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(individual social system)

  • 1 social assistance

    эк., стат., амер. предоставление социальных услуг (по NAICS 2002: подсектор экономики, в который включены организации, оказывающие различную социальную помощь)
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  • 2 individual and family services

    эк., стат., амер. услуги по персональной и семейной социальной помощи* (по NAICS 2002: отраслевая группа, в которую входят организации, предоставляющие социальные услуги без обеспечения проживания усыновляемым или удочеряемым детям, престарелым, инвалидам, семьям и др.)
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  • 3 US pensions system

    страх., эк. тр., амер. пенсионная система США (состоит из государственного пенсионного обеспечения, традиционных частных пенсий, накопительных вкладов по месту работы, индивидуальных пенсионных вкладов, государственных пособий (социальной пенсии) для лиц, вообще не работавших, не достигших какого-л. нетрудоспособного возраста)
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    state pension, Social Security, FICA tax, Federal Insurance Contributions Act, hospital insurance, Social Security Administration, Social Security benefit, social security card, social security number, average indexed monthly earnings, primary insurance amount, Medicare, deferred compensation plan, private pension plan, individual retirement account, 401(k) plan, 403(b) plan, supplemental security income, food stamp, 30-and-out pension, Economic Recovery Tax Act, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, employee stock ownership plan, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Keogh plan, National Retired Teachers Association, qualified pension plan, non-qualified pension plan, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, productive ageing, Railroad Retirement Act, Railroad Retirement Board, retirement account, retirement officer, Retirement Protection Act, rule of 45, salary reduction agreement, salary reduction plan, self-directed IRA, self-employed pension, self-employed retirement plan, simplified employee pension plan, Social Security Act 1935, tax deferment

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  • 4 totemism (1. Belief in kinship with or a mystical relationship between a group or an individual and a totem; 2. System of social organization based on totemic affiliations)

    Религия: тотемизм

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > totemism (1. Belief in kinship with or a mystical relationship between a group or an individual and a totem; 2. System of social organization based on totemic affiliations)

  • 5 society

    [sə'saɪətɪ] 1.
    1) U (the human race) società f., collettività f.
    2) С (individual social system) società f.
    3) (group) (for social contact) compagnia f.; (for mutual hobbies) club m., circolo m.; (for intellectual, business contact) associazione f.
    4) (upper classes) (anche high society) alta società f.
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    modificatore [columnist, photographer, wedding] mondano; [ hostess] dei salotti
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    plural - societies; noun
    1) (mankind considered as a whole: He was a danger to society.) società
    2) (a particular group or part of mankind considered as a whole: middle-class society; modern western societies.) società
    3) (an association or club: a model railway society.) società, associazione
    4) (the class of people who are wealthy, fashionable or of high rank in any area: high society.) società
    5) (company or companionship: I enjoy the society of young people.) compagnia
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    [sə'saɪətɪ] 1.
    1) U (the human race) società f., collettività f.
    2) С (individual social system) società f.
    3) (group) (for social contact) compagnia f.; (for mutual hobbies) club m., circolo m.; (for intellectual, business contact) associazione f.
    4) (upper classes) (anche high society) alta società f.
    2.
    modificatore [columnist, photographer, wedding] mondano; [ hostess] dei salotti

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  • 6 society

    A n
    1 ¢ ( the human race) société f ;
    2 ∁ ( individual social system) société f ; a civilized/closed/multi-cultural society une société civilisée/fermée/multiculturelle ;
    3 ( group) ( for social contact) association f ; ( for mutual hobbies) club m ; (for intellectual, business, religious contact) société f ; drama/music society société de théâtre/de musique ;
    4 ( upper classes) ( also high society) haute société f ; London society la haute société londonienne ; fashionable society le beau monde ;
    5 ( company) sout société f ; I like the society of young people j'apprécie la société des jeunes.
    B modif [artist, columnist, photographer, wedding] mondain ; [hostess] des soirées mondaines ; society gossip les échos mondains.

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  • 7 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.

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  • 8 presión

    f.
    1 pressure, stress.
    2 pressure, catch.
    3 pressure, arm-twisting, coercion.
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    1 pressure
    \
    grupo de presión pressure group
    presión arterial blood pressure
    presión atmosférica atmospheric pressure
    presión sanguínea blood pressure
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    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Meteo, Fís, Téc) pressure; [con la mano] press, squeeze

    indicador/medidor de presión — pressure gauge

    presión atmosférica — atmospheric pressure, air pressure

    2) (=influencia) pressure

    ejercer o hacer presión para que se haga algo — to press for sth to be done; (Pol) to lobby for sth to be done

    presión fiscal, presión impositiva — tax burden

    * * *
    1)
    b) (Meteo) pressure

    altas/bajas presiones — areas of high/low pressure

    c) (Med) pressure
    2) ( coacción) pressure
    * * *
    = pressure, stress, leverage, milestone, strain, advocacy.
    Ex. The pressures of the marketplace mean that any vital facility must be offered by all of the major hosts.
    Ex. Flexibility of course does not mean that the structure is flexible and will bend or move under stress.
    Ex. At certain times, dubious interpretations of the rules have even been used as leverage in gaining ground on matters of dispute between Community partners.
    Ex. Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex. We must, for example, be concerned not only with the publishing explosion, but with severe strains on our budgets.
    Ex. However, what American libraries mean by advocacy is 'Work to overcome obstacles that the enquirer encounters in trying to secure help from outside resource agencies'.
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    * a alta presión = high-pressured, high-pressure.
    * acción de ejercer presión = lobbying.
    * aire a presión = air pressure.
    * aliviar la presión = ease + pressure.
    * ante la presión de = in the crush to.
    * a presión = pressurised [pressurized, -USA].
    * bajo presión = under pressure, under the cosh.
    * ceder ante la presión = surrender to + pressure.
    * ceder ante la presión de = give in to.
    * de alta presión = high-pressured, high-pressure.
    * demasiada presión = overpressure.
    * ejercer demasiado presión sobre Algo = stretch + Nombre + to breaking point.
    * ejercer presión = build + pressure, lobby, exert + leverage.
    * ejercer presión para conseguir Algo = push for.
    * ejercer presión sobre = put + pressure on, bear down on.
    * ejercer presión sobre Alguien = bring to + bear + pressure on.
    * estar sometido a presión = face + pressure.
    * formación de grupos de presión = lobbying representation.
    * formar un grupo de presión = form + lobby.
    * frente de altas presiones = ridge of high pressure.
    * frente de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure.
    * grupo de presión = lobby group, pressure group, lobbyist.
    * lavado a presión = pressure wash, jet wash.
    * lavado manual a presión = jet wash.
    * limpiadora a presión = pressure washer.
    * máquina de presión plana = flat-platen machine.
    * martillo a presión = steam hammer.
    * mecanismo de presión = impression assembly.
    * meter a presión = wedge.
    * momentos de presión = the heat is on.
    * no ceder a las presiones = withstand + pressure.
    * olla a presión = pressure-cooker.
    * perder la presión = depressurise [depressurize, -USA].
    * pérdida de la presión = depressurisation [depressurization, -USA].
    * plato de presión del embrague = pressure plate.
    * presión atmosférica = air pressure, atmospheric pressure.
    * presión de contacto = contact pressure.
    * presión del aire = air pressure.
    * presión del grupo = peer pressure.
    * presión diastólica = diastolic pressure, diastolic blood pressure.
    * presión económica = economic pressure.
    * presión política = political pressure.
    * presión sistólica = systolic blood pressure, systolic pressure.
    * presión social = social pressure, social pressure.
    * quitar pintura mediante chorro de arena a presión = sandblast.
    * regulador de presión de bombona = gas cylinder regulator.
    * regulador de presión de gas = gas regulator.
    * sistema de altas presiones = high-pressure system, ridge of high pressure.
    * sistema de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure, low pressure system.
    * someter a presión = place under + pressure.
    * sometido a presión = under pressure, under the cosh.
    * sujeto a presión = under pressure, under the cosh.
    * * *
    1)
    b) (Meteo) pressure

    altas/bajas presiones — areas of high/low pressure

    c) (Med) pressure
    2) ( coacción) pressure
    * * *
    = pressure, stress, leverage, milestone, strain, advocacy.

    Ex: The pressures of the marketplace mean that any vital facility must be offered by all of the major hosts.

    Ex: Flexibility of course does not mean that the structure is flexible and will bend or move under stress.
    Ex: At certain times, dubious interpretations of the rules have even been used as leverage in gaining ground on matters of dispute between Community partners.
    Ex: Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex: We must, for example, be concerned not only with the publishing explosion, but with severe strains on our budgets.
    Ex: However, what American libraries mean by advocacy is 'Work to overcome obstacles that the enquirer encounters in trying to secure help from outside resource agencies'.
    * a alta presión = high-pressured, high-pressure.
    * acción de ejercer presión = lobbying.
    * aire a presión = air pressure.
    * aliviar la presión = ease + pressure.
    * ante la presión de = in the crush to.
    * a presión = pressurised [pressurized, -USA].
    * bajo presión = under pressure, under the cosh.
    * ceder ante la presión = surrender to + pressure.
    * ceder ante la presión de = give in to.
    * de alta presión = high-pressured, high-pressure.
    * demasiada presión = overpressure.
    * ejercer demasiado presión sobre Algo = stretch + Nombre + to breaking point.
    * ejercer presión = build + pressure, lobby, exert + leverage.
    * ejercer presión para conseguir Algo = push for.
    * ejercer presión sobre = put + pressure on, bear down on.
    * ejercer presión sobre Alguien = bring to + bear + pressure on.
    * estar sometido a presión = face + pressure.
    * formación de grupos de presión = lobbying representation.
    * formar un grupo de presión = form + lobby.
    * frente de altas presiones = ridge of high pressure.
    * frente de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure.
    * grupo de presión = lobby group, pressure group, lobbyist.
    * lavado a presión = pressure wash, jet wash.
    * lavado manual a presión = jet wash.
    * limpiadora a presión = pressure washer.
    * máquina de presión plana = flat-platen machine.
    * martillo a presión = steam hammer.
    * mecanismo de presión = impression assembly.
    * meter a presión = wedge.
    * momentos de presión = the heat is on.
    * no ceder a las presiones = withstand + pressure.
    * olla a presión = pressure-cooker.
    * perder la presión = depressurise [depressurize, -USA].
    * pérdida de la presión = depressurisation [depressurization, -USA].
    * plato de presión del embrague = pressure plate.
    * presión atmosférica = air pressure, atmospheric pressure.
    * presión de contacto = contact pressure.
    * presión del aire = air pressure.
    * presión del grupo = peer pressure.
    * presión diastólica = diastolic pressure, diastolic blood pressure.
    * presión económica = economic pressure.
    * presión política = political pressure.
    * presión sistólica = systolic blood pressure, systolic pressure.
    * presión social = social pressure, social pressure.
    * quitar pintura mediante chorro de arena a presión = sandblast.
    * regulador de presión de bombona = gas cylinder regulator.
    * regulador de presión de gas = gas regulator.
    * sistema de altas presiones = high-pressure system, ridge of high pressure.
    * sistema de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure, low pressure system.
    * someter a presión = place under + pressure.
    * sometido a presión = under pressure, under the cosh.
    * sujeto a presión = under pressure, under the cosh.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Fís) pressure
    cerveza a presión draft beer
    juntar presión ( RPl); to bottle things up ( colloq)
    juntó presión hasta que un buen día estalló he kept everything bottled up until one day he just exploded
    portate bien, que tu padre está juntando presión you'd better behave, your father's getting very angry o ( colloq) your father could blow his top at any minute
    2 ( Meteo) pressure
    presión atmosférica atmospheric pressure
    altas/bajas presiones areas of high/low pressure
    3 ( Med) pressure
    Compuestos:
    ● presión arterial or sanguínea
    blood pressure
    ● presión arterial máxima or sistólica
    systolic (blood) pressure
    ● presión arterial mínima or diastólica
    diastolic (blood) pressure
    B (coacción) pressure
    en su puesto está sometido a muchas presiones he gets a lot of pressure in his job
    grupo de presión pressure group
    ejercieron presión para que el plan fuese rechazado they pressed for the plan to be rejected, they exerted a lot of pressure to get the plan rejected
    firmó/confesó bajo presión he signed/confessed under pressure o under duress
    Compuesto:
    tax burden
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    presión sustantivo femenino
    a) (Fís, Med, Meteo) pressure;

    presión arterial or sanguínea blood pressure


    presión sustantivo femenino pressure: está sometido a muchas presiones, he's under a lot of pressure
    cerveza a presión, draught beer
    presión arterial, blood pressure
    ' presión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    baja
    - bajo
    - broche
    - ejercer
    - embutir
    - olla
    - aflojar
    - aguantar
    - apretar
    - aumentar
    - botón
    - checar
    - controlar
    - empujar
    - resistir
    - soportar
    English:
    air pressure
    - arm-twisting
    - cooker
    - gun
    - lobby
    - low
    - pack down
    - pressure
    - pressure cooker
    - pressure group
    - push
    - ridge
    - strain
    - take
    - tyre pressure
    - wedge
    - air
    - blood
    - bow
    - bring
    - crack
    - press
    - snap
    * * *
    1. [fuerza] pressure;
    a o [m5] bajo presión under pressure;
    una olla a presión a pressure cooker;
    tiene cierre a presión you press it shut;
    hacer presión to press
    presión arterial blood pressure;
    presión atmosférica atmospheric pressure;
    presión barométrica barometric pressure;
    Econ presión fiscal tax burden;
    presión sanguínea blood pressure
    2. [coacción, influencia] pressure;
    la presión de la calle obligó a dimitir al presidente pressure from the public forced the president to resign;
    hacer o [m5] ejercer presión sobre to pressurize;
    meter presión a alguien to put pressure on sb;
    aceptó bajo presión he accepted under pressure
    3. [en baloncesto] press;
    [en fútbol, rugby] pressure
    * * *
    f
    1 pressure;
    hacer presión sobre put pressure on, pressure
    2 en baloncesto press;
    presión en toda la cancha full-court press
    * * *
    1) : pressure
    2)
    presión arterial : blood pressure
    * * *
    presión n pressure
    hacer presión to apply pressure [pt. & pp. applied]

