, articulate + problem.
    * plantear un reto = pose + challenge.
    * problema + plantearse = problem + come with.
    * volver a plantearse = reconceive of.

    * * *
    plantear [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ( Mat) ‹problema› to set out
    2
    (exponer): plantéale las cosas tal como son tell him o explain to him exactly how things stand
    me planteó la situación de la siguiente manera he explained o put the situation to me in the following way
    planteó la necesidad de una reestructuración total she expressed the need for a total restructuring
    las reivindicaciones que plantearon the demands which they put forward o made
    le plantearé la cuestión a mi jefe I will raise the question with my boss, I will bring it up with my boss
    nos plantearon dos opciones they presented us with o gave us two options
    le planteé la posibilidad de ir de vacaciones a Grecia I suggested going to Greece on vacation
    B (causar, provocar) ‹problemas/dificultades› to create, cause
    su dimisión planteó graves problemas his resignation created o caused serious problems
    esto plantea situaciones cómicas this gives rise to o creates comic situations
    C ‹enfrentamiento/debate› to engage in
    A (considerar) ‹problema/posibilidad› to think about, consider
    ¿te has planteado lo que harás cuando termines de estudiar? have you thought about o considered what you'll do when you finish your studies?
    nunca me había planteado esa posibilidad I had never considered that possibility
    B (presentarse) «problema/posibilidades» to arise
    se nos ha planteado un nuevo problema a new problem has arisen o has come up, we have encountered o come across a new problem
    se me planteó la siguiente disyuntiva I came up against o I was faced with the following dilemma
    se le planteó la necesidad de abandonar el país he found he had to leave the country, he was faced with a situation in which he had to leave the country
    * * *

     

    plantear ( conjugate plantear) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹teoría/razones› to set out

    b) ( exponer) ‹tema/pregunta› to raise;


    plantearle algo a algn to raise sth with sb;
    le plantearé la cuestión a mi jefe I'll raise the matter with my boss;
    nos plantearon dos opciones they presented us with o gave us two options;
    le planteé la posibilidad de ir a Grecia I suggested going to Greece
    2 ‹problemas/dificultades› to pose
    plantearse verbo pronominal
    1 ( considerar) ‹problema/posibilidad› to think about, consider
    2 ( presentarse) [problema/posibilidad] to arise
    plantear verbo transitivo
    1 (una duda, un problema) to pose, raise
    2 (hacer una sugerencia) to suggest, propose
    3 (causar) to create, cause
    ' plantear' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abordar
    English:
    bring up
    - pose
    - present
    - propound
    - raise
    - state
    - point
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [formular] [problema matemático] to set out
    2. [exponer] [reivindicación] to put forward;
    [dificultad, duda, cuestión] to raise;
    me planteó sus preocupaciones he put his concerns to me, he raised his concerns with me
    3. [proponer] [solución, posibilidad] to propose;
    plantean una solución radical al cambio climático they are proposing a radical solution to climate change;
    nos plantearon la posibilidad de abandonar they asked us to consider the possibility of withdrawing
    4. [presentar] [problema] to pose
    * * *
    v/t
    1 dificultad, problema pose, create
    2 cuestión raise
    * * *
    1) : to set forth, to bring up, to suggest
    2) : to establish, to set up
    3) : to create, to pose (a problem)
    * * *
    1. (ocasionar) to cause / to create
    2. (presentar) to raise

    Spanish-English dictionary > plantear

  • 5 contemplar

    v.
    1 to contemplate, to consider.
    está contemplando presentar la dimisión she is considering handing in her resignation
    la ley contempla varios supuestos the law provides for o covers various cases
    esta propuesta no contempla los ingresos por publicidad this proposal doesn't take into account income from advertising
    Juana contemplaba la luna a solas Johanna contemplated the moon alone.
    María contempla grandes utilidades Mary envisages big profits.
    2 to look at, to contemplate (paisaje, monumento).
    3 to examine.
    El maestro contempló el cuadro de María The teacher examined Ann's picture.
    4 to have provision for, to contemplate, to have provisions for.
    María contempla los tiempos venideros Mary has provisions for upcoming times.
    * * *
    1 (mirar) to contemplate, look at
    2 (pensar) to contemplate, consider
    3 (tener en cuenta) to provide for
    4 (tratar bien) to spoil
    1 to contemplate
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=observar) [+ paisaje, edificio, cuadro] to gaze at, contemplate

    contemplaba su imagen en el espejo — she gazed at o contemplated her reflection in the mirror

    pude contemplar la belleza de Elena — frm I was able to look on Elena's beauty

    2) (=analizar)

    debemos contemplar su obra desde otra perspectiva — we must look at o consider his work from another perspective

    3) (=mimar) to indulge
    4) frm (=considerar) [+ idea, posibilidad] to consider
    5) [ley, tratado] to provide for

    el acuerdo contempla una subida del 3% — the agreement provides for an increase of 3%

    2.
    VI (Rel) to meditate
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <paisaje/cuadro> to gaze at, contemplate
    b) <obra/artista> to examine, study
    c) <posibilidad/idea> to consider

    la nueva propuesta contempla un aumento del 5% — the new proposal envisages the possibility of a 5% rise

    2) (Esp) ( mimar) to spoil
    * * *
    = allow for, cater for/to, envisage, envision, provide, gaze, behold.
    Ex. It also allows for and identifies three levels of detail which might be adopted in descriptive cataloguing.
    Ex. Labelling of subjects presents problems mainly because, in order to achieve a user-orientated approach, the various approaches of different users must be catered for.
    Ex. It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex. Let me further specify the requirements of the catalog envisioned by the Paris Principles.
    Ex. To start with, most catalogues, indexes, data bases and bibliographies provide access to information or documents.
    Ex. Her tongue was unloosed now, and she gazed at him questioningly, piercingly.
    Ex. As Confucius said ' behold the turtle, he makes progress only when his neck is out'.
    ----
    * aficionado a contemplar las estrellas = stargazer.
    * algo digno de contemplar = a sight to behold.
    * contemplar la posibilidad = toy with, toy with + idea of, entertain + the possibility.
    * contemplar la posibilidad de suicidarse = contemplate + suicide.
    * contemplar las estrellas = stargaze.
    * contemplar posibilidades = envision + possibilities.
    * contemplar una situación = address + situation.
    * contemplar una vista = contemplate + view.
    * una vista digna de contemplar = a sight to behold.
    * un espectáculo digno de contemplar = a sight to behold.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <paisaje/cuadro> to gaze at, contemplate
    b) <obra/artista> to examine, study
    c) <posibilidad/idea> to consider

    la nueva propuesta contempla un aumento del 5% — the new proposal envisages the possibility of a 5% rise

    2) (Esp) ( mimar) to spoil
    * * *
    = allow for, cater for/to, envisage, envision, provide, gaze, behold.

    Ex: It also allows for and identifies three levels of detail which might be adopted in descriptive cataloguing.

    Ex: Labelling of subjects presents problems mainly because, in order to achieve a user-orientated approach, the various approaches of different users must be catered for.
    Ex: It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex: Let me further specify the requirements of the catalog envisioned by the Paris Principles.
    Ex: To start with, most catalogues, indexes, data bases and bibliographies provide access to information or documents.
    Ex: Her tongue was unloosed now, and she gazed at him questioningly, piercingly.
    Ex: As Confucius said ' behold the turtle, he makes progress only when his neck is out'.
    * aficionado a contemplar las estrellas = stargazer.
    * algo digno de contemplar = a sight to behold.
    * contemplar la posibilidad = toy with, toy with + idea of, entertain + the possibility.
    * contemplar la posibilidad de suicidarse = contemplate + suicide.
    * contemplar las estrellas = stargaze.
    * contemplar posibilidades = envision + possibilities.
    * contemplar una situación = address + situation.
    * contemplar una vista = contemplate + view.
    * una vista digna de contemplar = a sight to behold.
    * un espectáculo digno de contemplar = a sight to behold.

    * * *
    contemplar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹paisaje/cuadro› to gaze at, contemplate
    desde el balcón se contempla un panorama precioso there is a wonderful view from the balcony
    a la izquierda pueden ustedes contemplar el Palacio Real on the left you can see the Royal Palace
    2 ‹obra/artista› to examine, study
    3 ‹posibilidad/idea› to consider
    la nueva propuesta contempla un aumento del 5% the new proposal envisages the possibility of a 5% rise
    la legislación actual no contempla este caso there is no provision for a situation of this kind in the current legislation o the current legislation does not provide for a situation of this kind
    no tengo contemplado ir I'm not thinking of going
    B (complacer) to spoil
    * * *

     

    contemplar ( conjugate contemplar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹paisaje/cuadro› to gaze at, contemplate

    b) ‹posibilidad/idea› to consider, contemplate

    contemplar verbo transitivo
    1 (admirar, recrearse) to contemplate
    2 (una posibilidad) to consider
    3 (ser condescendiente) coddle: le contemplas demasiado, you coddle him too much
    ' contemplar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    codificar
    - admirar
    - mirar
    English:
    consider
    - contemplate
    - entertain
    - survey
    - behold
    - regard
    * * *
    1. [paisaje, monumento] to look at, to contemplate
    2. [opción, posibilidad] to contemplate, to consider;
    la ley contempla varios supuestos the law provides for o covers various cases;
    esta propuesta no contempla los ingresos por publicidad this proposal doesn't take into account income from advertising;
    el proyecto no contempla hacer excepciones the project makes no provision for exceptions;
    contemplamos el futuro con esperanza we are hopeful about the future, we look to the future with hope;
    está contemplando presentar la dimisión she is considering handing in her resignation
    3. [consentir] to spoil
    * * *
    v/t
    1 ( mirar) look at, contemplate
    2 posibilidad consider
    * * *
    1) : to contemplate, to ponder
    2) : to gaze at, to look at
    * * *
    contemplar vb to consider / to contemplate

    Spanish-English dictionary > contemplar

  • 6 presentar

    v.
    1 to present.
    Ella presenta soluciones She presents solutions.
    Ella le presenta a Ricardo un regalo She presents Richard a gift.
    Ellos presentan a los candidatos They present=field the candidates.
    2 to make (ofrecer) (disculpas, excusas).
    3 to introduce (person).
    me presentó a sus amigos she introduced me to her friends
    me parece que no nos han presentado I don't think we've been introduced
    Juan, te presento a Carmen Juan, this is Carmen
    permítame que le presente a nuestra directora allow me to introduce you to our manager, I'd like you to meet our manager
    Ella presenta a los invitados She introduces the guests.
    4 to have, to show (tener) (aspecto).
    presenta difícil solución it's going to be difficult to solve
    Ella le presenta al público una obra She shows the public a play.
    5 to host, to be the host of, to act as a compere for, to compere.
    Ella presenta el programa She hosts the program.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to present; (mostrar) to show
    2 (entregar) to hand in
    3 (sacar al mercado) to launch
    4 (personas) to introduce
    ■ ¿te han presentado ya? have you been introduced yet?
    5 TELEVISIÓN to present
    6 (ofrecer) to offer, show
    1 (comparecer) to turn up
    2 (para elección) to stand; (en un concurso) to enter
    \
    presentar una denuncia to lodge a complaint
    presentar una ponencia to present a paper
    * * *
    verb
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=enseñar, exponer) [gen] to present; [+ moción, candidato] to propose, put forward; [+ pruebas, informe] to submit; [+ documento, pasaporte] to show

    presentar una propuesta — to make o present a proposal

    presentar algo al cobro o al pago — (Com) to present sth for payment

    2) (=entregar) to hand in

    presentó la dimisión — he handed in his resignation, he resigned

    3) (=mostrar) [+ señal, síntoma] to show
    4) (=exponer al público) [+ producto, disco, libro] to launch
    5) [en espectáculo] [+ obra] to perform; [+ actor, actriz] to present, feature
    6) (=ser presentador de) [+ programa televisivo] to present, host

    J. Pérez presenta el programa — the programme is presented o hosted by J. Pérez

    ¿quién presenta ahora las noticias de las nueve? — who presents o reads the nine o'clock news now?

