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  • 1 political terms

    выражения политического происхождения, вошедшие в повседневный обиход и ставшие "повсеместно понятными"

    1. New Deal — Новый курс ( Франклина Рузвельта)

    2. Four Freedoms — freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God, freedom from want, freedom from fear (Ф. Рузвельт)

    3. Speak softly and always carry a big stick (Т. Рузвельт) — Говори тихо, но всегда имей с собой большую дубинку

    4. The buck stops here (Г. Трумен). — «Бюрократичекие игры кончаются здесь».

    5. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (Г. Трумен). — Если жарко — уходи, никто не держит (эта поговорка означает, что политика - дело жестокое, но приходится терпеть).

    6. A rising tide lifts all the boats (Дж. Кеннеди). — Прилив поднимает все лодки (т.е. общий подъем экономики выгоден всем — и богатым, и бедным).

    7. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country (Дж. Кеннеди). — He спрашивай, что может сделать для тебя твоя страна, —лучше спроси, что ты можешь для нее сделать.

    8. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton). — Власть развращает, а безграничная власть развращает безгранично.

    9. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. — Услуга за услугу.

    10. You can't fight City Hall — Плетью обуха не перешибешь.

    11. How you stand depends on where you sit — Где сидишь, на том и стоишь (Какую должность занимаешь, такова и твоя позиция).

    12. Will it play in Peoria? — Поймут ли нас в глубинке?

    13. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. — Что не сломалось, не чини.

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > political terms

  • 2 terms

    1) (the rules or conditions of an agreement or bargain: They had a meeting to arrange terms for an agreement.) condiciones
    2) (fixed charges (for work, service etc): The firms sent us a list of their terms.) condiciones
    3) (a relationship between people: They are on bad/friendly terms.) relaciones
    terms npl condiciones
    have you read the terms of the contract? ¿has leído las condiciones del contrato?
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL condiciones nombre femenino plural
    n.
    • cortapisa s.f.

    English-spanish dictionary > terms

  • 3 Beziehung

    f
    1. (Zusammenhang) von Dingen: relation (zu to), relationship (with, to); connection (with, to); wechselseitige Beziehung interrelationship; in ( direkter) Beziehung zu jemandem / etw. stehen be (directly) connected to ( oder with) s.o. / s.th., be linked to s.o. / s.th., auch have a (direct) relation to s.o. / s.th.; etw. mit etw. in Beziehung bringen oder etw. zu etw. in Beziehung setzen relate s.th. to s.th, see ( oder establish) a link between s.th.
    2. (Hinsicht): in dieser Beziehung from that point of view, in that respect; (in diesem Zusammenhang) in this connection; in mancher Beziehung in some ways ( oder respects); in gewisser Beziehung in a way; in jeder Beziehung in every way ( oder respect); in Beziehung auf (+ Akk) with regard to, as far as... goes ( oder is concerned); in politischer Beziehung politically (speaking), in political terms; in wirtschaftlicher Beziehung (seen) in economic terms, seen from an economic point of view
    3. mit Partner oder Partnerin: relationship (zu with, to); (Affäre) affair; mit Paula hatte ich eine sehr schöne Beziehung I had a lovely (Am. auch great) relationship with Paula; in ihrer Beziehung kriselt es she is having problems in her relationship ( oder with her partner)
    4. Pl.
    a) (Verbindungen) connections Pl. (with, to); (Kontakt) contact (with), contacts Pl. (with, to); menschliche / diplomatische Beziehungen human / diplomatic relations; wirtschaftliche Beziehungen economic relations ( oder contacts); mit einem Staat wirtschaftliche / polititsche Beziehungen aufnehmen / abbrechen establish / break off economic / political relations ( oder contact) with a country; gute Beziehungen zu jemandem haben oder in guter Beziehung zu jemandem stehen be on good terms with s.o.;
    b) zu höheren Stellen etc.: gute Beziehungen haben have good ( oder the right) connections, know the right people umg.; du brauchst Beziehungen you need connections, you’ve got to know the right people umg.; er hat es durch Beziehungen bekommen he got it through contacts, he got it through knowing the right people; seine Beziehungen spielen lassen pull a few strings
    5. (innere Beziehung, Verhältnis, Verständnis) relationship (zu to); affinity (for, to); feeling (for); understanding (of); zur Kunst etc.: auch appreciation (for, of); ich habe keine Beziehung zur Musik auch I can’t relate to music, music doesn’t mean anything ( oder means nothing) to me; ich habe keine Beziehung zu ihm (Menschen, Tier) I can’t relate to him, I feel no affinity for ( oder towards) him, I can’t warm to him
    * * *
    die Beziehung
    relationship; relation; esteem; bearing; respect; reference; association; regard; relational; relatedness
    * * *
    Be|zie|hung
    f
    1) (= Verhältnis) relationship; (PHILOS, MATH) relation
    2) usu pl (= Kontakt) relations pl

    diplomatische Bezíéhungen aufnehmen/abbrechen — to establish/break off diplomatic relations

    intime Bezíéhungen zu jdm haben — to have intimate relations with sb

    menschliche Bezíéhungen — human relations or intercourse

    3) (= Zusammenhang) connection (zu with), relation

    etw zu etw in Bezíéhung setzen — to relate sth to sth

    zwischen den beiden Dingen besteht keinerlei Bezíéhung — there is absolutely no connection between the two (things), the two (things) are totally unconnected or unrelated

    in keiner Bezíéhung zueinander stehen — to have no connection (with each other)

    etw hat keine Bezíéhung zu etw — sth has no bearing on sth, sth has no relationship to sth

    jd verliert die Bezíéhung zur Wirklichkeit — sb feels cut off from reality

    4) usu pl (= Verbindung) connections pl (zu with)

    er hat die Stelle durch Bezíéhungen bekommen — he got the position through his connections or through knowing the right people

    seine Bezíéhungen spielen lassen — to pull strings

    Bezíéhungen haben — to have connections, to know the right people

    Bezíéhungen muss/müsste man haben — you need to know the right people, you need to be able to pull strings