    Spanish-English dictionary > presión

  • 9 responsabilidad

    f.
    responsibility.
    puesto de responsabilidad responsible position
    tener la responsabilidad de algo to be responsible for something
    responsabilidad civil/penal (law) civil/criminal liability
    responsabilidad limitada limited liability
    * * *
    1 responsibility
    \
    cargar con la responsabilidad de algo to take responsibility for something
    responsabilidad limitada limited liability
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF responsibility; (Jur) liability

    responsabilidad civil — public liability, public liability insurance

    responsabilidad ilimitada — (Com) unlimited liability

    responsabilidad objetiva — (Jur) strict liability

    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cargo, tarea) responsibility
    b) ( conciencia de las obligaciones) responsibility
    2) (Der) ( culpa) responsibility; ( obligación de indemnizar) liability

    exigen responsabilidades al alcalde por... — the mayor is being held accountable for...

    * * *
    = incumbency, onus, span of authority, charge, responsibility.
    Ex. This incumbency is no less binding upon those in the arena of 'professional education' than for those elsewise situated in the educational community.
    Ex. With the onus on the searcher to achieve familiarity with filing orders, there are other factors that need to be considered.
    Ex. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of LC's Processing Department where his span of authority included a network of worldwide offices for the acquisition and cataloging of materials.
    Ex. She was offered an opportunity to chair a task force within the library with the charge to investigate a new integrated system.
    Ex. The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.
    ----
    * absolver de responsabilidad = absolve + Nombre + from/of + responsibility.
    * aceptar la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * ampliación de las responsabilidades laborales = job enrichment.
    * ampliación de responsabilidades laborales = job enlargement.
    * área de título y de mención de responsabilidad = title and statement of responsibility area.
    * asignar responsabilidad = lodge + responsibility.
    * asumir la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * asumir responsabilidad = take over, take + responsibility.
    * atribuir responsabilidad intelectual = assign + intellectual responsibility.
    * atribuirse la responsabilidad = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility.
    * bloque funcional de responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility block.
    * caer fuera de las responsabilidades de = be on the outer fringes of.
    * cargar con la responsabilidad = shoulder + the burden, shoulder + the responsibility.
    * claridad de responsabilidades = role clarity.
    * compartir la responsabilidad = share + burden.
    * conflicto de responsabilidades = role conflict.
    * con responsabilidad = responsibly.
    * cumplir con la responsabilidad de Uno = do + Posesivo + share.
    * cumplir + Posesivo + responsabilidad = carry out + Posesivo + responsibility.
    * cumplir una responsabilidad = accomplish + responsibility.
    * delegación de responsabilidad = empowerment.
    * delegar responsabilidad = delegate + responsibility, empower.
    * descargar de responsabilidad = remove from + shoulders.
    * descargo de responsabilidad = declaration form, form of declaration, disclaimer.
    * distribuir la responsabilidad = spread + the load.
    * eludir responsabilidad = pass + the buck.
    * eludir una responsabilidad = shirk + responsibility.
    * entrar dentro de la responsabilidad de = fall under + the jurisdiction of, fall under + the auspices of, fall under + the purview of.
    * escaquearse de una responsabilidad = weasel out of + responsibility.
    * exención de responsabilidad = disclaimer.
    * eximir de responsabilidad = absolve + Nombre + from/of + responsibility.
    * exonerar a Alguien de responsabilidad = exonerate + Nombre + from responsibility.
    * hacer frente a una responsabilidad = meet + responsibility, face up to + responsibility.
    * hacer recaer la responsabilidad sobre = put + the onus on, put + the burden on.
    * inculcar responsabilidad = instil + responsibility.
    * la responsabilidad ahora recae en + Nombre = the ball is in + Posesivo + court.
    * la responsabilidad es de... = the buck + stops....
    * ley de responsabilidad por el producto = product liability law.
    * librar de la responsabilidad de = relieve of + the burden of.
    * librar de responsabilidad = relieve of + responsibility.
    * limitación de responsabilidad = limitation of liability.
    * llevar la responsabilidad de Algo = carry + the burden.
    * mención de responsabilidad = statement of authorship, statement of responsibility, byline, authorship statement.
    * mención de responsabilidad de la edición = imprint.
    * peso de la responsabilidad, el = burden of responsibility, the.
    * poner la responsabilidad en = put + the burden on.
    * rechazar la responsabilidad = disclaim + responsibility.
    * reivindicar la responsabilidad = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility.
    * responsabilidad colectiva = collective responsibility, group responsibility.
    * responsabilidad combinada = mixed responsibility.
    * responsabilidad compartida = shared authorship, shared responsibility.
    * responsabilidad + competer a = responsibility + fall to.
    * responsabilidad + corresponder a = responsibility + fall to.
    * responsabilidad de demostrar lo que se defiende, la = burden of proof, the.
    * responsabilidad en la gestión = accountability.
    * responsabilidades = terms of reference, stewardship.
    * responsabilidades docentes = teaching responsibilities.
    * responsabilidades familiares = family responsibilities.
    * responsabilidad extracontractual = tort.
    * responsabilidad individual = individual responsibility.
    * responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility.
    * responsabilidad laboral = accountability.
    * responsabilidad legal = liability, legal liability, legal responsibility.
    * responsabilidad moral = moral stewardship, moral responsibility.
    * responsabilidad penal = criminal liability, criminal liability.
    * responsabilidad personal = personal responsibility.
    * responsabilidad + recaer en = responsibility + rest with.
    * responsabilidad + recaer sobre + espaldas = responsibility + rest on + shoulders.
    * responsabilidad secundaria = secondary responsibility.
    * responsabilidad social = social responsibility.
    * responsabilidad terciaria = tertiary responsibility.
    * seguro de responsabilidad civil = liability insurance.
    * sentido de la responsabilidad = sense of responsibility.
    * ser la propia responsabilidad de Alguien = be of + Posesivo + own making.
    * ser la responsabilidad de = be the responsibility of.
    * ser la responsabilidad de Alguien + Infinitivo = it + lie with + Nombre/Pronombre + to + Infinitivo.
    * ser responsabilidad de = be incumbent on/upon.
    * tener la responsabilidad = charge, undertake + burden.
    * tener la responsabilidad de = have + the responsibility of.
    * tomar como responsabilidad propia = take it upon + Reflexivo + to.
    * tomar la responsabilidad = take + responsibility.
    * trasladar la responsabilidad a = shift + the burden to.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de cargo, tarea) responsibility
    b) ( conciencia de las obligaciones) responsibility
    2) (Der) ( culpa) responsibility; ( obligación de indemnizar) liability

    exigen responsabilidades al alcalde por... — the mayor is being held accountable for...

    * * *
    = incumbency, onus, span of authority, charge, responsibility.

    Ex: This incumbency is no less binding upon those in the arena of 'professional education' than for those elsewise situated in the educational community.

    Ex: With the onus on the searcher to achieve familiarity with filing orders, there are other factors that need to be considered.
    Ex: Prior to this appointment, he was Director of LC's Processing Department where his span of authority included a network of worldwide offices for the acquisition and cataloging of materials.
    Ex: She was offered an opportunity to chair a task force within the library with the charge to investigate a new integrated system.
    Ex: The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.
    * absolver de responsabilidad = absolve + Nombre + from/of + responsibility.
    * aceptar la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * ampliación de las responsabilidades laborales = job enrichment.
    * ampliación de responsabilidades laborales = job enlargement.
    * área de título y de mención de responsabilidad = title and statement of responsibility area.
    * asignar responsabilidad = lodge + responsibility.
    * asumir la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * asumir responsabilidad = take over, take + responsibility.
    * atribuir responsabilidad intelectual = assign + intellectual responsibility.
    * atribuirse la responsabilidad = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility.
    * bloque funcional de responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility block.
    * caer fuera de las responsabilidades de = be on the outer fringes of.
    * cargar con la responsabilidad = shoulder + the burden, shoulder + the responsibility.
    * claridad de responsabilidades = role clarity.
    * compartir la responsabilidad = share + burden.
    * conflicto de responsabilidades = role conflict.
    * con responsabilidad = responsibly.
    * cumplir con la responsabilidad de Uno = do + Posesivo + share.
    * cumplir + Posesivo + responsabilidad = carry out + Posesivo + responsibility.
    * cumplir una responsabilidad = accomplish + responsibility.
    * delegación de responsabilidad = empowerment.
    * delegar responsabilidad = delegate + responsibility, empower.
    * descargar de responsabilidad = remove from + shoulders.
    * descargo de responsabilidad = declaration form, form of declaration, disclaimer.
    * distribuir la responsabilidad = spread + the load.
    * eludir responsabilidad = pass + the buck.
    * eludir una responsabilidad = shirk + responsibility.
    * entrar dentro de la responsabilidad de = fall under + the jurisdiction of, fall under + the auspices of, fall under + the purview of.
    * escaquearse de una responsabilidad = weasel out of + responsibility.
    * exención de responsabilidad = disclaimer.
    * eximir de responsabilidad = absolve + Nombre + from/of + responsibility.
    * exonerar a Alguien de responsabilidad = exonerate + Nombre + from responsibility.
    * hacer frente a una responsabilidad = meet + responsibility, face up to + responsibility.
    * hacer recaer la responsabilidad sobre = put + the onus on, put + the burden on.
    * inculcar responsabilidad = instil + responsibility.
    * la responsabilidad ahora recae en + Nombre = the ball is in + Posesivo + court.
    * la responsabilidad es de... = the buck + stops....
    * ley de responsabilidad por el producto = product liability law.
    * librar de la responsabilidad de = relieve of + the burden of.
    * librar de responsabilidad = relieve of + responsibility.
    * limitación de responsabilidad = limitation of liability.
    * llevar la responsabilidad de Algo = carry + the burden.
    * mención de responsabilidad = statement of authorship, statement of responsibility, byline, authorship statement.
    * mención de responsabilidad de la edición = imprint.
    * peso de la responsabilidad, el = burden of responsibility, the.
    * poner la responsabilidad en = put + the burden on.
    * rechazar la responsabilidad = disclaim + responsibility.
    * reivindicar la responsabilidad = make + claim of responsibility, claim + responsibility.
    * responsabilidad colectiva = collective responsibility, group responsibility.
    * responsabilidad combinada = mixed responsibility.
    * responsabilidad compartida = shared authorship, shared responsibility.
    * responsabilidad + competer a = responsibility + fall to.
    * responsabilidad + corresponder a = responsibility + fall to.
    * responsabilidad de demostrar lo que se defiende, la = burden of proof, the.
    * responsabilidad en la gestión = accountability.
    * responsabilidades = terms of reference, stewardship.
    * responsabilidades docentes = teaching responsibilities.
    * responsabilidades familiares = family responsibilities.
    * responsabilidad extracontractual = tort.
    * responsabilidad individual = individual responsibility.
    * responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility.
    * responsabilidad laboral = accountability.
    * responsabilidad legal = liability, legal liability, legal responsibility.
    * responsabilidad moral = moral stewardship, moral responsibility.
    * responsabilidad penal = criminal liability, criminal liability.
    * responsabilidad personal = personal responsibility.
    * responsabilidad + recaer en = responsibility + rest with.
    * responsabilidad + recaer sobre + espaldas = responsibility + rest on + shoulders.
    * responsabilidad secundaria = secondary responsibility.
    * responsabilidad social = social responsibility.
    * responsabilidad terciaria = tertiary responsibility.
    * seguro de responsabilidad civil = liability insurance.
    * sentido de la responsabilidad = sense of responsibility.
    * ser la propia responsabilidad de Alguien = be of + Posesivo + own making.
    * ser la responsabilidad de = be the responsibility of.
    * ser la responsabilidad de Alguien + Infinitivo = it + lie with + Nombre/Pronombre + to + Infinitivo.
    * ser responsabilidad de = be incumbent on/upon.
    * tener la responsabilidad = charge, undertake + burden.
    * tener la responsabilidad de = have + the responsibility of.
    * tomar como responsabilidad propia = take it upon + Reflexivo + to.
    * tomar la responsabilidad = take + responsibility.
    * trasladar la responsabilidad a = shift + the burden to.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de un cargo, una tarea) responsibility
    tiene la responsabilidad de mantener a la familia he is responsible for supporting the family
    un puesto de mucha responsabilidad a post which involves a great deal of responsibility
    tenemos que afrontar nuestras responsabilidades we must face up to our responsibilities
    tiene un gran sentido de la responsabilidad she has a strong sense of responsibility
    B ( Der) (culpa) responsibility; (obligación de indemnizar) liability
    cargó con toda la responsabilidad para no involucrarme a mí she took full responsibility so as not to involve me
    se les imputa la responsabilidad de varios robos a mano armada they are thought to be responsible for several armed robberies
    exigen responsabilidades al gobernador por … the governor is being held accountable for …
    Compuestos:
    civil liability
    ● responsabilidad criminal or penal
    criminal responsibility
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    responsabilidad sustantivo femenino
    responsibility;

