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розпадатися, зникати; розпускати, розганяти ( парламент); ліквідовувати (жертву, компанію тощо); розривати, припиняти ( угоду тощо); скасовувати, анулювати (в т. ч. домовленість); розформовувати ( організацію тощо); припиняти діяльність- dissolve a union
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ˈju:njən сущ.
1) а) объединение, союз;
уния to break up a union, to dissolve a union ≈ разрушить союз, расформировать объединение to form a union ≈ заключить союз, образовать союз craft union ≈ масонское братство industrial union ≈ промышленное объединение postal union ≈ почтовый союз student union ≈ студенческий союз the Union б) союз (государственное объединение) Soviet Union ≈ Советский Союз в) профсоюз, тред-юнион union officials ≈ профсоюзные руководители white-collar union ≈ профсоюз "белых воротничков" (профсоюз служащих, учителей, научных работников и т.д.) Syn: trade union г) брачный союз д) (the Union) студенческий клуб е) уст. объединение нескольких приходов для помощи бедным
2) а) соединение, слияние In 1918 the Romanian majority in this former tsarist province voted for union with Romania. ≈ В 1918 году большинство румын этой бывшей царской провинции проголосовало за объединение с Румынией. б) единение, согласие
3) тех. ниппель, штуцер, муфта и другие виды соединений соединение, слияние - the * of the three small towns into one big city took place last year в прошлом году произошло слияние трех небольших городов в один крупный город - a gracious * of excellence and strength привлекательное сочетание мастерства и силы объединение, союз - сustoms * таможенный союз уния - the U. Англо-шотландская уния (1707 г.) ;
Англо-ирландская уния (1801 г.) (математика) объединение - * of sets объединение множеств союз (государственное объединение) - the Soviet U. (историческое) Советский Союз Соединенное Королевство - U. flag государственный флаг Соединенного королевства Соединенные Штаты - State of the U. message доклад о положении США( президента конгрессу) профессиональный союз, тред-юнион - closed * профсоюз с ограниченным числом членов - * worker член профсоюза - * wages заработная плата, утвержденная профсоюзом - * label (американизм) этикетка, удостоверяющая, что товар изготовлен членами профсоюза - * сard профсоюзный билет брачный союз - * of hearts союз любящих сердец, брак по любви - a happy * счастливый союз (эвфмеизм) половое сношение - illicit * внебрачное сожительство гармония, согласие - to live in perfect * жить в полном согласии (историческое) объединение нескольких приходов для помощи бедным (историческое) работный дом - to go into the * жить в работном доме студенческий клуб эмблема, символизирующая объединение ( на государственном флаге) (техническое) ниппель, штуцер;
патрубок;
муфта ткань из различных видов волокна;
смесовая ткань affiliated ~ филиал профсоюза ~ профессиональный союз, тред-юнион;
closed union профсоюз с ограниченным числом членов;
to join the union вступить в профсоюз consensual ~ консенсуальный союз credit ~ кредитный союз (Великобритания) credit ~ общество взаимного кредита economic ~ экономический союз exchange rate ~ валютный союз ~ единение, согласие;
in perfect union в полном согласии industrial trade ~ производственный профсоюз industrial ~ производственный профсоюз international trade ~ международная профсоюзная организация ~ профессиональный союз, тред-юнион;
closed union профсоюз с ограниченным числом членов;
to join the union вступить в профсоюз labour ~ профсоюз legislative ~ законодательный союз local trade ~ местный профсоюз local ~ местный союз monetary ~ валютный союз monetary ~ денежный союз monetary ~ монетный союз national ~ государственное объединение passport ~ паспортный союз personal ~ личная уния real ~ реальная уния tariff ~ таможенный союз trade ~ профсоюз;
профсоюзный trade ~ профсоюз trade ~ тред-юнион, профсоюз trade ~ тред-юнион;
профсоюз trades ~ = trade union trades ~ = trade union union брачный союз;
union of hearts брак по любви ~ брачный союз ~ единение, согласие;
in perfect union в полном согласии ~ тех. ниппель;
штуцер;
муфта ~ объединение, соединение;
союз ~ объединение ~ объединение лиц без права юридического лица;
профессиональный союз ~ уст. объединение нескольких приходов для помощи бедным ~ вчт. объединенный ~ профессиональный союз, тред-юнион;
closed union профсоюз с ограниченным числом членов;
to join the union вступить в профсоюз ~ профессиональный союз ~ союз (государственное объединение) ~ союз;
объединение государств;
уния ~ союз ~ (the U.) студенческий клуб the Union Соединенное Королевство the Union амер. Соединенные штаты the Union уния Англии с Шотландией the Union уния Великобритании с Ирландией ~ attr. профсоюзный;
union shop предприятие, на котором могут работать только члены профсоюза ~ label этикетка, удостоверяющая, что товар изготовлен членами профсоюза union брачный союз;
union of hearts брак по любви ~ of inputs вчт. объединение входящих потоков ~ of streams вчт. объединение потоков ~ attr. профсоюзный;
union shop предприятие, на котором могут работать только члены профсоюза Western European Union Западноевропейский союз white-collar ~ профсоюз инженерно-технических работников white-collar ~ профсоюз служащих -
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['juːnjən]сущ.1)а) объединение, слияниеб) объединение; союз; ассоциация; унияto break up / dissolve a union — расторгнуть союз, расформировать объединение
to form a union — заключить союз, образовать союз
the Soviet Union — ист. Советский Союз
2) единение, согласие; единство, сплочённостьThey live in perfect union. — Они живут в полном согласии.
Syn:3) = trade union профсоюз, тред-юнионunion label — этикетка, удостоверяющая, что товар изготовлен членами профсоюза
union shop — предприятие, на котором могут работать только члены профсоюза
white-collar union — амер. профсоюз "белых воротничков"
craft union; horizontal union — цеховой профсоюз ( членами которого являются люди только определённой профессии)
union job — должность, соискатель которой при принятии на работу становится членом профсоюза в обязательном порядке
industrial union — амер. отраслевой профсоюз (объединяющий всех работников отрасли независимо от работы, которую они выполняют, уровня квалификации)
4) брачный союз; брак; бракосочетаниеTheir union was blessed with three children. — Бог послал им троих детей.