    5) (= Sympathie) (zu etw) feeling (zu for); (zu jdm) affinity (zu for), rapport( zu with)

    ich habe keine Bezíéhung zu abstrakter Malerei — I have no feeling for abstract art, abstract painting doesn't do anything for me

    er hat überhaupt keine Bezíéhung zu seinen Kindern — he just doesn't relate to his children, he has no affinity for his children

    6)
    See:
    = Bezug
    7)

    (= Hinsicht) in einer/keiner Bezíéhung — in one/no respect or way

    in jeder Bezíéhung — in every respect, in all respects

    in mancher Bezíéhung — in some or certain respects

    in dieser Bezíéhung — in this respect

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    die
    1) (a relationship (between facts, events etc).) relation
    2) ((in plural) contact and communications between people, countries etc: to establish friendly relations.) relation
    3) (the friendship, contact, communications etc which exist between people: He finds it very difficult to form lasting relationships.) relationship
    * * *
    Be·zie·hung
    <-, -en>
    [bəˈtsi:ʊŋ]
    f
    ▪ die/jds \Beziehung zu etw dat the/sb's relationship with sth
    zwischen etw dat und jdm/etw besteht eine/keine \Beziehung there is a/no connection between sth and sb/sth
    etw zu etw dat in \Beziehung setzen [o bringen] to connect sth with sth
    als Tagträumer ist es leicht, die \Beziehung zur Realität zu verlieren it's easy for a daydreamer to lose his [or her] grasp of reality
    2. meist pl (fördernde Bekanntschaften) connections npl
    \Beziehungen haben to have connections
    seine \Beziehungen spielen lassen to pull [some] strings
    3. (Verhältnis) relationship; (sexuell) [sexual] relationship
    ich habe zur heutigen Jugend keine \Beziehung I can't relate to the youth of today
    diplomatische \Beziehungen diplomatic relations
    diplomatische \Beziehungen aufnehmen/abbrechen to establish/break off diplomatic relations
    ▪ jds \Beziehung zu/mit jdm sb's relationship with sb
    intime [o sexuelle] \Beziehungen [zu jdm] haben [o unterhalten] to have intimate relations [with sb]
    menschliche \Beziehungen human relations
    keine \Beziehung zu jdm/etw haben to have no feeling for [or be unable to relate to] sb/sth
    4. (Hinsicht) respect
    in einer/keiner \Beziehung in one/no respect [or way]
    in jeder \Beziehung in every respect
    in mancher \Beziehung in many respects
    5. (Zusammenhang) connection
    in einer/keiner \Beziehung zueinander stehen to have a/no connection with one another
    * * *
    1) relation; (Zusammenhang) connection (zu with)

    gute Beziehungen od. eine gute Beziehung zu jemandem haben — have good relations with somebody; be on good terms with somebody

    Beziehungen haben — (gewisse Leute kennen) have [got] connections

    er hat keine Beziehung zur Kunst — he has a blind spot where the arts are concerned; the arts are a closed book to him

    zwischen A und B besteht keine/eine Beziehung — there is no/a connection between A and B

    A zu B in Beziehung (Akk.) setzen — relate A to B; see A in relation to B

    A und B in Beziehung (Akk.) zueinander setzen — relate A and B to each other; connect or link A and B

    2) (Freundschaft, LiebesBeziehung) relationsship
    3) (Hinsicht) respect
    * * *
    1. (Zusammenhang) von Dingen: relation (
    zu to), relationship (with, to); connection (with, to);
    wechselseitige Beziehung interrelationship;
    in (direkter) Beziehung zu jemandem/etwas stehen be (directly) connected to ( oder with) sb/sth, be linked to sb/sth, auch have a (direct) relation to sb/sth;
    etwas zu etwas in Beziehung setzen relate sth to s.th, see ( oder establish) a link between sth
    in dieser Beziehung from that point of view, in that respect; (in diesem Zusammenhang) in this connection;
    in mancher Beziehung in some ways ( oder respects);
    in jeder Beziehung in every way ( oder respect);
    in Beziehung auf (+akk) with regard to, as far as … goes ( oder is concerned);
    in politischer Beziehung politically (speaking), in political terms;
    in wirtschaftlicher Beziehung (seen) in economic terms, seen from an economic point of view
    3. mit Partner oder Partnerin: relationship (
    zu with, to); (Affäre) affair;
    mit Paula hatte ich eine sehr schöne Beziehung I had a lovely (US auch great) relationship with Paula;
    in ihrer Beziehung kriselt es she is having problems in her relationship ( oder with her partner)
    4. pl (Verbindungen) connections pl (with, to); (Kontakt) contact (with), contacts pl (with, to);
    menschliche/diplomatische Beziehungen human/diplomatic relations;
    wirtschaftliche Beziehungen economic relations ( oder contacts);
    mit einem Staat wirtschaftliche/polititsche Beziehungen aufnehmen/abbrechen establish/break off economic/political relations ( oder contact) with a country;
    in guter Beziehung zu jemandem stehen be on good terms with sb; zu höheren Stellen etc:
    gute Beziehungen haben have good ( oder the right) connections, know the right people umg;
    du brauchst Beziehungen you need connections, you’ve got to know the right people umg;
    er hat es durch Beziehungen bekommen he got it through contacts, he got it through knowing the right people;
    5. (innere Beziehung, Verhältnis, Verständnis) relationship (
    zu to); affinity (for, to); feeling (for); understanding (of); zur Kunst etc: auch appreciation (for, of);
    ich habe keine Beziehung zur Musik auch I can’t relate to music, music doesn’t mean anything ( oder means nothing) to me;
    ich habe keine Beziehung zu ihm (Menschen, Tier) I can’t relate to him, I feel no affinity for ( oder towards) him, I can’t warm to him
    * * *
    1) relation; (Zusammenhang) connection (zu with)

    gute Beziehungen od. eine gute Beziehung zu jemandem haben — have good relations with somebody; be on good terms with somebody

