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Политика: избирательный процесс (англ. термин взят из кн.: Military Balance 2009. - London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > election process
2 by an election process

Общая лексика: на выборной основе (АД)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > by an election process
3 process

1. n
1) процесс; процедура

2) юр. вызов в суд

3) судопроизводство

•

to abuse the electoral process — совершать нарушения на выборах

to accelerate a process — ускорять процесс

to bolster the peace process — укреплять процесс мирного урегулирования

to bring smb into the peace process — подключать кого-л. к процессу мирного урегулирования

to broker the peace process — быть посредником в процессе мирного урегулирования

to cement the peace process — укреплять процесс мирного урегулирования

to coordinate a process — координировать процесс

to damage the peace process — вредить процессу мирного урегулирования

to derail the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to destabilize the peace process — дестабилизировать процесс мирного урегулирования

to disengage from the peace process — выходить из участия в процессе мирного урегулирования

to disrupt the Middle East peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования на Ближнем Востоке

to enhance the democratic process — способствовать демократическому процессу

to facilitate the process of import substitution — облегчать процесс замены импорта

to follow the constitutional process — действовать в соответствии с конституцией

to further a process — ускорять процесс; способствовать процессу

to get the peace process moving — сдвигать с мертвой точки процесс мирного урегулирования

to get the peace process off the ground — начинать процесс мирного урегулирования

to get the peace process underway — начинать процесс мирного урегулирования

to give up on the peace process — терять надежду на возможность мирного урегулирования

to guide the process — направлять процесс

to hamper the peace process — мешать процессу мирного урегулирования

to hasten the process of unification — ускорять процесс объединения

to help the peace process — способствовать процессу мирного урегулирования

to hurry along the peace process — ускорять процесс мирного урегулирования

to improve the production processes — совершенствовать производственные процессы

to inaugurate an election process — вводить процедуру выборов

to intensify production processes — интенсифицировать производственные процессы

to jeopardize the peace process — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to join in the peace process — включаться в процесс мирного урегулирования

to keep smb out of the peace process — не допускать чьего-л. участия в процессе мирного урегулирования

to keep the peace process afloat — продолжать процесс мирного урегулирования

to keep the peace process alive — не давать заглохнуть процессу мирного урегулирования

to mechanize production processes — механизировать производственные процессы

to monitor the election process — следить за ходом выборов

to move the peace process forward — развивать процесс мирного урегулирования

to obstruct the peace process — мешать процессу мирного урегулирования

to place the peace process in jeopardy — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to push the peace process forward — продвигать процесс мирного урегулирования

to put a new impetus behind the peace process — придавать новый импульс процессу мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process back on track — возобновлять процесс мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process in jeopardy — ставить под угрозу процесс мирного урегулирования

to put the peace process on hold — замораживать мирный процесс

to re-energize the peace process — давать новый толчок процессу мирного урегулирования

to regulate a process — регулировать процесс

to re-launch the peace process — возобновлять мирный процесс

to remain within the peace process — продолжать участвовать в процессе мирного урегулирования

to rescue the peace process — спасать процесс мирного урегулирования

to re-start the peace process — возобновлять процесс мирного урегулирования

to restore the peace process — восстанавливать / возрождать процесс мирного урегулирования

to revitalize the peace process — активизировать процесс мирного урегулирования

to revive the peace process — возобновлять / возрождать процесс мирного урегулирования

to salvage / to save the peace process — спасать процесс мирного урегулирования

to scuttle the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to set back the peace process — делать шаг назад в процессе мирного урегулирования

to set up a managerial process — налаживать процесс управления

to shatter the pacification process — вредить процессу умиротворения

to slow down a process — замедлять процесс

to speed up the peace process — ускорять процесс мирного урегулирования

to stall the peace process — тормозить процесс мирного урегулирования

to start a negotiating process — начинать переговоры

to stay within the peace process — продолжать участвовать в процессе мирного урегулирования

to throw one's weight behind the peace process — использовать свое влияние для поддержания процесса мирного урегулирования

to thwart the constitutional process — мешать конституционному процессу

to turn one's back on the peace process — отвергать процесс мирного урегулирования

to undermine the peace process — подрывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to underpin the reform process — поддерживать процесс реформ

to withdraw from the peace process — прерывать свое участие в мирном урегулировании

to wreck the peace process — срывать процесс мирного урегулирования

to serve a process on smb — вызывать кого-л. в суд повесткой

- administrative process
- all-European process
- automated process
- basic laws of historical process
- breakthrough in the peace process
- budget-balancing process
- budget-making process
- collapse of the peace process
- commitment to the peace process
- completion of the construction process
- complex process
- complicated process
- constitutional process
- construction process
- continuous process
- contradictory process
- damaging to the peace process
- decision-making process
- decolonization process
- deepening of integration processes
- democratization process
- demographic process
- development process
- disarmament process
- disconnection process
- due process
- economic process
- educational process
- engineering process
- evolutionary process
- foot-dragging in the peace process
- historical process
- in the process
- industrialization process
- inflationary process
- information transfer process
- integration process
- interconnected processes
- internal process
- intricate process
- irreversible process
- judicial process
- labor process
- labor-intensive process
- law-governed process
- liberation process
- long drawn-out process
- long process
- long-term process
- managerial process
- manufacturing process
- modernization process
- multiform process
- natural process
- natural-historical process
- negative process
- negotiating process
- on-going process
- on-off peace process
- overall process
- painful process
- paper-laden process
- peaceful process
- peace-making process
- political process
- positive process
- preconvention bargaining process
- process of democratization
- process of détente
- process of economic growth
- process of national liberation
- process of polarization
- process of production
- production process
- programming process
- progressive process
- rapid process
- reform process
- rehabilitation process
- renewal of the peace process
- revolutionary process
- short-circuited process
- slowing down of the reform process
- social process
- socio-economic process
- spasmodic process
- stagnant process
- stalled peace process
- teaching and educational process
- technological process
- the country had a part to play in the peace process
- the peace process goes forward
- the peace process hangs by a thread
- the peace process has been stalled
- the peace process has broken down
- the peace process is in limbo
- the peace process is in tatters
- the ups and downs of the peace process
- transitional process
- under the peace process
- unification process
- work process
- worldwide process 2. v
перерабатывать, обрабатывать

Politics english-russian dictionary > process
4 ballot

( election process)

scrutin m;

( printed form)

bulletin m

(de vote)

English-French legislative terms > ballot
5 presidential

президентський

presidential approval of legislation — схвалення (підписання, затвердження) законопроекту (закону) президентом

presidential election campaign fund — фонд для проведення передвиборної президентської кампанії

presidential form of government — президентська форма правління

presidential legislative request — запит президента до парламенту; законодавча ініціатива президента

presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process — судовий імунітет президента, захищеність президента від судового переслідування

presidential retirement benefits — привілеї президента при виході у відставку

presidential role of party leader — роль президента як керівника партії

presidential system of government — = presidential system

- presidential abuse
- presidential activity
- presidential administration
- presidential agency
- presidential agreement
- presidential appointee
- presidential approval
- presidential aspirant
- presidential authorization
- presidential bid
- presidential bodyguards
- presidential briefing
- presidential campaign
- presidential campaigning
- presidential candidacy
- presidential candidate
- presidential caucus
- presidential clemency
- presidential commission
- presidential communication
- presidential communications
- presidential confidentiality
- presidential contest
- presidential council
- presidential decree
- presidential disability
- presidential duties
- presidential election
- presidential election campaign
- presidential election outcomes
- presidential election year
- presidential elections
- presidential elector
- presidential electorate
- presidential electors
- presidential emergency action
- presidential establishment
- presidential government
- presidential immunity
- presidential impeachment
- presidential inability
- presidential independence
- presidential initiative
- presidential instrument
- presidential nominating system
- presidential nomination
- presidential nominee
- presidential oath
- presidential office
- presidential officer
- presidential pardon
- presidential politics
- presidential policy
- presidential power
- presidential powers
- presidential prerogative
- presidential primaries
- presidential privacy
- presidential proposal
- presidential remission
- presidential remuneration
- presidential republic
- presidential rule
- presidential short ballot
- presidential subordinate
- presidential succession
- presidential system
- presidential tenure
- presidential tenure of office
- presidential term
- presidential transition
- presidential use of power
- presidential veto
- presidential voter
- presidential year

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > presidential
6 sweep

swi:p
1. past tense, past participle - swept; verb
1) (to clean (a room etc) using a brush or broom: The room has been swept clean.) barrer

2) (to move as though with a brush: She swept the crumbs off the table with her hand; The wave swept him overboard; Don't get swept away by (= become over-enthusiastic about) the idea!; She swept aside my objections.) barrer, limpiar, recoger; arrastrar, llevarse; rechazar, descartar

3) (to move quickly over: The disease/craze is sweeping the country.) azotar, asolar, arrasar

4) (to move swiftly or in a proud manner: High winds sweep across the desert; She swept into my room without knocking on the door.) deslizarse, pasar rápidamente; pasar majestuosamente

2. noun
1) (an act of sweeping, or process of being swept, with a brush etc: She gave the room a sweep.) barrido

2) (a sweeping movement: He indicated the damage with a sweep of his hand.) gesto/movimiento amplio