Syn:5) обычно Union; = student(s') unionа) студенческий союз (организация, действующая на территории студенческого городка; занимается организацией досуга студентов)б) студенческий клуб, культурный центр ( в университетском городке); штаб-квартира студенческого союза6) брит.; ист.б) = union workhouse работный дом такого объединения7) мед. сращение, сращивание (тканей, костей и т. п.)8) тех. соединительное устройство; муфта9) мат. объединение10) ( the Union) амер.; ист.а) Союз, США (особенно с 1787 по 1861, когда от Союза отделились южные рабовладельческие штаты)State of the Union message амер.; полит. — Послание о положении Союза (ежегодный доклад о политической и экономической ситуации в стране, представляемый Президентом США Конгрессу)
б) = the Federal Union Союз ( штаты Севера во время гражданской войны)11) ( the Union) брит.; ист.•Gram:[ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]union[/ref] -
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['juːnɪən]n- postal union
- student union
- union job
- industrial union
- union of several states
- join the union
- form a union
- break up a union
- dissolve a unionUSAGE: -
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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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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1) организация, устройство, формирование
2) организация, структура;
организм a few plants of low organisation ≈ несколько низко-организованных растений
3) организация (административная и функциональная структура) to establish, form an organization ≈ создавать организацию to disband, dissolve an organization ≈ распускать организацию charitable organization, philanthropic organization ≈ благотворительная организация nonprofit organization, not-for-profit (AE) organization ≈ некоммерческая организация profit-making organization, proprietary organization ≈ коммерческая организация state organization ≈ государственная организация UN organization ≈ организация Объединенных наций youth organization ≈ молодежная организация организация;
приведение в систему устройство, формирование, организация;
- the * of a new club организация нового клуба;
- the * of a new goverment формирование нового правительства объединение, организация;
- mass * массовая организация;
- industrial * промышленное предприятие;
- United Nations O. (UNO) Организация Объединенных Наций;
- non-governmental * неправительственная организация организм;
структура;
- complex * сложный организм;
- delicate * хрупкое сложение;
- the * of human body строение человеческого тела;
- a tree is an * of roots, trunk, branches, leaves and fruit дерево состоит из корней, ствола, ветвей, листьев и плодов (биология) превращение в живую ткань, в органическое тело( военное) соединение, часть( военное) боевое распределение, группировка;
- * for combat распределение для боя;
оборудование местности;
- * in depth эшелонирование обороны в глубину (американизм) избрание главных должностных лиц и комиссий конгресса (американизм) партийный аппарат agricultural ~ сельскохозяйственная организация atomized ~ организация с разветвленной сетью мелких организаций banking ~ организационная структура банка banking system ~ организационная структура банковской системы bargaining ~ организация, ведущая торги branch ~ дочерняя организация broadcasting ~ организация радиовещания central ~ центральная организация civic ~ благотворительная организация civic ~ гражданская организация commercial ~ торговая организация organization: constituency ~ объединение избирателей data ~ вчт. организация данных distributing ~ распределительная организация distributing ~ распределительная структура employers' ~ организация работодателей environmental ~ экологическая организация field sales ~ торговый аппарат фирмы file ~ вчт. организация файла foreign trade ~ внешнеторговая организация free trade ~ организация свободной торговли government ~ организационная структура правительства humanitarian ~ гуманитарная организация industrial ~ промышленное предприятие labour ~ организация по трудоустройству labour ~ организация труда line ~ линейная организация local party ~ местная партийная организация logical ~ вчт. логическая схема market ~ структура рынка marketing ~ сбытовая организация member ~ членская организация merchandising ~ торговая организация nongovernmental ~ (NGO) неправительственная организация nonprofit ~ бесприбыльная организация nonprofit ~ некоммерческая организация office ~ организационная структура учреждения operating ~ эксплуатирующая организация organization амер. избрание главных должностных лиц и комиссии конгресса ~ избрание главных должностных лиц и комиссий конгресса (в США) ~ избрание главных должностных лиц и комиссий конгресса (США) ~ объединение ~ организационная структура ~ организационный ~ организация ~ организм ~ амер. партийный аппарат ~ приведение в систему ~ структура ~ устройство ~ устройство;
формирование, организация ~ формирование Organization: Organization: Common Market ~, CMO Европейское экономическое сообщество organization: organization: constituency ~ объединение избирателей ~ attr. организационный paramilitary ~ военизированная организация party ~ партийная организация party: ~ membership партийность, принадлежность к партии;
party organization партийная организация payments ~ структура платежей peace ~ миротворческая организация political ~ политическая организация principal ~ основная организация producer ~ организация производителей professional ~ профессиональная организация relief ~ организация, оказывающая помощь sales ~ организация по сбыту sales ~ торговая организация sales ~ торговый аппарат фирмы shipping ~ транспортная организация sister ~ родственная организация specialized ~ специализированная организация staff ~ организационная схема подчиненности standardization ~ организация по стандартизации trade ~ отраслевая организация trade ~ торговая организация trade ~ торгово-промышленная организация trade union ~ профсоюзная организация umbrella ~ организация-прикрытие voluntary ~ добровольная организация women's ~ женская организация work ~ организация труда worldwide ~ всемирная организация youth ~ молодежная организацияБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > organization
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9 party
̈ɪˈpɑ:tɪ
1. сущ.