    Beziehungen haben — (gewisse Leute kennen) have [got] connections

    er hat keine Beziehung zur Kunst — he has a blind spot where the arts are concerned; the arts are a closed book to him

    zwischen A und B besteht keine/eine Beziehung — there is no/a connection between A and B

    A zu B in Beziehung (Akk.) setzen — relate A to B; see A in relation to B

    A und B in Beziehung (Akk.) zueinander setzen — relate A and B to each other; connect or link A and B

    2) (Freundschaft, LiebesBeziehung) relationsship
    3) (Hinsicht) respect
    * * *
    (zu) f.
    concern (with) n. f.
    relation n.
    relational n.
    relationship n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Beziehung

  • 4 term

    tə:m
    1. noun
    1) (a (usually limited) period of time: a term of imprisonment; a term of office.) período, etapa
    2) (a division of a school or university year: the autumn term.) trimestre (tres meses); cuatrimestre (cuatro meses); semestre (seis meses)
    3) (a word or expression: Myopia is a medical term for short-sightedness.) término
    •

    2. verb
    (to name or call: That kind of painting is termed `abstract'.)
    - in terms of
    term n
    1. trimestre
    2. término
    tr[tɜːm]
    1 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL trimestre nombre masculino
    2 (period of time) período
    3 (expression, word) término
    1 calificar de, llamar, denominar
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL condiciones nombre femenino plural
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    in the long/short term a largo/corto plazo
    in terms of en cuanto a
    on equal terms en igualdad de condiciones
    to be a contradiction in terms ser un contrasentido
    to be on good terms with somebody tener buenas relaciones con alguien
    to come to terms with something llegar a aceptar algo, adaptarse a algo
    to come to terms with somebody llegar a un arreglo con alguien
    term of office mandato
    term ['tərm] vt
    : calificar de, llamar, nombrar
    term n
    1) period: término m, plazo m, período m
    2) : término m (en matemáticas)
    3) word: término m, vocablo m
    legal terms: términos legales
    4) terms npl
    conditions: términos mpl, condiciones fpl
    5) terms npl
    relations: relaciones fpl
    to be on good terms with: tener buenas relaciones con
    6)
    in terms of : con respecto a, en cuanto a
    term (Of a contract, etc.)
    n.
    • condición s.f.
    n.
    • ciclo s.m.
    • condena s.f.
    • mandato s.m.
    • período (Jurisprudencia) s.m.
    • período escolar s.m.
    • plazo s.m.
    • semestre s.m.
    • trimestre s.m.
    • término s.m.
    • vocablo s.m.
    v.
    • calificar v.

    I tɜːrm, tɜːm
    1) noun
    2) ( word) término m

    in general/simple terms — en términos generales/lenguaje sencillo

    3)
    a) ( period) período m, periodo m

    in the short/long term — a corto/largo plazo

    b) (in school, university) trimestre m

    the fall o (BrE) autumn/spring/summer term — el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

    c) ( to due date) plazo m
    4) terms pl
    ( conditions) condiciones fpl

    on equal terms — en igualdad de condiciones, en pie de igualdad

    terms of reference — ( of an inquiry) competencia f, atribuciones fpl y responsabilidades fpl

    5) ( relations) relaciones fpl

    to be on good/bad terms with somebody — estar* en buenas/malas relaciones con alguien, llevarse bien/mal con alguien

    they were on first name terms — se llamaban por el nombre de pila, ≈se tuteaban

    6)
    a) ( sense)

    in financial/social terms — desde el punto de vista financiero/social

    b)

    in terms of: I was thinking more in terms of... yo estaba pensando más bien en...; in terms of efficiency, our system is superior — en cuanto a eficiencia, nuestro sistema es superior


    II
    transitive verb calificar* de
    [tɜːm]
    1. N
    1) (=period) periodo m, período m ; (as President, governor, mayor) mandato m

    • in the long term — a largo plazo

    • in the longer term — a un plazo más largo

    • in the medium term — a medio plazo

    • during his term of office — bajo su mandato

    he will not seek a third term (of office) as mayor — no irá a por un tercer mandato de alcalde, no renovará por tercera vez su candidatura como alcalde

    • he is currently serving a seven-year prison term — actualmente está cumpliendo una condena de siete años

    • he served two terms as governor — ocupó el cargo de gobernador durante dos periodos de mandato

    • in the short term — a corto plazo

    • despite problems, she carried the baby to term — a pesar de los problemas llevó el embarazo a término

    2) (Educ) trimestre m

    in the autumn or (US) fall/spring/summer term — en el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

    3) (Comm, Jur, Econ) (=period of validity) plazo m
    4) (=word) término m

    what do you understand by the term "radical"? — ¿qué entiende usted por (el término) "radical"?

    legal/medical terms — términos mpl legales/médicos

    • a term of abuse — un término ofensivo, un insulto

    • he spoke of it only in general terms — solo habló de ello en términos generales

    • he spoke of her in glowing terms — habló de ella en términos muy elogiosos

    • in simple terms — de forma sencilla

    • she condemned the attacks in the strongest terms — condenó los ataques de la forma más enérgica

    • technical term — tecnicismo m, término m técnico

    contradiction, uncertain
    5) (Math, Logic) término m
    6) terms
    a) (=conditions) condiciones fpl, términos mpl