    tener sentido de la responsabilidad to have a sense of responsibility;
    cargó con toda la responsabilidad she took full responsibility
    responsabilidad sustantivo femenino responsibility, liability

    ' responsabilidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apelar
    - capear
    - cargar
    - cargo
    - competencia
    - culpa
    - formalidad
    - imputar
    - ligereza
    - limitada
    - limitado
    - mayor
    - mi
    - mucha
    - mucho
    - recaer
    - sobre
    - solvencia
    - afrontar
    - agobiar
    - asumir
    - atenuar
    - atribuir
    - carga
    - conferir
    - confiar
    - conllevar
    - cuenta
    - enfrentar
    - esquivar
    - evadir
    - frente
    - librar
    - menguar
    - pecho
    - peso
    - seriedad
    - sobrecargar
    - sociedad
    English:
    accept
    - blame
    - business
    - carry
    - disclaimer
    - down
    - elude
    - extend
    - fault
    - job
    - liability
    - obligation
    - onus
    - peril
    - quit
    - responsibility
    - responsible
    - responsibly
    - risk
    - shun
    - take upon
    - undertake
    - buck
    - commitment
    - reliability
    - shift
    - trust
    * * *
    1. [obligación] responsibility;
    Der liability;
    es responsabilidad suya atender el teléfono it's her job to answer the phone;
    exigir responsabilidad a alguien por algo to call sb to account for sth;
    no quiero que recaiga sobre mí esa responsabilidad I don't want that responsibility to fall on my shoulders;
    tener la responsabilidad de algo to be responsible for sth;
    los padres tienen la responsabilidad de alimentar a los hijos fathers are responsible for feeding their children;
    no tuve ninguna responsabilidad en el accidente I was not in the least to blame for the accident
    Der responsabilidad atenuada diminished responsibility; Der responsabilidad civil civil liability;
    responsabilidad ilimitada unlimited liability;
    responsabilidad limitada limited liability;
    Der responsabilidad penal criminal liability
    2. [cualidad] responsibility;
    tiene un gran sentido de la responsabilidad she has a strong sense of responsibility
    3. [importancia] responsibility;
    puesto de responsabilidad senior position;
    no quiero tareas de tanta responsabilidad I don't want to do tasks which involve so much responsibility
    * * *
    f responsibility
    * * *
    : responsibility
    * * *
    responsabilidad n responsibility [pl. responsibilities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > responsabilidad

  • 10 place

    pleis
    1. noun
    1) (a particular spot or area: a quiet place in the country; I spent my holiday in various different places.) sitio, lugar
    2) (an empty space: There's a place for your books on this shelf.) sitio
    3) (an area or building with a particular purpose: a market-place.) lugar, sitio, local
    4) (a seat (in a theatre, train, at a table etc): He went to his place and sat down.) sitio, asiento
    5) (a position in an order, series, queue etc: She got the first place in the competition; I lost my place in the queue.) lugar, puesto
    6) (a person's position or level of importance in society etc: You must keep your secretary in her place.) sitio
    7) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) página, punto
    8) (duty or right: It's not my place to tell him he's wrong.) función, papel, deber, obligación
    9) (a job or position in a team, organization etc: He's got a place in the team; He's hoping for a place on the staff.) puesto, trabajo
    10) (house; home: Come over to my place.) casa
    11) ((often abbreviated to Pl. when written) a word used in the names of certain roads, streets or squares.) plaza
    12) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) punto/espacio decimal

    2. verb
    1) (to put: He placed it on the table; He was placed in command of the army.) colocar, poner, situar
    2) (to remember who a person is: I know I've seen her before, but I can't quite place her.) situar, recordar, identificar
    •
    - go places
    - in the first
    - second place
    - in place
    - in place of
    - out of place
    - put oneself in someone else's place
    - put someone in his place
    - put in his place
    - take place
    - take the place of
    place1 n
    1. lugar / sitio
    2. sitio / plaza / asiento
    3. casa
    to take place tener lugar / ocurrir / celebrarse
    where did the battle take place? ¿dónde tuvo lugar la batalla?
    place2 vb poner / colocar
    tr[pleɪs]
    1 (particular position, part) lugar nombre masculino, sitio
    2 (proper position) lugar nombre masculino, sitio; (suitable place) lugar nombre masculino adecuado, sitio adecuado
    3 (building) lugar nombre masculino, sitio; (home) casa, piso
    4 (in book) página
    5 (seat) asiento, sitio; (at table) cubierto
    ■ can you save my place? ¿me guardas el sitio?
    6 (position, role, rank) lugar nombre masculino; (duty) obligación nombre femenino
    7 (in race, contest) puesto, lugar nombre masculino, posición nombre femenino; (in queue) turno
    8 (job) puesto; (at university, on course) plaza; (on team) puesto
    1 (put - gen) poner; (- carefully) colocar
    2 (find home, job for) colocar
    3 (rank, class) poner, situar
    4 (remember - face, person) recordar; (- tune, accent) identificar
    ■ I recognize his face, but I can't quite place him me suena su cara, pero no sé de qué
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    all over the place por todas partes, por todos lados
    a place in the sun una posición destacada
    in place en su sitio
    in place of somebody / in somebody's place en el lugar de alguien
    in the first place... en primer lugar...
    out of place fuera de lugar
    there's no place like home no hay nada como estar en casa
    to be placed first «(second etc)» ocupar el primer (segundo etc) puesto, llegar el primero (segundo etc)
    to change places with somebody cambiar de sitio con alguien
    to fall into place / fit into place / slot into place encajar, cuadrar
    to have friends in high places tener amigos influyentes
    to go from place to place ir de un lugar a otro, ir de un sitio a otro, ir de un lado a otro
    to go places llegar lejos
    to know one's place saber el lugar que le corresponde a uno
    to place a bet hacer una apuesta
    to place an order hacer un pedido
    to place one's trust in somebody depositar su confianza en alguien
    to put oneself in somebody's place ponerse en el lugar de alguien
    to put somebody in his place poner a alguien en su sitio
    to take place tener lugar
    to take second place pasar a un segundo plano
    to take the place of ocupar el sitio de, reemplazar, sustituir
    decimal place SMALLMATHEMATICS/SMALL punto decimal
    place of birth lugar nombre masculino de nacimiento
    place name topónimo
    place ['pleɪs] vt, placed ; placing
    1) put, set: poner, colocar
    2) situate: situar, ubicar, emplazar
    to be well placed: estar bien situado
    to place in a job: colocar en un trabajo
    3) identify, recall: identificar, ubicar, recordar
    I can't place him: no lo ubico
    4)
    to place an order : hacer un pedido
    1) space: sitio m, lugar m
    there's no place to sit: no hay sitio para sentarse
    2) location, spot: lugar m, sitio m, parte f
    place of work: lugar de trabajo
    our summer place: nuestra casa de verano
    all over the place: por todas partes
    3) rank: lugar m, puesto m
    he took first place: ganó el primer lugar
    4) position: lugar m
    everything in its place: todo en su debido lugar
    to feel out of place: sentirse fuera de lugar
    5) seat: asiento m, cubierto m (a la mesa)
    6) job: puesto m
    7) role: papel m, lugar m
    to change places: cambiarse los papeles
    8)
    to take place : tener lugar
    9)
    to take the place of : sustituir a
    n.
    • ubicación (Informática) s.f.
    n.
    • empleo s.m.
    • encargo s.m.
    • local s.m.
    • lugar s.m.
    • paraje s.m.
    • plaza s.f.
    • puesto s.m.
    • recinto s.m.
    • sitio s.m.
    v.
    • asentar v.
    • colocar v.
    • emplazar v.
    • fijar v.
    • instalar v.
    • localizar v.
    • meter v.
    • poner v.
    (§pres: pongo, pones...) pret: pus-
    pp: puesto
    fut/c: pondr-•)
    • situar v.
    • ubicar v.

    I pleɪs
    1)
    a) c (spot, position, area) lugar m, sitio m

    she was in the right place at the right time and got the job — tuvo la suerte de estar allí en el momento oportuno y le dieron el trabajo

    from place to place — de un lugar or un sitio or un lado a otro

    to have friends in high places — tener* amigos influyentes

    all over the place — por todas partes, por todos lados

    to go places: this boy will go places — este chico va a llegar lejos

    b) ( specific location) lugar m

    in place: when the new accounting system is in place cuando se haya implementado el nuevo sistema de contabilidad; to hold something in place sujetar algo; out of place: modern furniture would look out of place in this room quedaría mal or no resultaría apropiado poner muebles modernos en esta habitación; I felt very out of place there — me sentí totalmente fuera de lugar allí

    d) u ( locality) lugar m
    2) c
    a) (building, shop, restaurant etc) sitio m, lugar m
    b) ( home) casa f

    we went back to Jim's place — después fuimos a (la) casa de Jim or (AmL tb) fuimos donde Jim or (RPl tb) a lo de Jim

    3) c
    a) (position, role) lugar m

    if I were in your place — yo en tu lugar, yo que tú

    to know one's place — (dated or hum) saber* el lugar que le corresponde a uno

    to put somebody in her/his place — poner* a algn en su lugar

    b)

    in place of — (as prep) en lugar de

    c)

    to take place — ( occur) \<\<meeting/concert/wedding\>\> tener* lugar

    4) c
    a) ( seat)
    b) ( at table) cubierto m

    to lay/set a place for somebody — poner* un cubierto para algn

    5) c (in contest, league) puesto m, lugar m
    6) c (in book, script, sequence)
    7) c
    a) ( job) puesto m

    to fill a place — cubrir* una vacante

    b) (BrE Educ) plaza f
    c) ( on team) puesto m
    8) ( in argument) lugar m

    in the first/second place — en primer/segundo lugar


    II
    1) (put, position) \<\<object\>\> poner*; (carefully, precisely) colocar*; \<\<guards/sentries\>\> poner*, apostar*, colocar*

    how are you placed (for) next week? — ¿cómo estás de tiempo la semana que viene?

    to place one's confidence o trust in somebody/something — depositar su (or mi etc) confianza en alguien/algo

    2)
    a) (in hierarchy, league, race)

    to be placed — llegar* placé or colocado ( en segundo o tercer lugar)

    3)
    a) (find a home, job for) colocar*

    they placed her with a Boston firm — la colocaron or le encontraron trabajo en una empresa de Boston

    b) \<\<advertisement\>\> poner*; \<\<phone call\>\> pedir*; \<\<goods/merchandise\>\> colocar*
    4) ( identify) \<\<tune\>\> identificar*, ubicar* (AmL)

    her face is familiar, but I can't quite place her — su cara me resulta conocida pero no sé de dónde or (AmL tb) pero no la ubico

    5) ( direct carefully) \<\<ball/shot\>\> colocar*
    [pleɪs]
    1. N
    1) (gen) lugar m, sitio m

    this is the place — este es el lugar, aquí es

    we came to a place where... — llegamos a un lugar donde...