3) (a person who cleans chimneys.) deshollinador

4) (a sweepstake.) apuesta de caballos

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- sweeper
- sweeping
- sweeping-brush
- at one/a sweep
- sweep someone off his feet
- sweep off his feet
- sweep out
- sweep the board
- sweep under the carpet
- sweep up

sweep vb

1. barrer

the floor is dirty, I'm going to sweep it el suelo está sucio, voy a barrerlo

2. arrastrar

we were swept along by the crowd la muchedumbre nos arrastró consigo

El pasado y participio pasado de sweep es swept

sweep

tr[swiːp]

noun

1 (with broom) barrido

■ the floor needs a good sweep el suelo necesita un buen barrido

2 (of arm) movimiento amplio, gesto amplio; (with weapon) golpe nombre masculino

3 (curve) curva; (area, stretch) extensión nombre femenino

4 figurative use (range, extent) abanico, alcance nombre masculino

5 (by police, rescuers) peinado, rastreo

6 familiar (chimney cleaner) deshollinador,-ra

7 familiar (sweepstake)→ link=sweepstake sweepstake{

transitive verb (pt & pp swept tr[swept])

1 (room, floor) barrer; (chimney) deshollinar

■ she swept the kitchen floor barrió el suelo de la cocina

2 (with hand) quitar de un manotazo

■ he swept the papers off his desk quitó los papeles de su escritorio de un manotazo

3 (move over) azotar, barrer

■ violent storms swept the north of the country tormentas violentas azotaron el norte del país

4 (remove by force) arrastrar, llevarse

■ the swimmers were swept out to sea by the current la corriente arrastró a los nadadores mar adentro

■ I was swept along by the crowd la multitud me arrastró

5 (pass over) recorrer

■ her eyes swept the horizon sus ojos recorrieron el horizonte

6 figurative use (spread through) recorrer, extenderse por

■ a new fashion is sweeping Spain una nueva moda está haciendo furor en España

■ rumours of a royal visit swept the village rumores de una visita real recorrieron el pueblo

7 (touch lightly) rozar, pasar por

■ her gown swept the floor su vestido largo rozó el suelo

intransitive verb

1 (with broom) barrer

2 (move quickly) pasar rápidamente

■ the limousine swept past la limusina pasó rápidamente

■ she swept into the room entró rápidamente en la habitación

■ the fire swept through the building el fuego se propagó rápidamente por todo el edificio

■ huge waves swept over the rocks olas enormes azotaban las rocas

3 (extend) recorrer, extenderse

■ the road sweeps down to the sea la carretera baja hasta llegar al mar

■ the river sweeps round the bend el río se extiende por toda la curva

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to sweep somebody off his/her feet hacerle perder la cabeza a alguien

to sweep something under the carpet ocultar algo

to make a clean sweep of things barrer con todo, hacer tabla rasa

to sweep the board llevarse todos los premios

sweep ['swi:p] v, swept ['swɛpt] ; sweeping vt

1) : barrer (el suelo, etc.), limpiar (suciedad, etc.)

he swept the books aside: apartó los libros de un manotazo

2) or to sweep through : extenderse por (dícese del fuego, etc.), azotar (dícese de una tormenta)

sweep vi

1) : barrer, limpiar

2) : extenderse (en una curva), describir una curva

the sun swept across the sky: el sol describía una curva en el cielo

sweep n

1) : barrido m, barrida f (con una escoba)

2) : movimiento m circular

3) scope: alcance m

sweep

n.

• barredura s.f.

• deshollinador s.m.

• escobada s.f.

• escobazo s.m.

• recorrido s.m.

• redada s.f.

• turbión s.f.

v.

(§ p.,p.p.: swept) = abalear v.

• copar v.

• deshollinar v.

• dragar v.

• escobar v.

• rastrear v.

• rozar v.

swiːp
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noun

1) ( act) (no pl) barrido m, barrida f

give it a sweep — dale un barrido or una barrida, bárrelo

2)

a) c ( movement)

with a sweep of his arm — con un amplio movimiento del brazo

with a sweep of his scythe — con un golpe de la guadaña

the broad sweeps of his brush strokes — el ancho trazo de sus pinceladas

b) c (curve - of road, river) curva f

c) ( range) (no pl) alcance m, extensión f

3) c ( search) peinado m, rastreo m

4) c ( chimney sweep) deshollinador, -dora m,f

II
1.

(past & pp swept) transitive verb

1)

a) ( clean) \<\<floor/path\>\> barrer; \<\<chimney\>\> deshollinar

b) ( remove) \<\<leaves/dirt\>\> barrer; \<\<mines\>\> barrer

he swept the crumbs off the table — limpió la mesa de migas

she swept the leaves into a pile — barrió la terraza (or el patio etc) y amontonó las hojas

he swept the coins into a box — con la mano reunió las monedas y las deslizó en una caja

to sweep something under the rug o (BrE) carpet — correr un velo sobre algo

2) (touch lightly, brush) \<\<surface\>\> rozar*

3)

a) (pass over, across)

severe storms swept the coast — grandes tormentas azotaron or barrieron la costa

the epidemic is sweeping the country — la epidemia se extiende como un reguero de pólvora por el país

b) ( remove by force) arrastrar

we were being swept out to sea by the tide — la marea nos arrastraba mar adentro

4)

a) ( scan) recorrer

b) ( search) \<\<area\>\> peinar, rastrear

2.

vi

1) (+ adv compl)

a) ( move rapidly)

the car swept by o past — el coche pasó rápidamente

b) ( move proudly)

she swept into the room — entró majestuosamente en la habitación

he swept past as if I wasn't there — pasó por mi lado con la cabeza en alto, como si yo no existiera

2) (+ adv compl)

a) ( spread)

fire swept through the hotel — el fuego se propagó or se extendió por todo el hotel

panic swept through the ranks — cundió el pánico en las filas

b) ( extend)

the path sweeps down to the road — el sendero baja describiendo una curva hasta la carretera

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Phrasal Verbs:

- sweep aside

- sweep away

- sweep up

[swiːp] (vb: pt, pp swept)
1. VT

1) [+ place, area]

a) (=clean) [+ floor, room, street] barrer; [+ chimney] deshollinar

have you had your chimney swept lately? — ¿te han deshollinado la chimenea recientemente?

the floor had been swept clean — el suelo estaba limpio porque lo habían barrido

b) (=touch) rozar

her long dress swept the ground as she walked — su vestido largo rozaba el suelo al caminar

c) (=spread through) [disease, idea, craze] arrasar; [rumours] correr por, extenderse por

the cycling craze sweeping the nation — la locura del ciclismo que está arrasando el país

d) (=lash) [storm, rain, waves] azotar, barrer

torrential storms swept the country — tormentas torrenciales azotaron or barrieron el país

the beach was swept by great waves — olas gigantescas azotaron or barrieron la playa

e) (=scan) [searchlight, eyes] recorrer

he swept the horizon with his binoculars — recorrió el horizonte con sus prismáticos

f) (=search) peinar

to sweep the sea for mines — dragar el mar en busca de minas

2) (=move)

a) (with brush)

• she was sweeping crumbs into a dustpan — estaba recogiendo las migas con una escoba y un recogedor

she swept the snow into a heap — barrió la nieve y la amontonó

• he swept the leaves off the path — barrió las hojas del camino

- sweep sth under the carpet

b) (with hand, arm)

• she swept her hair back with a flick of her wrist — se echó el pelo hacia atrás con un movimiento rápido de muñeca

her hair was swept back in a ponytail — tenía el pelo peinado hacia atrás en una cola de caballo

the curtains were swept back in an elegant fashion — las cortinas estaban recogidas con elegancia

• he swept the stamps into a box — recogió los sellos en una caja

to sweep sb into one's arms — coger or tomar a algn en brazos

• I swept the rainwater off the bench with my hand — quité el agua de la lluvia del banco con la mano

c) (forcefully)

• she was swept along by the crowd, the crowd swept her along — la multitud la arrastró

to be swept along by or on a wave of sth — (fig) dejarse llevar por una ola de algo

• landslides that swept cars into the sea — corrimientos de tierra que arrastraron coches hasta el mar

the election which swept Labour into office or power — las elecciones en la que los laboristas arrasaron haciéndose con el poder

• the water swept him off his feet — la fuerza del agua lo derribó

he swept her off her feet — la conquistó totalmente

they swept him off to lunch — se lo llevaron a comer apresuradamente

• a wave swept him overboard — una ola lo arrastró por encima de la borda

- sweep all before one

3) (=win decisively) [+ election] arrasar en

- sweep the board

the socialists swept the board at the election — los socialistas arrasaron en las elecciones

2. VI

1) (=clean) barrer

2) (=spread)

a) [violence, disease, storm]

• the violence which swept across Punjab — la violencia que arrasó el Punjab

• the storm which swept over the country — la tormenta que arrasó el país

• plague swept through the country — la peste arrasó el país

b) [fire, smoke]

• the fire swept rapidly through the forest — el fuego se propagó or extendió rápidamente por el bosque

thick smoke swept through their home — una densa humareda se propagó or extendió por la casa

c) [emotion]

• a great wave of anger swept over me — me invadió una gran oleada de ira

• panic swept through the city — en la ciudad cundió el pánico

3) (=move)

a) [crowd, procession]

• an angry crowd swept along the main thoroughfare — una multitud airada avanzaba por la calle principal

b) (majestically) [person, car]

• to sweep past/in/out — pasar/entrar/salir majestuosamente

• to sweep into or out of a place — entrar/salir de un sitio majestuosamente

c) (quickly) [vehicle, convoy]

• the convoy swept along the road — la caravana pasó por la carretera a toda velocidad

- sweep into power

4) (=stretch) [land, water]

• the bay sweeps away to the south — la bahía se extiende (majestuosamente) hacia el sur

• the hills/woods sweep down to the sea — las colinas/los bosques bajan (majestuosamente) hacia el mar
sweep up
3. N

1) (with broom, brush) barrido m, barrida f

the floor/the kitchen could do with a sweep — al suelo/a la cocina le hace falta un barrido or una barrida