1) а) сторона в сражении, споре, противоборстве, противостоянии б) юр. сторона в) политическая партия to establish, form a party ≈ основать, организовать партию to break up, disband, dissolve a party ≈ распустить партию the party in power ≈ правящая партия political party ≈ политическая партия progressive party ≈ прогрессивная партия reactionary party ≈ реакционная партия centrist party conservative party labor party left-wing party liberal party majority party minority party radical party right-wing party ruling party spoiler party г) участник, юр. соучастник;
одно из двух лиц, говорящих по телефону;
шутл. особа, субъект, человек (своего рода местоимение) an old party with spectacles ≈ старикашка в очках be a party to smth. Syn: participator, accessory
2) а) отряд, команда, группа, партия ( в различных значениях, в частности, воен.) ;
воен. сл. боевая операция advance party б) свита, сопровождающие лица в) компания( группа людей) ;
прием гостей, званый вечер, вечеринка, тусовка at a party ≈ на вечеринке to arrange, give, have, throw a party for ≈ устраивать, давать прием для, устраивать вечеринку, собирать тусовку to host a party for ≈ быть хозяином вечера, устраивать вечер для to attend a party ≈ присутствовать на вечеринке to crash a party ≈ явиться без приглашения birthday party ≈ день рождения a party breaks up ≈ вечеринка заканчивается the party is over ≈ баста, карапузики, кончилися танцы The party broke up at midnight. ≈ Вечеринка закончилась в полночь. We had a good time at the party. ≈ Мы хорошо провели время на вечеринке. Christmas party cocktail party dinner party farewell party garden party going-away party New Year's Eve party pajamas party slumber party singles party stag party surprise party tea party Syn: celebration ∙ party girl
2. прил.
1) геральдика разделенный на какое-л. число частей каким-л. образом (о геральдическом щите)
2) относящийся к party
1. в одном из значений
3) партийный, относящийся к политической партии party affiliation party card party leader - party man - party member party membership party organization party local party unit party nucleus партия - the socialist * социалистическая партия - local * местная низовая партийная организация - a ruling * правящая партия - an opposition * партия в оппозиции - to rally a * сплотить партию - to join a * вступить в партию - to belong to a * принадлежать к какой-либо партии, быть членом какой-либо партии партийный - * affiliation партийность, принадлежность к партии - * card партийный билет - * dues партийные взносы - * leader лидер (вождь) партии - * organization партийная организация - * warfare борьба партий, война между партиями отряд, команда;
группа, партия - climbing * отряд альпинистов - surveying * изыскательская партия - rescue * спасательный отряд - searching * поисковая партия - storming * штурмовой отряд - working * рабочая группа (комиссии, конференции) - to be one of the * быть членом отряда - to form (to orhanize) a * создать( организовать) группу, отряд - our tour ended and the * disbanded наш поход закончился, и группа распалась компания - a small * маленькая компания - he had a * of friends at his home у него дома собралась компания друзей - the * did not break up until two in the morning гости разошлись только к двум часам ночи - we shall be a small * у нас будут все свои, у нас будет немного народу прием гостей;
вечер, вечеринка;
пикник;
прогулка в компании - costume * карнавал - dinner * обед - fishing * рыбалка - farewell * прощальный вечер - pleasure * увеселительная прогулка - moonshine * увеселительная прогулка при луне - the * was very stiff and formal вечер прошел чопорно и официально - the luncheon * included five guests на завтраке было пятеро гостей - to go to a * пойти на вечер - to give a * позвать гостей;
устроить вечер;
принимать гостей - to make up a * собрать гостей, устроить вечер - to be asked to a * быть приглашенным в гости - the * ended up with a dance вечер закончился танцами сопровождающие лица, свита - the president and his * президент и сопровождающие его лица (to) участник, участвующее лицо - to be a * to smth. принимать участие в чем-либо - he was a * to all their proceedings он принимал участие во всех их делах - sixty countries are now parties to the treaty 60 стран уже подписали этот договор - the defendant was a * to the making of the codicil обвиняемый принимал участие в составлении дополнительного распоряжения к завещанию - to be a * to a crime быть соучастником преступления - to be a * to an undertaking участвовать в (каком-либо) предприятии - to be no * to smth. не принимать участия в чем-либо - I shall never be a * to any such thing я никогда не приму участия в таком деле( разговорное) особа;
человек - a pious * набожная особа - a rich old * богатый старик - a * of the name of Jones один тип по фамилии Джоунс - he is a worthy * in a conversation он достойный собеседник (американизм) (студенческое) (жаргон) доступная девушка (юридическое) сторона - * to an action at law сторона в процессе - adverse * противная сторона (в процессе) - the injured * пострадавшая сторона - contracting * контрагент - contracting parties, the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны - the High Contracting Parties( дипломатическое) Высокие Договаривающиеся Стороны - the parties concerned, interested parties заинтересованные стороны - belligerent * воюющая сторона( американизм) (студенческое) (жаргон) обнимание, нежничание;
вечеринка с поцелуями > cold-meat * (американизм) (сленг) похороны > necktie * (американизм) (сленг) линчевание( геральдика) разделенный сверху донизу на две равные части - * per pale разделенный вертикальной линией adverse ~ противная сторона aggrieved ~ потерпевшая сторона ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
party girl доступная девушка;
женщина легкого поведения attaching ~ действительная сторона average ~ сторона, понесшая убытки ~ участник;
to be a party (to smth.) участвовать, принимать участие (в чем-л.) be a ~ to принимать участие central board of ~ центральный орган партии centre ~ партия центра charter ~ договор о фрахтовании судна charter ~ чартер-партия conducted ~ попутчики conducted ~ спутники party: contestant ~ спорящая сторона contracting ~ договаривающаясч сторона contracting ~ договаривающаяся сторона contracting ~ участник договора country ~ аграрная партия damaging ~ сторона, наносящая ущерб declaring ~ заявляющая сторона defendant ~ сторона обвиняемого defendant ~ сторона ответчика direct ~ выставившая сторона ~ прием гостей;
званый вечер, вечеринка;