    • to dictate terms (to sb) — poner condiciones (a algn)

    • we offer easy terms — ofrecemos facilidades de pago

    • terms of employment — condiciones fpl de empleo

    • to compete on equal terms — competir en igualdad de condiciones or en pie de igualdad

    • they accepted him on his own terms — lo aceptaron con las condiciones que él había puesto

    • terms of reference — (=brief) [of committee, inquiry] cometido m, instrucciones fpl ; [of study] ámbito m ; (=area of responsibility) responsabilidades fpl, competencia f ; (=common understanding) puntos mpl de referencia

    • terms of sale — condiciones fpl de venta

    • terms of trade — condiciones fpl de transacción

    - come to terms with sth
    b) (=relations)

    • to be on bad terms with sb — llevarse mal con algn, no tener buenas relaciones con algn

    • we're on first name terms with all the staff — nos tuteamos con todos los empleados

    • she is still on friendly terms with him — todavía mantiene una relación amistosa con él

    • to be on good terms with sb — llevarse bien con algn, tener buenas relaciones con algn

    • we're not on speaking terms at the moment — actualmente no nos hablamos

    c) (=sense)

    in terms of: in terms of production we are doing well — en cuanto a la producción vamos bien, por lo que se refiere or por lo que respecta a la producción vamos bien

    • in economic/ political terms — desde el punto de vista económico/político, en términos económicos/políticos

    • in practical terms this means that... — en la práctica esto significa que...

    • in real terms incomes have fallen — en términos reales los ingresos han bajado

    • seen in terms of its environmental impact, the project is a disaster — desde el punto de vista de su impacto en el medio ambiente, el proyecto es un desastre

    • we were thinking more in terms of an au pair — nuestra idea era más una au pair, teníamos en mente a una au pair

    2.
    VT (=designate) calificar de

    the problems of what is now termed "the mixed economy" — los problemas de lo que ahora se da en llamar "la economía mixta"

    3.
    CPD

    term insurance N — seguro m temporal

    term loan N — préstamo m a plazo fijo

    term paper N — (US) trabajo m escrito trimestral

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    I [tɜːrm, tɜːm]
    1) noun
    2) ( word) término m

    in general/simple terms — en términos generales/lenguaje sencillo

    3)
    a) ( period) período m, periodo m

    in the short/long term — a corto/largo plazo

    b) (in school, university) trimestre m

    the fall o (BrE) autumn/spring/summer term — el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

    c) ( to due date) plazo m
    4) terms pl
    ( conditions) condiciones fpl

    on equal terms — en igualdad de condiciones, en pie de igualdad

    terms of reference — ( of an inquiry) competencia f, atribuciones fpl y responsabilidades fpl

    5) ( relations) relaciones fpl

    to be on good/bad terms with somebody — estar* en buenas/malas relaciones con alguien, llevarse bien/mal con alguien

    they were on first name terms — se llamaban por el nombre de pila, ≈se tuteaban

    6)
    a) ( sense)

    in financial/social terms — desde el punto de vista financiero/social

    b)

    in terms of: I was thinking more in terms of... yo estaba pensando más bien en...; in terms of efficiency, our system is superior — en cuanto a eficiencia, nuestro sistema es superior


    II
    transitive verb calificar* de

    English-spanish dictionary > term

  • 5 term

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    [English Word] long term
    [Swahili Word] muda mrefu
    [Part of Speech] phrase
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    [English Word] political term
    [English Plural] political terms
    [Swahili Word] istilahi ya siasa
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi za siasa
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
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    [English Word] school term
    [English Plural] school terms
    [Swahili Word] kitambo cha chuo
    [Swahili Plural] vitambo vya chuo
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 7/8
    [Related Words] chuo
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    [English Word] short term
    [Swahili Word] muda mfupi
    [Part of Speech] phrase
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    [English Word] technical term
    [English Plural] technical terms
    [Swahili Word] istilahi
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
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    [English Word] term
    [English Plural] terms
    [Swahili Word] kipindi
    [Swahili Plural] vipindi
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 7/8
    [Derived Language] Swahili
    [Derived Word] pinda
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    [English Word] term
    [English Plural] terms
    [Swahili Word] mpaka
    [Swahili Plural] mipaka
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 3/4
    [Related Words] paka
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    [English Word] term
    [English Plural] terms
    [Swahili Word] muda
    [Swahili Plural] miuda
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 3/4
    [Related Words] mudu
    [English Example] planning for the longer-term
    [Swahili Example] kupanga mipango itakayodumu kwa muda mrefu [ http://www.gainhealth.org/pdf/tool_swahili.pdf <i>Kitabu cha Ala za Kujengea Ubia</i>]
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    [English Word] term
    [English Plural] terms
    [Swahili Word] muhula
    [Swahili Plural] mihula
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 3/4
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    [English Word] term
    [English Plural] terms
    [Swahili Word] sharti
    [Swahili Plural] masharti
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 5/6
    [Derived Language] Arabic
    [Related Words] shuruti, -shurutisha
    [Note] usually masharti
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    English-Swahili dictionary > term

  • 6 term

    [təːm] 1. n
    ( word) termin m; ( expression) określenie nt; ( period in power) kadencja f; ( SCOL) ≈ semestr m

    in economic/political terms — w kategoriach ekonomicznych/politycznych

    in terms of — ( as regards) pod względem +gen

    in the short/long term — na krótką/dłuższą metę

    2. vt
    * * *
    [tə:m] 1. noun
    1) (a (usually limited) period of time: a term of imprisonment; a term of office.) okres, kadencja
    2) (a division of a school or university year: the autumn term.) semestr, okres
    3) (a word or expression: Myopia is a medical term for short-sightedness.) termin
    •
    2. verb
    (to name or call: That kind of painting is termed `abstract'.)
    - in terms of