• to give sth a sweep — darle un barrido or una barrida a algo

2) (Brit) (also: chimney sweep) deshollinador(a) m / f

3) (=movement) [of pendulum] movimiento m ; [of scythe] golpe m ; [of beam] trayectoria f ; (fig) [of events, progress, history] marcha f

• with a sweep of his arm — con un amplio movimiento del brazo

with one sweep of his scythe, he cleared all the nettles — con un golpe de guadaña hizo desaparecer todas las ortigas

with a sweep of her hand she indicated the desk — extendió la mano indicando el pupitre con un gesto amplio

4) (=search) (for criminals, drugs) batida f, rastreo m

to make a sweep: they made a sweep for hidden arms — dieron una batida or hicieron un rastreo buscando armas ocultas

to make a sweep of sth — (with binoculars, torch) hacer una pasada por algo; (with team of people) rastrear algo

the police began making a sweep of the premises — la policía comenzó a rastrear el lugar

his eyes made a sweep of the audience — paseó la mirada por el público

5)

• clean sweep —

a) (=change)

to make a clean sweep — hacer tabla rasa

there will be a clean sweep of all those involved in this cover-up — se hará tabla rasa con todos los que estén involucrados en esta tapadera

b) (in competition, series of competitions)

• to make a clean sweep — arrasar ganándolo todo; (Cards) ganar todas las bazas

• it was the first club to make a clean sweep of all three trophies — fue el primer club que arrasó llevándose or ganando el total de los tres trofeos

6) (=curve, line) [of coastline, river] curva f ; [of land] extensión f ; [of staircase] trazado m ; [of long skirt, curtains] vuelo m ; [of wings] envergadura f

a wide sweep of meadowland — una gran extensión de pradera

7) (=range)

a) (lit) [of telescope, gun, lighthouse, radar] alcance m

with a sweep of 180° — con un alcance de 180°

b) (fig) [of views, ideas] espectro m

representatives from a broad sweep of left-wing opinion — representantes de un amplio espectro de la izquierda

8) (=wave) [of emotion] ola f

9) = sweepstake

- sweep aside

- sweep away

- sweep up

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[swiːp]
I

noun

1) ( act) (no pl) barrido m, barrida f

give it a sweep — dale un barrido or una barrida, bárrelo

2)

a) c ( movement)

with a sweep of his arm — con un amplio movimiento del brazo

with a sweep of his scythe — con un golpe de la guadaña

the broad sweeps of his brush strokes — el ancho trazo de sus pinceladas

b) c (curve - of road, river) curva f

c) ( range) (no pl) alcance m, extensión f

3) c ( search) peinado m, rastreo m

4) c ( chimney sweep) deshollinador, -dora m,f

II
1.

(past & pp swept) transitive verb

1)

a) ( clean) \<\<floor/path\>\> barrer; \<\<chimney\>\> deshollinar

b) ( remove) \<\<leaves/dirt\>\> barrer; \<\<mines\>\> barrer

he swept the crumbs off the table — limpió la mesa de migas

she swept the leaves into a pile — barrió la terraza (or el patio etc) y amontonó las hojas

he swept the coins into a box — con la mano reunió las monedas y las deslizó en una caja

to sweep something under the rug o (BrE) carpet — correr un velo sobre algo

2) (touch lightly, brush) \<\<surface\>\> rozar*

3)

a) (pass over, across)

severe storms swept the coast — grandes tormentas azotaron or barrieron la costa

the epidemic is sweeping the country — la epidemia se extiende como un reguero de pólvora por el país

b) ( remove by force) arrastrar

we were being swept out to sea by the tide — la marea nos arrastraba mar adentro

4)

a) ( scan) recorrer

b) ( search) \<\<area\>\> peinar, rastrear

2.

vi

1) (+ adv compl)

a) ( move rapidly)

the car swept by o past — el coche pasó rápidamente

b) ( move proudly)

she swept into the room — entró majestuosamente en la habitación

he swept past as if I wasn't there — pasó por mi lado con la cabeza en alto, como si yo no existiera

2) (+ adv compl)

a) ( spread)

fire swept through the hotel — el fuego se propagó or se extendió por todo el hotel

panic swept through the ranks — cundió el pánico en las filas

b) ( extend)

the path sweeps down to the road — el sendero baja describiendo una curva hasta la carretera

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Phrasal Verbs:

- sweep aside

- sweep away

- sweep up

English-spanish dictionary > sweep
7 ballot

1. noun
1) (voting) Abstimmung, die

[secret] ballot — geheime Wahl

hold or take a ballot — abstimmen

2) (vote) Stimme, die

3) (ticket, paper) Stimmzettel, der
2. intransitive verb
abstimmen

ballot for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas stimmen

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['bælət]
noun

(a method of voting in secret by marking a paper and putting it into a box: They held a ballot to choose a new chairman; The question was decided by ballot.) die Geheimwahl

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bal·lot

[ˈbælət]

I. n

1. (process) [geheime] Abstimmung; (election) Geheimwahl f

voting is by \ballot die Abstimmung ist geheim

first/second \ballot erster/zweiter Wahlgang

secret \ballot Geheimwahl f

to hold a \ballot abstimmen; (elect) wählen

to put sth to the \ballot über etw akk [geheim] abstimmen

2. (vote)

▪ the \ballot die abgegebenen Stimmen

3. (paper) Stimmzettel m, Wahlzettel m

II. vi abstimmen

they \balloted unanimously to accept the deal der Vorschlag wurde einstimmig angenommen

III. vt

▪ to \ballot sb [on sth] jdn [über etw akk] abstimmen lassen

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['blət]
1. n

1) (= method of voting) (geheime) Abstimmung; (= election) Geheimwahl f

voting is by ballot — die Wahl/Abstimmung ist geheim

to decide sth by ballot — über etw (acc) (geheim) abstimmen

2) (= vote) Abstimmung f; (= election) Wahl f

first/second ballot — erster/zweiter Wahlgang

to take or hold a ballot — abstimmen, eine Wahl abhalten, wählen

they demanded a ballot — sie verlangten eine (geheime) Wahl

3) (numbers) abgegebene Stimmen

a large ballot — eine hohe Wahlbeteiligung

2. vi
abstimmen; (= elect) eine (geheime) Wahl abhalten
3. vt
members abstimmen lassen
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ballot [ˈbælət]

A s

1. a) HIST Ballotte f (Stimmkugel)

b) Wahl-, Stimmzettel m

2. Gesamtzahl f der abgegebenen Stimmen:

large ballot hohe Wahlbeteiligung

3. Geheimwahl f:

voting is by ballot die Abstimmung ist geheim

4. ( besonders geheime) Wahl oder Abstimmung:

have ( oder hold, take) a ballot abstimmen (on über akk)

5. Wahlgang m:

on the second ballot im zweiten Wahlgang

6. obs Auslosung f

B v/i

1. (for) stimmen (für), ( besonders in geheimer Wahl) wählen (akk)

2. abstimmen (on über akk)

3. obs losen:

ballot for sth etwas auslosen

C v/t

1. abstimmen über (akk)

2. jemanden abstimmen lassen (on über akk)

3. obs auslosen

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1. noun
1) (voting) Abstimmung, die

[secret] ballot — geheime Wahl

hold or take a ballot — abstimmen

2) (vote) Stimme, die

3) (ticket, paper) Stimmzettel, der
2. intransitive verb
abstimmen

ballot for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas stimmen

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n.

Abstimmung f.

Geheimwahl f.

Gesamtzahl der abgegebenen Stimmen f.

Stimmzettel m.

Wahlgang -¨e m. (for) v.

abstimmen (für) v.

stimmen für ausdr.

wählen v.

English-german dictionary > ballot
8 take

1) улов

2) заволодівати; затримувати, заарештовувати; обертати у власність

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take a blood sample from the suspect — брати пробу на аналіз крові у підозрюваного

take a decision by majority vote — = take a decision by majority

take a heavy toll in human life — забирати багато людських життів ( про вибух тощо)

take a specimen of blood breath — = take a specimen of blood

take a statement into consideration — приймати заяву до відома ( або на розгляд)

take a urine sample from the suspect — брати пробу на аналіз сечі у підозрюваного

take a wax impression of one's teeth — робити відбиток зубів ( злочинця)

take acknowledgement acknowledgment — = take acknowledgement

take an unqualified oath of allegiance — складати безумовну клятву вірності

take effect by a mere fact of publication — набувати чинності відразу після опублікування

take justice into one's own hands — брати справу правосуддя в свої руки

take matters into one's own hands — брати справи в свої руки

take over the President's duties — брати на себе обов'язки президента

take part in an election campaign — = take part in an electoral campaign брати участь у передвиборній кампанії

take part in an electoral campaign — = take part in an election campaign

take precedence over Soviet law — бути вищими за закони СРСР ( про закони союзної республіки)

take review against a judgement — = take review against a judgment оскаржувати рішення суду

take the benefit of the bankrupt — оголошувати себе банкрутом

take the case under one's control — = take the case under control

take the form of a joint declaration — мати форму спільної декларації

take the investigation under personal control — = take the investigation under one's personal control брати розслідування під особистий контроль

take the investigation under one's personal control — = take the investigation under personal control

take the law into one's own hands — брати закон в свої руки; розправлятися без суду з кимсь

take the stand in one's own defence — = take the stand in one's own defense виступати на свій захист, давати свідчення на власний захист