    • the furniture was all over the place — los muebles estaban todos manga por hombro

    • in another or some other place — en otra parte

    • any place will do — cualquier lugar vale or sirve

    • it all began to fall into place — todo empezó a tener sentido

    • when the new law/system is in place — cuando la nueva ley/el nuevo sistema entre en vigor

    a blue suit, worn in places — un traje azul, raído a retazos

    the snow was a metre deep in places — había tramos or trozos en que la nieve cubría un metro

    • this is no place for you — este no es sitio para ti

    • to run in place — (US) correr en parada

    • it must be some place else — (US) estará en otra parte

    • a place in the sun — (fig) una posición envidiable

    2) (specific) lugar m

    • place of amusement — lugar m de diversión

    • place of birth — lugar m de nacimiento

    • place of business — [of employment] lugar m de trabajo; (=office) oficina f, despacho m ; (=shop) comercio m

    • place of refuge — refugio m, asilo m

    • place of residence — domicilio m, residencia f

    • place of worship — templo m, lugar m de culto

    3) (=town, area) lugar m, sitio m

    • to go places — (US) (=travel) viajar, conocer mundo

    he's going places * — (fig) llegará lejos

    • from place to place — de un sitio a otro

    he drifted from place to place, from job to job — iba de un sitio a otro, de trabajo en trabajo

    4) (=house) casa f ; (=building) sitio m

    we were at Peter's place — estuvimos en casa de Pedro, estuvimos donde Pedro *

    my place or yours? — ¿en mi casa o en la tuya?

    I must be mad, working in this place — debo de estar loca para trabajar en este sitio or lugar

    6) (=proper or natural place) sitio m, lugar m

    does this have a place? — ¿tiene esto un sitio determinado?

    • his troops were in place — sus tropas estaban en su sitio

    • to be out of place — estar fuera de lugar

    I feel rather out of place here — me siento como que estoy de más aquí, aquí me siento un poco fuera de lugar

    • to laugh in or at the right place — reírse en el momento oportuno

    7) (in book) página f

    • to find/ lose one's place — encontrar/perder la página

    • to mark one's place — poner una marca (de por dónde se va) en un libro

    8) (=seat) asiento m ; (in cinema, theatre) localidad f ; (at table) cubierto m ; (in queue) turno m ; (in school, university, on trip) plaza f ; (in team) puesto m

    are there any places left? — ¿quedan plazas?

    is this place taken? — ¿está ocupado este asiento?

    • to change places with sb — cambiar de sitio con algn

    • to give place to — dar paso a

    • to lay an extra place for sb — poner otro cubierto para algn

    • to lose one's place — (in queue) perder su turno

    9) (=job, vacancy) puesto m

    to seek a place in publishing — buscarse una colocación or un puesto en una casa editorial

    10) (=position) lugar m

    if I were in your place — yo en tu lugar, yo que tú

    • I wouldn't mind changing places with her! — ¡no me importaría estar en su lugar!

    • friends in high places — amigos mpl bien situados

    • to know one's place — saber cuál es su lugar

    • racism has no place here — aquí no hay sitio para el racismo

    • she occupies a special place in the heart of the British people — ocupa un rincón especial en el corazón del pueblo británico

    • to take the place of sth/sb — sustituir or suplir algo/a algn

    I was unable to go so Sheila took my place — yo no pude ir, así que Sheila lo hizo por mí

    11) (in series, rank) posición f, lugar m

    • to work sth out to three places of decimals — calcular algo hasta las milésimas or hasta con tres decimales

    • Madrid won, with Bilbao in second place — ganó Madrid, con Bilbao en segunda posición or segundo lugar

    • she took second place in the race/Latin exam — quedó la segunda en la carrera/el examen de Latín

    he didn't like having to take second place to his wife in public — delante de la gente no le gustaba quedar en un segundo plano detrás de su mujer

    for her, money takes second place to job satisfaction — para ella un trabajo gratificante va antes que el dinero

    - put sb in his place

    • in the first/ second place — en primer/segundo lugar

    • in place of — en lugar de, en vez de

    • to take place — tener lugar

    the marriage will not now take place — ahora la boda no se celebrará, ahora no habrá boda

    there are great changes taking place — están ocurriendo or se están produciendo grandes cambios

    2. VT
    1) (=put) (gen) poner; (more precisely) colocar
    2) (=give, attribute) [+ blame] echar (on a); [+ responsibility] achacar (on a); [+ importance] dar, otorgar more frm (on a)

    • I had no qualms about placing my confidence in him — no tenía ningún reparo en depositar mi confianza en él

    • they place too much emphasis on paper qualifications — le dan demasiada importancia a los títulos

    • we should place no trust in that — no hay que fiarse de eso

    3) (=situate) situar, ubicar

    how are you placed for money? — ¿qué tal andas de dinero?

    4) (Comm) [+ order] hacer; [+ goods] colocar; (Econ) [+ money, funds] colocar, invertir

    goods that are difficult to place — mercancías fpl que no encuentran salida

    bet 3., 1)
    5) (=find employment for) [agency] encontrar un puesto a, colocar; [employer] ofrecer empleo a, colocar; (=find home for) colocar
    6) (of series, rank) colocar, clasificar

    to be placed — (in horse race) llegar colocado

    7) (=recall, identify) recordar; (=recognize) reconocer; (=identify) identificar, ubicar (LAm)

    I can't place her — no recuerdo de dónde la conozco, no la ubico (LAm)

    3.
    VI
    (US) (in race, competition)

    to place second — quedar segundo, quedar en segundo lugar

    4.
    CPD

    place card N — tarjeta que indica el lugar de alguien en la mesa

    place kick N — (Rugby) puntapié m colocado; (Ftbl) tiro m libre

    place mat N — bajoplato m, salvamanteles m inv individual

    place names (as study, in general) toponimia f
    * * *

    I [pleɪs]
    1)
    a) c (spot, position, area) lugar m, sitio m

    she was in the right place at the right time and got the job — tuvo la suerte de estar allí en el momento oportuno y le dieron el trabajo

    from place to place — de un lugar or un sitio or un lado a otro

    to have friends in high places — tener* amigos influyentes

    all over the place — por todas partes, por todos lados

    to go places: this boy will go places — este chico va a llegar lejos

    b) ( specific location) lugar m

    in place: when the new accounting system is in place cuando se haya implementado el nuevo sistema de contabilidad; to hold something in place sujetar algo; out of place: modern furniture would look out of place in this room quedaría mal or no resultaría apropiado poner muebles modernos en esta habitación; I felt very out of place there — me sentí totalmente fuera de lugar allí

    d) u ( locality) lugar m
    2) c
    a) (building, shop, restaurant etc) sitio m, lugar m
    b) ( home) casa f

    we went back to Jim's place — después fuimos a (la) casa de Jim or (AmL tb) fuimos donde Jim or (RPl tb) a lo de Jim

    3) c
    a) (position, role) lugar m

    if I were in your place — yo en tu lugar, yo que tú

    to know one's place — (dated or hum) saber* el lugar que le corresponde a uno

    to put somebody in her/his place — poner* a algn en su lugar

    b)

    in place of — (as prep) en lugar de

    c)

    to take place — ( occur) \<\<meeting/concert/wedding\>\> tener* lugar

    4) c
    a) ( seat)
    b) ( at table) cubierto m

    to lay/set a place for somebody — poner* un cubierto para algn

    5) c (in contest, league) puesto m, lugar m
    6) c (in book, script, sequence)
    7) c
    a) ( job) puesto m

    to fill a place — cubrir* una vacante

    b) (BrE Educ) plaza f
    c) ( on team) puesto m
    8) ( in argument) lugar m

    in the first/second place — en primer/segundo lugar


    II
    1) (put, position) \<\<object\>\> poner*; (carefully, precisely) colocar*; \<\<guards/sentries\>\> poner*, apostar*, colocar*

    how are you placed (for) next week? — ¿cómo estás de tiempo la semana que viene?

    to place one's confidence o trust in somebody/something — depositar su (or mi etc) confianza en alguien/algo

    2)
    a) (in hierarchy, league, race)

    to be placed — llegar* placé or colocado ( en segundo o tercer lugar)

    3)
    a) (find a home, job for) colocar*

    they placed her with a Boston firm — la colocaron or le encontraron trabajo en una empresa de Boston

    b) \<\<advertisement\>\> poner*; \<\<phone call\>\> pedir*; \<\<goods/merchandise\>\> colocar*
    4) ( identify) \<\<tune\>\> identificar*, ubicar* (AmL)

    her face is familiar, but I can't quite place her — su cara me resulta conocida pero no sé de dónde or (AmL tb) pero no la ubico

    5) ( direct carefully) \<\<ball/shot\>\> colocar*

    English-spanish dictionary > place

  • 11 de acuerdo con

    in accordance with
    * * *
    * * *
    = according to, as far as + Nombre + be + concerned, consistent with, in harmony with, in accordance with, in concert with, in keeping with, in line with, in step with, in tune with, by, pursuant to, in concurrence with, based on, in agreement with, as far as + Sujeto + Verbo, in consonance with, in accord with, judging by, to judge by, in conformity with, in + Posesivo + view, judging from
    Ex. The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).
    Ex. As far as users are concerned, standardisation of command languages for different hosts is a highly desirable.
    Ex. If these two questions are considered the choice of titles will be consistent with the choice of author headings.
    Ex. It is argued that the research community is missing an opportunity to design systems that are in better harmony with the actual preferences of many users.
    Ex. The scheme remains discipline oriented, but each class is developed in accordance with strict application of analytico-synthetic principles.
    Ex. AGRIS is an international information system (akin to AGREP) for the agricultural sciences, compiled by the Commission in concert with member states, management of which is in the hands of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
    Ex. This revised chapter modified the code in keeping with the recently agreed ISBD(M), and proposed a slightly different description for monographs.
    Ex. Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, as the first of Mexico's 31 states, has achieved full library coverage in line with the Programa Nacional de Bibliotecas Publicas.
    Ex. The challenge to the information professional is to integrate the use of information into the fabric of society, in step with the realization that information flow is the lifeline of modern democracies.
    Ex. There was a hard core of dedicated, British-trained librarians who practised their profession in tune with the social, economic and political situation of their time.
    Ex. The name to be chosen for the author must be, by rule 40, 'the name by which he is commonly identified, whether it is his real name, or an assumed name, nickname, title of nobility, or other appellation'.
    Ex. This approach involves the establishment and communication of organizational goals, the setting of individual objectives pursuant to the organizational goals, and the periodic and then final review of performance as it relates to the objectives.
    Ex. In concurrence with the advent of what Anthony Oettinger called 'compunications', the fusion of computing and communication, we need to develop a new vision of a future for national libraries.
    Ex. Libraries will make judgements based on criteria such as better information resources, quicker answers, and more cost-effective services = Las bibliotecas tomarán decisiones de acuerdo con criterios tales como mejores recursos informativos, rapidez de respuesta y servicios más rentables.
    Ex. The findings of this study were in agreement with most similar studies of the journal literature of the humanities with one important exception.
    Ex. As far as he knew (and he had been with the library 37 years) subsequent boards had not changed the rule.
    Ex. New modes may emerge in the future in consonance with new research trends and changing social needs.
    Ex. In accord with much existing literature, results indicate that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables are included.
    Ex. The number of titles is expected to double within a relatively short period, judging by the enthusiasm expressed by the publishers.
    Ex. To judge by some of the comments presented here, weeding may function as a homogenizing agent in many public libraries, creating a situation where the product lines (books) offered show little variation from library to library.
    Ex. The public library is not exempt from this rule, and in conformity with it this report has been prepared to offer a detailed answer to the challenge of the public.
    Ex. In her view, it is high time for the plays by this versatile and prolific dramatist to begin elbowing their way into the American repertoire.
    Ex. Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.
    * * *
    = according to, as far as + Nombre + be + concerned, consistent with, in harmony with, in accordance with, in concert with, in keeping with, in line with, in step with, in tune with, by, pursuant to, in concurrence with, based on, in agreement with, as far as + Sujeto + Verbo, in consonance with, in accord with, judging by, to judge by, in conformity with, in + Posesivo + view, judging from

    Ex: The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).