    7) (=tener) to have
    8) [+ persona] to introduce

    a ver si te presento a mi amiga Jacinta — you must meet my friend Jacinta, I must introduce you to my friend Jacinta

    ser presentada en sociedad — to come out, make one's début

    9) (=ofrecer) [+ disculpa] to offer, make

    le presento mis consideraciones — [en carta] yours faithfully

    10) (Mil)

    presentar batalla — (lit) to draw up in battle array; (fig) to offer resistance

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( mostrar) to present
    b) ( exponer por primera vez) <libro/disco> to launch; < obra de arte> to present; < colección de moda> to present, exhibit
    c) ( entregar) <informe/solicitud> to submit

    le presenté el pasaporte — I gave him my passport, I presented my passport to him

    d) ( enseñar) to show
    e) <disculpas/excusas> to make; < dimisión> to hand in, submit; < queja> to file, make

    presentaron una denuncia — they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint

    f) (Mil)
    2) (TV) < programa> to present, introduce
    3) < persona> to introduce

    te presento a mi hermana — I'd like you to meet my sister, this is my sister

    4) <novedad/ventaja> to offer; < síntoma> to show
    2.
    presentarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( en lugar) to turn up, appear
    b) (a concurso, examen)

    se presentó al examen — she took o (BrE) sat the exam

    se presenta como candidato independiente — he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent

    2) dificultad/problema to arise, come up, crop up (colloq)

    si se me presenta la oportunidad — if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises

    3) ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself
    * * *
    = bring to + the attention, display, draw, exhibit, expose, feature, introduce, open up, pose, present, provide with, set out, subject, throw up, render, put before, produce, table, submit, unveil, showcase, surrender, lay out, roll out, construct, tender, come up with, report, bring forward, deliver.
    Ex. Many displays are changed from time to time (for example, once a week, or once a month) so that various sections of the stock may be brought to the attention of the library's public over a period of time.
    Ex. The command function 'DISPLAY' is used to display a list of alphabetically linked terms.
    Ex. For example, when setting up the format for records in a data base, the user can draw a form on the screen, complete with headings for each field, and then, the data is entered into the form.
    Ex. These headings, therefore, in addition to exhibiting a bias in favor of the majority, actively hinder access.
    Ex. The reputation of the information and its authority will be more exposed to examination.
    Ex. Other catalogues and bibliographies only feature added entries under title where it is deemed that the author main entry heading is not likely to be obvious to the users.
    Ex. The report introduced a range of ideas which have influenced subsequent code construction.
    Ex. Here is a key paper by a non librarian which opens up a new and constructive approach to library purpose.
    Ex. This illustrates the puzzle that differential policies pose for users.
    Ex. Informative abstract present as much as possible of the quantitative or qualitative information contained in a document.
    Ex. Many libraries provide users with photocopies of contents pages of selected journals.
    Ex. A short score is a sketch made by a composer for an ensemble work, with the main features of the composition set out on a few staves.
    Ex. Author abstracts are the abstracts prepared by authors of the document that has been subjected to abstracting.
    Ex. Demands from clients will often throw up an occurrence of similar problems, revealing perhaps the operation of an injustice, the lack of an amenity in the neighbourhood, or simply bureaucratic inefficiency.
    Ex. The eventuality is, admittedly, remote but it is also necessary to render the imprint statement in this amount of detail.
    Ex. The art of documentation is the process by which the documentalist is enabled to put before the creative specialist the existing literature bearing on the subject of his investigation.
    Ex. The perfect librarian may be defined as one who produces the information a reader requires as soon as the reader asks for it.
    Ex. This list indicates the dates the reports were tabled and any further action take.
    Ex. Most publications are probably free distribution material and whilst that does not absolve the publishers from the obligation of legal deposit it is probable that many local authorities do not submit their materials.
    Ex. Here is an institution which knows, neither rank nor wealth within its walls, which stops the ignorant peer or the ignorant monarch at its threshold, and declines to unveil to him its treasures, or to waste time upon him, and yet welcomes the workman according to his knowledge or thirst for knowledge.
    Ex. Officially known as SOLEX, this exhibition showcases mainly IT based products for the legal profession.
    Ex. The book's date label is stamped in the usual way, and the reader must surrender one token for each book he is borrowing.
    Ex. There should be plenty of space to lay out all the books attractively and for people to move about without feeling too crowded.
    Ex. I don't need to tell those of you from higher education institutions how course management systems are starting to really proliferate and roll out in higher education.
    Ex. It is argued that newspaper reporting of bigamy constructs bigamists as being a threat to the institution of marriage.
    Ex. This address was tendered at the State Library of Victoria, Nov 88, to mark the retirement of Professor Jean Whyte.
    Ex. Derfer corroborated her: 'I'd be very proud of you if you could come up with the means to draft a model collection development policy'.
    Ex. Criticism is not appropriate in a style which aims to report, but not comment upon the content of the original document.
    Ex. They also intend to bring forward legislation to provide that the maximum amount of compensation should be £500,000.
    Ex. The result could be termed a full-provision data base -- a data base including both text and reference, and delivering much more than the 2 added together.
    ----
    * argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.
    * oportunidad + presentarse = opportunity + knock, opportunity + present + Reflexivo.
    * presentar Algo desde una nueva óptica = throw + Nombre + in a new light, throw + new light on.
    * presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.
    * presentar argumentos a favor = make + a case for.
    * presentar argumentos a favor de = present + arguments in favour of.
    * presentar como = make + Nombre + out to be.
    * presentar conclusiones = provide + conclusions.
    * presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.
    * presentar deficiencias = fall + short.
    * presentar de manera esquemática = give + overview.
    * presentar dentro de = package.
    * presentar Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on, throw + new light on.
    * presentar detalladamente = spread out.
    * presentar dificultad = present + difficulty.
    * presentar en forma de tabla = tabulate.
    * presentar en pantalla = call up, print + online, bring up, screen.
    * presentar evidencia a favor de = present + case for.
    * presentar información = submit + information, package + information.
    * presentar información de varios modos = repackage + information.
    * presentar la evolución de Algo = chart + the history.
    * presentar la oportunidad = allow + the opportunity to.
    * presentar las pruebas ante = lay + evidence before.
    * presentar peligro = present + danger.
    * presentar + Posesivo + respetos = pay + Posesivo + respects.
    * presentar posibilidades = present + possibilities, open (up) + avenues.
    * presentar problemas = present + problems.
    * presentar pruebas = give + evidence.
    * presentar resultados = report + findings, report + results.
    * presentar reto = defy.
    * presentarse = come in, manifest + Reflexivo, turn up, show up, unfold, come forward, come with.
    * presentarse a = stand for.
    * presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.
    * presentarse desde una nueva perspectiva = stand in + a new light.
    * presentar (según) = cast (in/into).
    * presentarse una ocasión = occasion + arise.
    * presentar similitudes = share + similarities.
    * presentar una amenaza = pose + threat.
    * presentar una comunicación = deliver + paper, give + paper, present + paper.
    * presentar una contribución = present + contribution.
    * presentar una demanda = file + suit against, file + lawsuit against.
    * presentar una demanda judicial = take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.
    * presentar una denuncia = file + police report.
    * presentar una factura = submit + bill.
    * presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.
    * presentar una imagen = present + picture, paint + a picture, present + an image.
    * presentar una oportunidad = afford + opportunity.
    * presentar una petición = submit + petition.
    * presentar una ponencia = give + paper, read + paper.
    * presentar una propuesta = submit + proposal.
    * presentar una queja = register + complaint, lodge + complaint, file + complaint, file + grievance.
    * presentar una reclamación = enter + complaint, place + claim, file + complaint.
    * presentar un argumento = advance + argument.
    * presentar una solicitud = submit + application.
    * presentar un aspecto = present + a picture.
    * presentar un aspecto de = wear + a look of.
    * presentar una visión = present + a picture.
    * presentar una visión global = give + overview, present + an overview, present + an overall picture, give + an overall picture, overview.
    * presentar un buen aspecto = look + good.
    * presentar un dilema = present + dilemma.
    * presentar un frente común = present + common front.
    * presentar un informe = give + a report, present + report.
    * presentar un obstáculo = pose + obstacle.
    * presentar un peligro = pose + danger.
    * presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.
    * presentar un programa = present + programme.
    * presentar un proyecto = submit + project, present + project.
    * presentar un resumen = give + summary.
    * presentar un reto = present + challenge, provide + challenge.
    * presentar un riesgo = pose + risk.
    * presentar vestigios de = bear + traces of.
    * seleccionar y presentar en un documento = package.
    * volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( mostrar) to present
    b) ( exponer por primera vez) <libro/disco> to launch; < obra de arte> to present; < colección de moda> to present, exhibit
    c) ( entregar) <informe/solicitud> to submit

    le presenté el pasaporte — I gave him my passport, I presented my passport to him

    d) ( enseñar) to show
    e) <disculpas/excusas> to make; < dimisión> to hand in, submit; < queja> to file, make

    presentaron una denuncia — they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint

    f) (Mil)
    2) (TV) < programa> to present, introduce
    3) < persona> to introduce

    te presento a mi hermana — I'd like you to meet my sister, this is my sister

    4) <novedad/ventaja> to offer; < síntoma> to show
    2.
    presentarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( en lugar) to turn up, appear
    b) (a concurso, examen)

    se presentó al examen — she took o (BrE) sat the exam

    se presenta como candidato independiente — he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent

    2) dificultad/problema to arise, come up, crop up (colloq)

    si se me presenta la oportunidad — if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises

    3) ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself
    * * *
    presentar (según)
    (v.) = cast (in/into)

    Ex: Which of the following subject analyses is cast in the citation order PMEST?.

    = bring to + the attention, display, draw, exhibit, expose, feature, introduce, open up, pose, present, provide with, set out, subject, throw up, render, put before, produce, table, submit, unveil, showcase, surrender, lay out, roll out, construct, tender, come up with, report, bring forward, deliver.

    Ex: Many displays are changed from time to time (for example, once a week, or once a month) so that various sections of the stock may be brought to the attention of the library's public over a period of time.