take the stand in one's own defense — = take the stand in one's own defence

- take a binding decision
- take a blood sample
- take a bribe
- take a brief
- take a case
- take a case to court
- take a claim to arbitration
- take a copy
- take a decision by majority
- take a drug overdose
- take a hostage
- take a law off the books
- take a lease
- take a lie-detector test
- take a loyalty oath
- take a picture
- take a polygraph test
- take a second ballot
- take a sheet off a hedge
- take a shot
- take a shot at smth.
- take a sight
- take a specimen of blood
- take a specimen of blood urine
- take a statement
- take a verdict
- take a view
- take a vote
- take acknowledgement
- take acknowledgement of a fact
- take acknowledgment of a fact
- take advantage
- take advice
- take alive
- take all measures
- take all measures to prevent
- take all responsibility
- take an action
- take an affidavit
- take an appeal
- take an independent stand
- take an overdose
- take arms
- take as a hostage
- take away
- take ballot
- take by assault
- take by descent
- take by force
- take by purchase
- take by storm
- take care clause
- take chair
- take charge
- take coercive measures
- take cognizance
- take collective action
- take collective actions
- take confession
- take one's confession
- take counsel's opinion
- take count
- take count of votes
- take criminal proceeding
- take criminal proceedings
- take decisive measures
- take decisive steps
- take deposition
- take depositions
- take disciplinary actions
- take discriminatory measure
- take divorce proceedings
- take effect
- take effect on ratification
- take effect on signature
- take effect upon ratification
- take emergency measures
- take enforcement action
- take enforcement actions
- take evidence
- take examination
- take exception
- take exception against
- take exception to
- take extraordinary measures
- take formal note
- take guidance
- take guidance from the law
- take home pay
- take hostage
- take in charge
- take in the mainor
- take in the mainour
- take into account
- take into consideration
- take into custody
- take into one's confidence
- take judicial note
- take judicial notice
- take legal action
- take legal advice
- take legal proceedings
- take legal recourse
- take legal steps
- take life
- take smb.'s life
- take measures
- take mercy
- take minutes
- take necessary measures
- take no chances
- take note
- take notice
- take-off
- take-off accident
- take off an embargo
- take off to jail
- take on hire
- take on sale
- take opinion
- take out a document
- take out a patent
- take out a process
- take out insurance
- take out an insurance policy
- take-over
- take over a case
- take over as President
- take-over of public buildings
- take over the case
- take own life
- take one's own life
- take part
- take part in a debate
- take part in a demonstration
- take part in a discussion
- take part in a duel
- take part in a meeting
- take part in a session
- take part in a sitting
- take part in election
- take part in elections
- take physical part in a crime
- take possession
- take potassium cyanide
- take power
- take power in one's own hands
- take precautions
- take precedence
- take preference
- take preventive actions
- take preventive measures
- take prisoner
- take proceedings
- take prompt action
- take prompt actions
- take proof
- take punitive measures
- take recourse
- take red-handed
- take remedial action
- take responsibility
- take responsibility on oneself
- take review against a judgment
- take risk
- take seat on the court
- take security measures
- take silk
- take stock
- take testimony
- take the ballot
- take the blame upon oneself
- take the case under control
- take the census
- take the chair
- take the change
- take the consequences
- take the decision to court
- take the floor
- take the form of a contract
- take the law
- take the name
- take the oath
- take the poll
- take the rue
- take the side
- take the stand
- take the surname
- take the throne
- take the witness chair
- take the witness stand
- take third-party proceedings
- take title
- take to court
- take to court for trial
- take to freight
- take to prison
- take under advisement
- take under strict control
- take up
- take up a bill
- take up arms
- take up duties
- take up one's duties
- take upon oneself
- take vengeance

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > take
9 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
10 Chronology

15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.

400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.

202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.

137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.

410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.

714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.

1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.

1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.

1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.

1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.

1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).

1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.

1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.

1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.

1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.

1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.

1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.

1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.

1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.

1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.

1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.

1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.

1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.

1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.

1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.

1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.

1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.

1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).

1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.

1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.

1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.

1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.

   King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.

   King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.

1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.

1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.

1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.

   Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.

   Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.

   Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.

1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.

1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.

1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.

1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.

1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.

1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.

1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.

1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.

1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.

1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.

1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.

1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.

1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.

1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.

1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.

1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.

1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.

1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.

1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.

1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.

1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.

1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.

1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.

1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.

1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.

   Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.

   King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.

1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of

   Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.

   Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.

   King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.

1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.

1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.

1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.

1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.

1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.

1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.

   January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.

   Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.

1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.

1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.

1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.

1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.

1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.

   May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.

   March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.

   Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.

1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.

1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January

1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.

1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."

   28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.

   February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.

   April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.

1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.

1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."

1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.

   6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.

   8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.

1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.

1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.

1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

   January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.

1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.

1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.

1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.

   March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.

   March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.

1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July

1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.

1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).

1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.

1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.

   January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.

   January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.

   November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.

   October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.

   January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.

   May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.

   October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.

   January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).

   United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.

   January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.

   1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

   May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.

   June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.

   February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.

   January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.

   July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.

2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology
11 Christian Democratic Party

(CDS) / Centro Democrático E Social; renamed Popular Party ( Partido Popular / PP)

   Established originally as the Centro Democático e Social (CDS) in May 1974, following the fall of the Estado Novo, the CDS was supported by conservatives inspired by Christian humanism and Catholic social doctrines. In the first democratic elections after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which were held on 25 April 1975, the CDS won only a disappointing 7.6 percent of the vote for the Constituent Assembly. In the following general elections for the Assembly of the Republic, in April 1976, however, the party more than doubled its votes to 16 percent and surpassed the number of votes for the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). In 1979-80, the Christian Democrats joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in a coalition called the Aliança Democrática (Democratic Alliance), a grouping that defeated the Socialist Party (PS) in the succeeding elections. The Christian Democrats remained in the background as the principal party rivals for power were the PS and the PSD.

   In the 1990s, the CDS altered its name to the Partido Popular (PP) and featured new leaders such as party chief Paulo Portas. While the democratic Portuguese system had become virtually a two-party dominant system by the 1980s and 1990s, the PP would have opportunities, depending upon circumstances, to share power in another coalition with one of the two larger, major parties, the PS or PSD. Indeed, parliamentary election results in March 2002 gave the party just such an opportunity, as the PP won 14 percent of the vote, thus surpassing for the first time since the 1975 elections the PCP, which was reduced to 12 percent of the vote. The PP thus gained new influence as the PSD, which won the largest number of seats in this election, was obliged to share governance with the PP in order to have a working majority in the legislature.

   Various right-wing lobbies and interest groups influenced the PP. In early 2000, the PP proposed a law to the Assembly of the Republic whereby former colonists, now mainly resident in Portugal, who had lost property in Portugal's former colonies of Angola and Mozambique, would be compensated by Portugal for material losses during decolonization. The PP leadership argued that the manner in which the governments after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 administered the disputed, controversial decolonization process in these territories made the government responsible for compensating Portuguese citizens for such losses. The PS-dominated government of then prime minister, Antônio Guterres, argued, however, that independent governments of those former colonies were responsible for any compensation due. Thus, Guterres declined to accept the proposed legislation. This proposal by the PP and others like it followed upon other proposed laws such as Law 20, 19 June 1997, put before the Assembly of the Republic, which was passed under the aegis of the PS. This law pledged to compensate opposition militants (the survivors) who had opposed the Estado Novo and had spent years in exile, as well as in clandestine activities. Such compensations would come in the form of pensions and social security benefits. Given the strength of conservative constituencies and former settlers' lobbies, it is likely that the Christian Democrats will introduce more such proposed laws in future parliamentary sessions.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Christian Democratic Party
12 ballot

ballot

A n

1 ( process) scrutin m ; secret ballot scrutin secret ; by ballot au scrutin ; the election was held by secret ballot l'élection s'est faite à bulletins secrets ;

2 ( vote) vote m (à bulletins secrets) (of de ; on sur) ; the first/second ballot le premier/second tour de scrutin ; strike ballot vote m pour décider d'une grève ; postal ballot GB vote m par correspondance ; to take a ballot procéder à un vote ;

3 ( also ballot paper) bulletin m de vote ;

4 US Pol ( list of candidates) liste f des candidats concurrents.

B vtr consulter (par vote) (on sur).

C vi voter au scrutin (on sur ; to do pour faire).

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13 writ

1) судебный приказ; королевский приказ

2) шотл. письменный документ

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writ de procedendo — см. procedendo;

writ to apprehend the body — судебный приказ об аресте;

to bring a writ — вручить судебный приказ;

to serve a writ — вручить судебный приказ

writ of execution against property — исполнительный судебный приказ об обращении взыскания на имущество

writ of habere facias possessionem — судебный приказ о вводе во владение

- writ of admeasurement
- writ of assistance
- writ of association
- writ of attachment
- writ of attendance
- writ of audita querela
- writ of capias
- writ of capias ad respondendum
- writ of capias ad satisfaciendum
- writ of certiorari
- writ of covenant
- writ of debt
- writ of delivery
- writ of distringas
- writ of ejectment
- writ of election
- writ of elegit
- writ of entry
- writ of error
- writ of error coram nobis
- writ of coram nobis
- writ of execution
- writ of false judgement
- writ of fieri facias
- writ of habeas corpus
- writ of injunction
- writ of inquiry
- writ of levari facias
- writ of mainprize
- writ of mandamus
- writ of mandate
- writ of mesne process
- writ of ne exeat regno
- writ of perambulation
- writ of possession
- writ of prevention
- writ of privilege
- writ of probable cause
- writ of process
- writ of prohibition
- writ of prorogation
- writ of protection
- writ of replevin
- writ of restitution
- writ of review
- writ of right
- writ of scire facias
- writ of subpoena
- writ of summons
- writ of supersedeas
- writ of tresspass on the case
- writ of trial
- writ of venire facias
- writ of withernam
- alias writ
- alternative writ
- concurrent writs
- Crown writ
- execution writ
- extraordinary writ
- interlocutory writ
- judicial writ
- optional writ
- original writ
- peremptory writ
- personal writ
- pointing-out writ
- prerogative writ
- real writ
- remedial writ
- testatum writ