to give a party устроить вечеринку governing ~ правящая партия government ~ правительственная партия injured ~ пострадавшая сторона injured ~ сторона, понесшая ущерб insured ~ застрахованная сторона interested ~ заинтересованная сторона interim working ~ временная рабочая группа intervening ~ вмешивающаяся сторона joint ~ соучастник joint working ~ совместная рабочая группа party: left-wing ~ левая партия majority ~ партия большинства ~ сопровождающие лица;
the minister and his party министр и сопровождающие его лица minority ~ партия меньшинства nonsocialist ~ буржуазная партия obligated ~ обязавшаяся сторона opposing ~ противная сторона opposition ~ оппозиционная партия parliamentary ~ парламентская партия ~ юр. сторона;
the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны party группа ~ компания ~ отряд, команда;
группа, партия ~ партийный;
party affiliation партийная принадлежность;
party card партийный билет ~ партийный ~ партия;
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза ~ партия ~ прием гостей;
званый вечер, вечеринка;
to give a party устроить вечеринку ~ сопровождающие лица;
the minister and his party министр и сопровождающие его лица ~ юр. сторона;
the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны ~ сторона, участник (договора) ;
партия, отряд, команда, группа, компания, прием (гостей), вечеринка, пирушка, сопровождающие лица ~ сторона (по делу, в договоре и т.п.) ~ сторона ~ участник;
to be a party (to smth.) участвовать, принимать участие (в чем-л.) ~ участник ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
party girl доступная девушка;
женщина легкого поведения Party: Party: Conservative ~ Консервативная партия (Великобритания) party: party: contestant ~ спорящая сторона Party: Party: Labour ~ лейбористская партия party: party: left-wing ~ левая партия Party: Party: Social Democratic ~ Социал-демократическая партия (Великобритания) party: party: splinter ~ отколовшаяся партия ~ партийный;
party affiliation партийная принадлежность;
party card партийный билет ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
party girl доступная девушка;
женщина легкого поведения ~ in office правящая партия ~ in power правящая партия power: ~ могущество, власть (тж. государственная) ;
влияние, мощь;
supreme power верховная власть;
the party in power партия, стоящая у власти ~ local (или unit) местная, низовая партийная организация;
party nucleus партийная ячейка ~ leader вождь, лидер партии;
party man (или member) член партии ~ membership партийность, принадлежность к партии;
party organization партийная организация ~ local (или unit) местная, низовая партийная организация;
party nucleus партийная ячейка ~ to action сторона в судебном процессе ~ to bill сторона торгового контакта ~ to case сторона в судебном процессе ~ to contract договаривающаяся сторона ~ to contract контрагент ~ to joint transaction сторона в совместной сделке right-wing ~ пол. правая партия rival ~ соперничающая партия single-tax ~ сторона, выступающая за единый налог party: splinter ~ отколовшаяся партия submitting ~ сторона-заявитель succeeding ~ наследник tendering ~ сторона, подавшая заявку на торгах third ~ третье лицо third ~ третья сторона working ~ рабочая группа -
10 break up
1. transitive verb1) (break into pieces) zerkleinern; ausschlachten [Auto]; abwracken [Schiff]; aufbrechen [Erde]2) (disband) auflösen; auseinander reißen [Familie]; zerstreuen [Menge]break it up! — (coll.) auseinander!
3) (end) zerstören [Freundschaft, Ehe]2. intransitive verb1) (break into pieces, lit. or fig.) zerbrechen; [Erde, Straßenoberfläche:] aufbrechen; [Eis:] brechen2) (disband) sich auflösen; [Schule:] schließen; [Schüler, Lehrer:] in die Ferien gehen3) (cease) abgebrochen werden; (end relationship)break up [with somebody] — sich [von jemandem] trennen
* * *1) (to divide, separate or break into pieces: He broke up the old furniture and burnt it; John and Mary broke up (= separated from each other) last week.) zerbrechen2) (to finish or end: The meeting broke up at 4.40.) zu Ende gehen* * *◆ break upI. vt1. (end)to \break up up one's friendship with sb seine Freundschaft mit jdm beendento \break up up a marriage eine Ehe zerstörento \break up up a meeting eine Versammlung auflösen [o Sitzung aufheben]to \break up up a strike einen Streik abbrechen2. (forcefully end)3. (split up)▪ to \break up up ⇆ sth etw aufspaltento \break up up a cartel/a gang/a monopoly ein Kartell/eine Bande/ein Monopol zerschlagento \break up up a coalition/a union eine Koalition/einen Zusammenschluss auflösento \break up up a collection [or set] /family eine Sammlung/Familie auseinanderreißen4. (dig up)▪ to \break up up sth etw aufbrechen5. ( fam)that show really broke me up bei der Show hab ich mich wirklich totgelacht fam; esp AM (upset emotionally) jdn aus der Fassung bringenhis wife's sudden departure broke him up completely als ihn seine Frau plötzlich verließ, ist er total zusammengebrochenII. vi3. (fall apart) auseinandergehen; coalition auseinanderbrechen; aircraft, ship zerschellen; (in air) zerbersten4. SCH schließen, aufhörenwhen do you \break up up? wann beginnen bei euch die Ferien?he broke up completely when his brother died er brach völlig zusammen, als sein Bruder starb* * *I1. vi(road, ice) aufbrechen; (ship) (in storm) zerbersten; (on rocks) zerschellen (clouds) sich lichten; (crowd, group) auseinanderlaufen; (meeting, partnership) sich auflösen; (marriage, relationship) in die Brüche gehen; (party) zum Ende kommen; (political party) sich auflösen, auseinandergehen; (friends, partners) sich trennen; (empire) auseinanderfallen; ( inf, with laughter) sich totlachen (inf)when do you break up? — wann hört bei euch die Schule auf?, wann habt ihr Ferien?
you're breaking up — ich kann Sie nicht verstehen2. vt sepground, road aufbrechen; oil slick auflösen; ship auseinanderbrechen lassen; (in breaker's yard) abwracken; estate, country, room aufteilen; paragraph, sentence unterteilen; empire auflösen; lines, expanse of colour unterbrechen; (= make more interesting) auflockern; (= bring to an end, disperse) marriage, home zerstören; meeting (police etc) auflösen; (trouble-makers) sprengen; crowd (police) zerstreuen, auseinandertreiben IIvi2) (clouds) sich lichten; (crowd, group) auseinanderlaufen; (meeting, partnership) sich auflösen; (marriage, relationship) in die Brüche gehen; (party) zum Ende kommen; (political party) sich auflösen, auseinandergehen; (friends, partners) sich trennen; (empire) auseinanderfallen; (inf, with laughter) sich totlachen (inf)3) (Brit SCH school, pupils) aufhörenwhen do you break up? — wann hört bei euch die Schule auf?, wann habt ihr Ferien?