    Ex: The command function 'DISPLAY' is used to display a list of alphabetically linked terms.
    Ex: For example, when setting up the format for records in a data base, the user can draw a form on the screen, complete with headings for each field, and then, the data is entered into the form.
    Ex: These headings, therefore, in addition to exhibiting a bias in favor of the majority, actively hinder access.
    Ex: The reputation of the information and its authority will be more exposed to examination.
    Ex: Other catalogues and bibliographies only feature added entries under title where it is deemed that the author main entry heading is not likely to be obvious to the users.
    Ex: The report introduced a range of ideas which have influenced subsequent code construction.
    Ex: Here is a key paper by a non librarian which opens up a new and constructive approach to library purpose.
    Ex: This illustrates the puzzle that differential policies pose for users.
    Ex: Informative abstract present as much as possible of the quantitative or qualitative information contained in a document.
    Ex: Many libraries provide users with photocopies of contents pages of selected journals.
    Ex: A short score is a sketch made by a composer for an ensemble work, with the main features of the composition set out on a few staves.
    Ex: Author abstracts are the abstracts prepared by authors of the document that has been subjected to abstracting.
    Ex: Demands from clients will often throw up an occurrence of similar problems, revealing perhaps the operation of an injustice, the lack of an amenity in the neighbourhood, or simply bureaucratic inefficiency.
    Ex: The eventuality is, admittedly, remote but it is also necessary to render the imprint statement in this amount of detail.
    Ex: The art of documentation is the process by which the documentalist is enabled to put before the creative specialist the existing literature bearing on the subject of his investigation.
    Ex: The perfect librarian may be defined as one who produces the information a reader requires as soon as the reader asks for it.
    Ex: This list indicates the dates the reports were tabled and any further action take.
    Ex: Most publications are probably free distribution material and whilst that does not absolve the publishers from the obligation of legal deposit it is probable that many local authorities do not submit their materials.
    Ex: Here is an institution which knows, neither rank nor wealth within its walls, which stops the ignorant peer or the ignorant monarch at its threshold, and declines to unveil to him its treasures, or to waste time upon him, and yet welcomes the workman according to his knowledge or thirst for knowledge.
    Ex: Officially known as SOLEX, this exhibition showcases mainly IT based products for the legal profession.
    Ex: The book's date label is stamped in the usual way, and the reader must surrender one token for each book he is borrowing.
    Ex: There should be plenty of space to lay out all the books attractively and for people to move about without feeling too crowded.
    Ex: I don't need to tell those of you from higher education institutions how course management systems are starting to really proliferate and roll out in higher education.
    Ex: It is argued that newspaper reporting of bigamy constructs bigamists as being a threat to the institution of marriage.
    Ex: This address was tendered at the State Library of Victoria, Nov 88, to mark the retirement of Professor Jean Whyte.
    Ex: Derfer corroborated her: 'I'd be very proud of you if you could come up with the means to draft a model collection development policy'.
    Ex: Criticism is not appropriate in a style which aims to report, but not comment upon the content of the original document.
    Ex: They also intend to bring forward legislation to provide that the maximum amount of compensation should be £500,000.
    Ex: The result could be termed a full-provision data base -- a data base including both text and reference, and delivering much more than the 2 added together.
    * argumento que presenta sólo un punto de vista = one-sided argument.
    * oportunidad + presentarse = opportunity + knock, opportunity + present + Reflexivo.
    * presentar Algo desde una nueva óptica = throw + Nombre + in a new light, throw + new light on.
    * presentar Algo desde un nuevo ángulo = throw + new light on.
    * presentar argumentos a favor = make + a case for.
    * presentar argumentos a favor de = present + arguments in favour of.
    * presentar como = make + Nombre + out to be.
    * presentar conclusiones = provide + conclusions.
    * presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.
    * presentar deficiencias = fall + short.
    * presentar de manera esquemática = give + overview.
    * presentar dentro de = package.
    * presentar Algo desde una nueva perspectiva = shed + new light on, throw + new light on.
    * presentar detalladamente = spread out.
    * presentar dificultad = present + difficulty.
    * presentar en forma de tabla = tabulate.
    * presentar en pantalla = call up, print + online, bring up, screen.
    * presentar evidencia a favor de = present + case for.
    * presentar información = submit + information, package + information.
    * presentar información de varios modos = repackage + information.
    * presentar la evolución de Algo = chart + the history.
    * presentar la oportunidad = allow + the opportunity to.
    * presentar las pruebas ante = lay + evidence before.
    * presentar peligro = present + danger.
    * presentar + Posesivo + respetos = pay + Posesivo + respects.
    * presentar posibilidades = present + possibilities, open (up) + avenues.
    * presentar problemas = present + problems.
    * presentar pruebas = give + evidence.
    * presentar resultados = report + findings, report + results.
    * presentar reto = defy.
    * presentarse = come in, manifest + Reflexivo, turn up, show up, unfold, come forward, come with.
    * presentarse a = stand for.
    * presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.
    * presentarse desde una nueva perspectiva = stand in + a new light.
    * presentar (según) = cast (in/into).
    * presentarse una ocasión = occasion + arise.
    * presentar similitudes = share + similarities.
    * presentar una amenaza = pose + threat.
    * presentar una comunicación = deliver + paper, give + paper, present + paper.
    * presentar una contribución = present + contribution.
    * presentar una demanda = file + suit against, file + lawsuit against.
    * presentar una demanda judicial = take + legal action, take + legal proceedings.
    * presentar una denuncia = file + police report.
    * presentar una factura = submit + bill.
    * presentar una idea = make + point, put forward + idea, offer + perspective, present + idea.
    * presentar una imagen = present + picture, paint + a picture, present + an image.
    * presentar una oportunidad = afford + opportunity.
    * presentar una petición = submit + petition.
    * presentar una ponencia = give + paper, read + paper.
    * presentar una propuesta = submit + proposal.
    * presentar una queja = register + complaint, lodge + complaint, file + complaint, file + grievance.
    * presentar una reclamación = enter + complaint, place + claim, file + complaint.
    * presentar un argumento = advance + argument.
    * presentar una solicitud = submit + application.
    * presentar un aspecto = present + a picture.
    * presentar un aspecto de = wear + a look of.
    * presentar una visión = present + a picture.
    * presentar una visión global = give + overview, present + an overview, present + an overall picture, give + an overall picture, overview.
    * presentar un buen aspecto = look + good.
    * presentar un dilema = present + dilemma.
    * presentar un frente común = present + common front.
    * presentar un informe = give + a report, present + report.
    * presentar un obstáculo = pose + obstacle.
    * presentar un peligro = pose + danger.
    * presentar un problema = pose + problem, air + problem.
    * presentar un programa = present + programme.
    * presentar un proyecto = submit + project, present + project.
    * presentar un resumen = give + summary.
    * presentar un reto = present + challenge, provide + challenge.
    * presentar un riesgo = pose + risk.
    * presentar vestigios de = bear + traces of.
    * seleccionar y presentar en un documento = package.
    * volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].

    * * *
    presentar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (mostrar) to present
    un producto bien presentado a well-presented product
    2 (exponer por primera vez) ‹libro/disco› to launch
    presentó sus nuevos cuadros she presented her new paintings
    presentará su colección de otoño en Londres he will present o exhibit his autumn collection in London
    el nuevo XS34 se presentará al público en el salón de Turín the new XS34 will be on display (to the public) for the first time at the Turin show
    3 (entregar) ‹informe/solicitud› to submit
    le presenté el pasaporte para que me lo sellara I gave him my passport for stamping, I presented my passport to him for stamping
    tengo que presentar los planes mañana I have to submit o present the plans tomorrow
    4 (enseñar) to show
    hay que presentar el carné para entrar you have to show your membership card to get in
    5 ‹disculpas/excusas› to make
    fui a presentar mis respetos I went to pay my respects
    presentó su dimisión she handed in o submitted her resignation, she resigned
    pienso presentar una queja I intend filing o making a complaint
    presentaron una denuncia they reported the matter (to the police), they made an official complaint
    presentar pruebas to present evidence
    presentar cargos to bring charges
    presentar una demanda to bring a lawsuit
    6 ( Mil):
    presentar armas to present arms
    B (TV) ‹programa› to present, introduce
    C [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] ‹persona› to introduce
    el director presentó al conferenciante the director introduced the speaker
    me presentó a su familia he introduced me to his family
    te presento a mi hermana I'd like you to meet my sister/this is my sister
    D
    (mostrar, ofrecer): el nuevo modelo presenta algunas novedades the latest model has o offers some new features
    presenta muchas ventajas para el consumidor it offers the consumer many advantages
    el paciente no presentaba síntomas de intoxicación the patient showed no signs of food poisoning
    el cadáver presenta un impacto de bala en el costado ( frml); there is a bullet wound in the side of the body, the body has a bullet wound in the side
    A
    1 (en un lugar) to turn up, appear
    se presentó en casa sin avisar he turned up o showed up o appeared at the house unexpectedly
    se presentó voluntariamente a la policía he turned himself in to the police
    tendrá que presentarse ante el juez he will have to appear before the judge
    2
    (a un concurso, examen): se presentó al examen she took o ( BrE) sat the exam
    me presenté al concurso I entered the competition
    se presenta como candidato independiente he's an independent candidate, he's running as an independent ( AmE), he's standing as an independent ( BrE)
    se presentó para el cargo de director he applied for the post of director
    B «dificultad/problema» to arise, come up, crop up ( colloq)
    estaré allí salvo que se presente algún impedimento I'll be there unless something crops up o comes up
    si se me presenta la oportunidad if I get the opportunity, if the opportunity arises
    el futuro se presenta prometedor the future looks promising
    el asunto se presenta muy mal things are looking very bad
    C (darse a conocer) to introduce oneself
    permítame que me presente allow me to introduce myself
    presentarse en sociedad to make one's debut (in society)
    * * *

     

    presentar ( conjugate presentar) verbo transitivo
    1

    b) ( exponer por primera vez) ‹libro/disco› to launch;

    ‹ obra de arte› to present;
    ‹ colección de moda› to present, exhibit
    c) ( entregar) ‹informe/solicitud› to submit;

    ‹ trabajo› to hand in;
    ‹ renuncia› to hand in, submit
    d) ( enseñar) ‹carnet/pasaporte› to show

    e) ‹disculpas/excusas› to make;

    ‹ queja› to file, make;
    ‹ cargos› to bring;

    presentar pruebas to present evidence
    f) (Mil):


    2 (TV) ‹ programa› to present, introduce
    3 ‹ persona› to introduce;

    4 ‹novedad/ventaja› to offer;
    ‹ síntoma› to show
    presentarse verbo pronominal
    1


    b) presentarse a algo ‹ a examen› to take sth;

    ‹ a concurso› to enter sth;
    ‹ a elecciones› to take part in sth;
    ◊ se presenta como candidato independiente he's running (AmE) o (BrE) he's standing as an independent;

    presentarse para un cargo to apply for a post
    2 [dificultad/problema] to arise, come up;
    [ oportunidad] to arise
    3 ( darse a conocer) to introduce oneself
    presentar verbo transitivo
    1 (un programa, pruebas, etc) to present
    2 (un producto) to launch
    3 (a una persona) to introduce
    4 (síntomas, características, etc) to have, show
    5 (disculpas) to give, present
    (condolencias) to give, pay
    6 (la dimisión) to hand in
    7 (una queja) to file, make
    ' presentar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alegar
    - compeler
    - convenir
    - dimisión
    - esquema
    - revestir
    - dar
    - demanda
    - denuncia
    - introducir
    - licitar
    - moción
    - queja
    - querella
    - renuncia
    English:
    bring forward
    - charge
    - claim
    - field
    - file
    - hand in
    - host
    - introduce
    - lay
    - lodge
    - make out
    - model
    - pay
    - present
    - press
    - produce
    - put in
    - put on
    - put up
    - register
    - render
    - replay
    - report
    - represent
    - rerun
    - respect
    - serve up
    - set out
    - show
    - slant
    - star
    - submit
    - table
    - this
    - bring
    - come
    - display
    - enter
    - exhibit
    - float
    - hand
    - notice
    - propose
    - put
    - retake
    - sponsor
    - tender
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [mostrar, entregar] to present;
    [dimisión] to tender, to hand in; [tesis] to hand in, to submit; [pruebas, propuesta] to submit; [recurso, denuncia] to lodge; [solicitud] to make; [moción] to propose;
    presente su pasaporte en la ventanilla show your passport at the window;
    presentar cargos/una demanda contra alguien to bring charges/an action against sb;
    ¡presenten armas! [en ejército] present arms!;
    es un trabajo muy bien presentado it is a very well presented piece of work
    2. [dar a conocer] to introduce;
    me presentó a sus amigos she introduced me to her friends;
    Juan, te presento a Carmen Juan, this is Carmen;
    me parece que no nos han presentado I don't think we've been introduced;
    permítame que le presente a nuestra directora allow me to introduce you to our manager, I'd like you to meet our manager;
    no se conocían, pero yo los presenté they didn't know each other, but I introduced them (to each other)
    3. [anunciar] [programa de radio o televisión] to present;
    [espectáculo] to compere;
    la mujer que presenta el telediario the woman who reads the news on TV
    4. [proponer para competición] [obra] to enter;
    presentar una novela a un premio literario to enter a novel for a literary prize;
    presentar una película a concurso to enter a film at a film festival;
    presentar a alguien para algo to propose sb for sth, to put sb forward for sth;
    el partido presentará a la señora Cruz para la alcaldía the party is putting Mrs Cruz forward for the office of mayor, Mrs Cruz will be the party's candidate for the office of mayor
    5. [exhibir por primera vez] [planes, presupuestos] to present;
    [película] to premiere; [libro, disco] to launch;
    el club presentó a su último fichaje ante la prensa the club introduced its new signing to the press
    6. [ofrecer] [disculpas, excusas] to make;
    [respetos] to pay;
    nos presentó (sus) disculpas he made his excuses to us
    7. [tener] [aspecto, características, novedades] to have;
    este fondo de inversión presenta grandes ventajas this investment fund offers o has big advantages;
    la playa presenta un aspecto deplorable the beach is in a terrible state;
    presenta difícil solución it's going to be difficult to solve;
    el paciente presentaba síntomas de deshidratación the patient presented symptoms of dehydration
    * * *
    v/t
    1 TV present
    2 a alguien introduce
    3 producto launch
    4 solicitud submit
    * * *
    1) : to present, to show
    2) : to offer, to give
    3) : to submit (a document), to launch (a product)
    4) : to introduce (a person)
    * * *
    1. (personas) to introduce
    te presento a Iván this is Iván / meet Iván
    2. (programa, idea, propuesta) to present
    3. (un producto) to launch
    4. (señales, aspecto) to have / to show [pt. showed; pp. shown]