Англо-русский юридический словарь > writ
14 start

start [stɑ:t]

commencement ⇒ 1 (a) début ⇒ 1 (a) départ ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) avance ⇒ 1 (c) sursaut ⇒ 1 (d) commencer ⇒ 2 (a), 3 (a), 3 (c) amorcer ⇒ 2 (a) déclencher ⇒ 2 (b) démarrer ⇒ 2 (d), 3 (d), 3 (f) se mettre en marche ⇒ 3 (d) créer ⇒ 2 (f) installer ⇒ 2 (g) débuter ⇒ 3 (b) partir ⇒ 3 (e) sursauter ⇒ 3 (g)

1 noun

(a) (beginning → gen) commencement m, début m; (→ of inquiry) ouverture f; (of journey, race) départ m;

∎ it's the start of a new era c'est le début ou le commencement d'une ère nouvelle;

∎ the start of the school year la rentrée scolaire;

∎ the start of the footpath is marked by an arrow le début du sentier est signalé par une flèche;

∎ £5 isn't much, but it's a start 5 livres ce n'est pas grand-chose, mais c'est un début;

∎ I've cleaned the kitchen - well, it's a start j'ai nettoyé la cuisine - eh bien, c'est déjà ça;

∎ things are off to a bad/good start ça commence mal/bien, c'est mal/bien parti;

∎ my new boss and I didn't get off to a very good start dès le début, mes rapports avec mon nouveau patron ont été un peu difficiles;

∎ it was a good/bad start to the day la journée commençait bien/mal;

∎ it was an inauspicious start to his presidency c'était un début peu prometteur pour sa présidence;

∎ to get a good start in life prendre un bon départ dans la vie ou l'existence;

∎ we want an education that will give our children a good start nous voulons une éducation qui donne à nos enfants des bases solides;

∎ a second honeymoon will give us a fresh start une deuxième lune de miel nous fera repartir d'un bon pied;

∎ the programme will give ex-prisoners a fresh or new start (in life) le programme va donner aux anciens détenus une seconde chance (dans la vie);

∎ to make a start (gen) commencer; (begin journey) se mettre en route;

∎ to make or to get an early start (gen) commencer de bonne heure; (on journey) partir de bonne heure;

∎ to make a start on sth commencer qch;

∎ I've made a good start on my Christmas shopping j'ai déjà fait une bonne partie de mes achats de Noël;

∎ I was lonely at the start au début je me sentais seule;

∎ at the start of the war au début de la guerre;

∎ at the very start au tout début;

∎ (right) from the start dès le début ou commencement;

∎ the trip was a disaster from start to finish le voyage a été un désastre d'un bout à l'autre;

∎ I laughed from start to finish j'ai ri du début à la fin;

∎ the project was ill-conceived from start to finish le projet était mal conçu de bout en bout

(b) Sport (departure line) (ligne f de) départ m; (signal) signal m de départ;

∎ they are lined up for or at the start ils sont sur la ligne de départ;

∎ where's the start of the rally? où est le départ du rallye?;

∎ wait for the start attendez le signal de départ

(c) (lead, advance) avance f;

∎ she has two hours' start or a two-hour start on us elle a une avance de deux heures sur nous;

∎ he gave him 20 metres' start or a 20-metre start il lui a accordé une avance de 20 mètres;

∎ our research gives us a start over our competitors nos recherches nous donnent de l'avance sur nos concurrents;

∎ to have a start on sb être en avance sur qn

(d) (jump) sursaut m;

∎ she woke up with a start elle s'est réveillée en sursaut;

∎ with a start, I recognized my own handwriting j'ai eu un sursaut quand j'ai reconnu ma propre écriture;

∎ he gave a start il a tressailli, il a sursauté;

∎ to give sb a start faire sursauter ou tressaillir qn;

∎ you gave me such a start! tu m'as fait une de ces peurs!

2 transitive verb

(a) (begin → gen) commencer; (→ climb, descent) amorcer;

∎ I've started the first chapter (write) j'ai commencé (à écrire) le premier chapitre; (read) j'ai commencé (à lire) le premier chapitre;

∎ to start doing or to do sth commencer à ou se mettre à faire qch;

∎ it's starting to rain il commence à pleuvoir;

∎ it had just started raining or to rain when I left il venait juste de commencer à pleuvoir quand je suis parti;

∎ she started driving or to drive again a month after her accident elle a recommencé à conduire ou elle s'est remise à conduire un mois après son accident;

∎ to start school (for the first time) commencer l'école; (after holidays) rentrer à ou reprendre l'école;

∎ she started her speech with a quotation from the Bible elle a commencé son discours par une citation de la Bible;

∎ I started my investigation with a visit to Carl j'ai commencé mon enquête par une visite chez Carl;

∎ they started the year with a deficit ils ont commencé l'année avec un déficit;

∎ he started work at sixteen il a commencé à travailler à seize ans;

∎ when do you start your new job? quand commencez-vous votre nouveau travail?;

∎ he started life as a delivery boy il débuta dans la vie comme garçon livreur;

∎ frogs start life as tadpoles les grenouilles commencent par être des têtards;

∎ go ahead and start lunch without me allez-y, vous pouvez commencer (à déjeuner) sans moi;

∎ I like to finish anything I start j'aime aller au bout de tout ce que j'entreprends;

∎ I think I'm starting a cold je crois que j'ai attrapé un rhume;

∎ to get started (person → on task) commencer, s'y mettre; (→ on journey) partir, se mettre en route; (→ in career) débuter, démarrer;

∎ I got started on the dishes j'ai commencé la vaisselle;

∎ shall we get started on the washing-up? si on attaquait la vaisselle?;

∎ to help sb get started in life aider qn à démarrer dans la vie;

∎ let's get started! allons-y!;

∎ once he gets started there's no stopping him une fois lancé, il n'y a pas moyen de l'arrêter;

∎ I need a coffee to get me started in the morning j'ai besoin d'un café pour commencer la journée

(b) (initiate, instigate → reaction, revolution, process) déclencher; (→ fashion) lancer; (→ violence) déclencher, provoquer; (→ conversation, discussion) engager, amorcer; (→ rumour) faire naître;

∎ her article started the controversy son article a été à l'origine de la controverse;

∎ to start legal proceedings engager une action en justice;

∎ which side started the war? quel camp a déclenché la guerre?;

∎ you started it c'est toi qui as commencé;

∎ it wasn't me who started the quarrel/the fight! ce n'est pas moi qui ai commencé la dispute/la bagarre!;

∎ the breakup of the empire started the process of decline le démantèlement de l'empire a déclenché le processus de déclin;

∎ to start a fire (in fireplace) allumer le feu; (campfire) faire du feu; (by accident, bomb) mettre le feu;

∎ the fire was started by arsonists l'incendie a été allumé par des pyromanes;

∎ familiar are you trying to start something? tu cherches la bagarre, ou quoi?

(c) (cause to do → person) faire;

∎ it started her (off) crying/laughing cela l'a fait pleurer/rire;

∎ the news is going to start tongues wagging la nouvelle va faire jaser;

∎ I'll start a team (working) on it right away je vais mettre une équipe là-dessus tout de suite;

∎ if you start him on this subject he will never stop si vous le lancez sur ce sujet il ne tarira pas

(d) (set in motion → motor, car) (faire) démarrer, mettre en marche; (→ machine, device) mettre en marche; (→ meal) mettre en route;

∎ how do I start the tape (going)? comment est-ce que je dois faire pour mettre le magnétophone en marche?;

∎ I couldn't get the car started je n'ai pas réussi à faire démarrer la voiture;

∎ to start the printer again, press this key pour remettre en marche l'imprimante, appuyez sur cette touche

(e) (begin using → bottle, pack) entamer

(f) (establish, found → business, school, political party) créer, fonder; (→ restaurant, shop) ouvrir; (→ social programme) créer, instaurer;

∎ to start a newspaper créer ou fonder un journal;

∎ to start a family fonder un foyer

(g) (person → in business, work) installer, établir;

∎ he started his son in the family business il a fait entrer son fils dans l'entreprise familiale;

∎ his election success started him on his political career son succès aux élections l'a lancé dans sa carrière d'homme politique;

∎ they start new pilots on domestic flights ils font débuter les nouveaux pilotes sur les vols intérieurs

(h) Sport

∎ to start the race donner le signal du départ;

∎ the referee blew his whistle to start the match l'arbitre siffla pour signaler le début du match

(i) Hunting (flush out → hare, stag) lever

3 intransitive verb

(a) (begin) commencer;

∎ the movie starts at 8 o'clock le film commence à 20 heures;

∎ when did the contractions start? quand les contractions ont-elles commencé?;

∎ school starts on September 5th la rentrée a lieu ou les cours reprennent le 5 septembre;

∎ our problems are just starting nos ennuis ne font que commencer;

∎ before the New Year/the rainy season starts avant le début de l'année prochaine/de la saison des pluies;

∎ before the cold weather starts avant qu'il ne commence à faire froid;

∎ starting (from) next week à partir de la semaine prochaine;

∎ to start again or afresh recommencer;

∎ to start all over again, to start again from scratch recommencer à zéro;

∎ calm down and start at the beginning calmez-vous et commencez par le commencement;

∎ I didn't know where to start je ne savais pas par quel bout commencer;

∎ she started with a joke/by introducing everyone elle a commencé par une plaisanterie/par faire les présentations;

∎ I'd like to start by saying how pleased I am to be here tonight j'aimerais commencer par vous dire à quel point je suis heureux d'être parmi vous ce soir;

∎ the book starts with a quotation le livre commence par une citation;

∎ I'll have the soup to start (with) pour commencer, je prendrai du potage;

∎ to start as one means to go on donner la mesure dès le début;

∎ isn't it time you got a job? - don't YOU start! il serait peut-être temps que tu trouves du travail - tu ne vas pas t'y mettre, toi aussi!