    Ex: As far as users are concerned, standardisation of command languages for different hosts is a highly desirable.
    Ex: If these two questions are considered the choice of titles will be consistent with the choice of author headings.
    Ex: It is argued that the research community is missing an opportunity to design systems that are in better harmony with the actual preferences of many users.
    Ex: The scheme remains discipline oriented, but each class is developed in accordance with strict application of analytico-synthetic principles.
    Ex: AGRIS is an international information system (akin to AGREP) for the agricultural sciences, compiled by the Commission in concert with member states, management of which is in the hands of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
    Ex: This revised chapter modified the code in keeping with the recently agreed ISBD(M), and proposed a slightly different description for monographs.
    Ex: Villahermosa, capital of Tabasco, as the first of Mexico's 31 states, has achieved full library coverage in line with the Programa Nacional de Bibliotecas Publicas.
    Ex: The challenge to the information professional is to integrate the use of information into the fabric of society, in step with the realization that information flow is the lifeline of modern democracies.
    Ex: There was a hard core of dedicated, British-trained librarians who practised their profession in tune with the social, economic and political situation of their time.
    Ex: The name to be chosen for the author must be, by rule 40, 'the name by which he is commonly identified, whether it is his real name, or an assumed name, nickname, title of nobility, or other appellation'.
    Ex: This approach involves the establishment and communication of organizational goals, the setting of individual objectives pursuant to the organizational goals, and the periodic and then final review of performance as it relates to the objectives.
    Ex: In concurrence with the advent of what Anthony Oettinger called 'compunications', the fusion of computing and communication, we need to develop a new vision of a future for national libraries.
    Ex: Libraries will make judgements based on criteria such as better information resources, quicker answers, and more cost-effective services = Las bibliotecas tomarán decisiones de acuerdo con criterios tales como mejores recursos informativos, rapidez de respuesta y servicios más rentables.
    Ex: The findings of this study were in agreement with most similar studies of the journal literature of the humanities with one important exception.
    Ex: As far as he knew (and he had been with the library 37 years) subsequent boards had not changed the rule.
    Ex: New modes may emerge in the future in consonance with new research trends and changing social needs.
    Ex: In accord with much existing literature, results indicate that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables are included.
    Ex: The number of titles is expected to double within a relatively short period, judging by the enthusiasm expressed by the publishers.
    Ex: To judge by some of the comments presented here, weeding may function as a homogenizing agent in many public libraries, creating a situation where the product lines (books) offered show little variation from library to library.
    Ex: The public library is not exempt from this rule, and in conformity with it this report has been prepared to offer a detailed answer to the challenge of the public.
    Ex: In her view, it is high time for the plays by this versatile and prolific dramatist to begin elbowing their way into the American repertoire.
    Ex: Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de acuerdo con

  • 12 destacado

    adj.
    1 prominent, featured, distinguished, outstanding.
    2 highlighted, marked.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: destacar.
    * * *
    1→ link=destacar destacar
    1 (persona) outstanding, distinguished, prominent, leading; (actuación) outstanding
    * * *
    (f. - destacada)
    adj.
    outstanding, prominent
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=distinguido) [gen] outstanding; [personaje] distinguished; [dato] noteworthy
    2) (Mil) stationed
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1) <profesional/artista> prominent, distinguished; < actuación> outstanding

    destacadas personalidades — prominent o distinguished figures

    2) [estar] < tropas> stationed

    el cuerpo diplomático destacado en... — the diplomatic staff in...

    * * *
    = leading, outstanding, salient, distinguished, marked, high profile, esteemed, singular, with a difference, prominent, elevated, of note, standout, selected, unique.
    Ex. In addition to her reputation as a leading expert in information control, Phyllis Richmond is another of ISAD's official reviewers of the AACR2's draft.
    Ex. The PRECIS indexing system is a set of procedures for producing index entries which in theoretical terms represents an advance outstanding for its highly formularized approach to citation order and reference, or added entry, generation.
    Ex. There must be instructions explaining salient features of the index.
    Ex. This is a contribution to a festschrift in honour of Samuel Rothstein, the distinguished Canadian reference librarian.
    Ex. It hardly needs to be said that the microcomputer is now a fact of life, but its impact upon the world of information retrieval and libraries generally has been less marked than in many other areas.
    Ex. The South African government is under pressure to bring rapid and high profile improvements to its schools = El gobierno de Sudáfrica está siendo presionado para que traiga mejoras rápidas y notorias a sus escuelas.
    Ex. This tremendous outpouring of titles is one reason why British publishing has such a highly esteemed place in the world.
    Ex. The second edition was also well received all over the world, and was accorded the singular honour of translation into Portuguese for use in library schools in Brazil.
    Ex. The article 'Web authoring with a difference' reviews the current authoring tools available for organizations wishing to become involved in the World Wide Web (WWW).
    Ex. Classification is also prominent in the physical arrangement of documents.
    Ex. Public investment in rebuilding the church and the gifts of individual donors were important indications of its elevated social standing.
    Ex. Another analytical study of note is the one for Columbia University Libraries.
    Ex. Among its standout features is a collection of animated maps that are not terribly detailed but are accompanied by high-quality pictures of many interesting sites.
    Ex. This month-long fellowship will offer participants an opportunity to train at selected North American libraries.
    Ex. The basic requirement of a shelf arrangement system is that each document has a unique place in the sequence.
    ----
    * elemento destacado = standout.
    * lo más destacado = highlights.
    * más destacado = foremost.
    * miembro destacado = leading member.
    * ocupar un lugar destacado para + Pronombre = stand + high on + Posesivo + list.
    * persona destacada = standout.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1) <profesional/artista> prominent, distinguished; < actuación> outstanding

    destacadas personalidades — prominent o distinguished figures

    2) [estar] < tropas> stationed

    el cuerpo diplomático destacado en... — the diplomatic staff in...

    * * *
    = leading, outstanding, salient, distinguished, marked, high profile, esteemed, singular, with a difference, prominent, elevated, of note, standout, selected, unique.

    Ex: In addition to her reputation as a leading expert in information control, Phyllis Richmond is another of ISAD's official reviewers of the AACR2's draft.

    Ex: The PRECIS indexing system is a set of procedures for producing index entries which in theoretical terms represents an advance outstanding for its highly formularized approach to citation order and reference, or added entry, generation.
    Ex: There must be instructions explaining salient features of the index.
    Ex: This is a contribution to a festschrift in honour of Samuel Rothstein, the distinguished Canadian reference librarian.
    Ex: It hardly needs to be said that the microcomputer is now a fact of life, but its impact upon the world of information retrieval and libraries generally has been less marked than in many other areas.
    Ex: The South African government is under pressure to bring rapid and high profile improvements to its schools = El gobierno de Sudáfrica está siendo presionado para que traiga mejoras rápidas y notorias a sus escuelas.
    Ex: This tremendous outpouring of titles is one reason why British publishing has such a highly esteemed place in the world.
    Ex: The second edition was also well received all over the world, and was accorded the singular honour of translation into Portuguese for use in library schools in Brazil.
    Ex: The article 'Web authoring with a difference' reviews the current authoring tools available for organizations wishing to become involved in the World Wide Web (WWW).
    Ex: Classification is also prominent in the physical arrangement of documents.
    Ex: Public investment in rebuilding the church and the gifts of individual donors were important indications of its elevated social standing.
    Ex: Another analytical study of note is the one for Columbia University Libraries.
    Ex: Among its standout features is a collection of animated maps that are not terribly detailed but are accompanied by high-quality pictures of many interesting sites.
    Ex: This month-long fellowship will offer participants an opportunity to train at selected North American libraries.
    Ex: The basic requirement of a shelf arrangement system is that each document has a unique place in the sequence.
    * elemento destacado = standout.
    * lo más destacado = highlights.
    * más destacado = foremost.
    * miembro destacado = leading member.
    * ocupar un lugar destacado para + Pronombre = stand + high on + Posesivo + list.
    * persona destacada = standout.

    * * *
    A ‹profesional/artista› prominent, distinguished; ‹actuación› outstanding
    la nota más destacada del día the highlight of the day
    en presencia de destacadas personalidades in the presence of prominent o distinguished figures
    B [ ESTAR] ‹tropas› stationed
    las fuerzas destacadas en las zonas montañosas the forces stationed in the mountain areas
    el cuerpo diplomático destacado en Addis-Abeba the diplomatic staff in Addis Ababa o assigned to Addis Ababa
    * * *

     

    Del verbo destacar: ( conjugate destacar)

    destacado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    destacado    
    destacar
    destacado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    1 ‹profesional/artista› prominent, distinguished;
    ‹ actuación› outstanding
    2 [estar] ‹ tropas› stationed
    destacar ( conjugate destacar) verbo transitivo
    1 (recalcar, subrayar) to emphasize, stress
    2 ( realzar) ‹belleza/figura› to enhance;
    ‹color/plano› to bring out
    3
    a) (Mil) ‹ tropas› to post

    b) ‹periodista/fotógrafo› to send

    verbo intransitivo
    to stand out;
    destacado en algo to excel at o in sth
    destacado,-a adjetivo outstanding
    destacar vtr fig to emphasize, stress
    destacar(se) verbo intransitivo & verbo reflexivo to stand out
    ' destacado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    destacada
    - maestra
    - maestro
    - señera
    - señero
    - sobresaliente
    English:
    conspicuous
    - figure
    - foremost
    - highlight
    - leading
    - outstanding
    - prominent
    - striking
    - towering
    - distinction
    - out
    - prominently
    - top
    * * *
    destacado, -a adj
    1. [persona] distinguished, prominent;
    [acto] outstanding;
    era uno de nuestros alumnos más destacados he was one of our most outstanding pupils;
    tuvo una destacada actuación her performance was outstanding
    2. [tropas] stationed;
    [corresponsales] assigned, sent;
    las tropas destacadas en Bosnia the troops stationed in Bosnia;
    conectamos con nuestra unidad móvil destacada en la zona we're going over to our mobile unit in the area itself
    * * *
    adj outstanding
    * * *
    destacado, -da adj
    1) : outstanding, prominent
    2) : stationed, posted
    * * *
    1. (en general) outstanding
    2. (persona) prominent / leading

    Spanish-English dictionary > destacado

  • 13 dividir

    v.
    1 to divide.
    el río divide en dos la ciudad the river divides o splits the city in two
    Ellos dividen el dinero They divide the money.
    Ellas dividen el trabajo They divide the work.
    Ella divide los tipos de plantas She divides=classifies the plant types.
    Los pleitos dividen a los casados Fights divide married couples.
    2 to share out.
    nos dividimos las tareas domésticas we shared the household chores between us
    3 to divide by (Mat).
    dividir 12 entre 3 divide 12 by 3
    15 dividido por 3 igual a 5 15 divided by 3 is 5
    * * *
    1 to divide
    2 (separar) to divide, separate
    3 (repartir) to divide, split
    1 (separarse) to divide, split up
    \
    divide y vencerás divide and conquer, divide and rule
    * * *
    verb
    to divide, split
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=partir) to divide

    los dividieron en tres grupos — they split them (up) o divided them into three groups

    2) (Mat) to divide (entre, por by)

    doce dividido entre o por cuatro son tres — twelve divided by four is three

    3) (=repartir) [+ ganancias, posesiones] to split up, divide up; [+ gastos] to split

    hemos dividido el premio entre toda la familia — we have split up o divided up the prize among the whole family

    4) (=separar) to divide
    5) (=enemistar) to divide
    2.
    VI (Mat) to divide (entre, por into)
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( partir) to divide

    lo dividió en partes iguales/por la mitad — he divided it (up) into equal portions/in half

    seis dividido por or entre dos es igual a tres — (Mat) six divided by two equals o is three

    b) ( repartir) to divide, share (out)
    c) ( separar)
    d) ( enemistar) <partido/familia> to divide
    2.
    dividir vi (Mat) to divide
    3.
    dividirse v pron
    a) célula to split; grupo/partido to split up; camino/río to divide
    b) obra/período

    el cuerpo humano se divide en... — the human body is made up of...