    English-Polish dictionary > term

  • 7 _P

    содержание:
    - PG
    - pro
    - PTA

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > _P

  • 8 istilahi

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    [Swahili Word] istilahi
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi
    [English Word] terminology
    [English Plural] terminologies
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
    [Derived Language] Arabic
    [Derived Word] اصطلاح
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    [Swahili Word] istilahi
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi
    [English Word] jargon
    [English Plural] jargon
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
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    [Swahili Word] istilahi
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi
    [English Word] technical term
    [English Plural] technical terms
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
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    [Swahili Word] istilahi ya siasa
    [Swahili Plural] istilahi za siasa
    [English Word] political term
    [English Plural] political terms
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
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    Swahili-english dictionary > istilahi

  • 9 chiave

    "key;
    Schraubenschlüssel;
    chave fixa"
    * * *
    1. adj invar key
    2. f key
    music clef
    chiave d'accensione ignition key
    chiave inglese spanner, AE monkey wrench
    sotto chiave under lock and key
    * * *
    chiave s.f.
    1 key: chiave falsa, skeleton key; chiave maestra, apritutto, master key; buco della chiave, keyhole; un mazzo di chiavi, a bunch of keys; chiudere a chiave, to lock; uno o più giri di chiave, one or more turns of the key // chiavi in mano, ( di contratto) turnkey (attr.), key in hand (pred.), ( per auto) on stream (o on the road); sotto chiave, under lock and key: tenere qlco., qlcu. sotto chiave, to keep sthg., s.o. locked up (o to keep sthg., s.o. under lock and key) // (arch.) chiave di volta, keystone // (eccl.) chiavi apostoliche, di S. Pietro, St. Peter's keys
    2 (fig.) clue, key: chiave di un enigma, clue to a puzzle; chiave di un messaggio cifrato, cipher key; chiave di un mistero, key to a mystery; posizione chiave, key position; uomo chiave, key man*; la chiave del suo successo è la simpatia, the key to his success is charm
    3 (mecc.) key, spanner, (amer.) wrench: chiave a brugola, allen spanner; chiave a bussola, socket spanner; chiave a cricchetto, ratchet spanner; chiave a rullino, chiave inglese, monkey spanner; chiave a stella, poligonale, ring spanner, (amer.) box wrench; chiave per tubi, pipe spanner; chiave regolabile, adjustable spanner; chiave semplice, aperta, a forcella, open-end spanner // (aut.) chiave d'accensione, ignition key
    4 (mus.) clef: chiave di violino, G (o treble) clef; chiave d'accordatore, tuning hammer; chiave di strumento a corda, peg // commentare in chiave politica, to comment from a political viewpoint.
    * * *
    ['kjave]
    1. sf
    (gen), fig key

    mi raccomando, chiudi a chiave la porta — make sure you lock the door

    prezzo chiavi in mano — (di macchina) on-the-road price Brit, sticker price Am, (di casa) price with immediate entry o possession

    la chiave di lettura di questo brano... — the key to an understanding of this passage...

    chiave di basso/di violino Mus — bass/treble clef

    2. agg inv
    key attr
    * * *
    ['kjave] 1.
    sostantivo femminile
    1) (di serratura, meccanismo) key

    chiave della macchina, di casa — car, house key

    chiudere a chiave — to lock [porta, valigia, cassetto]

    - i in mano — aut. [ prezzo] on the road

    2) tecn. (attrezzo) spanner, wrench
    3) mus. (segno) clef; (congegno) (di flauto, clarinetto) key; (di tromba) valve
    4) fig. (soluzione) key, clue
    5) fig.
    2.
    aggettivo invariabile [elemento, ruolo, punto, uomo, figura] key attrib.

    chiave di accensione — aut. ignition key

    chiave a tubo — box spanner BE, socket wrench

    chiave di volta — arch. keystone (anche fig.)

    * * *
    chiave
    /'kjave/
    I sostantivo f.
     1 (di serratura, meccanismo) key; chiave della macchina, di casa car, house key; la chiave della mia camera the key to my bedroom; chiudere a chiave to lock [porta, valigia, cassetto]; sotto chiave under lock and key; - i in mano aut. [ prezzo] on the road
     2 tecn. (attrezzo) spanner, wrench
     3 mus. (segno) clef; (congegno) (di flauto, clarinetto) key; (di tromba) valve; in chiave di sol in the treble clef; alterazione in chiave key signature
     4 fig. (soluzione) key, clue; la chiave del mistero the key to the mystery
     5 fig. la chiave del successo the key to success
     6 fig. (sistema interpretativo) in chiave politica from a political viewpoint o slant
     [elemento, ruolo, punto, uomo, figura] key attrib.; parola chiave keyword
    chiave di accensione aut. ignition key; chiave inglese monkey wrench; chiave di lettura key to the reading; chiave a tubo box spanner BE, socket wrench; chiave universale skeleton key; chiave di volta arch. keystone (anche fig.).

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > chiave

  • 10 Point, Le

       Popular French weekly newsmagazine, founded in 1972 by a breakaway group of journalists from L'Express (q.v.). Very similar in presentation and look to l'Express, it is now established as one of the leading French political and general interest weeklies. In political terms it is centre-right, and in recent years has been a strident voice in favour of major reforms in French society and the economy.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Point, Le

  • 11 FCPE

       The FCPE, or Fédération des Conseils de Parents d'Elève, is the biggest parents' association in the French school system, with 325,000 members (2008). Founded in 1947 by the teachers' unions, the FCPE has the reputation of being instrumentalised by teachers for their own advantage in decision-making bodies such as school councils where parent's associations have a statutory place. In political terms, the FCPE is left of centre. It's main rival is the PEEP, reputed to be a conservative parent's association. In recent years, both large associations have lost ground to independent local parent's associations. The FCPE is sometimes known as the Fédération Cornec, after the name of a very long-standing chairman Jean Cornec (1956-1980).