(b) (in career, job) débuter;

∎ she started in personnel/as an assistant elle a débuté au service du personnel/comme assistante;

∎ have you been working here long? - no, I've just started vous travaillez ici depuis longtemps? - non, je viens de commencer;

∎ I start on $500 a week je débute à 500 dollars par semaine;

∎ gymnasts have to start young les gymnastes doivent commencer jeunes

(c) (in space → desert, fields, slope, street) commencer; (→ river) prendre sa source;

∎ the neutral zone starts at the river la zone neutre commence à la rivière;

∎ there's an arrow where the path starts il y a une flèche qui indique le début du sentier;

∎ the bus route starts at the station la ligne de bus commence à la gare;

∎ where does the tunnel start? où est l'entrée du tunnel?

(d) (car, motor) démarrer, se mettre en marche;

∎ the engines started with a roar les moteurs ont démarré en vrombissant;

∎ why won't the car start? pourquoi la voiture ne veut-elle pas démarrer?

(e) (set off → person, convoy) partir, se mettre en route; (→ train) s'ébranler;

∎ the tour starts at or from the town hall la visite part de la mairie;

∎ I'll have to start for the airport soon il va bientôt falloir que je parte pour l'aéroport;

∎ we start tomorrow nous partons demain;

∎ the train was starting across or over the bridge le train commençait à traverser le pont ou s'engageait sur le pont;

∎ she started along the path elle s'engagea sur le sentier;

∎ Sport only four horses started quatre chevaux seulement ont pris le départ

(f) (prices) démarrer;

∎ houses here start at $100,000 ici, le prix des maisons démarre à 100 000 dollars;

∎ return fares start from £299 on trouve des billets aller retour à partir de 299 livres

(g) (jump involuntarily → person) sursauter; (→ horse) tressaillir, faire un soubresaut; (jump up) bondir;

∎ he started in surprise il a tressailli de surprise;

∎ she started from her chair elle bondit de sa chaise;

∎ to start out of one's sleep se réveiller en sursaut

(h) (gush) jaillir, gicler;

∎ tears started to his eyes les larmes lui sont montées aux yeux

4 for a start adverb

pour commencer, d'abord

5 for starts adverb

American familiar pour commencer, d'abord

6 to start with adverb

(a) (firstly) pour commencer, d'abord;

∎ to start with, my name isn't Jo pour commencer ou d'abord, je ne m'appelle pas Jo

(b) (in the beginning) au début;

∎ there were only six members to start with il n'y avait que six membres au début;

∎ she was an architect to start with, then a journalist elle a d'abord été architecte, puis journaliste

►► Computing start bit bit m de départ;

Computing start button (in Windows) bouton m Démarrer;

Computing start code code m de départ

➲ start back intransitive verb

(a) (turn back) rebrousser chemin

(b) (start again) recommencer;

∎ the children start back at school tomorrow c'est la rentrée scolaire demain

➲ start in on inseparable transitive verb

s'attaquer à;

∎ I started in on the pile of mail je me suis attaqué à la pile de courrier;

∎ once he starts in on liberty and democracy, there's no stopping him une fois qu'il est lancé sur le sujet de la liberté et de la démocratie, il n'y a plus moyen de l'arrêter;

∎ familiar to start in on sb s'en prendre à qn^□, tomber à bras raccourcis sur qn

➲ start off

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (begin → book, meeting, show) commencer;

∎ she started the meeting off with introductions elle a commencé la réunion en faisant les présentations

(b) (person → on task, in business)

∎ here's some wool to start you off voici de la laine pour commencer;

∎ he lent us a couple of thousand pounds to start us off il nous a prêté quelques milliers de livres pour nous aider à démarrer;

∎ the pianist played a few bars to start them off le pianiste a joué quelques mesures d'introduction

(c) (set off) déclencher;

∎ what started the alarm off? qu'est-ce qui a déclenché l'alarme?;

∎ if you mention it it'll only start her off again n'en parle pas, sinon elle va recommencer;

∎ to start sb off laughing/crying faire rire/pleurer qn;

∎ the baby's crying again, what started him off this time? le bébé s'est remis à pleurer, qu'est-ce qu'il a cette fois?;

∎ dad's finally calmed down, don't you start him off again papa s'est enfin calmé, ne va pas l'énerver

2 intransitive verb

(a) (leave) partir, se mettre en route;

∎ he started off at a run il est parti en courant;

∎ when do you start off on your trip? quand est-ce que vous partez en voyage?

(b) (begin → speech, film) commencer;

∎ it starts off with a description of the town ça commence par une description de la ville;

∎ start off with a summary of the problem commencez par un résumé du problème;

∎ she started off by talking about… elle commença en parlant de…;

∎ the interview started off badly/well l'entretien a mal/bien commencé;

∎ I started off agreeing with him au début, j'étais d'accord avec lui

(c) (in life, career) débuter;

∎ he started off as a cashier il a débuté comme caissier;

∎ she started off as a Catholic elle était catholique à l'origine;

∎ you're starting off with all the advantages vous partez avec tous les avantages

➲ start on inseparable transitive verb

(a) (begin → essay, meal) commencer; (→ task, dishes) se mettre à; (→ new bottle, pack) entamer;

∎ they had already started on their dessert ils avaient déjà commencé à manger ou entamé leur dessert;

∎ after they'd searched the car they started on the luggage après avoir fouillé la voiture, ils sont passés aux bagages

(b) (attack, berate) s'en prendre à;

∎ don't start on me, I'm not to blame! ne t'en prends pas à moi, ce n'est pas de ma faute!

➲ start out intransitive verb

(a) (begin journey) partir, se mettre en route

(b) (begin career) débuter;

∎ he started out as a cashier il a débuté comme caissier;

∎ she started out as a Catholic elle était catholique à l'origine;

∎ he started out in business with his wife's money il s'est lancé dans les affaires avec l'argent de sa femme;

∎ when she started out there were only a few women lawyers quand elle a commencé sa carrière, il y avait très peu de femmes avocats

(c) (intend)

∎ he started out to write a novel au départ il voulait écrire un roman

➲ start over American

1 intransitive verb

recommencer (depuis le début)

2 separable transitive verb

recommencer (depuis le début)

➲ start up

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (establish, found → business, school, political party) créer, fonder; (→ restaurant, shop) ouvrir

(b) (set in motion → car, motor) faire démarrer; (→ machine) mettre en marche; (→ computer) mettre en route; (→ program) lancer, démarrer

2 intransitive verb

(a) (guns, music, noise, band) commencer; (wind) se lever;

∎ the applause started up again les applaudissements ont repris

(b) (car, motor) démarrer, se mettre en marche; (machine) se mettre en marche; (computer, program) se mettre en route

(c) (set up business) se lancer, s'installer, s'établir;

∎ he decided to start up by himself il a décidé de se mettre à son compte

ⓘ I've started so I'll finish Le jeu télévisé britannique Mastermind fut diffusé de 1972 à 1997. Les concurrents de ce jeu portant sur la culture générale devaient répondre au plus grand nombre de questions possible en l'espace de deux minutes. Si l'animateur était en train de poser une question lorsque retentissait la sonnerie qui annonçait la fin du temps imparti, il prononçait rituellement ces mots ("j'ai commencé, je vais donc finir") avant de finir de lire la question au concurrent. Aujourd'hui, on utilise cette phrase par allusion au jeu télévisé lorsqu'on est interrompu.