    c) ( repartirse) to divide up, share out
    * * *
    = break down, partition, tell out into, sort out + Nombre + from + Nombre, split up, drive + a wedge between, dissect, segment, split, break out, parcel out, splinter, section, balkanize, rive, rend.
    Ex. The holdings are broken down into several volumes, shown as the next level of the pyramid.
    Ex. Punctuation is present in order to partition the elements of a citation and should contribute to its comprehension.
    Ex. The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.
    Ex. Ward's study is likely to remain a standard reference source for years to come, but trying to sort out the generalities from the particularities is a very difficult business.
    Ex. In any case it is best to split up the work among all those involved, having an adult in charge of each group.
    Ex. While the current problems associated with serial economics have driven a wedge between vendors, librarians and publishers, they should be cooperating and communicating in order to withstand the information explosion.
    Ex. GMMA has developed a layered approach to visual indexing that dissects the objects, style and implication of each image, so that the indexing system can accommodate all potential approaches to the material.
    Ex. So, the state-of-the-art in speech recognition requires the speaker to pronounce words with definite pauses between them, or else it starts with segmenting the speech on the basis of its acoustical features.
    Ex. In the mechanised paper fibre process individual pages are soaked and split so that acid-free paper can be put between the two layers.
    Ex. Turnaround managers want current financial and working capital analyses broken out by cost/profit centres.
    Ex. Can libraries parcel out digitization responsibilities among themselves?.
    Ex. The computers in education movement has further splintered rather than integrated these communities.
    Ex. They have achieved this by dividing their building into public-oriented and research-oriented levels and sectioning each level into thematic areas.
    Ex. The scholarly system has become balkanized into autonomous, even antagonistic, cultures or camps based on differing technological competencies and interests.
    Ex. The novel presents a social world riven by contradictions that can best be understood through Marxian categories.
    Ex. Christian Science, a faith that has epitomize a quiet, disciplined spirituality, is being rent by discord.
    ----
    * divide y vencerás = divide-and-conquer.
    * dividir Algo en partes iguales = divide + Nombre + in equal parts.
    * dividir con una cortina = curtain off.
    * dividir en = divide (into), partition into, split into, divide onto.
    * dividir en dos = halve, bisect, rend in + two.
    * dividir en partes = break into + parts.
    * dividir en trozos = split into + bits.
    * dividir en zonas = zone.
    * dividir por medio = rend in + two.
    * dividir + Posesivo + fuerzas = fragment + Posesivo + energies, fragment + Posesivo + energies.
    * dividirse = branch, fork.
    * dividirse en partes = fall into + parts.
    * producir dividendos = pay + dividends.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( partir) to divide

    lo dividió en partes iguales/por la mitad — he divided it (up) into equal portions/in half

    seis dividido por or entre dos es igual a tres — (Mat) six divided by two equals o is three

    b) ( repartir) to divide, share (out)
    c) ( separar)
    d) ( enemistar) <partido/familia> to divide
    2.
    dividir vi (Mat) to divide
    3.
    dividirse v pron
    a) célula to split; grupo/partido to split up; camino/río to divide
    b) obra/período

    el cuerpo humano se divide en... — the human body is made up of...

    c) ( repartirse) to divide up, share out
    * * *
    dividir(en)
    (v.) = divide (into), partition into, split into, divide onto

    Ex: AACR2 divides works of mixed responsibility into two groups.

    Ex: External databases can be partitioned into two major categories: bibliographic and non-bibliographic or full-text databases.
    Ex: The notation is non-expressive, and is split into groups of three digits as in DC.
    Ex: Many databases are divided onto several discs, usually by time period.

    = break down, partition, tell out into, sort out + Nombre + from + Nombre, split up, drive + a wedge between, dissect, segment, split, break out, parcel out, splinter, section, balkanize, rive, rend.

    Ex: The holdings are broken down into several volumes, shown as the next level of the pyramid.

    Ex: Punctuation is present in order to partition the elements of a citation and should contribute to its comprehension.
    Ex: The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.
    Ex: Ward's study is likely to remain a standard reference source for years to come, but trying to sort out the generalities from the particularities is a very difficult business.
    Ex: In any case it is best to split up the work among all those involved, having an adult in charge of each group.
    Ex: While the current problems associated with serial economics have driven a wedge between vendors, librarians and publishers, they should be cooperating and communicating in order to withstand the information explosion.
    Ex: GMMA has developed a layered approach to visual indexing that dissects the objects, style and implication of each image, so that the indexing system can accommodate all potential approaches to the material.
    Ex: So, the state-of-the-art in speech recognition requires the speaker to pronounce words with definite pauses between them, or else it starts with segmenting the speech on the basis of its acoustical features.
    Ex: In the mechanised paper fibre process individual pages are soaked and split so that acid-free paper can be put between the two layers.
    Ex: Turnaround managers want current financial and working capital analyses broken out by cost/profit centres.
    Ex: Can libraries parcel out digitization responsibilities among themselves?.
    Ex: The computers in education movement has further splintered rather than integrated these communities.
    Ex: They have achieved this by dividing their building into public-oriented and research-oriented levels and sectioning each level into thematic areas.
    Ex: The scholarly system has become balkanized into autonomous, even antagonistic, cultures or camps based on differing technological competencies and interests.
    Ex: The novel presents a social world riven by contradictions that can best be understood through Marxian categories.
    Ex: Christian Science, a faith that has epitomize a quiet, disciplined spirituality, is being rent by discord.
    * divide y vencerás = divide-and-conquer.
    * dividir Algo en partes iguales = divide + Nombre + in equal parts.
    * dividir con una cortina = curtain off.
    * dividir en = divide (into), partition into, split into, divide onto.
    * dividir en dos = halve, bisect, rend in + two.
    * dividir en partes = break into + parts.
    * dividir en trozos = split into + bits.
    * dividir en zonas = zone.
    * dividir por medio = rend in + two.
    * dividir + Posesivo + fuerzas = fragment + Posesivo + energies, fragment + Posesivo + energies.
    * dividirse = branch, fork.
    * dividirse en partes = fall into + parts.
    * producir dividendos = pay + dividends.

    * * *
    dividir [I1 ]
    vt
    1 (partir) to divide
    dividió la tarta en partes iguales he divided the cake (up) into equal portions
    dividió a la clase en cuatro equipos she divided o split the class (up) into four teams
    seis dividido dos igual tres or seis dividido por dos es igual a tres or seis dividido entre dos es igual a tres ( Mat) six divided by two equals o is three
    divide 96 por or entre 12 ( Mat) divide 96 by 12
    2 (repartir) to divide, share, share out
    dividieron la herencia entre los hermanos the inheritance was shared (out) o divided among the brothers
    3
    (separar): el río divide el pueblo en dos the river cuts o divides the village in two
    4 (apartar, enemistar) to divide
    esa cuestión dividió profundamente al sindicato the issue caused deep division within the union
    los científicos están divididos en esa materia scientists are divided on that subject
    divide y vencerás/reinarás divide and conquer/rule
    ■ dividir
    vi
    ( Mat) to divide
    todavía no sabe dividir she still can't do division, she still doesn't know how to divide
    1 «célula» to split; «grupo/partido» to split up
    nos dividimos en dos grupos we split up into two groups
    el río se divide en dos brazos the river divides into two branches
    no me puedo dividir ( fam); I only have one pair of hands ( colloq), I can't be in two places at once ( colloq)
    2
    «obra/período»: su obra podría dividirse en cuatro períodos básicos his work could be divided into four basic periods
    el cuerpo humano se divide en cabeza, tronco y extremidades the human body is made up of the head, the torso and the extremities
    3 (repartirse) to divide up, share out
    * * *

     

    dividir ( conjugate dividir) verbo transitivo



    c) ( enemistar) ‹partido/familia› to divide

    verbo intransitivo (Mat) to divide
    dividirse verbo pronominal

    [grupo/partido] to split up;
    [camino/río] to divide
    b) dividir en algo [obra/período] to be divided into sth


    dividir verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo to divide: dividieron la herencia entre los cuatro, they divided the inheritance among the four of them
    tienes que dividir entre tres, you must divide by three
    ' dividir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    descomponer
    - partir
    - rompecabezas
    - seccionar
    - cortar
    - distribuir
    - mitad
    - separar
    English:
    carve up
    - cut
    - divide
    - equally
    - partition
    - quarter
    - separate
    - share
    - split
    - split up
    - tear
    - zone
    - break
    - halve
    - stream
    - way
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [separar] to divide (en into); [átomo] to split (en into);
    dividió la hoja en tres partes she divided the page into three parts;
    dividió a los alumnos en grupos de cinco he split o divided the pupils into groups of five;
    el río divide en dos la ciudad the river divides o splits the city in two
    2. [repartir] to share out ( entre among);
    el resto de los beneficios fue dividido entre los empleados the rest of the profits were shared out o divided among the employees;
    dividimos las tareas domésticas entre todos we shared the household chores between all of us
    3. [desunir] to divide;
    un asunto que tiene dividida a la comunidad científica an issue that has divided the scientific community;
    el testamento dividió a los hermanos the will set the brothers against one another
    4. [en matemáticas] to divide;
    dividir 12 entre 3 divide 12 by 3;
    15 dividido entre o [m5] por 3 igual a 5 15 divided by 3 is 5
    ♦ vi
    [en matemáticas] to divide;
    divide y vencerás divide and rule
    * * *
    v/t divide
    * * *
    1) : to divide, to split
    2) : to distribute, to share out
    * * *
    1. (en general) to divide
    si divido 30 entre 5, el resultado es 6 if I divide 30 by 5, the result is 6
    2. (repartir) to split [pt. & pp. split]

    Spanish-English dictionary > dividir

  • 14 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 15 Private

    1. adjective
    1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

    a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

    2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

    ‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

    for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

    3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]
    4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich
    5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört
    6) (not in public office)

    private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die

    2. noun
    1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat
    2)

    in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

    3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (of, for, or belonging to, one person or group, not to the general public: The headmaster lives in a private apartment in the school; in my private (=personal) opinion; This information is to be kept strictly private; You shouldn't listen to private conversations.) privat
    2) (having no public or official position or rank: It is your duty as a private citizen to report this matter to the police.) Privat-...
    2. noun
    (in the army, an ordinary soldier, not an officer.) gewöhnlicher Soldat
    - academic.ru/58044/privacy">privacy
    - privately
    - private enterprise
    - private means
    - in private
    * * *
    pri·vate
    [ˈpraɪvɪt, AM -vət]
    I. adj
    1. inv (personal) privat, Privat-
    \private initiative/life Privatinitiative f/-leben nt
    \private joke Insiderwitz m fam
    to speak in some \private language in seiner eigenen Sprache reden
    sb's \private opinion jds persönliche Meinung
    \private papers persönliche Papiere
    2. (not open to public) privat, Privat-; discussion, meeting nicht öffentlich
    \private beach/club/collection Privatstrand m/-klub m/-sammlung f
    \private function Privatveranstaltung f, private Feier
    \private funeral Beerdigung f in aller Stille
    \private land Privatgrund m
    \private wedding ceremony Hochzeitsfeier f im engsten Familienkreis
    3. (confidential) vertraulich
    to keep sth \private etw für sich akk behalten
    4. (not social) zurückhaltend, introvertiert
    to be a very \private sort of person ein sehr verschlossener [o in sich akk gekehrter] Mensch sein
    5. (secluded) abgelegen; (undisturbed) ungestört
    6. inv (not governmental) privat, Privat-
    \private business Privatwirtschaft f
    \private financing Privatfinanzierung f
    \private funds private Gelder
    \private hospital Privatklinik f
    7. (not as official)
    as a \private person als Privatperson
    II. n
    ▪ in \private privat, im Privatleben; LAW unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit
    to speak [or talk] to sb in \private jdn [o mit jdm] unter vier Augen sprechen
    2. ( fam: genitals)
    ▪ \privates pl Geschlechtsteile pl
    3. (soldier) Gefreiter m, einfacher Soldat
    * * *
    ['praIvɪt]
    1. adj
    1) privat; (= personal) letter, reasons persönlich, privat; (= confidential) matter, affair vertraulich; conversation, meeting, interview privat, vertraulich; (= secluded) place abgelegen; dining room separat; (= not public) funeral, wedding im engsten Kreis; hearing, sitting nicht öffentlich, nichtöffentlich

    it's just a private joke between us —

    no private jokes! — lass uns auch mitlachen!

    he acted in a private capacity — er handelte als Privatperson

    2)

    private limited company — ≈ Aktiengesellschaft f (die nicht an der Börse notiert ist)

    3) (= withdrawn, reserved) person reserviert, zurückhaltend
    2. n
    1) (MIL) Gefreite(r) mf

    Private X — der Gefreite X; (in address) Gefreiter X

    2) pl (= genitals) Geschlechtsteile pl
    3)

    in private — privat; (Jur) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

    * * *
    Pte abk MIL Private Gefreiter m
    Pvt. abk MIL Private Gefreiter m
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

    a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

    2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

    ‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

    for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

    3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]
    4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich
    5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

    private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die

    2. noun
    1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat
    2)

    in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

    3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.
    * * *
    (military) n.
    Gefreite -n (Soldat) m. adj.
    nicht öffentlich adj.
    persönlich adj.
    privat adj.