    Spanish-English dictionary > presentar

  • 7 Santana Lopes, Pedro Miguel de

    (1956-)
       Portuguese lawyer and politician, and prime minister (2004-05). Born in Lisbon in 1956, Santana Lopes took a law degree from the University of Lisbon and was a Student Union leader. In 1976, he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and became a legal advisor to Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro. Santana Lopes has always considered himself a follower of the late Sá Carneiro. In 1986, he became assistant state secretary to Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and the following year was elected to the European Parliament, in which he served for two years. In 1991, Cavaco Silva named him secretary of state for culture. He served in various other posts, including mayor of Lisbon, and he founded a weekly newspaper, Semanário.
       In 1998, Santana Lopes withdrew from politics after being negatively depicted in a private television station comic sketch. Instead, he continued in politics and rose to the vice-presidency of the PSD. José Manuel Durão Barroso resigned in July 2004 to become president of the European Commission, and Santana Lopes became PSD leader. Since his party was the major partner in the governing coalition at this time and Barroso had resigned his post, Santana Lopes succeeded him.
       Santana Lopes' brief premiership was fraught with difficulties. The national economy was in a crisis, and there were frequent cabinet shuffles, factionalism among PSD leaders, and questions being raised about the competence of Santana Lopes to govern effectively. President Jorge Sampaio called a parliamentary election for February 2005, following the resignation of the minister of sport from the cabinet and that minister's attacks on the prime minister's conduct. The Socialist Party (PS) under José Sócrates won the election, and Santana Lopes left office to resume his post as mayor of Lisbon. Santana Lopes, however, after in-fighting with his party and following the party's failure to endorse him as a candidate for the upcoming municipal elections, resigned this post one month before the election of February 2005.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Santana Lopes, Pedro Miguel de

  • 8 Poher, Alain

       (1909-1996)
       Interim president of France following the resignation of General de Gaulle in 1969, and again following the death of Georges Pompidou in 1974. He acceded to the Presidency in his function of leader of Sénat, the the upper house in the French parliament.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Poher, Alain

  • 9 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

    (PS)
       Although the Socialist Party's origins can be traced back to the 1850s, its existence has not been continuous. The party did not achieve or maintain a large base of support until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Historically, it played only a minor political role when compared to other European socialist parties.
       During the Estado Novo, the PS found it difficult to maintain a clandestine existence, and the already weak party literally withered away. Different groups and associations endeavored to keep socialist ideals alive, but they failed to create an organizational structure that would endure. In 1964, Mário Soares, Francisco Ramos da Costa, and Manuel Tito de Morais established the Portuguese Socialist Action / Acção Socialista Português (ASP) in Geneva, a group of individuals with similar views rather than a true political party. Most members were middle-class professionals committed to democratizing the nation. The rigidity of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led some to join the ASP.
       By the early 1970s, ASP nuclei existed beyond Portugal in Paris, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sweden, and Switzerland; these consisted of members studying, working, teaching, researching, or in other activities. Extensive connections were developed with other foreign socialist parties. Changing conditions in Portugal, as well as the colonial wars, led several ASP members to advocate the creation of a real political party, strengthening the organization within Portugal, and positioning this to compete for power once the regime changed.
       The current PS was founded clandestinely on 19 April 1973, by a group of 27 exiled Portuguese and domestic ASP representatives at the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bad Munstereifel, West Germany. The founding philosophy was influenced by nondogmatic Marxism as militants sought to create a classless society. The rhetoric was to be revolutionary to outflank its competitors, especially the PCP, on its left. The party hoped to attract reform-minded Catholics and other groups that were committed to democracy but could not support the communists.
       At the time of the 1974 revolution, the PS was little more than an elite faction based mainly among exiles. It was weakly organized and had little grassroots support outside the major cities and larger towns. Its organization did not improve significantly until the campaign for the April 1975 constituent elections. Since then, the PS has become very pragmatic and moderate and has increasingly diluted its socialist program until it has become a center-left party. Among the party's most consistent principles in its platform since the late 1970s has been its support for Portugal's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Union (EU), a view that clashed with those of its rivals to the left, especially the PCP. Given the PS's broad base of support, the increased distance between its leftist rhetoric and its more conservative actions has led to sharp internal divisions in the party. The PS and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) are now the two dominant parties in the Portuguese political party system.
       In doctrine and rhetoric the PS has undergone a de-Marxification and a movement toward the center as a means to challenge its principal rival for hegemony, the PSD. The uneven record of the PS in general elections since its victory in 1975, and sometimes its failure to keep strong legislative majorities, have discouraged voters. While the party lost the 1979 and 1980 general elections, it triumphed in the 1983 elections, when it won 36 percent of the vote, but it still did not gain an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic. The PSD led by Cavaco Silva dominated elections from 1985 to 1995, only to be defeated by the PS in the 1995 general elections. By 2000, the PS had conquered the commanding heights of the polity: President Jorge Sampaio had been reelected for a second term, PS prime minister António Guterres was entrenched, and the mayor of Lisbon was João Soares, son of the former socialist president, Mário Soares (1986-96).
       The ideological transformation of the PS occurred gradually after 1975, within the context of a strong PSD, an increasingly conservative electorate, and the de-Marxification of other European Socialist parties, including those in Germany and Scandinavia. While the PS paid less attention to the PCP on its left and more attention to the PSD, party leaders shed Marxist trappings. In the 1986 PS official program, for example, the text does not include the word Marxism.
       Despite the party's election victories in the mid- and late-1990s, the leadership discovered that their grasp of power and their hegemony in governance at various levels was threatened by various factors: President Jorge Sampaio's second term, the constitution mandated, had to be his last.
       Following the defeat of the PS by the PSD in the municipal elections of December 2001, Premier Antônio Guterres resigned his post, and President Sampaio dissolved parliament and called parliamentary elections for the spring. In the 17 March 2002 elections, following Guterres's resignation as party leader, the PS was defeated by the PSD by a vote of 40 percent to 38 percent. Among the factors that brought about the socialists' departure from office was the worsening post-September 11 economy and disarray within the PS leadership circles, as well as charges of corruption among PS office holders. However, the PS won 45 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections of 2005, and the leader of the party, José Sócrates, a self-described "market-oriented socialist" became prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 10 baja

    f.
    1 drop, fall (descenso).
    redondear el precio a la baja to round the price down
    el precio del cacao sigue a la baja the price of cocoa is continuing to fall
    tendencia a la baja downward trend
    2 redundancy (cese) (forzado).
    dar de baja a alguien to lay somebody off; (en empresa) to expel somebody (en club, sindicato)
    3 sick leave (por enfermedad) (permiso). (peninsular Spanish)
    estar/darse de baja to be on/take sick leave
    baja por maternidad maternity leave
    4 loss, casualty (military).
    bajas civiles civilian casualties
    5 pasha, Moslem honorary title, Moslem honourary title, pacha.
    6 doctor's excuse, doctor's line, doctor's note.
    7 lay off period.
    8 termination of employment.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: bajar.
    * * *
    1 (descenso) fall, drop
    2 MILITAR casualty
    3 (por enfermedad) sick leave; (justificante) medical certificate, doctor's note
    \
    dar de baja (a enfermo) to give a sick note to 2 (a socio de club) to expel 3 (a soldado) to declare missing
    darse de baja (de un club) to cancel one's membership, leave, drop out 2 (en una suscripción) to cancel one's subscription 3 (por enfermedad) to take sick leave
    estar de baja (enfermo) to be off sick 2 (pasado) to be dropping, on the way out
    estar en baja to be dropping, on the way out
    ser baja (deportista) to be injured, not be playing 2 (militar) to be reported missing
    * * *
    1. f., (m. - bajo) 2. noun f.
    2) fall, drop, slump
    •
    - darse de baja
    - estar de baja
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=descenso) fall, drop

    • a la baja — [evolución, tendencia] downward

    • abrir a la baja — (Bolsa) to open down

    • cerrar a la baja — (Bolsa) to close down

    la Bolsa cerró a la baja en el día de ayer — the Stock Exchange closed down o was down at the close of trading yesterday

    • corregir algo a la baja — to adjust sth downwards

    • cotizarse a la baja — (Bolsa) to trade low

    • estar en baja — to be in decline

    la Bolsa está en baja — there is a downward trend in the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange is in decline

    2) (=cese)
    [en organización, suscripción, trabajo]

    el nuevo estilo de la revista ha causado numerosas bajas — the new style of the magazine has led many people to cancel their subscription

    • dar de baja — [+ socio] to expel; [+ abogado, médico] to strike off; [+ militar] to discharge; [+ empleado] to dismiss, fire; [+ empresa, sociedad] to dissolve; [+ coche] to take out of circulation; [+ avión, tren] to decommission; [+ teléfono, luz] to have disconnected

    la dieron de baja del club por no pagar la suscripción — her membership of the club was cancelled because she had failed to pay her subscription

    • darse de baja — [de club, institución, partido] to leave; [de revista, periódico] to cancel one's subscription

    • pedir la baja — to hand in one's resignation

    baja voluntaria — [por dimisión] voluntary redundancy; [por jubilación] early retirement

    3) (=ausencia laboral)

    • dar de baja, se le dará de baja a partir del día de la operación — she will be on sick leave from the day of the operation

    • estar de baja — to be on sick leave, be off sick

    • pedir la baja — to ask for o apply for sick leave

    4) (Dep) [por descalificación] suspension; [por lesión] injury
    5) Esp (Med) (=certificado) medical certificate, sick note *
    6) (Mil) (=víctima) casualty
    * * *
    1) ( descenso) fall, drop

    a la baja: tendencia a la baja downward trend; los que juegan a la baja — those who are selling for a fall, the bears

    2)
    a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave; ( certificado) medical certificate

    está (dado) de baja — he's off sick o on sick leave

    b) (Dep)
    c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty
    3)

    ha habido varias bajas — ( en clase) several students have dropped out o left; ( en asociación) several members have left

    darse de baja — ( en club) to cancel one's membership, leave; ( en partido) to resign, leave

    causó baja en nuestra empresa — (Esp) he left our employment

    b) (Mil) ( cese) discharge
    c) ( en puesto)

    el equipo lo dio de baja — the club cut him (AmE), the club released him (BrE)

    •
    * * *
    1) ( descenso) fall, drop

    a la baja: tendencia a la baja downward trend; los que juegan a la baja — those who are selling for a fall, the bears

    2)
    a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave; ( certificado) medical certificate

    está (dado) de baja — he's off sick o on sick leave

    b) (Dep)
    c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty
    3)

    ha habido varias bajas — ( en clase) several students have dropped out o left; ( en asociación) several members have left

    darse de baja — ( en club) to cancel one's membership, leave; ( en partido) to resign, leave

    causó baja en nuestra empresa — (Esp) he left our employment

    b) (Mil) ( cese) discharge
    c) ( en puesto)

    el equipo lo dio de baja — the club cut him (AmE), the club released him (BrE)

    •
    * * *
    baja1
    1 = drop, fall.

    Ex: Perfect recall can only be achieved by a drop in the proportion of relevant documents considered.

    Ex: There has been a rapid increase in the number and costs of science, technology and medicine scholarly titles in recent years, and a fall in subscriptions.
    * a la baja = on the wane.
    * estar a la baja = be down.
    * ir a la baja = be down.
    * Nombre + a la baja = Nombre + down.

    baja2
    2 = leave.

    Ex: The induction course will give all the necessary employment details relating to such matters as the amount of leave entitlement, insurance stoppages, what to do in case of sickness, etc..

    * baja maternal = maternity leave, maternal leave.
    * baja paternal = paternal leave.
    * baja por enfermedad = sick leave, sickness leave.
    * baja por maternidad = maternity leave, parental leave, maternal leave.
    * baja por paternidad = paternal leave.
    * baja temporal = temporary leave.
    * dar de baja = take out of + circulation.
    * estar de baja = be off work.
    * estar de baja por enfermedad = be off work sick.

    baja3

    Ex: No area of library operations would be unaffected -- from the selection of materials to the hiring and termination of personnel.

    * dado de baja = written-off.
    * darse de baja de una suscripción = unsubscribe.

    baja4

    Ex: Unfortunately, there are indications that the use of rubber stamps in libraries may be among the first casualties of the information revolution.

    * baja de guerra = war casualty.
    * baja en combate = combat casualty.