4)vt sep5) ground, road aufbrechen; oil slick auflösen; ship auseinanderbrechen lassen; (in breaker's yard) abwracken6) estate, country, room aufteilen; paragraph, sentence unterteilen; empire auflösen; lines, expanse of colour unterbrechen; (= make more interesting) auflockern7) (= bring to an end, disperse) marriage, home zerstören; meeting (police etc) auflösen; (trouble-makers) sprengen; crowd (police) zerstreuen, auseinandertreiben* * *A v/t2. einen Haushalt etc auflösen3. die Gesundheit etc zerrütten, eine Ehe etc auch zerstören4. Wild aufbrechen, zerlegen5. eine Straße, Eis etc aufbrechen7. a) eine Sammlung zerreißenb) SPORT eine siegreiche Mannschaft etc auseinanderreißenB v/ib) SCHULE besonders Br aufhören:when do you break up?, when does your school break up? wann beginnen bei euch die Ferien?2. a) zerbrechen, auseinandergehen (Ehe etc)b) sich trennen (Ehepaar etc)c) zerfallen (Reich etc)3. sich zerteilen oder auflösen (Nebel), aufklaren, sich aufklären (Wetter, Himmel), nachlassen (Frost)4. (körperlich oder seelisch) zusammenbrechen5. aufbrechen (Straße, Eis etc)6. zerschellen (Schiff)* * *1. transitive verb1) (break into pieces) zerkleinern; ausschlachten [Auto]; abwracken [Schiff]; aufbrechen [Erde]2) (disband) auflösen; auseinander reißen [Familie]; zerstreuen [Menge]break it up! — (coll.) auseinander!
3) (end) zerstören [Freundschaft, Ehe]2. intransitive verb1) (break into pieces, lit. or fig.) zerbrechen; [Erde, Straßenoberfläche:] aufbrechen; [Eis:] brechen2) (disband) sich auflösen; [Schule:] schließen; [Schüler, Lehrer:] in die Ferien gehen3) (cease) abgebrochen werden; (end relationship)break up [with somebody] — sich [von jemandem] trennen
* * *v.auflösen (Versammlung) v.beenden v.zerbrechen v.zerschlagen v. -
11 council
n1) совет2) совещание•to capture control of local councils from smb — перехватывать у кого-л. контроль над местными советами
to set up a council — организовывать / учреждать совет
- AIDCto win an independent council — завоевывать на выборах большинство мест в муниципалитете, в котором ранее преобладали независимые
- Arab League ministerial Council
- Asian and Pacific Council
- Asian Industrial Development Council
- ASPAC
- Baltic Council
- British Council
- city council
- common council
- consultative council
- Council of Chiefs
- Council of Economic Advisers
- council of elders
- Council of Europe
- Council of Ministers
- Council of State
- Council of the Federation
- Council of War
- country council
- district council
- Economic and Social Council
- ECOSOC
- European Council for Nuclear Research
- Federation Council
- General Council of the Trade-Union Congress
- general council
- governing council
- interim council
- legislative council
- local council
- municipal council
- National Consumer Council
- National Economic Development Council
- National Security Council
- Nordic Council
- NSC
- Pan-African Council
- presidential council
- Privy Council
- regency council
- ruling council
- Security Council
- supervisory council
- town council
- tribal council
- Trusteeship Council
- United Nations Security Council
- UNSCOUN
- WCC
- World Council of Churches -
12 organization
nорганизация; устройство; объединение; структураto ban an organization — объявлять вне закона / запрещать организацию
to be accredited to an organization — быть аккредитованным при какой-л. организации
to boot a country from an organization — выдворять какую-л. страну из какой-л. организации
to disband / to dissolve an organization — распускать организацию
to eliminate smb from an organization — исключать кого-л. из организации
to establish an organization — основывать / учреждать организацию
to found an organization — основывать / учреждать организацию
to infiltrate an organization — внедряться в какую-л. организацию
to keep faith in an organization — сохранять веру в какую-л. организацию
to put an organization on a legal footing — придавать юридический статус какой-л. организации
- AAPSO- Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization
- anti-war organizations
- ASIO
- at the headquarters of the organization
- Australian Security Intelligence Organization
- autonomous organization
- banned organization
- Basque separatist organization
- breakaway organization
- CENTO
- Central Treaty Organization
- child care organization
- competent organization
- comprehensive trade organization
- Conservative Students Organization
- consultative organization
- country-wide organization
- democratic organization
- design organization
- educational organization
- emigrant organization
- environmental organization
- ethnic organization
- European Organization for Nuclear Research
- expansion of an organization
- ex-service organization
- extremist organization
- FAO
- fascist organization
- finance and banking organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- governmental organization
- government-run organization
- grassroots organization
- Greenpeace Organization
- humanitarian organization
- ICAO
- ICPO
- illegal organization
- ILO
- IMO
- independent organization
- inferior organization
- informal organization
- intelligence organization
- intergovernmental organization
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- International Criminal Police Organization
- International Labour Organization
- International Maritime Organization
- international monetary and financial organization
- International Organization of Standardization
- international organization
- International Radio and Television Organization
- International Refugee Organization
- International Shipping Organization
- International Trade Organization
- INTERPOL
- interstate trade and economic organizations
- IOS
- IRTO
- kindred organizations
- legal organization
- mass public organizations
- military organization
- monetary and credit organizations
- mutual-aid organizations
- National Organization for Women
- nongovernmental organizations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NOW
- OANA
- OAS
- OAU
- OCAS
- OECD
- OPEC
- organization based in Washington
- organization committed to violence
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Organization for European Economic Cooperation
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Organization for Trade Cooperation
- Organization of African Unity
- Organization of American States
- Organization of Asian News Agencies
- Organization of Central American States
- organization of labor
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Organization of Regional Cooperation for Development
- OSCE
- outlawed organization
- PAHO
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Pan-American Health Organization
- paramilitary organization
- patriotic organization
- PLO
- political organization
- political wing of an organization
- PPO