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > FCPE

  • 12 idejno-politički

    adv ideologically and politically, in ideological-political terms, along i.-p. lines, from an i.-p. point of view

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > idejno-politički

  • 13 chiave

    ['kjave]
    1. sf
    (gen), fig key

    mi raccomando, chiudi a chiave la porta — make sure you lock the door

    prezzo chiavi in mano — (di macchina) on-the-road price Brit, sticker price Am, (di casa) price with immediate entry o possession

    la chiave di lettura di questo brano... — the key to an understanding of this passage...

    chiave di basso/di violino Mus — bass/treble clef

    2. agg inv
    key attr

    Nuovo dizionario Italiano-Inglese > chiave

  • 14 APT

    Sperber H., Trittschuh T. American Political Terms. A Historical Dictionary. Detroit, 1962.

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > APT

  • 15 условие урегулирования

    Русско-английский военно-политический словарь > условие урегулирования

  • 16 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 17 parti

    I.
    parti1 [paʀti]
    1. masculine noun
       a. ( = groupe) party
       b. ( = solution) option
    • prendre parti pour qn ( = donner raison à qn) to stand up for sb
       c. ( = personne à marier) match
    • beau or bon or riche parti good match
    ► parti pris ( = préjugé) prejudice
    • parti pris artistique/esthétique ( = choix) artistic/aesthetic choice
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    Among the many active right-wing political parties in France, one of the most prominent is the UMP (« Union pour un mouvement populaire »). On the centre right is the MODEM (Mouvement démocrate), and the foremost extreme right-wing party is the FN (« Front National »). On the left, the most influential party is the PS (« Parti socialiste »). The PCF (« Parti communiste français ») has lost a lot of ground and new parties such as the PG (« Parti de gauche ») and the MRG (« Mouvement radical de gauche ») have emerged. The LO (« Lutte ouvrière ») and the NPA (« Nouveau parti anticapitaliste ») are both extreme left-wing parties. The most prominent of France's ecological parties is « Europe écologie-Les Verts ». → ÉLECTIONS
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    II.
    parti2, e1 (inf) [paʀti]
    ( = ivre) tipsy
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    1.
    partie paʀti (colloq) adjectif ( ivre)

    2.
    nom masculin
    1) ( groupe de personnes) group; Politique party
    2) ( solution) option

    prendre parti pour/contre quelque chose — to be for/against something

    3) (dated) ( personne à marier) suitable match
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    tirer parti de — to take advantage of [situation]; to turn [something] to good account [leçon, invention]

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    paʀti nm
    1) POLITIQUE party
    2) (= décision)

    prendre le parti de faire — to make up one's mind to do, to resolve to do

    prendre parti pour — to take sides for, to take a stand for

    prendre parti pour — to take sides against, to take a stand against

    prendre le parti de qn — to stand up for sb, to side with sb

    3) (= personne à marier) match
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    tirer parti de — to take advantage of, to turn to good account