    * * *
    A (descenso) fall, drop
    una baja en el número de inscripciones a fall o drop in the number of enrollments
    su popularidad está en baja his popularity is waning o declining o on the wane
    hubo una baja de tensión ( RPl); there was a drop in voltage
    a la baja: el precio del crudo sigue a la baja the price of crude oil continues to fall
    continúa la tendencia a la baja en las cuatro bolsas the downward trend continues o stocks continue to fall on all four exchanges
    los que jugaban a la baja those who were selling for a fall, the bears
    B
    1
    ( Esp) ( Dep): Pardo es baja para el partido del domingo Pardo is out of Sunday's game
    el equipo tiene varias bajas the team is without several of its usual players
    2 ( Mil) (muerte) loss, casualty
    los rebeldes tuvieron trece bajas the rebels lost thirteen men
    registraron varias bajas they suffered several casualties o the loss of several men
    3 ( Esp) ( Rels Labs) (permiso) sick leave; (certificado) medical certificate
    debe presentar la baja you must produce your medical certificate
    está (dado) de baja desde hace dos meses he's been off sick o on sick leave for two months
    Compuesto:
    maternity leave
    C
    1
    (en un club, una organización): ha habido or se han registrado or se han producido varias bajas (en una clase) several students have dropped out o left; (en una asociación) several members have left
    lo dieron de baja en el club por no pagar la cuota they canceled his membership of the club o threw him out of the club for not paying his subscription
    darse de baja (en un club) to cancel one's membership, leave; (en un partido) to resign, leave; (en el consulado) to have one's name removed from the register; (de un sitio web) to unsubscribe
    2 ( Mil) (cese) discharge
    pidió la baja en el ejército he applied for a discharge o to be discharged from the army
    fue dado de baja he was discharged
    3
    (en un puesto): la empresa lo dio de baja the company dismissed him, the company cut him ( AmE), the company sacked him ( BrE)
    lo dieron de baja por invalidez he was dismissed because of illness o on health grounds
    durante los tres meses posteriores a la fecha de la baja in the three months following termination of employment
    causó baja en nuestra organización en mayo de 2008 ( Esp); he left our employment o ( frml) employ in May 2008
    Compuestos:
    voluntary redundancy ( with incentive payment)
    reducir la plantilla mediante bajas vegetativas to reduce the workforce by attrition ( AmE) o ( BrE) natural wastage
    voluntary redundancy
    * * *

     

    Del verbo bajar: ( conjugate bajar)

    baja es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

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    bajar
    baja sustantivo femenino
    1 ( descenso) fall, drop;
    ◊ una baja en los precios a fall o drop in prices;

    la baja de las tasas de interés the cut in interest rates;
    tendencia a la baja downward trend
    2
    a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave;

    ( certificado) medical certificate;
    ◊ está (dado) de baja he's off sick o on sick leave;

    baja por maternidad (Esp) maternity leave
    b) (Dep):


    c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty

    3 ( en entidad):


    ( en partido) to resign, leave;
    (Mil) ( cese) discharge;

    bajar ( conjugate bajar) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [ascensor/persona] ( alejándose) to go down;

    ( acercándose) to come down;
    ◊ baja por las escaleras to go/come down the stairs;

    ya bajo I'll be right down
    b) ( apearse) baja de algo ‹de tren/avión› to get off sth;

    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth
    c) (Dep) [ equipo] to go down

    2

    b) [fiebre/tensión] to go down, drop;

    [ hinchazón] to go down;
    [ temperatura] to fall, drop
    c) [precio/valor] to fall, drop;

    [ calidad] to deteriorate;
    [ popularidad] to diminish;

    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    2 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    3
    a) baja algo (de algo) ‹de armario/estante› to get sth down (from sth);

    ‹ del piso de arriba› ( traer) to bring sth down (from sth);
    ( llevar) to take sth down (to sth)
    b) baja a algn de algo ‹de mesa/caballo› to get sb off sth

    4
    a) ‹persiana/telón› to lower;

    ‹ ventanilla› to open

    5 ‹ precio› to lower;
    ‹ fiebre› to bring down;
    ‹ volumen› to turn down;
    ‹ voz› to lower
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( apearse) bajase de algo ‹de tren/autobús› to get off sth;
    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth;
    ‹de pared/árbol› to get down off sth
    2 ‹ pantalones› to take down;
    ‹ falda› to pull down
    bajo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 low
    2 (de poca estatura) short: es muy bajo para jugar al baloncesto, he's a bit too short to play basketball
    3 (poco intenso) faint, soft: en este local la música está baja, the music isn't very loud here
    4 (escaso) poor: su nivel es muy bajo, his level is very low
    este queso es bajo en calorías, this cheese is low in calories
    5 Mús low
    6 fig (mezquino, vil, ruin) base, despicable: tiene muy bajos instintos, he's absolutely contemptible
    bajos fondos, the underworld
    la clase baja, the lower class
    II adverbio low: habla bajo, por favor, please speak quietly
    por lo b., (a sus espaldas, disimuladamente) on the sly: con Pedro es muy amable, pero por lo bajo echa pestes de él, she's very nice to Pedro, but she's always slagging him off behind his back
    (como mínimo) at least: ese libro cuesta cinco mil pesetas tirando por lo bajo, that book costs at least five thousand pesetas
    III sustantivo masculino
    1 Mús (instrumento, cantante, instrumentista) bass
    2 (de un edificio) ground floor
    3 (de una prenda) hem
    IV mpl Mec underneath: las piedras del camino le rozaron los bajos del coche, we scratched the bottom of the car against the stones on the road
    V preposición
    1 (lugar) under, underneath
    bajo techo, under shelter
    bajo tierra, underground
    bajo la tormenta, in the storm
    2 Pol Hist under
    bajo la dictadura, under the dictatorship 3 bajo cero, (temperatura) below zero
    4 Jur under
    bajo fianza, on bail
    bajo juramento, under oath
    bajo multa de cien mil pesetas, subject to a fine of one hundred thousand pesetas
    bajo ningún concepto, under no circumstances
    firmó la declaración bajo presión, she signed the declaration under pressure
    La traducción más común del adjetivo es low. Sin embargo, recuerda que cuando quieres describir a una persona debes usar la palabra short: Es muy bajo para su edad. He's very short for his age.
    baja sustantivo femenino
    1 (informe médico) sick note
    baja por enfermedad, sick leave
    baja por maternidad, maternity leave
    2 (descenso) drop, fall
    3 Mil (víctima, herido) casualty: nuestro ejército no ha sufrido bajas, we haven't suffered any casualties
    ♦ Locuciones: coger la baja, (por enfermedad) to take sick leave
    darse de baja, (de una asociación, una actividad) to resign [de, from], drop out [de, of]
    estar de baja, (por enfermedad) to be off sick
    Fin jugar a la baja, to operate for a fall
    bajar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (descender) to come o go down: bajé corriendo la cuesta, I ran downhill ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (llevar algo abajo) to bring o get o take down: baja los disfraces del trastero, bring the costumes down from the attic
    3 (un telón) to lower
    (una persiana) to let down
    (la cabeza) to bow o lower
    4 (reducir el volumen) to turn down
    (la voz) to lower
    5 (los precios, etc) to reduce, cut
    6 (ropa, dobladillo) tengo que bajar el vestido, I've got to let the hem down
    7 Mús tienes que bajar un tono, you've got to go down a tone
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to go o come down: bajamos al bar, we went down to the bar
    2 (apearse de un tren, un autobús) to get off
    (de un coche) to get out [de, of]: tienes que bajarte en la siguiente parada, you've got to get off at the next stop
    3 (disminuir la temperatura, los precios) to fall, drop: ha bajado su cotización en la bolsa, its share prices have dropped in the stock exchange
    ' baja' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bajar
    - bajinis
    - bajo
    - borrarse
    - cabeza
    - cámara
    - despacio
    - estar
    - estofa
    - forma
    - fresca
    - fresco
    - grosera
    - grosero
    - jugar
    - marea
    - media
    - medio
    - planta
    - riñón
    - telebasura
    - temblor
    - temporada
    - tensión
    - tintorro
    - voz
    - clase
    - fondo
    - incapacidad
    - petiso
    - renacuajo
    - roto
    English:
    alternate
    - attrition rate
    - breath
    - breathe
    - casualty
    - discharge
    - downstairs
    - downturn
    - downward
    - downwards
    - fall behind
    - floor
    - form
    - ground floor
    - house
    - low-calorie
    - lower
    - lower-class
    - off
    - off-peak
    - quietly
    - season
    - shoddiness
    - sick
    - sick-leave
    - simmer
    - slide
    - undertone
    - voice
    - whisper
    - work
    - down
    - drop
    - go
    - ground
    - hushed
    - low
    - red
    - slump
    - small
    - sweep
    - tide
    - under
    - voluntary
    - water
    - way
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    baja nf
    1. [descenso] drop, fall;
    una baja en las temperaturas a drop in temperature;
    no se descarta una baja en los tipos de interés a cut in interest rates isn't being ruled out;
    redondear el precio a la baja to round the price down;
    el precio del cacao sigue a la baja the price of cocoa is continuing to fall, the slump in the price of cocoa is continuing;
    la bolsa de Madrid sigue a la baja share prices on the Madrid stock exchange are continuing to fall;
    tendencia a la baja downward trend;
    las eléctricas cotizaron ayer a la baja share prices for the electricity companies fell yesterday;
    Fin
    jugar a la baja to bear the market
    2. [cese] lay-off, Br redundancy;
    han anunciado veinte bajas [forzadas] they have announced twenty lay-offs o Br redundancies;
    la empresa ha sufrido bajas entre sus directivos [voluntarias] a number of managers have left the firm;
    la pérdida de las elecciones provocó cientos de bajas en el partido the election defeat caused hundreds of people to leave the party;
    dar de baja a alguien [en una empresa] to lay sb off;
    [en un club, sindicato] to expel sb;
    darse de baja (de) [dimitir] to resign (from);
    [salirse] to drop out (of);
    pedir la baja [de un club, organización] to ask to leave;
    [del ejército] to apply for a discharge baja incentivada voluntary lay-off o Br redundancy;
    baja retribuida paid leave;
    baja no retribuida unpaid leave;
    baja con sueldo paid leave;
    baja sin sueldo unpaid leave
    3. Esp [por enfermedad] [permiso] sick leave;
    [documento] sick note, doctor's certificate;
    estar/darse de baja to be on/take sick leave
    baja por enfermedad sick leave;
    baja por maternidad maternity leave;
    baja por paternidad paternity leave
    4. Mil loss, casualty;
    se registraron numerosas bajas en el combate they suffered heavy casualties in the battle, a number of people were lost in the battle
    5. Dep [por lesión] casualty, injured player;
    [por sanción] suspended player;
    al no haberse recuperado todavía, el brasileño causa o [m5] es baja para el próximo encuentro as he still hasn't recovered from injury, the Brazilian is out of the next game;
    acudieron a la final con varias bajas importantes they went into the final with a number of important players missing
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    f
    1 descenso fall, drop;
    jugar a la baja FIN gamble on a bear market
    2 persona casualty;
    bajas pl MIL casualties
    :
    causar baja resign, leave;
    dar de baja dismiss;
    darse de baja resign, leave ( por because of);
    estar de baja (por enfermedad) be off sick, be on sick leave
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    baja nf
    1) descenso: fall, drop
    2) : slump, recession
    3) : loss, casualty
    4)
    dar de baja : to discharge, to dismiss
    5)
    darse de baja : to withdraw, to drop out
    * * *
    baja n
    1. (disminución) fall / drop
    3. (persona muerta) casualty [pl. casualties]
    4. (documento) sick note / doctor's note
    estar de baja to be off sick / to be on sick leave

    Spanish-English dictionary > baja

  • 11 follow ***** fol·low

    ['fɒləʊ]
    1. vt
    (gen) seguire, (football team) fare il tifo per

    following his resignation... — in seguito alle sue dimissioni...

    2. vi
    1) (gen) seguire

    you go first and I'll follow — vai tu per primo, io ti seguo

    2) (result, deduction etc) risultare, conseguire

    it follows that... — ne consegue che...

    it doesn't follow that... — non vuol dire che...

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    English-Italian dictionary > follow ***** fol·low

  • 12 matter

    1. noun
    1) (affair) Angelegenheit, die

    matters — die Dinge

    that's another or a different matter altogether or quite another matter — das ist etwas ganz anderes

    and to make matters worse... — und was die Sache noch schlimmer macht/machte,...

    a/no matter for or of... — ein/kein Grund od. Anlass zu...

    it's a matter of complete indifference to me — es ist mir völlig gleichgültig

    3) (topic) Thema, das; Gegenstand, der
    4)

    a matter of... — (something that amounts to) eine Frage (+ Gen.)...; eine Sache von...

    it's a matter of taste/habit — das ist Geschmack- / Gewohnheitssache

    [only] a matter of time — [nur noch] eine Frage der Zeit

    it's just a matter of working harder — man muss sich ganz einfach [bei der Arbeit] mehr anstrengen

    in a matter of minutes — in wenigen Minuten

    Do you know him? - Yes, as a matter of fact, I do — Kennst du ihn? - Ja, ich kenne ihn tatsächlich

    5)

    what's the matter? — was ist [los]?

    is something the matter? — stimmt irgendetwas nicht?; ist [irgend]was (ugs.) ?