    English-german dictionary > Private

  • 16 private

    1. adjective
    1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

    a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

    2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

    ‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

    for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

    3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]
    4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich
    5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört
    6) (not in public office)

    private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die

    2. noun
    1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat
    2)

    in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

    3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (of, for, or belonging to, one person or group, not to the general public: The headmaster lives in a private apartment in the school; in my private (=personal) opinion; This information is to be kept strictly private; You shouldn't listen to private conversations.) privat
    2) (having no public or official position or rank: It is your duty as a private citizen to report this matter to the police.) Privat-...
    2. noun
    (in the army, an ordinary soldier, not an officer.) gewöhnlicher Soldat
    - academic.ru/58044/privacy">privacy
    - privately
    - private enterprise
    - private means
    - in private
    * * *
    pri·vate
    [ˈpraɪvɪt, AM -vət]
    I. adj
    1. inv (personal) privat, Privat-
    \private initiative/life Privatinitiative f/-leben nt
    \private joke Insiderwitz m fam
    to speak in some \private language in seiner eigenen Sprache reden
    sb's \private opinion jds persönliche Meinung
    \private papers persönliche Papiere
    2. (not open to public) privat, Privat-; discussion, meeting nicht öffentlich
    \private beach/club/collection Privatstrand m/-klub m/-sammlung f
    \private function Privatveranstaltung f, private Feier
    \private funeral Beerdigung f in aller Stille
    \private land Privatgrund m
    \private wedding ceremony Hochzeitsfeier f im engsten Familienkreis
    3. (confidential) vertraulich
    to keep sth \private etw für sich akk behalten
    4. (not social) zurückhaltend, introvertiert
    to be a very \private sort of person ein sehr verschlossener [o in sich akk gekehrter] Mensch sein
    5. (secluded) abgelegen; (undisturbed) ungestört
    6. inv (not governmental) privat, Privat-
    \private business Privatwirtschaft f
    \private financing Privatfinanzierung f
    \private funds private Gelder
    \private hospital Privatklinik f
    7. (not as official)
    as a \private person als Privatperson
    II. n
    ▪ in \private privat, im Privatleben; LAW unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit
    to speak [or talk] to sb in \private jdn [o mit jdm] unter vier Augen sprechen
    2. ( fam: genitals)
    ▪ \privates pl Geschlechtsteile pl
    3. (soldier) Gefreiter m, einfacher Soldat
    * * *
    ['praIvɪt]
    1. adj
    1) privat; (= personal) letter, reasons persönlich, privat; (= confidential) matter, affair vertraulich; conversation, meeting, interview privat, vertraulich; (= secluded) place abgelegen; dining room separat; (= not public) funeral, wedding im engsten Kreis; hearing, sitting nicht öffentlich, nichtöffentlich

    it's just a private joke between us —

    no private jokes! — lass uns auch mitlachen!

    he acted in a private capacity — er handelte als Privatperson

    2)

    private limited company — ≈ Aktiengesellschaft f (die nicht an der Börse notiert ist)

    3) (= withdrawn, reserved) person reserviert, zurückhaltend
    2. n
    1) (MIL) Gefreite(r) mf

    Private X — der Gefreite X; (in address) Gefreiter X

    2) pl (= genitals) Geschlechtsteile pl
    3)

    in private — privat; (Jur) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit

    * * *
    private [ˈpraıvıt]
    A adj (adv → privately)
    1. privat, Privat…, eigen(er, e, es), Eigen…, persönlich:
    private account Privatkonto n;
    private address Privatadresse f, -anschrift f;
    private affair ( oder concern, matter) Privatsache f, -angelegenheit f;
    private army Privatarmee f;
    private audience Privataudienz f;
    private bill PARL Gesetzesvorlage in privatem od lokalem Interesse;
    private citizen Privatperson f;
    private collection Privatsammlung f;
    private consumer Privatverbraucher(in);
    private consumption Eigenverbrauch m;
    private gentleman Privatier m;
    private health insurance private Krankenversicherung;
    have private health insurance privat versichert sein;
    private law JUR Privatrecht n;
    private liability persönliche Haftung;
    private life Privatleben n;
    private patient MED Br Privatpatient(in);
    private person Privatperson f;
    private property Privateigentum n, -besitz m;
    private secretary Privatsekretär(in);
    private treatment MED Br Behandlung f als Privatpatient(in)
    2. privat, nicht öffentlich:
    sell by private bargain ( oder contract) unter der Hand verkaufen;
    at private sale unter der Hand (verkauft etc);
    private beach eigener Strand (eines Hotels);
    private (limited) company WIRTSCH Br Gesellschaft f mit beschränkter Haftung;
    a) JUR privatrechtliche Körperschaft,
    b) WIRTSCH US Gesellschaft f mit beschränkter Haftung;
    private enterprise privates Unternehmertum, Privatwirtschaft f;
    private eye bes US umg, private investigator ( oder detective) Privatdetektiv(in);
    private firm Einzelfirma f;
    private industry Privatindustrie f, -wirtschaft f;
    private instruction ( oder lessons pl) Privatunterricht m;
    private performance THEAT etc geschlossene Vorstellung;
    private road Privatweg m;
    private school Privatschule f;
    private sector WIRTSCH Privatsektor m;
    private theater (bes Br theatre) Liebhabertheater n;
    3. be a very private person sehr zurückgezogen leben;
    wish to be private den Wunsch haben, (für sich) allein zu sein oder nicht gestört zu werden;
    private prayer stilles Gebet
    4. privat, der Öffentlichkeit nicht bekannt, nicht für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt:
    a) private Gründe,
    b) Hintergründe
    5. geheim:
    keep sth private etwas geheim halten oder vertraulich behandeln;
    private negotiations geheime Verhandlungen;
    private parts → B 2
    6. vertraulich (Informationen etc):
    this is for your private ear dies sage ich Ihnen ganz im Vertrauen;
    be private to sth in etwas eingeweiht sein, über etwas Bescheid wissen
    7. nicht amtlich oder öffentlich, außeramtlich (Angelegenheit)
    9. JUR außergerichtlich:
    private arrangement gütlicher Vergleich
    10. private soldier → B 1
    B s
    1. MIL (einfacher) Soldat:
    private 1st class US Gefreite(r) m
    2. pl Geschlechtsteile pl
    a) im Privatleben, privat,
    b) insgeheim,
    c) unter vier Augen,
    d) in privatem Kreis,
    e) unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit
    priv. abk
    1. private priv.
    2. LING privative
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (outside State system) privat; Privat[unterricht, -schule, -industrie, -klinik, -patient, -station usw.]

    a doctor working in private medicine — ein Arzt, der Privatpatienten hat

    2) (belonging to individual, not public, not business) persönlich [Dinge]; nichtöffentlich [Versammlung, Sitzung]; privat [Telefongespräch, Schriftverkehr]; Privat[eigentum, -wagen, -flugzeug, -strand, -parkplatz, -leben, -konto]

    ‘private’ — (on door) "Privat"; (in public building) "kein Zutritt"; (on private land) ‘Betreten verboten’

    for [one's own] private use — für den persönlichen Gebrauch

    3) (personal, affecting individual) persönlich [Meinung, Interesse, Überzeugung, Rache]; privat [Vereinbarung, Zweck]
    4) (not for public disclosure) geheim [Verhandlung, Geschäft, Tränen]; still [Gebet, Nachdenken, Grübeln]; persönlich [Gründe]; (confidential) vertraulich
    5) (secluded) still [Ort]; (undisturbed) ungestört

    private citizen or individual — Privatperson, die

    2. noun
    1) (Brit. Mil.) einfacher Soldat
    2)

    in private — privat; in kleinem Kreis [feiern]; (confidentially) ganz im Vertrauen

    3) in pl. (coll.): (genitals) Geschlechtsteile Pl.
    * * *
    (military) n.
    Gefreite -n (Soldat) m. adj.
    nicht öffentlich adj.
    persönlich adj.
    privat adj.

    English-german dictionary > private

  • 17 con determinación

    determinedly
    * * *
    = with purpose, single-mindedly, purposefully, steadfastly
    Ex. It is not that we consciously set out to create our social institutions and with great care and purpose establish their structure.
    Ex. What else but this quality of individual feeling and intelligence running through the network of librarians working sympathetically and single-mindedly throughout the community can determine the public value of our national library system?.
    Ex. Only then, within the framework of inter-institutional accord, will academic library cooperative activities move forward more rapidly and purposefully.
    Ex. The police would like to grill her, but she steadfastly refuses to say anything.
    * * *
    = with purpose, single-mindedly, purposefully, steadfastly

    Ex: It is not that we consciously set out to create our social institutions and with great care and purpose establish their structure.

    Ex: What else but this quality of individual feeling and intelligence running through the network of librarians working sympathetically and single-mindedly throughout the community can determine the public value of our national library system?.
    Ex: Only then, within the framework of inter-institutional accord, will academic library cooperative activities move forward more rapidly and purposefully.
    Ex: The police would like to grill her, but she steadfastly refuses to say anything.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con determinación

  • 18 prominente

    adj.
    1 protruding (abultado).
    2 prominent (elevado, ilustre).
    3 striking to the eye, conspicuous, prominent.
    4 projecting, pronounced, bold, jutting.
    * * *
    1 prominent
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [mentón, tripa] prominent
    2) (=importante) prominent
    * * *
    adjetivo prominent
    * * *
    = evident, outstanding, prominent, high profile, commanding, protruding, elevated, standout.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. Complete agreement had not been possible, but the numbers of rules where divergent practices were evident is limited.
    Ex. The PRECIS indexing system is a set of procedures for producing index entries which in theoretical terms represents an advance outstanding for its highly formularized approach to citation order and reference, or added entry, generation.
    Ex. Classification is also prominent in the physical arrangement of documents.
    Ex. The South African government is under pressure to bring rapid and high profile improvements to its schools = El gobierno de Sudáfrica está siendo presionado para que traiga mejoras rápidas y notorias a sus escuelas.
    Ex. His preference for books rather than journals was more commanding than his preference for poetry rather than prose.
    Ex. The card catalogue requires effective internal guiding such as guide cards (ie with protruding tabs).
    Ex. Public investment in rebuilding the church and the gifts of individual donors were important indications of its elevated social standing.
    Ex. Among its standout features is a collection of animated maps that are not terribly detailed but are accompanied by high-quality pictures of many interesting sites.
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    * figura prominente = outstanding leader.
    * * *
    adjetivo prominent
    * * *
    = evident, outstanding, prominent, high profile, commanding, protruding, elevated, standout.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: Complete agreement had not been possible, but the numbers of rules where divergent practices were evident is limited.

    Ex: The PRECIS indexing system is a set of procedures for producing index entries which in theoretical terms represents an advance outstanding for its highly formularized approach to citation order and reference, or added entry, generation.
    Ex: Classification is also prominent in the physical arrangement of documents.
    Ex: The South African government is under pressure to bring rapid and high profile improvements to its schools = El gobierno de Sudáfrica está siendo presionado para que traiga mejoras rápidas y notorias a sus escuelas.
    Ex: His preference for books rather than journals was more commanding than his preference for poetry rather than prose.
    Ex: The card catalogue requires effective internal guiding such as guide cards (ie with protruding tabs).
    Ex: Public investment in rebuilding the church and the gifts of individual donors were important indications of its elevated social standing.
    Ex: Among its standout features is a collection of animated maps that are not terribly detailed but are accompanied by high-quality pictures of many interesting sites.
    * figura prominente = outstanding leader.