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ˈsɪstɪm сущ.
1) а) система Syn: method б) система, устройство;
метод adversary system ≈ система состязательности в суде (правда выясняется в ходе соревнования позиций и доказательств сторон в судебном процессе) health system ≈ органы здравоохранения narrative evaluation system ≈ описательная система оценок( письменная характеристика успеваемости учащегося, даваемая преподавателем в свободной форме) political system ≈ государственный строй air-conditioning system
2) какая-л. определенная система а) сеть( дорог и т. п.) б) мир;
вселенная( система планет)
3) организм или часть организма nervous system support-locomotion system
4) геол. система, формация система;
способ;
метод - a good * of teaching French хорошая система /-ий метод/ обучения французскому языку - the touch * of typewriting печатание на машинке по слепому методу (тк. в ед. ч.) система, систематичность - to work without * работать без( строгой) системы - his work lacks * (в) его работе недостает системы - to bring * out of confusion упорядочить неразбериху;
найти выход из запутанного положения строй, устройство - political * государственный строй - the feudal * феодальный строй - * of government система правления - bipartisan /two-party/ * (американизм) (политика) двухпартийная система классификация, система - * of axes (математика) система координат - * of units( физическое) система измерений - natural * (химическое) периодическая система элементов - the decimal * десятичная система - binary * (химическое) бинарная /двойная/ система (философское) система;
комплекс идей, образующих целое - a * of philosophy философская система;
философское учение( философское) вселенная, мир сеть (дорог, труб и т. п.) - tramway * трамвайная сеть - irrigation * система орошения - nervous * нервная система - circulatory * система кровообращения - telephone * телефонная сеть организм - to pass into the * проникнуть в организм - to introduce smth. into the * ввести что-л. в организм - strong drink is bad for the * крепкие напитки вредны для организма - to get smth. out of one's * вывести( яд и т. п.) из организма;
избавиться от какого-л. чувства, навязчивой идеи и т. п. - I must get her out of my * я должен выбросить ее из головы (астрономия) система - * of comets система комет - solar * солнечная система (геология) система, формация (спортивное) судейство - closed /written/ * закрытое судейство - open /public/ * открытое судейство (военное) средство - forward-based *s средства передового базирования - all *s go (космонавтика) все системы (корабля) работают нормально( компьютерное) система - multiprocession * многопроцессорная система - * manager системный программист;
администратор системы - * management сопровождение /координация работы/ системы accept ~ система акцептования accounting information ~ вчт. бухгалтерская информационная система accounting ~ система бухгалтерского учета accounting ~ система счетов adaptive ~ вчт. адаптивная система administrative ~ административная система alarm ~ система сигнализации analysis ~ система анализа application visualization ~ вчт. прикладная система изображения asset quality rating ~ система квалификации активов asymptotically stable ~ асимптотически устойчивая система automated control ~ асу, автоматизированная система управления axiomatic ~ аксиоматическая система backup ~ вчт. дублирующая система banking ~ банковская система belief ~ система доверия bicameral ~ двухпалатная система bicameral ~ парл. двухпалатная система bipartite ~ парл. двухпартийная система block ~ =blocking bonus ~ премиальная система buddy ~ метод близнецов bulk-service ~ система с групповым обслуживанием business ~ экономическая система cad ~ вчт. система автоматизированного проектирования call-reply ~ вчт. запрсно-ответная система certification ~ система сертификации closed queueing ~ замкнутая система массового обслуживания closed ~ замкнутая система code-dependent ~ вчт. система зависящая от данных code-independent ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных code-insensitive ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных code-sensitive ~ вчт. система зависящая от данных code-transparent ~ вчт. система не зависящая от данных coinage ~ монетная система column ~ система бухгалтерского учета по колонкам commission ~ система комиссионных вознаграждений computer ~ вычислительная система computer ~ вчт. вычислительная система computer ~ вычислительный комплекс computer ~ система вычислительных машин computer-aided control ~ автоматизированная система управления computer-to-plate ~ система создания печатных форм на компьютере computerized information ~ информационная система на базе ЭВМ concealment ~ система маскировки concession ~ система концессий constrained ~ вчт. система с ограничениями consulting ~ вчт. консультирующая система control ~ система управления control ~ вчт. система управления cooperative ~ система кооперации cooptation ~ система кооптации costing ~ система калькуляции себестоимости court ~ судебная система, система судопроизводства credit ~ кредитная система criminal reestablishment ~ система восстановления личности преступника crisis alert ~ система предупреждения о кризисе cross ~ вчт. кросс-система cyclical response ~ вчт. система циклических реакций data base management ~ вчт. система управления базой данных data handling ~ вчт. система обработки данных data processing ~ вчт. система обработки данных data ~ вчт. информационная система database ~ вчт. система баз данных decimal ~ десятичная система dedicated ~ специализированная система deductive ~ дедуктивная система delay ~ система с ожиданием desktop ~ система непосредственного взаимодействия direct debit ~ система прямого дебета direct ~ целевая система directional ~ система управления disk operating ~ вчт. дисковая операционная система, ДОС distributed file ~ вчт. распределенная файловая система distributed ~ вчт. распределенная система distribution ~ система распределения distributive ~ распределительная система DP ~ (data processing ~) система обработки данных dynamic ~ динамическая система educational ~ система образования educational ~ система обучения election ~ избирательная система electronic book-entry ~ вчт. электронная система бухгалтерского учета electronic full-page makeup ~ вчт. электронная система верстки полос enclave ~ анклавная группа;
полузащищенная группа (работающих под специальным наблюдением в обычных рабочих условиях инвалидов) equilibrium ~ равновесная система evolutionary ~ развиваемая система executive ~ вчт. операционная система expand a ~ вчт. расширять комплект оборудования системы expert ~ вчт. экспертная система explanatory ~ вчт. система объяснений fail-soft ~ вчт. система с амортизацией отказов federal ~ федеральная система fee ~ система вознаграждений feedback ~ система с обратной связью file ~ вчт. файловая система filing ~ система регистрации документов filing ~ система хранения документов financial ~ финансовая система fiscal ~ система финансов fixed price ~ система с фиксированной ценой flat-rate guarantee ~ система гарантий с фиксированной ставкой formal ~ формальная система fractional reserve ~ система частичных резервов frame ~ вчт. система фреймов functional information ~ вчт. функциональный информационная система giro ~ система жиросчетов governmental ~ правительственная система grading ~ система сортировки guarantee ~ система гарантий guidance ~ вчт. система -путеводитель hard disk ~ вчт. система с жестким диском help ~ вчт. справочник hire ~ =hire-purchase historical cost ~ выч. калькуляция на основе фактических издержек производства homogeneous ~ однородная система host ~ вчт. базисная система host ~ вчт. централизованная система imprest ~ система авансирования imputation ~ система условного начисления indexing ~ система индексации inductive ~ вчт. индуктивная система information ~ вчт. информационная система instruction ~ вчт. обучающая система integrated ~ вчт. интегрированная система intelligent ~ вчт. интеллектуальная система interactive ~ вчт. диалоговая система interactive ~ вчт. интерактивная система interest ~ система ставок процента international monetary ~ международная валютная система judicial ~ система судебных органов judicial ~ судебная система, система судебных органов judicial ~ судебная система jury ~ система суда присяжных knowledge base management ~ вчт. система управления базой знаний knowledge representation ~ вчт. система представления знаний land registration ~ система регистрации земельного участка learning ~ вчт. самообучаемая система licensing ~ система лицензирования linear programming ~ система линейного программирования linear ~ линейная система loadable ~ вчт. загружаемая система loan limit ~ система предельных размеров кредита loose-leaf ~ полигр. издание с отрывными или вкладными листами loss ~ система с потерями mail ~ вчт. электронная почта management information ~ (MIS) управленческая информационная система manual ~ система ручного управления many-server ~ вчт. многоканальная система mapped ~ вчт. система с управлением памятью market ~ рыночная система market ~ рыночная экономика market ~ страна с рыночной экономикой marketing information ~ система маркетинговой информации markov ~ марковская система markovian ~ марковская система master-slave ~ несимметричная система match ~ система выравнивания курсов militia ~ система милиции minimum price ~ система минимальных цен minimum wage ~ система минимальной заработной платы ministerial ~ правительственная система mixed price ~ смешанная ценовая система mixed ~ смешанная система modeless ~ вчт. система с однородным интерфейсом monetary ~ денежная система monetary ~ финансовая система monitoring ~ система мониторинга monitoring ~ система текущего контроля multi-user ~ вчт. многопользовательская система multiprocessing ~ вчт. многопроцессорная система multiprogramming ~ вчт. система, работающая в мультипрограммном режиме multiserver ~ вчт. многоканальная система multistation ~ вчт. многопунктовая система multitasking ~ вчт. многозадачная система multiuser ~ система коллективного пользования multivariable ~ вчт. многомерная система municipal ~ муниципальная система non-markovian ~ вчт. немарковская система nonstop ~ вчт. безостановочный компьютер normative ~ нормативная система number ~ система счисления numeration ~ система счисления off-line ~ вчт. автономная система on-demand ~ вчт. система без ожидания on-line ~ вчт. неавтономная система on-line ~ вчт. система, работающая в реальном масштабе времени on-line ~ вчт. система реального времени one-party ~ однопартийная система open learning ~ гибкая система обучения open ~ вчт. открытая система open-item ~ система с незакрытыми статьями баланса operating ~ действующая система operating ~ вчт. операционная система organized banking ~ организованная банковская система page ~ вчт. страничная система parliamentary ~ парламентская система partial cost ~ система калькуляции издержек производства с использованием нормативов party ~ партийная система patent ~ система патентования pay-as-you-go ~ система выплаты выходных пособий при увольнении payments ~ система платежей penal ~ пенитенциарная система periodic reordering ~ вчт. система с периодической подачей заказов pilot ~ вчт. прототип системы ~ система, устройство;
political system государственный строй portable ~ вчт. мобильная система preferential ~ система преференций premium ~ премиальная система price control ~ система регулирования цен price support ~ система гарантирования цен price ~ система цен priority ~ вчт. система приоритетов priority ~ вчт. система с приоритетами probabilistic ~ вероятностная система process cost ~ система исчисления производственных издержек production ~ продукционная система productions ~ система продукций program development ~ вчт. система разработки программ programming ~ вчт. система программирования progressive taxation ~ система прогрессивного налогообложения proportional taxation ~ система пропорционального налогообложения protection ~ вчт. система защиты prototyping ~ макет системы public health ~ система здравоохранения quality ~ система критериев качества quality ~ система проверки качества quata ~ система квот question-answering ~ вчт. вопросно-ответная система queueing ~ система массового обслуживания queueing ~ вчт. система массового обслуживания quota ~ система иммиграционных квот quota ~ система квот quota ~ система контингентов real time ~ вчт. система реального времени reasoning ~ вчт. разумная система redundant ~ вчт. избыточная система reliable ~ надежная система report ~ система отчетности reporting ~ система отчетности reporting ~ система сбора информации reporting ~ система учета representation ~ система представления reservation ~ система резервирования resident ~ вчт. резидентная система retrieval ~ док. система внесения исправлений retrieval ~ вчт. система поиска revision control ~ вчт. система управления версиями risk control ~ система контроля рисков salary adjustment ~ система регулирования заработной платы salary ~ система заработной платы scalable ~ вчт. расширяемая система school ~ школьная система segment ~ вчт. система с сегментной организацией self-assessment tax ~ система самообложения налогом self-contained ~ замкнутая система serving ~ вчт. система обслуживания setting up the ~ вчт. начальная установка системы short-term support ~ система краткосрочной поддержки simulation ~ имитационная система single-channel ~ вчт. одноканальная система single-server ~ вчт. одноканальная система slave ~ подчиненная система stable ~ устойчивая система standard pay ~ система нормативной заработной платы standby ~ резервная система static-priority ~ вчт. система со статическими приоритетами stationary ~ стационарная система stochastic ~ стохастическая система support ~ вчт. исполняющая система system метод ~ мир, вселенная ~ организм ~ сеть (дорог и т. п.) ~ геол. система, формация ~ система, устройство;
political system государственный строй ~ система, устройство ~ система, метод ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? ~ comp. система ~ устройство ~ for medium-term financial assistance программа среднесрочной финансовой помощи ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? ~ of commands система команд ~ of deductions система выводов ~ of financial contributions система финансовых взносов ~ of import control система контроля за импортом ~ of monitoring balance sheet growth система контроля за ростом статей баланса ~ of reimbursement система возмещения расходов ~ of remuneration система вознаграждения ~ of state государственное устройство ~ of taxation система налогообложения target ~ вчт. целевая система tax ~ налоговая система tax-at-source ~ система удержания налога из общей суммы доходов taxation ~ система налогообложения tender ~ система торгов terminal ~ вчт. система терминалов test ~ вчт. испытательная система text-retrieval ~ вчт. документальная информационная система thin-route ~ вчт. малоканальная система tightly-coupled ~ вчт. система с сильной связью time sharing ~ вчт. система разделения времени time-sharing ~ вчт. система разделения времени time-sharing ~ вчт. система с разделением времени timecard ~ система табельного учета totting-up ~ система зачетов trade support ~ система поддержки торговли trading ~ система торговли transaction-oriented ~ вчт. диалоговая система обработки запросов truck ~ система оплаты труда натурой truck ~ система оплаты труда товарами truck: truck = truck system ~ attr.: ~ system оплата труда товарами вместо денег;
Truck Acts ист. законы, ограничивающие систему оплаты труда товарами turnkey ~ вчт. готовая система two-channel ~ вчт. двухканальная система two-party ~ двухпартийная система unicameral ~ однопалатная система unitary tax ~ единая система налогообложения unmapped ~ вчт. система без управления памятью up ~ исправная система virgin ~ вчт. исходная система voluntary labelling ~ система добровольного снабжения продукта этикеткой wage ~ система оплаты труда waiting ~ вчт. система с ожиданием watch ~ бирж. система наблюдения weighting ~ система весов ~ система;
метод;
system of axes система координат;
what system do you go on? какому методу вы следуете? windowing ~ вчт. система управления окнами word processing ~ вчт. система обработки текстов work-space ~ вчт. система с рабочим состоянием