    6)
    7)

    no matter! — [das] macht nichts!

    no matter how/who/what/why — etc. ganz gleich od. egal (ugs.), wie/wer/was/warum usw.

    8) (material, as opposed to mind, spirit, etc.) Materie, die

    [in]organic/solid/vegetable matter — [an]organische/feste/pflanzliche Stoffe

    2. intransitive verb

    what does it matter? — was macht das schon?; was macht's? (ugs.)

    what matters is that... — worum es geht, ist...

    doesn't matter — [das] macht nichts (ugs.)

    it doesn't matter how/when — etc. es ist einerlei, wie/wann usw.

    does it matter to you if...? — macht es dir etwas aus, wenn...?

    the things which matter in life — [das,] worauf es im Leben ankommt

    * * *
    ['mætə] 1. noun
    1) (solids, liquids and/or gases in any form, from which everything physical is made: The entire universe is made up of different kinds of matter.) die Materie
    2) (a subject or topic (of discussion etc): a private matter; money matters.) die Angelegenheit
    3) (pus: The wound was infected and full of matter.) der Eiter
    2. verb
    (to be important: That car matters a great deal to him; It doesn't matter.) bedeuten
    - academic.ru/45646/matter-of-fact">matter-of-fact
    - be the matter
    - a matter of course
    - a matter of opinion
    - no matter
    - no matter who
    - what
    - where
    * * *
    mat·ter
    [ˈmætəʳ, AM -t̬ɚ]
    I. n
    1. no pl (material) Materie f; SCI [Grund-]Stoff m, Substanz f
    organic \matter organische Stoffe pl
    printed \matter Gedrucktes nt, Drucksache[n] f[pl]
    reading \matter Lesestoff m
    vegetable \matter pflanzliche Stoffe pl
    waste \matter MED Schlacken pl
    \matter in suspension Schwebstoffe pl
    \matter constant TECH Materialkonstante f
    2. (affair) Angelegenheit f, Sache f
    that's a different \matter das ist eine andere Sache
    it's a \matter of complete indifference to me das ist mir völlig egal
    this is a \matter for the police das sollte man der Polizei übergeben
    the \matter in [or AM at] hand die Angelegenheit [o Sache], um die es geht
    to get to the heart of the \matter zum Kern der Sache vordringen
    the truth [or fact] of the \matter is... in Wirklichkeit...
    a \matter of urgency etwas Dringendes
    to be no easy \matter doing sth nicht einfach sein, etw zu tun
    family \matters Familienangelegenheiten pl
    financial \matters pl Geldangelegenheiten pl, Geldsachen pl
    money \matters pl Geldangelegenheiten pl
    a personal \matter eine persönliche Angelegenheit [o Sache]
    in the \matter of... was... angeht
    the British are given pre-eminence in the \matter of tea was Tee angeht, da haben die Briten die Nase vorn
    3. no pl (question) Frage f
    it's simply a \matter of following the recipe/learning the rules man muss einfach nur das Rezept befolgen/die Regeln erlernen
    as a \matter of course selbstverständlich
    a \matter of fact eine Tatsache
    as a \matter of fact (by the way) übrigens, im Übrigen; (expressing agreement or disagreement) in der Tat
    have you got his address? — as a \matter of fact, I have hast du seine Adresse? — ja, die hab ich tatsächlich
    I suppose you're leaving soon? — no, as a \matter of fact, I'll be staying for another two weeks ich nehme an, Sie reisen bald ab? — keineswegs, in der Tat habe ich vor, noch zwei Wochen zu bleiben
    a \matter of form eine Formsache
    as a \matter of interest aus Interesse, interessehalber
    just as a \matter of interest, how much did you pay for it? ich frage nur aus Interesse, aber wie viel hast du dafür bezahlt?
    it's a \matter of life and [or or] death es geht um Leben und Tod
    that's a \matter of opinion das ist Ansichtssache
    a \matter of principle eine Frage des Prinzips
    a \matter of record eine Tatsache
    it's a \matter of record that... es ist allgemein bekannt, dass...
    a \matter of taste eine Geschmacksfrage
    a \matter of time eine Frage der Zeit
    4. no pl (topic) Thema nt
    the subject \matter of the book das Thema des Buches
    it's no laughing \matter das ist nicht zum Lachen
    that's another \matter das ist etwas anderes
    that's another \matter altogether [or quite another \matter] das ist [wieder] etwas völlig [o ganz] anderes
    to let the \matter drop etwas auf sich beruhen lassen; (in a conversation) das Thema fallenlassen
    5. (problem)
    is anything the \matter? stimmt etwas nicht?
    there's nothing the \matter es ist alles in Ordnung
    what's the \matter with you? was ist los mit dir?
    what's the \matter with asking for a pay rise? was ist so schlimm daran, um eine Gehaltserhöhung zu bitten?
    no \matter das macht nichts, [das ist] kein Problem
    no \matter, I'll go myself kein Problem, ich gehe selbst
    no \matter what was auch [immer] passiert
    we've got to get to the airport on time, no \matter what wir müssen pünktlich zum Flughafen kommen, egal wie
    no \matter what/when/who... ganz gleich [o egal], was/wann/wer...
    no \matter what you say, I won't leave him was du auch sagst, ich werde ihn nicht verlassen
    to pretend that nothing is the \matter so tun, als ob nichts wäre
    6.
    ▪ \matters pl (state of affairs) die Situation [o Lage]
    that's how \matters stand at the moment so sieht es im Moment aus
    \matters came to a head with her resignation mit ihrem Rücktritt spitzte sich die Lage dann noch zu
    to help \matters/make \matters worse die Lage verbessern/verschlimmern
    to make \matters worse, it then started to rain heavily zu allem Überfluss fing es auch noch an, in Strömen zu regnen
    to take \matters into one's own hands die Dinge selbst in die Hand nehmen
    7. no pl (amount)
    in a \matter of seconds he was by her side es dauerte nur Sekunden bis er bei ihr war
    it was all over in a \matter of minutes nach wenigen Minuten war alles vorbei
    it's only a \matter of a few dollars es geht nur um ein paar Dollars
    and then there's the little \matter of the 80 euros you owe me und dann ist da noch die Kleinigkeit von 80 Euro, die du mir schuldest
    8. LAW
    \matter of fact Tatfrage f
    \matter of law Rechtsfrage f
    9. TYPO Satzspiegel m fachspr
    10.
    ▶ not to mince \matter kein Blatt vor den Mund nehmen
    ▶ for that \matter eigentlich
    I don't like him, nor does Ann, for that \matter ich mag ihn nicht, und Ann mag ihn im Grunde auch nicht
    ▶ what \matter? ( dated) was macht das schon?
    II. vi
    1. (be of importance) von Bedeutung sein
    to him, animals \matter more than human beings ihm sind Tiere wichtiger als Menschen
    what \matters now is that... worauf es jetzt ankommt, ist, dass...
    that's the only thing that \matters das ist das Einzige, was zählt
    it really \matters to me das bedeutet mir wirklich etwas, das ist wirklich wichtig für mich
    ▪ it \matters that... es macht etwas aus, dass...
    ▪ it doesn't \matter das ist nicht wichtig
    I've spilt something on the carpet — it doesn't \matter ich habe etwas auf dem Teppich verschüttet — das macht nichts
    would you rather go on Wednesday or Thursday — it doesn't \matter möchten Sie lieber am Mittwoch oder am Donnerstag fahren — das ist mir egal
    it doesn't \matter what the guests wear es spielt keine Rolle, wie die Gäste angezogen sind
    it didn't \matter anything to them es war ihnen völlig egal
    ▪ it doesn't \matter if/that... es macht nichts [o fam ist egal], wenn/dass...
    it doesn't \matter how long your hair is as long as it's tidy es spielt keine Rolle, wie lang deine Haare sind, solange sie gepflegt sind
    people who \matter Leute von Einfluss
    2. ( rare) wound eitern
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    ['mtə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= substance, not mind) die Materie

    organic/inorganic matter — organische/anorganische Stoffe pl

    2) (particular kind) Stoff m

    advertising matter — Reklame f, Werbung f

    3) (MED: pus) Eiter m
    4) (TYP) (= copy) Manuskript nt; (= type set up) Satz m
    5) (= content) Inhalt m

    the main matter of his speech was... — (der) Hauptgegenstand seiner Rede war...

    6) (= question, affair) Sache f, Angelegenheit f; (= topic) Thema nt, Stoff m

    in the matter of... — was... (+acc) anbelangt, hinsichtlich... (+gen)

    there's the matter of my expenses —

    it's no great matter — das macht nichts, das ist nicht so wichtig

    that's another matter altogether, that's a very different matter — das ist etwas völlig anderes

    it will be no easy matter (to)... — es wird nicht einfach sein, zu...

    it's a serious matter — das ist eine ernste Angelegenheit, die Sache ist ernst

    8)

    I haven't seen him for weeks, nor for that matter has anybody else —

    he wants to complain about it and for that matter, so do I — er will sich darüber beschweren und ich eigentlich auch

    9)

    a matter of — eine Frage (+gen), eine Sache von

    it's a matter of form/time — das ist eine Formsache/Zeitfrage or Frage der Zeit

    it's a matter of taste/opinion — das ist Geschmacks-/Ansichtssache

    it's a matter of adjusting this part exactly — es geht darum, dieses Teil genau einzustellen

    it's a matter of 10 miles from... —

    if it's just a matter of another 10 minutes, then I'll wait — wenn es sich nur noch um 10 Minuten handelt, dann warte ich solange

    it's not just a matter of increasing the money supply — es ist nicht damit getan, die Geldzufuhr zu erhöhen

    it's just a matter of trying harder — man muss sich ganz einfach etwas mehr anstrengen

    you should always take your passport with you as a matter of course — es sollte für Sie eine Selbstverständlichkeit sein, stets Ihren Pass bei sich zu haben

    10)

    I've decided to leave tomorrow, no matter what — ich gehe morgen, egal was passiert

    no matter how/what/when/where etc... — egal, wie/was/wann/wo etc...

    no matter how you do it — wie du es auch machst, egal, wie du es machst

    11)

    sth is the matter with sb/sth — etw ist mit jdm/etw los; (ill) etw fehlt jdm

    what's the matter? — was ist (denn) los?, was ist (denn)?

    what's the matter with you this morning? – nothing's the matter — was hast du denn heute Morgen? – gar nichts

    what's the matter with having a little fun? — was ist denn schon dabei, wenn man ein bisschen Spaß hat?

    something's the matter with the lights — mit dem Licht ist irgendetwas nicht in Ordnung

    as if nothing was the matter — als ob nichts (los) wäre

    2. vi

    it doesn't matter — (es or das) macht nichts, ist schon gut

    I forgot it, does it matter? – yes, it does matter —

    does it matter to you if I go? — macht es dir etwas aus, wenn ich gehe?

    doesn't it matter to you at all if I leave you? — macht es dir denn gar nichts aus, wenn ich dich verlasse?