- preferred provider organization
- primary organization
- procurement organization
- pro-fascist organization
- proscribed organization
- public organization
- rebirth of an organization
- regional organization
- related organizations
- religious organization
- revanchist organization
- revolutionary organization
- sales organization
- scientific organization of labor
- SEATO
- self-financing organization
- self-governing organization
- self-supporting organization
- self-sustained organization
- separatist organization
- sister organizations
- social organization
- socio-political organization
- South-East Asia Treaty Organization
- splinter organization
- sponsoring organization
- state-political organization
- steering organization
- terrorist organization
- trade-union organization
- trading organization
- transnational organization
- ultra-right fascist-type organization
- umbrella organization
- underground organization
- underworld organization
- UNESCO
- UNIDO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- United Nations Organization
- United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine
- United Towns Organization
- universal organization
- UNO
- unofficial organization
- UNTSO
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
- WHO
- withdrawal from an organization
- WMO
- World Health Organization
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- World Meteorological Organization
- World Tourism Organization
- World Trade Organization
- worldwide organization
- WTO
- youth organization -
13 break up
vt1) ( end)to \break up up one's friendship with sb seine Freundschaft mit jdm beenden;to \break up up a marriage eine Ehe zerstören;to \break up up a meeting eine Versammlung auflösen [o Sitzung aufheben];to \break up up a strike einen Streik abbrechen2) ( forcefully end)to \break up up <-> sth etw [gewaltsam] beenden;( dissolve) etw auflösen3) ( split up)to \break up up <-> sth etw aufspalten;to \break up up a coalition/ a union eine Koalition/einen Zusammenschluss auflösen;\break up it up, you two! ( fam) auseinander, ihr beiden!4) ( dig up)to \break up up sth etw aufbrechen;5) ( fam);to \break up sb up ( cause laughter) jdn zum Lachen bringen;that show really broke me up bei der Show hab ich mich wirklich totgelacht ( fam)( esp Am) ( upset emotionally) jdn aus der Fassung bringen;his wife's sudden departure broke him up completely als ihn seine Frau plötzlich verließ, ist er total zusammengebrochen vi( in air) zerbersten4) sch schließen, aufhören;when do you \break up up? wann beginnen bei euch die Ferien?he broke up completely when his brother died er brach völlig zusammen, als sein Bruder starb -
14 agreement
1. ком. угода; договір; 2. врр. згода; домовленість1. взаємна домовленість, досягнута порозумінням між окремими особами, підприємствами, установами, державами; 2. питання чи будь-які пропозиції, що вирішуються за домовленістю між працедавцями (employer) та працівниками (employee) чи профспілками (trade union)═════════■═════════adjustment agreement регулююча угода; advance agreement попередня домовленість • попередня угода; advertising agreement угода стосовно реклами; affiliation agreement угода про приєднання на правах філіалу; agency agreement агентська угода • агентський договір; arbitration agreement арбітражна угода • угода про арбітраж; assignment agreement угода про передачу • угода про надання прав; bank agreement міжбанківська угода; bargaining agreement угода за результатами проведених переговорів • угода як наслідок переговорів • колективний договір; barter agreement угода про товарообмін • бартерна угода; bilateral agreement двостороння угода • двосторонній договір; binding agreement зобов'язальна угода; blanket agreement акордна угода; brokerage agreement умова про брокерську комісію; business agreement ділова угода; cartel agreement картельна угода; certified agreement посвідчена угода; clearing agreement клірингова угода • угода стосовно клірингового розрахунку; collateral agreement побічний договір • угода із заставою; collective agreement колективний договір; commercial agreement торговельна угода; commodity agreement товарна угода; common-law agreement за нормами загального права; compensation agreement угода стосовно відшкодування; conference agreement угода між судновласниками • картельна угода судновласників; consignment agreement договір консигнації • консигнаційна угода; contractual agreement договір за контрактом • контракт; cooperation agreement договір про співробітництво • угода про кооперацію; cooperative merchandising agreement угода про спільне просування товарів • угода про спільне розповсюдження товарів; coproduction agreement угода про спільне виробництво; corporate buy-back agreement угода про викуп фірмою; credit agreement кредитна угода; credit sale agreement договір про продаж на виплат; credit trading agreement договір про продаж на виплат; cross-licensing agreement угода про обмін ліцензіями; current agreement чинна угода • діюча угода; domestic agreement внутрішня угода; double tax agreement угода про подвійне оподаткування; draft agreement проект угоди; economic agreement господарський договір; employment agreement угода особистого найму; enterprise agreement підприємницька угода; enterprise bargaining agreement угода стосовно підприємницьких переговорів; exclusive agreement угода з наданням виключного права; exclusive agency agreement виключна агентська угода; exclusive territorial agreement угода про право на виключну територію діяльності; fair-trade agreement угода про торгівлю на умовах взаємної вигоди; final agreement остаточна угода; financial agreement фінансова угода; fixed-term agreement угода зі встановленим терміном • угода з обмеженим терміном; foreign economic agreement зовнішньоекономічний договір; foreign trade agreement зовнішньоторговельна угода; formal agreement офіційна угода; forward rate agreement курс за строковою угодою; framework agreement базова угода; franchise agreement угода франшизи; free-trade agreement угода про право вільної торгівлі; gentlemen's agreement; government agreement міжурядова угода; hire-purchase agreement договір про продаж на виплат; indemnity agreement угода про відшкодування збитків; industrial agreement угода про взаємовідносини робітників і роботодавців; intergovernmental agreement міжурядова угода; interim agreement тимчасова угода; international agreement міжнародна угода; international commodity agreement міжнародна товарна угода; international economic agreement міжнародна економічна угода; interstate agreement угода між штатами; joint marketing agreement угода про спільний маркетинг; joint venture agreement договір про спільне підприємство; knock-for-knock agreement угода про взаємний розрахунок між страховими підприємствами стосовно претензій; labour agreement трудова