    * * *
    prominent
    tiene el mentón muy prominente she has a very prominent o a protruding chin
    una figura prominente de la literatura española a prominent figure in Spanish literature
    * * *

    prominente adjetivo
    prominent
    prominente adjetivo prominent
    ' prominente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    salida
    - salido
    English:
    high profile
    - obtrusive
    - prominent
    - high
    - low
    - prominently
    - protrude
    * * *
    1. [abultado] protruding
    2. [elevado] prominent
    3. [importante] prominent
    * * *
    adj prominent
    * * *
    : prominent
    * * *
    prominente adj prominent

    Spanish-English dictionary > prominente

  • 19 propósito

    m.
    purpose, goal, commitment, intention.
    * * *
    1 (intención) intention
    \
    a propósito (por cierto) by the way 2 (adrede) on purpose
    * * *
    noun m.
    purpose, intention, aim
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=intención) purpose

    ¿cuál es el propósito de su visita? — what is the purpose of his visit?

    para lograr este propósito se han desplazado a Madrid — with this in mind o for this purpose, they have gone to Madrid

    • buenos propósitos — [para el futuro] good intentions; [para el año nuevo] resolutions

    • de propósito — on purpose, deliberately

    • fuera de propósito — off the point

    • hacer(se) (el) propósito de hacer algo — to resolve to do sth, decide to do sth

    • sin propósito — [caminar, moverse] aimlessly; [actuar] unintentionally

    • tener (el) propósito de hacer algo — to intend o mean to do sth, be one's intention to do sth

    no tenía propósito ninguno de pelearme — I didn't intend o mean to get into a fight, it was not my intention to get into a fight

    tengo el firme propósito de irme de casa — I am determined to leave home, I am intent on leaving home

    propósito de enmienda, no veo propósito de enmienda en su comportamiento — I don't see him mending his ways o turning over a new leaf

    2)

    • a propósito —

    a) [como adjetivo] suitable, right ( para for)

    era la persona a propósito para el trabajo — he was very suitable for the job, he was the right person for the job

    b) [como adverbio] on purpose, deliberately

    lo siento, no lo hice a propósito — I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose o deliberately

    • venir a propósito — (=venir expresamente) to come especially; (=ser adecuado) [comentario, observación] to be well-timed; [dinero] to come in handy

    esa observación vino muy a propósito — that was a timely remark, that remark was very well-timed

    c) (=por cierto) by the way

    a propósito, ¿qué vais a hacer en Semana Santa? — by the way, what are you doing at Easter?

    d)

    • a propósito de — [después de verbo] about; [uso independiente] talking of, à propos of

    a propósito de Picasso, ¿has visto alguna vez el Guernica? — talking of o à propos of Picasso, have you ever seen Guernica?

    a propósito de dinero, ¿cuándo me vas a pagar? — now you mention it o talking of money, when are you going to pay me?

    ¿a propósito de qué me dices eso ahora? — why do you say that now?

    * * *
    a) ( intención) intention, purpose
    b)

    a propósito: no lo hice a propósito I didn't do it deliberately o on purpose; se hizo un vestido a propósito para la ocasión she had a dress made specially for the occasion; a propósito, Carlos te manda saludos by the way, Carlos sends his regards; a propósito de trenes ¿cuándo te vas? — speaking of trains o on the subject of trains, when are you leaving?

    * * *
    = intent, mission, point, purpose, drift, meaningfulness, objective, agenda, resolution.
    Ex. The quality of indexing is influenced by the intellectual level and intent of document content in the subject area.
    Ex. Its mission is to advise the three sponsoring agencies on how best to coordinate their programs in this area and to recommend priorities for action.
    Ex. There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
    Ex. Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex. The main drift of the proceedings concerned national libraries -- their role, functions and financing.
    Ex. The author challenges the meaningfulness of precision and recall values as a measure of performance of a retrieval system.
    Ex. An objective is an individual act intended to be carried out, and a number o which are required to be carried out in order to reach a goal.
    Ex. Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.
    Ex. The Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament will use it to broadcast their opinions and resolutions.
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    * a propósito = deliberate, for the record, incidentally, intentionally, by the way, in passing, anecdotally, purposely, by design, on purpose, wilfully [willfully, -USA], on a sidenote, studiously, by the way of (a) digression, by the by(e), speaking of which, designedly.
    * a propósito de = apropos of.
    * a propósito de nada = for no specific reason, for no particular reason.
    * buenos propósitos de Año Nuevo = New Year's resolution.
    * con el propósito de = with the purpose of, with the aim of, in the drive to, in a drive to.
    * con el propósito de superarse uno mismo = self-improvement-oriented.
    * de propósito general = general-purpose.
    * hacerse el propósito de + Infinitivo = make + it + a point to + Infinitivo, make + a point of + Gerundio.
    * hecho a propósito = tailor-made [tailormade], custom-made, custom-built [custom built], custom-designed [custom designed], custom-tailored [custom tailored].
    * propósitos = designs.
    * ver el propósito = see + the point.
    * * *
    a) ( intención) intention, purpose
    b)

    a propósito: no lo hice a propósito I didn't do it deliberately o on purpose; se hizo un vestido a propósito para la ocasión she had a dress made specially for the occasion; a propósito, Carlos te manda saludos by the way, Carlos sends his regards; a propósito de trenes ¿cuándo te vas? — speaking of trains o on the subject of trains, when are you leaving?

    * * *
    = intent, mission, point, purpose, drift, meaningfulness, objective, agenda, resolution.

    Ex: The quality of indexing is influenced by the intellectual level and intent of document content in the subject area.

    Ex: Its mission is to advise the three sponsoring agencies on how best to coordinate their programs in this area and to recommend priorities for action.
    Ex: There seems little point in hundreds of cataloguers in separate locations wading through cataloguing codes and classification schemes in order to create a variety of catalogue records for the same work.
    Ex: Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex: The main drift of the proceedings concerned national libraries -- their role, functions and financing.
    Ex: The author challenges the meaningfulness of precision and recall values as a measure of performance of a retrieval system.
    Ex: An objective is an individual act intended to be carried out, and a number o which are required to be carried out in order to reach a goal.
    Ex: Robert Kent's sole agenda is to attack Cuba and vilify the Cuban library community while supporting the US government's interventionist destabilization policies.
    Ex: The Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament will use it to broadcast their opinions and resolutions.
    * a propósito = deliberate, for the record, incidentally, intentionally, by the way, in passing, anecdotally, purposely, by design, on purpose, wilfully [willfully, -USA], on a sidenote, studiously, by the way of (a) digression, by the by(e), speaking of which, designedly.
    * a propósito de = apropos of.
    * a propósito de nada = for no specific reason, for no particular reason.
    * buenos propósitos de Año Nuevo = New Year's resolution.
    * con el propósito de = with the purpose of, with the aim of, in the drive to, in a drive to.
    * con el propósito de superarse uno mismo = self-improvement-oriented.
    * de propósito general = general-purpose.
    * hacerse el propósito de + Infinitivo = make + it + a point to + Infinitivo, make + a point of + Gerundio.
    * hecho a propósito = tailor-made [tailormade], custom-made, custom-built [custom built], custom-designed [custom designed], custom-tailored [custom tailored].
    * propósitos = designs.
    * ver el propósito = see + the point.

    * * *
    1
    (intención): tiene el firme propósito de dejar de fumar she's determined o resolved to give up smoking, she's intent on giving up smoking
    mi propósito era salir mañana, pero tuve que aplazar el viaje I was intending o I was aiming o ( frml) my intention was to leave tomorrow, but I had to postpone the trip
    se ha hecho el propósito de correr una hora diaria she's made up her mind o she's resolved o she's decided to go running for an hour every day
    buenos propósitos good intentions
    se hizo con el único propósito de proteger a estas especies it was done with the sole aim o purpose of protecting these species
    con el propósito de comprarse un coche, se puso a ahorrar he started to save up in order to buy himself a car o with the intention of buying himself a car
    vagaba por el pueblo sin propósito alguno he wandered aimlessly around the village
    lo hizo con el propósito de molestarme she did it just to annoy me
    se fue con el firme propósito de volver al año siguiente he left with the firm intention of returning the following year
    2
    a propósito: no lo hice a propósito I didn't do it deliberately o on purpose
    se hizo un vestido a propósito para la ocasión she had a dress made specially for the occasion
    me encontré con Carlos Ruiz. A propósito, te manda saludos I bumped into Carlos Ruiz, who sends you his regards, by the way
    me costó $100 — a propósito, recuerda que me debes $50 I paid $100 for it — which reminds me o speaking of which, don't forget you owe me $50
    a propósito de trenes ¿cuándo te vas? speaking of trains o on the subject of trains, when are you leaving?
    ¿a propósito de qué viene eso? — a propósito de nada, era sólo un comentario what did you say that for o why did you say that? — for no particular reason, it was just a comment
    hice un comentario a propósito de sus amigos I made a comment about his friends
    Compuesto:
    hizo un firme propósito de enmienda he firmly resolved to mend his ways
    * * *

     

    propósito sustantivo masculino

    ◊ con el propósito de verla with the intention o purpose of seeing her;

    tiene el firme propósito de dejar de fumar she's determined to give up smoking;
    buenos propósitos good intentions
    b)



    ( por cierto) ( indep) by the way
    propósito sustantivo masculino purpose, intention
    ♦ Locuciones: a propósito, (por cierto) by the way
    (adrede) on purpose, intentionally
    a propósito de, speaking of
    ' propósito' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conseguir
    - efecto
    - enmienda
    - intención
    - lograr
    - obstaculizar
    - obstruir
    - sobre
    - solapada
    - solapado
    - abandonar
    - ánimo
    - cierto
    - desistir
    - finalidad
    - función
    - hablar
    - hermanar
    - intencionado
    - intento
    - ir
    - meta
    - mojar
    - motivo
    - paréntesis
    - tener
    - todo
    English:
    advance
    - aim
    - aimless
    - aimlessly
    - approach
    - bye
    - bye-bye
    - deliberate
    - deliberately
    - design
    - drop
    - for
    - go
    - idea
    - incidentally
    - intent
    - intentionally
    - job
    - meaning
    - misinterpret
    - mislead
    - misleading
    - object
    - purpose
    - purposely
    - remind
    - resolution
    - sake
    - sidetrack
    - slide
    - specially
    - stand about
    - stand around
    - to
    - unintentional
    - unsuited
    - vandalize
    - way
    - why
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [intención] intention;
    mi propósito era llamarte cuando llegara I had intended to phone you when I arrived;
    tengo el propósito de dejar el alcohol I intend to give up alcohol;
    hizo el propósito de no volver a fumar she made a resolution o resolved not to smoke again;
    con el propósito de in order to;
    con este propósito to this end
    2. [objetivo] purpose;
    el propósito de las medidas es contener la inflación the purpose o aim of the measures is to control inflation;
    una ley con el único propósito de ayudar a los más débiles a law the sole purpose of which is to help the weakest
    ♦ a propósito loc adv
    1. [adecuado] suitable;
    tu ayuda nos viene muy a propósito your help is coming just at the right time
    2. [adrede] on purpose;
    hacer algo a propósito to do sth on purpose o deliberately;
    lo dijo a propósito para que nos enfadáramos he said it deliberately to annoy us;
    no lo hice a propósito I didn't do it on purpose
    3. [por cierto] by the way;
    a propósito de viajes, ¿has estado en Japón? speaking of travelling, have you been to Japan?
    ♦ a propósito de loc prep
    with regard to, concerning;
    ha habido un gran debate público a propósito de la ley there has been considerable public debate concerning the law
    * * *
    m
    1 ( intención) intention
    2 ( objetivo) purpose
    3
    :
    a propósito on purpose; ( por cierto) by the way;
    venir muy a propósito de comentario be spot on, hit the nail on the head
    * * *
    1) intención: purpose, intention
    2)
    a propósito : by the way
    3)
    a propósito : on purpose, intentionally
    * * *
    1. (objetivo) purpose
    2. (intención) intention

    Spanish-English dictionary > propósito

  • 20 protection

    захист, сприяння; заступництво, протекція, покриття ( когось); паспорт; свідоцтво про громадянство; гроші, що сплачуються гангстерами посадовій особі за заступництво; рекет ( захист від нібито можливих нападів тощо), викуп за "захист" ( рекетирами), викуп гангстерам, що сплачується підприємцем за "захист"; сплата (чека, тратти); акцептування ( тратти)

    protection against discrimination — захист ( або гарантія) від дискримінації

    protection against double jeopardy — конституційна гарантія непритягнення до кримінальної відповідальності двічі за один і той же злочин двічі

    protection against self-incrimination — гарантія проти примусу до самообвинувачення, захист від самообвинувачення

    protection of individual liberty — захист індивідуальної свободи, захист свободи особи

    protection of individuals falling under the jurisdiction of a belligerent — захист осіб, які підпадають під юрисдикцію воюючої країни

    - protection against dismissal
    - protection against theft
    - protection custody
    - protection for an individual
    - protection inside the police
    - protection kickback
    - protection money
    - protection of an accused
    - protection of a defendant
    - protection of a prosecutor
    - protection of a right
    - protection of an expert
    - protection of anonymity
    - protection of artistic works
    - protection of attributes
    - protection of borders
    - protection of civil liberties
    - protection of civilians
    - protection of common interests
    - protection of consumers
    - protection of copyright
    - protection of data privacy
    - protection of environment
    - protection of female workers
    - protection of game
    - protection of health
    - protection of law
    - protection of literary works
    - protection of minority
    - protection of monuments
    - protection of nature
    - protection of privacy
    - protection of rights
    - protection of social interests
    - protection of social order
    - protection of the court
    - protection of the innocent
    - protection of the judge
    - protection of the juror
    - protection of the jury
    - protection of the law
    - protection of the witness
    - protection of transfer
    - protection servant
    - protection service
    - protection society
    - protection system

    English-Ukrainian law dictionary > protection

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