    it doesn't matter to me what you do — es ist mir (ganz) egal, was du machst

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    matter [ˈmætə(r)]
    A s
    1. Materie f ( auch PHIL, PHYS), Material n, Substanz f, Stoff m:
    organic matter organische Substanz;
    gaseous matter gasförmiger Körper; → foreign 3
    2. a) PHYSIOL Substanz f: → gray matter
    b) MED Eiter m
    3. Sache f ( auch JUR), Angelegenheit f:
    this is an entirely different matter das ist etwas ganz anderes;
    the matter in ( oder at) hand die vorliegende Angelegenheit;
    a matter of convention eine Frage des Anstandes;
    a matter of course eine Selbstverständlichkeit;
    as a matter of course selbstverständlich, natürlich;
    a matter of discretion eine Ermessensfrage;
    a) eine Tatsache,
    b) JUR bes US eine (strittige) Tatfrage;
    as a matter of fact tatsächlich, eigentlich, ehrlich gesagt;
    a matter of form eine Formsache;
    as a matter of form der Form halber;
    matter in issue JUR Streitgegenstand m, Streitsache f;
    it is a matter of life and death es geht um Leben und Tod;
    as a matter of principle grundsätzlich, prinzipiell;
    it is a matter of finishing in time es geht darum, rechtzeitig fertig zu werden;
    a matter of taste (eine) Geschmackssache;
    a matter of time eine Frage der Zeit, eine Zeitfrage;
    for that matter eigentlich;
    a) hinsichtlich (gen),
    b) JUR in Sachen (A. gegen B.); → conscience Bes Redew, fact 1, laughing B 2, opinion 1
    4. pl (ohne Artikel) die Sache, die Dinge pl:
    a) die Sache schlimmer machen,
    b) (Redew) was die Sache noch schlimmer macht;
    carry matters too far es zu weit treiben;
    as matters stand wie die Dinge liegen, nach Lage der Dinge;
    matters were in a mess es war eine verfahrene Geschichte
    5. the matter die Schwierigkeit:
    what’s the matter? was ist los?, wo fehlts?;
    what’s the matter with it (with him)? was ist (los) damit (mit ihm)?;
    what’s the matter with having the occasional glass of wine? was ist (schon) dabei, wenn man ab und zu ein Glas Wein trinkt?;
    what’s the matter now? was ist denn jetzt schon wieder los?;
    there’s nothing the matter nichts ist los;
    no matter! es hat nichts zu sagen!, nichts von Bedeutung!;
    it’s no matter whether … es spielt keine Rolle, ob …;
    no matter what he says was er auch sagt; ganz egal, was er sagt;
    no matter who … gleichgültig oder ganz egal, wer …;
    it made no matter to him that … es machte ihm nichts aus, dass …
    it’s a matter of £5 es kostet 5 Pfund;
    in a matter of weeks in ein paar Wochen;
    a matter of three weeks ungefähr drei Wochen;
    it is only a matter of minutes till … es kann nur ein paar Minuten dauern, bis …;
    it was a matter of 5 minutes es dauerte nur 5 Minuten;
    in a matter of minutes in Minutenschnelle;
    in a matter of seconds in Sekundenschnelle;
    it’s a matter of common knowledge es ist allgemein bekannt
    7. Anlass m, Veranlassung f ( beide:
    for zu):
    a matter for reflection etwas zum Nachdenken
    8. (Ggs äußere Form)
    a) Stoff m, Thema n, (behandelter) Gegenstand, Inhalt m (eines Buches etc)
    b) (innerer) Gehalt, Substanz f:
    strong in matter but weak in style inhaltlich stark, aber stilistisch schwach;
    matter and manner Gehalt und Gestalt
    9. Literaturgeschichte: Sagenstoff m, -kreis m:
    matter of France matière de France (um Karl den Großen);
    matter of Britain Bretonischer Sagenkreis (um König Arthur)
    10. Material n, Stoff m, Unterlagen pl ( alle:
    for für, zu):
    11. Logik: Inhalt m (eines Satzes)
    12. Postsache f: → print A 3
    13. TYPO
    a) Manuskript n
    b) (Schrift)Satz m: → dead A 23, live2 A 13
    B v/i
    1. von Bedeutung sein (to für), darauf ankommen ( to sb jemandem):
    it doesn’t matter es macht nichts (aus), es tut nichts;
    it didn’t matter to them es machte ihnen nichts aus;
    it hardly matters to me es macht mir nicht viel aus;
    it little matters es spielt kaum eine Rolle, es ist ziemlich einerlei
    2. MED eitern
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (affair) Angelegenheit, die

    that's another or a different matter altogether or quite another matter — das ist etwas ganz anderes

    and to make matters worse... — und was die Sache noch schlimmer macht/machte,...

    2) (cause, occasion)

    a/no matter for or of... — ein/kein Grund od. Anlass zu...

    3) (topic) Thema, das; Gegenstand, der
    4)

    a matter of... — (something that amounts to) eine Frage (+ Gen.)...; eine Sache von...

    it's a matter of taste/habit — das ist Geschmack- / Gewohnheitssache

    [only] a matter of time — [nur noch] eine Frage der Zeit

    it's just a matter of working harder — man muss sich ganz einfach [bei der Arbeit] mehr anstrengen

    Do you know him? - Yes, as a matter of fact, I do — Kennst du ihn? - Ja, ich kenne ihn tatsächlich

    5)

    what's the matter? — was ist [los]?

    is something the matter? — stimmt irgendetwas nicht?; ist [irgend]was (ugs.) ?

    6)
    7)

    no matter! — [das] macht nichts!

    no matter how/who/what/why — etc. ganz gleich od. egal (ugs.), wie/wer/was/warum usw.

    8) (material, as opposed to mind, spirit, etc.) Materie, die

    [in]organic/solid/vegetable matter — [an]organische/feste/pflanzliche Stoffe

    2. intransitive verb

    what does it matter? — was macht das schon?; was macht's? (ugs.)

    what matters is that... — worum es geht, ist...

    doesn't matter — [das] macht nichts (ugs.)

    it doesn't matter how/when — etc. es ist einerlei, wie/wann usw.

    does it matter to you if...? — macht es dir etwas aus, wenn...?

    the things which matter in life — [das,] worauf es im Leben ankommt

    * * *
    n.
    Angelegenheit f.
    Gegenstand m.
    Grund ¨-e m.
    Materie -n f.
    Sache -n f.

    English-german dictionary > matter

  • 13 one

    [wʌn] n
    1) ( number) Eins f;
    \one is the smallest whole number Eins ist die kleinste ganze Zahl;
    the front door bore a big brass \one auf der Eingangstür war eine große Eins in Kupfer;
    one/ two/ three hundred/ million/thousand and \one ein/zwei/drei Hundert/Millionen/Tausend und eins
    2) (size of garment, merchandise) Größe eins;
    little Jackie's wearing \ones now die kleine Jackie trägt jetzt Größe eins adj
    1) ( not two) ein(e, er, es);
    we have two daughters and \one son wir haben zwei Töchter und einen Sohn;
    she'll be \one year old tomorrow sie wird morgen ein Jahr alt;
    \one hundred/ million/ thousand einhundert/eine Million/eintausend;
    \one third/ fifth ein Drittel/Fünftel nt
    2) ( one of a number) ein(e, er/es);
    a glass tube closed at \one end ein Glasröhrchen ist an einem Ende verschlossen;
    he can't tell \one wine from another er kennt die Weine nicht auseinander
    3) ( single) einzige(r, s);
    her \one concern is to save her daughter ihre einzige Sorge ist, ihre Tochter zu retten;
    not \one man kein Mensch;
    to have just \one thought nur einen [einzigen] Gedanken haben;
    all \one sth nur in einer/einem etw;
    I think we should paint the bedroom all \one colour ich denke, wir sollten das Schlafzimmer nur in einer Farbe streichen;
    the \one sth der/die/das eine etw;
    do you think five of us will manage to squeeze into the \one car? glaubst du, wir fünf können uns in dieses eine Auto quetschen?;
    there's too much data to fit onto just the \one disk das sind zu viele Daten für nur eine Diskette;
    the \one and only sth der/die/das einzige...;
    the title of his \one and only book der Titel seines einzigen Buchs;
    the \one and only sb der/die einzigartige...;
    the \one and only Muhammad Ali der einzigartige Muhammad Ali;
    ladies and gentlemen, the \one and only David Copperfield! meine Damen und Herren, der einzigartige David Copperfield!
    4) ( only)
    the \one sb/ sth die/die/das einzige;
    he's the \one person you can rely on in an emergency er ist die einzige Person, auf die man sich im Notfall verlassen kann;
    (this is the \one type of computer that is easy to use for people who aren't experts) das ist der einzige Computer, den Laien einfach verwenden können
    I'd like to go skiing \one Christmas ich möchte irgendwann zu Weihnachten Skifahren gehen;
    we must have a drink together \one evening wir müssen irgendwann am Abend was trinken gehen;
    \one night we stayed up talking till dawn einen Abend plauderten wir bis zum Morgengrauen;
    \one afternoon in late October einen Nachmittag Ende Oktober;
    \one day ( in the past) irgendwann;
    we first met each other \one day in the park wir trafen uns das erste Mal im Park;
    one \one a boy started teasing Grady irgendwann begann der Junge Grady zu ärgern;
    ( in the future) irgendwann;
    why don't we meet for lunch \one day next week? warum treffen wir uns nicht nächste Woche irgendwann zum Mittagessen?;
    I'd like to go to Berlin again \one day ich möchte irgendwann wieder nach Berlin fahren;
    from \one minute to the next von einer Minute auf die andere;
    \one moment... the next [moment]... einmal... im nächsten [Moment];
    \one moment he says he loves me, the next moment he's asking for a divorce einmal sagt er, er liebt mich, und im nächsten Moment will er die Scheidung
    6) (form: a certain person) ein gewisser, eine gewisse;
    her solicitor is \one John Wintersgill ihr Anwalt ist ein gewisser John Wintersgill
    7) ( esp Am);
    (emph fam: noteworthy) ein(e);
    to be \one sb/ sth;
    his mother is \one generous woman meine Mutter ist eine großzügige Frau;
    that's \one big ice-cream you've got there du hast aber ein großes Eis;
    it was \one hell of a shock to find out I'd lost my job es war ein Riesenschock für mich, dass ich den Job verloren hatte;
    he was \one hell of a snappy dresser er war immer todschick gekleidet
    8) ( identical) ein(e);
    all types of training meet \one common standard alle Trainingsarten folgen einem gemeinsamen Standard;
    \one and the same ein und derselbe/dieselbe/dasselbe;
    the two things are \one and the same diese beiden Dinge sind ein und dasselbe;
    to be \one ( form a unity) vereint sein;
    as husband and wife we are now \one als Mann und Frau sind sie nun vereint
    9) ( one year old) eins, ein Jahr;
    little Jimmy's \one today der kleine Jimmy wird heute eins [o ein Jahr alt]; ( one o'clock) eins, ein Uhr;
    it's half past \one es ist halb zwei;
    we'll meet at \one in the pub wir treffen uns um eins im Pub
    PHRASES:
    a hundred [or million] [or thousand] and \one ( very many) hunderttausend;
    I can't stand around chatting - I've got a hundred and \one things to do this morning ich kann nicht hier herumstehen und tratschen - ich muss am Vormittag hunderttausend Dinge erledigen;
    \one thing and another ( fam) alles gemeinsam;
    what with \one thing and another she hadn't had much sleep recently da alles zusammenkam, bekam sie in letzter Zeit nicht sehr viel Schlaf;
    \one way or another [or the other] ( for or against) für oder gegen;
    there is no evidence \one way or the other about the effectiveness of the drug es gibt keinerlei Beweise über die Wirksamkeit oder Unwirksamkeit des Medikaments;
    ( any possible way) irgendwie;
    the bills have to be paid \one way or another die Rechnungen müssen irgendwie bezahlt werden;
    ( an unstated way) irgendwie;
    everyone at the party was related in one way or another auf der Party waren alle irgendwie miteinander verwandt pron
    1) ( single item) eine(r, s);
    four parcels came this morning, but only \one was for Mark heute Morgen kamen vier Pakete, aber nur eines war für Mark;
    which cake would you like? - the \one at the front welchen Kuchen möchten Sie? - den vorderen;
    I'd rather eat French croissants than English \ones ich esse lieber französische Croissants als englische;
    do you want \one? möchtest du eine/einen/eines?;
    \one or another [or the other] eine oder die andere, einer oder der andere, eines oder das andere;
    (not all instances fall neatly into \one or another of these categories) nicht alle Vorkommnisse fallen genau in eine dieser Kategorien;
    \one of sth eine(r, s) von etw dat + superl adj eine(r, s) der;
    electronics is \one of his hobbies die Elektronik ist eines seiner Hobbys;
    PolyGram is \one of the [world's] largest record companies PolyGram ist eine der führenden Plattenfirmen [der Welt];
    Luxembourg is \one of the [world's] smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder [der Welt];
    Paula's had another \one of her crazy ideas Paula hatte noch eine ihrer verrückten Ideen;
    \one of many eine(r, s) von vielen;
    our organization is just \one of many charities unsere Organisation ist nur eine von vielen wohltätigen Vereinigungen;
    not a single \one kein einziger, keine einzige, kein einziges;
    this/that \one diese(r, s);
    which one do you want? - that \one, please! welche(n) möchten Sie? - diese(n) bitte!;
    these \ones were all made in Japan diese wurden alle in Japan hergestellt
    2) ( single person) eine(r);
    two could live as cheaply as \one zwei könnten so billig wie eine(r) leben;
    the \one der, die, das;
    Chris is the \one with curly brown hair Chris ist der/die mit den lockigen braunen Haaren;
    one's loved \ones ( one's family) jds Geliebte;
    my friends and loved \ones meine Freunde und meine Geliebten;
    to be \one to do sth jd sein, der etw tut;
    I've always been active and never really been \one to sit around doing nothing du warst immer sehr aktiv und bist nie wirklich untätig herumgesessen;
    to not [or never] be \one to say no to sth nie zu etw dat nein sagen können;
    he's never \one to say no to a curry er kann bei einem Curry nie nein sagen;
    to be [a] \one for sth ( fam) ein Fan einer S. gen sein;
    Jack's always been \one for the ladies Jack stand immer auf Frauen;
    I've never really been \one for football ich war nie ein wirklicher Fußballfan;
    to not be much of a \one for sth ( fam) etw nicht besonders mögen;
    I'm not much of a \one for chocolate ich mag Schokolade nicht besonders;
    to be [a] \one for doing sth ( fam) etw gerne machen;
    she was never a \one for playing hockey sie spielte nie gerne Hockey;
    to be a great \one for doing sth ( fam) gut darin sein, etw zu tun;
    he's a great \one for telling other people what to do er ist gut darin, anderen Leuten zu sagen, was sie machen sollen;
    to be \one that...;
    he's always been \one that enjoys good food ihm hat gutes Essen schon immer geschmeckt;
    to not be \one who... nicht zu denen gehören, die...;
    you're not usually \one who complains about the service in a restaurant du zählst nicht zu denen, die sich über das Service in einem Restaurant beschweren;
    such a \one ( someone remarkable)
    you never saw such a \one for figures er kann wirklich gut mit Zahlen umgehen;
    \one and all ( liter) alle;
    the news of his resignation came as a surprise to \one and all die Nachricht von seinem Rücktritt kam für alle überraschend;
    well done \one and all! gut gemacht, ihr alle!;
    like \one + pp
    Viv was running around like \one possessed before the presentation Viv lief vor der Präsentation wie besessen herum;
    \one of you/ them/us eine(r,) von euch/Ihnen/ihnen/uns;
    the money was here this morning so \one of you must have taken it das Geld war diesen Morgen hier; einer von euch muss es genommen haben;
    \one of our daughters has just got married eine unserer Töchter hat gerade geheiratet;
    \one of... + superl eine(r, s) der...;
    Luxembourg is \one of the [world's] smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder [der Welt];
    \one of many eine(r, s) von vielen
    3) ( used in comparisons) eine(r, s);
    you may have \one or the other, but not both du kannst nur eines davon haben, nicht beide;
    crime and freedom are inseparable - you can't have \one without the other Verbrechen und Freiheit sind untrennbar verbunden - man kann nicht eines ohne das andere bekommen
    4) ((dated) form: any person) man;
    \one has an obligation to \one's friends man hat Verpflichtungen seinen Freunden gegenüber;
    (\one must admire him for his willingness) man muss ihn für seinen Willen bewundern
    5) (form: I, we) ich, wir;
    \one gets the impression that he is ahead ich glaube, er ist vorne;
    \one has to do \one's best ich muss mein [o wir müssen unser] Bestes geben
    6) ( question) Frage f;
    what's the capital of Zaire? - oh, that's a difficult \one wie heißt die Hauptstadt von Zaire? - das ist eine schwierige Frage
    7) (fam: alcoholic drink) Getränk nt;
    this \one's on me! diese Runde geht auf mich!;
    a cool \one after a day on the water ein kühles Getränk nach einem Tag am Wasser
    8) (fam: joke, story) Witz m;
    that was a good \one! der ist gut!;
    the \one about sb/ sth der [Witz] von jdm/etw;
    did I tell you the \one about the blind beggar? habe ich dir den [Witz] von dem blinden Bettler erzählt?
    9) (Brit, Aus) ((dated) fam: sb who is lacking respect, rude, or amusing)
    to be a \one eine(r) sein
    PHRASES:
    \one of the family zur Familie gehören;
    \one of a kind zur Spitze gehören;
    in the world of ballet she was certainly \one of a kind as a dancer in der Welt des Ballet zählte sie sicher zu den besten Tänzerinnen;
    \one at a time ( separately) eine nach der anderen, einer/eines nach dem anderen;
    don't gobble them up all at once - eat them \one at a time schling nicht alle auf einmal hinunter - iss sie langsam;
    \one or two ( fam) ein paar;
    I've only had \one or two cigarettes in my whole life ich habe nur ein paar Zigaretten in meinem ganzen Leben geraucht; ( hum)
    I hear you've collected over 1,000 autographs! - well, I do have \one or two ich habe gehört, du hast über 1.000 Autogramme gesammelt! - na ja, ich habe ein paar;
    in \ones and twos in geringer Zahl;
    we expected a flood of applications for the job, but we're only receiving them in \ones and twos wir erwarteten eine Flut von Bewerbungen, aber wir haben nur ein paar wenige bekommen;
    to land [or sock] sb \one [on the jaw] ( fam) jdm eine stecken [o schmieren] ( fam)
    \one after another [or the other] ( following one another in quick succession) eine nach der anderen, einer/eines nach dem anderen;
    \one after another the buses drew up die Busse kamen einer nach dem anderen;
    as \one ( form) einer Meinung;
    we have discussed the matter fully and are as \one on our decision wir haben die Angelegenheit gründlich erörtert und sind bei der Entscheidung einer Meinung;
    to be at \one with sb ( form) mit jdm einer Meinung sein;
    to be at \one with sth ( form) eins mit etw dat sein;
    they were completely at \one with their environment sie leben mit ihrer Umwelt völlig in Harmonie;
    \one by \one (separately and in succession, singly) nacheinander;
    sb for \one jd seinerseits;
    I for \one am getting a little sick of writing about it ich meinerseits habe es ein wenig satt, darüber zu schreiben;
    in \one ( in one draught) in einem Zug;
    she downed her whisky in \one sie trank ihren Whisky in einem Zug;
    to get sth in \one (fam: guess correctly at once) etw sofort erraten;
    so are you saying she's leaving him? - yep, got it in \one du sagst also, dass sie ihn verlässt? - ja, du hast es kapiert;
    [all] in \one [alles] in einem;
    with this model you get a radio, CD player and cassette deck [all] in \one dieses Modell enthält Radio, CD-Player und Kassettendeck in einem;
    to be/get \one up on sb jdn übertrumpfen;
    he's always trying to get \one up on his brother er versucht immer, seinen Bruder zu übertrumpfen;
    to be all \one to sb Chinesisch für jdn sein ( fam)
    Greek and Hebrew are all \one to me Griechisch und Hebräisch sind Chinesisch für mich