угода; lease agreement угода про оренду • договір оренди; leasing agreement угода про оренду; license agreement ліцензійна угода; licensing agreement ліцензійна угода; loan agreement договір про позику • контракт про одержання кредиту; local agreement місцева угода; long-term agreement довгострокова угода; maintenance agreement угода про технічне обслуговування; management agreement управлінська угода; market sharing agreement угода про поділ ринку; model agreement типова угода; monetary agreement валютна угода; multilateral agreement багатостороння угода; mutual agreement взаємна угода; national agreement національна угода; negotiated agreement угода, досягнута через переговори; non-binding agreement незобов'язальна угода; open-ended agreement договір без обумовленого строку дії; operating agreement оперативна угода; original agreement первісна угода; package agreement комплексна угода; partnership agreement угода партнерів • партнерська угода; patent agreement патентна угода; payments agreement платіжна угода; plant agreement фабрична угода • заводська угода; preferential trade agreement угода про надання виключних прав продажу; price agreement угода про ціни; price fixing agreement угода про встановлення цін • угода про встановлення й підтримку цін на визначеному рівні; price maintenance agreement угода про підтримку цін; private agreement приватна угода; production cooperation agreement угода про спільне виробництво; provisional agreement тимчасова угода; project agreement угода про проект; publisher's agreement видавнича угода; purchase agreement договір купівлі-продажу; reciprocal agreement взаємна угода; registered agreement зареєстрована угода; rental agreement договір про оренду; repurchase agreement угода про зворотну купівлю • угода про викуп проданого товару за визначеними умовами; revolving credit agreement угода про відновлення кредиту; salvage agreement договір про рятування майна • угода про реалізацію зіпсованого майна • угода про переробку відходів виробництва; self-enforcing agreement самовиконувана угода; service agreement угода про обслуговування; short-term agreement короткострокова угода; side payment agreement угода з побічними платежами; sole-agency agreement монопольна агентська угода; standard agreement типова угода; standby agreements резервні угоди • угоди про надання позичальнику обумовленої суми кредиту на момент звернення до банку; standstill agreement угода про мораторій; station affiliation agreement угода зі станцією про ретрансляцію; statutory agreement статутна угода; sublicense agreement угода про субліцензію; supply agreement договір на постачання; syndicate agreement угода про організацію синдикату; tacit agreement мовчазна угода; tariff agreement митна угода; tax exemption agreement угода про звільнення від оподаткування; temporary agreement тимчасова угода; tenancy agreement договір оренди приміщення; tentative agreement попередня угода • попередня домовленість; term agreement строкова угода; trade agreement торговельна угода; trade and economic agreement торговельно-економічна угода; trade-and-payments agreement торговельно-платіжна угода; trademark agreement угода про торговельні знаки; trust agreement трастовий договір; trusteeship agreement угода про виконання довірчих функцій; tying agreement договір про примусовий асортимент; unilateral agreement односторонній договір; verbal agreement усна домовленість; wage agreement угода про ставку заробітної плати; working agreement робоча угода • тимчасова угода; works agreement фабрична угода • заводська угода; workshop agreement цехова угода; written agreement письмова угода═════════□═════════agreement for a lease договір оренди; agreement for exclusiveness угода про виключне право; agreement in force чинна угода; agreement in general terms угода у загальних рисах; agreement in writing письмова угода; agreement of intent угода про намір; agreement on cooperation угода про співпрацю; agreement on transfer угода про передачу; agreement to sell угода про продаж; alleged breaches of agreement допущені порушення угоди • припущені порушення угоди; by mutual agreement за взаємною згодою; investment in bottler's agreements інвестиція за домовленістю на постачання пляшок; subject of an agreement зміст угоди; to amend an agreement вносити/внести зміни в угоду; to annul an agreement анульовувати/анулювати договір • скасовувати/скасувати договір; to break an agreement порушувати/порушити договір; to bring an agreement into force надавати/надати чинності угоді; to cancel an agreement анульовувати/анулювати договір • розривати/розірвати угоду; to come to an agreement домовлятися/домовитися; to conclude an agreement укладати/укласти угоду; to confirm an agreement затверджувати/затвердити угоду • ратифікувати угоду; to dissolve an agreement розривати/розірвати угоду; to enter into an agreement укладати/укласти угоду; to finalize an agreement остаточно оформлювати/оформити угоду; to initial an agreement парафувати договір; to keep an agreement дотримуватися/дотриматися договору • додержуватися/додержатися договору; to make an agreement укладати/укласти договір; to ratify an agreement ратифікувати угоду; to reach an agreement досягати/досягти домовленості; to renew an agreement відновлювати/відновити договір; to rescind an agreement анульовувати/анулювати договір; to revise an agreement переглядати/ переглянути угоду; to sign an agreement підписувати/підписати договір; to terminate an agreement розривати/розірвати договір; to violate an agreement порушувати/порушити договір; under agreement в рамках угоди▹▹ contract -
15 party
InIIn1) сторона (тж. юр.); участвующее лицо, участник- be a party to smth.- be no party to smth.3) приём гостей, вечер• -
16 alliance
1. n союз, объединение; связь; соединение, слияние; интеграцияto dissolve an alliance — разорвать союз; выйти из союза
to revoke an alliance — разорвать союз; выйти из союза
2. n союз; альянс3. n союз, объединение, ассоциация, федерация4. n брак; брачный союз5. n родство, общностьСинонимический ряд:1. association (noun) adherence; anschluss; association; bloc; cahoots; coalition; confederacy; confederation; conjointment; conjunction; connection; co-operation; federation; hookup; league; partnership; tie-up; togetherness; union2. combination (noun) affiliation; affinity; combination; compact; coupling; intermarriage; marriage; merger; relationshipАнтонимический ряд:disruption; disunion; divorce; enmity; estrangement; hostility; separation -
17 go
1. n разг. ход, ходьба; движениеthe boat rolled gently with the come and go of small waves — лодка мягко покачивалась на мелких волнах
on the go — на ходу; на ногах
passing go — решающий ход в настольной игре «го»
2. n разг. обстоятельство, положение; неожиданный поворот делtell me how things go ? — расскажите мне, как идут дела?