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    A ○adj ( ivre) être parti to be tight○; être un peu parti to be tipsy○; être complètement parti to be plastered○.
    B nm
    1 ( groupe de personnes) group; le parti des mécontents the dissatisfied;
    2 Pol party; les partis de l'opposition the opposition parties; avoir la carte d'un parti to be a card-carrying member of a party; le système du parti unique the one-party system;
    3 ( solution) option; hésiter entre deux partis to hesitate between two options; prendre parti to commit oneself (sur qch on sth); prendre parti pour qn to take sb's side; prendre parti contre qn to be against sb; prendre parti pour/contre qch to be for/against sth; prendre le parti de qn to side with sb (contre qn against sb); prendre le parti de qch to opt for sth; prendre le parti de faire to decide to do; il a pris le parti de ne rien dire he decided not to say anything; ne pas savoir quel parti prendre not to know what to do for the best;
    4 †( personne à marier) suitable match; être un beau or bon parti [homme] to be an eligible bachelor; [homme, femme] to be a catch○.
    C partie nf
    1 ( élément d'un tout) gén part; (d'une somme, d'un salaire) proportion, part; une partie de la population/des électeurs a proportion ou section of the population/of the voters; une partie des bénéfices/salaires a proportion of the profits/wages; les parties du corps the parts of the body; la première/deuxième partie de the first/second part of [livre, film, spectacle]; un feuilleton en six parties a television serial in six parts; une bonne or grande partie de a good ou large number of [personnes, objets, éléments]; a high proportion of [masse, ensemble, ressources]; la majeure partie des gens most people; la majeure partie de la population/des cas the majority of the population/of cases; en partie partly, in part; en grande partie to a large ou great extent; pour partie liter partly, in part; tout ou partie de all or part of; se faire rembourser tout ou partie des frais to have all or some of one's expenses paid; faire partie de to be part of [groupe, processus, idéologie, pays]; il fait partie de la famille he's one of the family; faire partie des premiers/derniers to be among the first/last; cela fait partie de leurs avantages that's one of their advantages; faire partie du passé to belong to the past; être or faire partie intégrante de qch to be an integral part of sth;
    2 ( division de l'espace) part; dans cette partie du monde/de l'Afrique in this part of the world/of Africa; la partie est/ouest de Jérusalem the eastern/western part of Jerusalem;
    3 ( division temporelle) part; il a plu une partie de la journée/nuit it rained for part of the day/night; ça m'a occupé une bonne partie de la matinée it took me a good part of the morning; il leur consacre une partie de son temps libre he devotes some of his free time to them; elle passe la majeure partie de son temps au travail/à dormir she spends most of her time at work/sleeping;
    4 ( profession) line (of work); dans ma partie in my line (of work); il est de la partie it's in his line (of work); je ne suis pas du tout de la partie that's not at all in my line;
    5 ⇒ Les jeux et les sports Jeux, Sport game; une partie de poker/de billard/d'échecs a game of poker/of billiards/of chess; une partie de tennis a game of tennis; une partie de cache-cache a game of hide-and-seek; une partie de golf a round of golf; faire or jouer une partie to have a game; la partie qui se joue entre les deux pays est difficile fig the ongoing situation between the two countries is tense; gagner/perdre une partie Jeux, Sport to win/lose a game; gagner/perdre la partie fig to win/lose the day; abandonner la partie Jeux, Sport to abandon the game; fig to give up (the fight); avoir la partie belle or facile fig to have an easy time of it; être de la partie fig to be in on it○; je fête mes trente ans, j'espère que tu seras de la partie I'm having a thirtieth birthday party, I hope you can come; nous ne pouvons pas venir à votre fête mais ce n'est que partie remise we can't make it to your party but maybe next time;
    6 (dans une négociation, un contrat) party; les parties en présence/conflit the parties (involved)/the opposing parties; les parties contractantes/concernées the contracting/interested parties; les deux parties ont signé un accord the two parties signed an agreement; les parties belligérantes the warring parties ou factions; être partie prenante dans qch to be actively involved in [conflit, contrat, négociation];
    7 Jur party; la partie adverse the opposing party;
    8 Mus part; la partie de soprano/basse the soprano/bass part;
    9 Math part.
    D parties○ nfpl privates○.
    parti pris bias; parti pris esthétique/politique aesthetic/political bias; parti pris de réalisme/modernité bias toward(s) realism/modernity; Parti conservateur Conservative Party; Parti communiste, PC Communist Party; Parti communiste français, PCF French Communist Party; Parti démocrate Democrat Party; Parti républicain Republican Party; Parti socialiste, PS Socialist Party; Parti travailliste Labour Party; partie carrée○ wife-swapping party; partie de chasse Chasse hunting party; partie civile Jur plaintiff; l'avocat de la partie civile the counsel for the plaintiff; se constituer or porter partie civile to take civil action; partie du discours Ling part of speech; partie fine orgy; partie de jambes en l'air○ legover◑ GB, screw◑; partie de pêche fishing trip; partie de plaisir fun; tu parles d'une partie de plaisir! iron that's not my idea of fun!; parties génitales or honteuses† private parts.
    prendre son parti de qch to come to terms with sth; tirer parti de qch to take advantage of [situation, événement]; to turn [sth] to good account [leçon, invention]; faire un mauvais parti à qn to ill-treat sb; avoir affaire à forte partie to have a tough opponent; prendre qn à partie to take sb to task; ⇒ lier.
    ⓘ Partis politiques In general, French political parties reflect a basic left/right divide. On the left, the main parties are the parti socialiste (PS) and the parti communiste français ( PCF) while the principal parties on the right are the Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR) and the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF). These two groups regularly run a joint list known as the Alliance pour la France as part of an electoral pact. There are in addition more extreme groupings at both ends of the political spectrum. Beyond the left/right divide generally, the ecological movement is represented by Les Verts and Génération Écologie.
    I
    ( féminin partie) [parti] adjectif
    II
    [parti] nom masculin
    le parti communiste/conservateur/démocrate/républicain/socialiste the Communist/Conservative/Democratic/Republican/Socialist Party
    les partis de droite/gauche the parties of the right/left, the right-wing/left-wing parties
    2. (soutenu) [choix, décision] decision, course of action
    prendre le parti de faire quelque chose to make up one's mind to do something, to decide to do something
    prendre parti [prendre position] to take sides ou a stand
    prendre parti pour/contre quelque chose to come out for/against something
    prendre parti pour quelqu'un to side ou to take sides with somebody
    prendre son parti: son parti est pris her mind is made up, she's made up her mind
    en prendre son parti: elle ne sera jamais musicienne, il faut que j'en prenne mon/qu'elle en prenne son parti she'll never be a musician, I'll/she'll just have to accept it
    3. [avantage]
    a. [situation] to take advantage of
    b. [équipement] to put to good use
    4. (humoristique) [personne à marier]
    c'est un beau ou bon parti he's/she's a good match
    ————————
    parti pris nom masculin
    1. [prise de position] commitment
    avoir un parti pris de modernisme/clarté to be committed to modernism/clear-thinking
    2. [préjugé] bias
    je n'ai aucun parti pris contre le tennis professionnel, mais... I'm not biased against professional tennis, but...
    je dirais, sans parti pris, qu'elle est la meilleure without any bias on my part, I'd say that she's the best

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > parti

  • 18 igualdad

    f.
    1 equality (equivalencia).
    igualdad de derechos equal rights
    igualdad de oportunidades equal opportunities
    2 sameness.
    3 equation.
    * * *
    1 equality
    2 (de superficie) levelness
    \
    en igualdad de condiciones,... all things being equal,...
    estar en igualdad de condiciones to be on equal terms
    igualdad de derechos equal rights
    igualdad de oportunidades equal opportunities
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=equivalencia) equality