    English-German students dictionary > one

  • 14 случай

    сущ.
    (событие, происшествие) event; incident; occurrence; ( возможность) chance; occasion; opportunity; ( судебное дело) case; (несчастье, катастрофа) accident; misadventure

    воспользоваться случаем — to avail oneself of (catch, take) an opportunity

    во всяком случае — anyhow; anyway; at all events; in any case

    в случае нарушения — (прав и т.п.) in case of violation (of the rights, etc)

    в случаях, когда речь идёт о более, чем одном сроке полномочий — in cases where more than one term of office is involved

    в случаях, предусмотренных законом — in cases established (provided for, stipulated) by law

    иначе как в случаях, установленных законом — except for the cases established (provided for, stipulated) by law

    - непредвиденный случай
    - несчастный случай
    - особый случай

    Русско-английский юридический словарь > случай

  • 15 drawdown

    ['drɔːˌdaun]
    сущ.
    1) тех. сработка, опорожнение ( водохранилища)
    2) сокращение (численности войск, размещённых в каком-л. регионе)

    The Rumsfeld resignation signals a change in course that will result in a gradual drawdown of the U.S. presence in Iraq. — Отставка Рамсфелда сигнализирует об изменении курса, что приведёт к постепенному сокращению военного присутствия США в Ираке.

    3) использование, расход ( запасов)

    U.S. Secretary of Energy today released the following statement regarding President Bush's historic decision to authorize the drawdown and sale of oil from America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. — Министр энергетики США сделал сегодня заявление, касающееся исторического решения президента Буша, разрешающего использование и продажу нефти из Стратегического нефтяного резерва Америки.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > drawdown

  • 16 Maria da Fonte

       A 19th-century rural uprising of peasants against the central government, as well as the legendary name of a peasant woman rebel. Beginning in northern Portugal in a village called Vieira do Minho, women led supposedly by one called "Maria of the Fountain" were provoked to rebellion by new laws regarding health regulations (burial customs) and tax assessments. Mobs raided the village administrative center, burned records, and attacked officials. The insurrection spread throughout Minho province into Trás-os-Montes in 1846. The Costa Cabrai government was in office in Lisbon and failed to get the legislative chambers to support suppression of the rural uprising. The Maria da Fonte affair led to pressures to dismiss the Costa Cabrai government in order to mollify the rural insurgents. Queen Maria II consented to the resignation of the government and the appointment of a successor. The Costa Cabrai brothers then fled to exile in Spain. The name and concept of "Maria da Fonte" in folklore, songs, and tradition came to symbolize the idea of justified rural discontent and direct action against arbitrary action by the central government embodied by Lisbon. Following the end of the Maria da Fonte uprising in northern Portugal, a great deal of mythology attached to the original events.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Maria da Fonte

  • 17 succession planning

    Gen Mgt
    the preparation for the replacement of one postholder by another, usually prompted by retirement or resignation. Succession planning involves preparing the new postholder before the old one leaves, possibly with training or through work shadowing. At a senior level, management succession should be accomplished as smoothly as possible in order to avoid organizational crises caused by absent or inadequate top management. General Electric is held to be an exemplar of succession planning for its successful transition following the retirement of Jack Welch.

    The ultimate business dictionary > succession planning

  • 18 Ford, Henry

    [br]
    b. 30 July 1863 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    d. 7 April 1947 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer motor-car maker and developer of mass-production methods.
    [br]
    He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.
    At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.
    Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.
    Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.
    In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.
    In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.
    Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.
    Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.
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    Bibliography
    1922, with S.Crowther, My Life and Work, London: Heinemann.
    Further Reading
    R.Lacey, 1986, Ford, the Men and the Machine, London: Heinemann. W.C.Richards, 1948, The Last Billionaire, Henry Ford, New York: Charles Scribner.
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  • 19 Mergenthaler, Ottmar

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
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    b. 11 May 1854 Hachtel, Germany
    d. 28 October 1899 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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    German/American inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine.
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    Mergenthaler came from a family of teachers, but following a mechanical bent he was apprenticed to a clockmaker. Having served his time, Mergenthaler emigrated to the USA in 1872 to avoid military service. He immediately secured work in Washington, DC, in the scientific instrument shop of August Hahl, the son of his former master. He steadily acquired a reputation for skill and ingenuity, and in 1876, when Hahl transferred his business to Baltimore, Mergenthaler went too. Soon after, they were commissioned to remedy the defects in a model of a writing machine devised by James O.Clephane of Washington. It produced print by typewriting, which was then multiplied by lithography. Mergenthaler soon corrected the defects and Clephane ordered a full-size version. This was completed in 1877 but did not work satisfactorily. Nevertheless, Mergenthaler was moved to engage in the long battle to mechanize the typesetting stage of the printing process. Clephane suggested substituting stereotyping for lithography in his device, but in spite of their keen efforts Mergenthaler and Hahl were again unsuccessful and they abandoned the project. In spare moments Mergenthaler continued his search for a typesetting machine. Late in 1883 it occurred to him to stamp matrices into type bars and to cast type metal into them in the same machine. From this idea, the Linotype machine developed and was completed by July 1884. It worked well and a patent was granted on 26 August that year, and Clephane and his associates set up the National Typographic Company of West Virginia to manufacture it. The New York Tribune ordered twelve Linotypes, and on 3 July 1886 the first of these set part of that day's issue. During the previous year the company had passed into the hands of a group of newspaper owners; increasing differences with the Board led to Mergenthaler's resignation in 1888, but he nevertheless continued to improve the machine, patenting over fifty modifications. The Linotype, together with the Monotype of Tolbert Lanston, rapidly supplanted earlier typesetting methods, and by the 1920s it reigned supreme, the former being used more for newspapers, the latter for book work.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute John Scott Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1964, The Composition of Reading Matter, London.
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