3. n разг. попыткаto have a go at — попытаться, рискнуть, попытать счастья
4. n разг. приступ5. n разг. порция6. n разг. сделка, соглашение7. n разг. разг. энергия, воодушевление; рвение; увлечение8. n разг. разг. успех; удача; успешное предприятиеto make a go of it — добиться успеха, преуспеть
he is convinced that he can make a go of it — он уверен, что добьётся в этом деле успеха
9. n разг. редк. походка10. n разг. ход; бросок«мимо»
quite the go — последний крик моды; предмет всеобщего увлечения
first go — первым делом, сразу же
at a go — сразу, зараз
11. a амер. разг. быть в состоянии готовности; работать12. v идти, ходить13. v направляться, следовать; ехать, поехатьto go on a journey — поехать в путешествие; совершать путешествие
to go on a visit — поехать с визитом; поехать погостить
14. v ездить, путешествовать, передвигатьсяto go at a crawl — ходить, ездить или двигаться медленно
15. v ходить, курсировать16. v уходить, уезжатьwe came at six and went at nine — мы пришли в шесть, а ушли в девять
I must be going now, I must be gone — теперь мне нужно уходить
she is gone — она ушла, её нет
17. v отходить, отправлятьсяto go gunning — охотиться, ходить на охоту
18. v двигаться, быть в движенииgo along — идти, двигаться
go forth — быть опубликованным, изданным
19. v двигаться с определённой скоростьюto go along — двигаться дальше; идти своей дорогой
to go nap — поставить всё на карту, идти на большой риск
20. v работать, действовать, функционировать21. v жить, действовать, функционироватьhe manages to keep going — он как-то тянет, ему удаётся держаться
22. v тянуться, проходить, пролегать, простиратьсяmountains that go from east to west — горы, тянущиеся с востока на запад
go by — проходить, проезжать мимо
23. v дотягиваться; доходитьto go to the races — ходить на скачки; ходить на бега
go about — расхаживать, ходить туда и сюда; слоняться
24. v протекать, проходитьvacation goes quickly — не успеваешь оглянуться, а отпуск кончился
I hope all goes well with you — надеюсь, что у вас всё хорошо
how did the voting go? — как завершилось голосование?; каковы результаты голосования?
25. v исчезать; проходить26. v исчезнуть, пропастьthe key has gone somewhere — ключ куда-то распространяться; передаваться
27. v передаваться28. v иметь хождение, быть в обращенииto go out of curl — быть выбитым из колеи; утратить форму
to go to oblivion — быть преданным забвению, быть забытым
29. v идти; брать на себя; решатьсяto go snacks — делить поровну; делиться ; брать свою долю
30. v податься; рухнуть; сломаться, расколотьсяfirst the sail went and then the mast — сперва подался парус, а затем и мачта
there goes another button! — ну вот, ещё одна пуговица отлетела!
31. v потерпеть крах, обанкротитьсяto go phut — лопнуть, потерпеть крах
go to smash — разориться; обанкротиться
to go to smash — разориться, обанкротиться
to go bust — остаться без копейки, обанкротиться
32. v отменяться, уничтожаться33. v отказываться; избавляться34. v быть расположенным, следовать в определённом порядкеto go by the title of … — быть известным под именем …
35. v храниться, находиться; становиться36. v умещаться, укладыватьсяthe thread is too thick to go into the needle — нитка слишком толстая, чтобы пролезть в иголку
37. v равняться38. v заканчиваться определённым результатом39. v гласить, говоритьthe story goes that he was murdered — говорят, что его убили
properly speaking, you ought to go — собственно говоря, вы должны уйти
40. v звучатьthe tune goes something like this … — вот как, примерно, звучит этот мотив
41. v звонитьI hear the bells going — я слышу, как звонят колокола
42. v бить, отбивать время43. v умирать, гибнутьshe is gone — она погибла, она умерла
to go to rack and ruin — обветшать; разрушиться; погибнуть
44. v пройти, быть принятымto take a turn, to go for a turn — пройтись
to go for a trot — быстро пройтись, пробежаться
45. v быть приемлемым46. v разг. выдерживать, терпеть47. v справляться, одолевать48. v ходить определённым шагомgo and see — заходить; зайти; навещать; навестить
go to see — заходить; зайти; навещать; навестить
49. v спариватьсяСинонимический ряд:1. energy (noun) birr; energy; hardihood; pep; potency; tuck2. fling (noun) crack; fling; pop; shot; slap; stab; try; whack; whirl3. occurrence (noun) circumstance; episode; event; happening; incident; occasion; occurrence; thing4. success (noun) arrival; flying colors; prosperity; success; successfulness5. time (noun) bout; hitch; innings; shift; siege; spell; stint; time; tour; trick; turn; watch6. vigor (noun) bang; drive; getup; get-up-and-go; punch; push; snap; starch; vigor; vitality7. agree (verb) accord; agree; check; check out; cohere; comport; conform; consist; consort; correspond; dovetail; fit in; harmonise; harmonize; jibe; march; quadrate; rhyme; square; tally8. bear (verb) abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; lump; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; sustain; swallow; sweat out; take; tolerate9. become (verb) become; come; get; grow; wax10. decline (verb) decline; deteriorate; fade11. depart (verb) depart; exit; get away; get off; leave; pop off; pull out; push off; quit; retire; retreat; run along; shove off; take off; withdraw12. die (verb) cash in; conk; decease; demise; die; drop; expire; go away; go by; pass away; pass out; peg out; perish; pip; succumb13. disappear (verb) disappear; dissolve; vanish14. enjoy (verb) enjoy; like; relish15. fit (verb) belong; fit16. give (verb) bend; break; break down; buckle; cave; cave in; collapse; crumple; fold up; give; yield17. go on (verb) continue; go on; maintain; persist18. go with (verb) go with; suit19. happen (verb) befall; betide; chance; develop; do; fall out; hap; happen; occur; rise; transpire20. make (verb) head; make; set out; strike out21. move (verb) move; travel; walk22. offer (verb) bid; offer23. proceed (verb) advance; cruise; elapse; fare; hie; journey; pass; proceed; progress; push on; wend24. resort (verb) apply; recur; refer; repair; resort; resort to; turn25. run (verb) carry; extend; lead; range; reach; run; stretch; vary26. set (verb) bet; gamble; lay; risk; set; stake; venture; wager27. spend (verb) conclude; consume; exhaust; expend; finish; run through; spend; stop; terminate; use up; wash up28. succeed (verb) arrive; click; come off; come through; flourish; go over; make out; pan out; prosper; prove out; score; succeed; thrive; work out29. work (verb) act; function; operate; perform; workАнтонимический ряд:appear; approach; arrive; become; break down; clash; come; endure; enter; fail; improve; lack; live; persist; quit; regress; remain; rest; stand; stay
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