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > system
16 PEB

1) Американизм: Personnel Evaluation Board, Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, Presidential Emergency Board

2) Военный термин: Physical Evaluation Board

3) Техника: plain end beveled, pressurized fluidized bed

4) Архитектура: Pre Engineered Building

5) Металлургия: сборное металлическое здание

6) Музыка: Percussion Expansion Board

7) Сокращение: Propulsion Examining Board (US Navy), Party Election Broadcast

8) Электроника: Post Exposure Bake

9) Вычислительная техника: Process Environment Block

10) Нефть: plain end bevelled, гладкий конец со снятой фаской (plain end beveled)

11) Экология: prototype environmental buoy

12) Химическое оружие: Pilot engineering base

13) Расширение файла: Program Editor bottom overflow file (WordPerfect Library)

14) Общественная организация: Population- Environment Balance

15) NYSE. P E Corporation

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > PEB
17 legislative

1) законодавча влада; законодавчий орган, законодавчі органи; нормативний акт

2) законодавчий; правотворчий; правоутворюючий; нормовстановчий

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legislative activities activity — = legislative activities

legislative-executive agreement — укладена главою виконавчої влади угода, що потребує санкції законодавчого органу; нормовстановча угода між законодавчим органом і главою виконавчої влади

legislative history of the question — еволюція вирішення питання в законодавстві ( праві)

- legislative act
- legislative activities
- legislative agenda
- legislative appointment
- legislative appropriations
- legislative approval
- legislative assembly
- legislative assistant
- legislative authority
- legislative authorization
- legislative base
- legislative basis
- legislative bill
- legislative bodies
- legislative body
- legislative branch
- legislative budget
- legislative business
- legislative change
- legislative clemency
- legislative committee
- legislative competence
- legislative compromise
- legislative contempt
- legislative control
- legislative correction
- legislative council
- legislative counsel
- legislative day
- legislative decision
- legislative definition
- legislative delegation
- legislative democracy
- legislative design
- legislative development
- legislative district
- legislative districting
- legislative draft
- legislative duties
- legislative election
- legislative enactment
- legislative establishment
- legislative excess
- legislative execution
- legislative fact
- legislative focus
- legislative framework
- legislative function
- legislative goal
- legislative government
- legislative ground
- legislative hearing
- legislative hearings
- legislative history
- legislative immunity
- legislative impeachment
- legislative implementation
- legislative initiative
- legislative innovation
- legislative inquiry
- legislative instrument
- legislative intent
- legislative intention
- legislative investigation
- legislative investigator
- legislative journal
- legislative jurisdiction
- legislative language
- legislative lawyer
- legislative leadership
- legislative measure
- legislative offence
- legislative offense
- legislative officer
- legislative official
- legislative opinion
- legislative organ
- legislative package
- legislative pardon
- legislative penalty
- legislative period
- legislative plan
- legislative planning
- legislative policy
- legislative power
- legislative prerogative
- legislative priorities
- legislative procedure
- legislative proceeding
- legislative proceedings
- legislative process
- legislative program
- legislative programme
- legislative prohibition
- legislative proposal
- legislative punishment
- legislative purpose
- legislative question
- legislative questioning
- legislative ratification
- legislative reapportionment
- legislative reciprocity
- legislative record
- legislative reference
- legislative reform
- legislative regulation
- legislative representative
- legislative restriction
- legislative review
- legislative revision
- legislative rule
- legislative rulemaker
- legislative rules
- legislative schedule
- legislative seat
- legislative secrecy
- legislative session
- legislative setting
- legislative stage
- legislative strategy
- legislative supervision
- legislative system
- legislative testimony
- legislative treaty
- legislative trial
- legislative union
- legislative veto
- legislative voter
- legislative will
- legislative work
- legislative year

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > legislative
18 primary

1) попередні вибори; виборні збори для висунення кандидата

2) головний, основний, найважливіший; первинний; перший за хронологією; попередній, раніший

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- primary allegation
- primary assembly
- primary authority
- primary boycott
- primary cause
- primary claim
- primary classification
- primary debtor
- primary deviation
- primary document
- primary election
- primary elections
- primary evidence
- primary instrument
- primary intent
- primary law-creating process
- primary lead
- primary liability
- primary obligation
- primary occupation
- primary pistol
- primary punishment
- primary reason
- primary responsibility
- primary revenue source
- primary right
- primary rights
- primary sanction
- primary weapon
- primary witness

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > primary
19 regular

належний, правильний, який потрібно; формальний; належно оформлений, вчинений за формою; який відповідає вимогам права, який узгоджується з правом, відповідний праву; законний, правомірний; загальногромадянський ( про паспорт тощо); черговий (прикм.); штатний

- regular acquisition
- regular administration
- regular administrator
- regular appointment
- regular civil police
- regular consultations
- regular court
- regular deposit
- regular due
- regular election
- regular elections
- regular forces
- regular form of marriage
- regular grand juror
- regular grand jury
- regular judge
- regular juror
- regular jurors
- regular jury
- regular leave
- regular marriage
- regular meeting
- regular member
- regular occupation
- regular on the face
- regular passport
- regular police
- regular proceeding
- regular proceedings
- regular process
- regular recourse
- regular session of parliament
- regular statutory costs
- regular use
- regular vacation
- regular veto
- regular warrant

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > regular
20 ♦ defeat

♦ defeat /dɪˈfi:t/
n.

sconfitta; disfatta: to suffer a defeat, subire una sconfitta; The bill suffered a narrow defeat, il disegno di legge non è passato per poco; to admit (o to concede) defeat, riconoscere la sconfitta; to inflict a defeat on sb., infliggere una sconfitta a q.; to sustain a defeat, subire una sconfitta; a crushing defeat, una sconfitta clamorosa; a humiliating defeat, una sconfitta umiliante; the defeat of the rebel army, la sconfitta dell'esercito ribelle

● ( sport) away defeat, sconfitta in trasferta (o fuori casa) □ ( sport) home defeat, sconfitta in casa.
♦ (to) defeat /dɪˈfi:t/
v. t.

1 sconfiggere; vincere: to defeat an army [the enemy], sconfiggere un esercito [il nemico]; The government could be defeated at the coming election, il governo potrebbe perdere alle prossime elezioni; ( calcio) We were defeated on penalties, abbiamo perso ai rigori

2 essere troppo difficile per: The question defeated me, la domanda era troppo difficile per me; The selection process defeats all but the most determined, solo i più determinati superano il processo di selezione

3 vanificare: to defeat sb. 's plans, vanificare i progetti di q.; to defeat the object of the exercise, vanificare lo scopo dell'esercizio

4 respingere: The bill was defeated in the House of Commons, ai Comuni il disegno di legge è stato respinto.

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