general+approval

passing ['pɑ:sɪŋ]

1 adjective

(a) (going by) qui passe;

∎ she watched the passing crowd elle regardait la foule qui passait;

∎ she flagged down a passing car elle a fait signe à une voiture qui passait de s'arrêter;

∎ with each passing day he grew more worried son inquiétude croissait de jour en jour;

∎ literary the passing hour l'heure f fugitive

(b) (fancy, infatuation) éphémère, passager;

∎ a passing whim un caprice passager;

∎ he didn't give her absence a passing thought c'est tout juste s'il a remarqué son absence, il a à peine remarqué son absence;

∎ he made only a passing reference to her absence il a fait mention de son absence en passant

(c) (slight)

∎ to have a passing acquaintance with sb connaître qn de vue;

∎ to bear a passing resemblance to sb ressembler vaguement à qn

2 noun

(a) (of train, birds etc) passage m; (overtaking → of another car) dépassement m, doublement m

(b) (of time) écoulement m; (of beauty) disparition f;

∎ with the passing of time avec le temps

(c) (approval → of bill, resolution) adoption f; (→ of law) vote m; Finance & Commerce (→ of accounts) approbation f; Finance (→ of dividend) passation f

(d) (giving → of message etc) transmission f; (→ of judgement) prononcé m

(e) Sport passes fpl;

∎ he is renowned for his passing il est célèbre pour (la qualité de) ses passes;

∎ his passing of the ball is excellent ses passes sont excellentes

(f) euphemism (death) trépas m, mort f

3 adverb

archaic fort, extrêmement;

∎ passing fair de toute beauté

4 in passing adverb

en passant;

∎ I'd like to say in passing… …soit dit en passant

►► literary passing bell glas m;

passing customer client(e) m,f de passage;

American passing lane voie f de dépassement;

passing place Cars (on narrow road) aire f de croisement; (in general) endroit m pour doubler; Railways voie f d'évitement ou de dédoublement;

passing shot (in tennis) passing-shot m;

Commerce passing trade clients mpl ou clientèle f de passage

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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His early life was spent in the Ukraine and he then studied at Tupolev's aeroplane institute in Moscow. In the mid-1930s, just before his thirtieth birthday, he joined the GIRD (Group Studying Rocket Propulsion) under Frederick Zander, a Latvian engineer, while earning a living designing aircraft in Tupolev's bureau. In 1934 he visited Konstantin Tsiolovsky. Soon after this, under the Soviet Armaments Minister, Mikhail N.Tukhachevsky, who was in favour of rocket weapons, financial support was available for the GIRD and Korolov was appointed General-Engineer (1-star) in the Soviet Army. In June 1937 the Armaments Minister and his whole staff were arrested under Stalin, but Korolov was saved by Tupolev and sent to a sharaska, or prison, near Moscow where he worked for four years on rocket-and jet-propelled aircraft, among other things. In 1946 he went with his superior, Valentin Glushko, to Germany where he watched the British test-firing of possibly three V-2s at Altenwaide, near Cuxhaven, in "Operation Backfire". They were not allowed within the wire enclosure. He remained in Germany to supervise the shipment of V-2 equipment and staff to Russia (it is possible that he underwent a second term of imprisonment from 1948), the Germans having been arrested in October 1946. He kept working in Russia until 1950 or the following year. He supervised the first Russian ballistic missile, R-1, in late 1947. Stalin died in 1953 and Korolov was rehabilitated, but freedom under Nikita Kruschev was almost as restrictive as imprisonment under Stalin. Kruschev would only refer to him as "the Chief Designer", never naming him, and would not let him go abroad or correspond with other rocket experts in the USA or Germany. Anything he published could only be under the name "Sergeyev". He continued to work on his R-7 without the approval that he sought for a satellite project. This was known as semyorka, or "old number seven". In January 1959 he added a booster stage to semyorka. He may have suffered confinement in the infamous Kolyma Gulag around this time. He designed all the Sputnik, Vostok and some of the Voshkod units and worked on the Proton space booster. In 1966 he underwent surgery performed by Dr Boris Petrovsky, then Soviet Minister of Health, for the removal, it is said, of tumours of the colon. In spite of the assistance of Dr Aleksandr Vishaevsky he bled to death on the operating table. The first moon landing (by robot) took place three weeks after his death and the first flight of the new Soyuz spacecraft a little later.

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Руководящий совет МПК
Орган власти, представляющий МПК. В его обязанности входят утверждение политики и дальнейшая разработка и контроль стратегического направления и целей, определенных Генеральной ассамблеей. В число ключевых ролей Правления входят:
• утверждение программы Паралимпийских игр (видов спорта, дисциплин и мероприятий);
• утверждение ключевых принципов или стратегий, разработанных ОКОИ (например, сервисных уровней и т.п.);
• решение вопросов, связанных с Играми, имеющих политический характер и влияющих на имидж, финансы или правила Паралимпийского движения.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

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IPC governing board (GB)
IPC Governing Board has the authority to represent the IPC. Its responsibilities include the approval of policies and the further development and supervision of the strategic direction and goals defined by the General Assembly. Some of the key roles of the Governing Board are to:
• approve the Paralympic program (sports, disciplines and events)
• approve key policies or strategies proposed by the OCOG (e.g. service levels, etc.)
• address the Games issues of political nature impacting on the image, finances or rules of the Paralympic Movement.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

Тематики

• спорт (управление Играми)

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• IPC governing board (GB)