    en igualdad de condiciones — on an equal basis, on an equal footing

    2) (=uniformidad) [de superficie] evenness; [de rasgos, formas] similarity
    * * *
    femenino equality
    * * *
    = equity, parity, equality, equitability.
    Ex. It covers selected news reports which include the president's programme, power for youth services workers, pay equity, and equity in information services.
    Ex. The two cases perhaps indicate the beginning of attitudinal changes in awards administrators which will give parity of esteem to information-driven programmes.
    Ex. The national ethos is much more egalitarian than it was and more and more appeals can successfully be made to the argument of equality in political discussion.
    Ex. These variables ensured equitability by virtue of enabling each department to acquire the same percentage of the literature published in its field.
    ----
    * concienciacion de la igualdad de sexos = gender awareness.
    * directiva sobre la igualdad de trato = equal treatment directive.
    * en condiciones de igualdad = on an equal footing, on equal terms, on an equal basis.
    * en igualdad de condiciones = other things being equal, on equal terms, one of equals, ceteris paribus, in a tie, on an equal footing, on an equal basis.
    * en igualdad de condiciones para todos los sexos = gender-equitable.
    * estar en igualdad de condiciones con = be on (an) equal footing with.
    * igualdad de acceso = equity of access.
    * igualdad de condiciones para todos = levelling of the playing field.
    * igualdad de derechos = equal rights, equality of rights.
    * igualdad de género = gender equality, sex equality, sexual equality.
    * igualdad de oportunidad en el trabajo = equal employment opportunity.
    * igualdad de oportunidades = equal opportunity, equality of opportunities, equity of opportunity.
    * igualdad de poder = parity of power.
    * igualdad de retribución = equal pay.
    * igualdad de retribución por un trabajo de valor comparable = equal pay for equal work, equal pay for comparable work.
    * igualdad de tratamiento = fairness.
    * igualdad de trato = equal treatment.
    * igualdad entre las razas = race equality.
    * igualdad entre los sexos = gender equality, sex equality, sexual equality.
    * igualdad racial = race equality, racial equality.
    * igualdad retributiva = equal pay.
    * igualdad social = social equity.
    * leyes sobre la igualdad = equity laws.
    * principio de igualdad, el = egalitarian principle, the.
    * * *
    femenino equality
    * * *
    = equity, parity, equality, equitability.

    Ex: It covers selected news reports which include the president's programme, power for youth services workers, pay equity, and equity in information services.

    Ex: The two cases perhaps indicate the beginning of attitudinal changes in awards administrators which will give parity of esteem to information-driven programmes.
    Ex: The national ethos is much more egalitarian than it was and more and more appeals can successfully be made to the argument of equality in political discussion.
    Ex: These variables ensured equitability by virtue of enabling each department to acquire the same percentage of the literature published in its field.
    * concienciacion de la igualdad de sexos = gender awareness.
    * directiva sobre la igualdad de trato = equal treatment directive.
    * en condiciones de igualdad = on an equal footing, on equal terms, on an equal basis.
    * en igualdad de condiciones = other things being equal, on equal terms, one of equals, ceteris paribus, in a tie, on an equal footing, on an equal basis.
    * en igualdad de condiciones para todos los sexos = gender-equitable.
    * estar en igualdad de condiciones con = be on (an) equal footing with.
    * igualdad de acceso = equity of access.
    * igualdad de condiciones para todos = levelling of the playing field.
    * igualdad de derechos = equal rights, equality of rights.
    * igualdad de género = gender equality, sex equality, sexual equality.
    * igualdad de oportunidad en el trabajo = equal employment opportunity.
    * igualdad de oportunidades = equal opportunity, equality of opportunities, equity of opportunity.
    * igualdad de poder = parity of power.
    * igualdad de retribución = equal pay.
    * igualdad de retribución por un trabajo de valor comparable = equal pay for equal work, equal pay for comparable work.
    * igualdad de tratamiento = fairness.
    * igualdad de trato = equal treatment.
    * igualdad entre las razas = race equality.
    * igualdad entre los sexos = gender equality, sex equality, sexual equality.
    * igualdad racial = race equality, racial equality.
    * igualdad retributiva = equal pay.
    * igualdad social = social equity.
    * leyes sobre la igualdad = equity laws.
    * principio de igualdad, el = egalitarian principle, the.

    * * *
    A (equidad) equality
    libertad, igualdad, fraternidad liberty, equality, fraternity
    igualdad de oportunidades/derechos equal opportunities/rights
    por primera vez se enfrentaban en igualdad de condiciones for the first time they faced each other on equal terms o on an equal footing
    B ( Mat) equation
    * * *

    igualdad sustantivo femenino
    equality;

    en igualdad de condiciones on equal terms
    igualdad sustantivo femenino
    1 (de trato) equality: exigimos igualdad de oportunidades para los minusválidos, we demand equality of opportunity for handicapped people
    igualdad ante la ley, equality before the law
    en igualdad de condiciones, on equal terms
    2 (coincidencia, parecido) similarity: hay mucha igualdad entre ambos equipos, there is a lot of similarity between the two teams

    ' igualdad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    consonancia
    - estar
    - identidad
    - oportunidad
    - pie
    English:
    arm's length
    - equal
    - equality
    - footing
    - lobby
    - minority
    - parity
    - sameness
    - par
    - pay
    * * *
    1. [equivalencia] equality;
    la igualdad ante la ley equality before the law;
    piden un trato de igualdad they are asking for equal treatment;
    para garantizar la igualdad de condiciones in order to ensure a level playing field;
    en pie de igualdad on an equal footing
    igualdad de derechos equal rights;
    igualdad de oportunidades equal opportunities;
    igualdad de sexos sexual equality
    2. [identidad] sameness
    3. Mat equation
    * * *
    f equality
    * * *
    1) : equality
    2) uniformidad: evenness, uniformity
    * * *
    igualdad n equality

    Spanish-English dictionary > igualdad

  • 19 cuestión

    f.
    issue, matter, problem, subject.
    * * *
    1 (pregunta) question
    2 (asunto) business, matter, question
    3 (discusión) dispute, quarrel, argument
    \
    en cuestión in question
    en cuestión de... (tiempo) in just a few..., in a matter of...
    eso es otra cuestión that's a whole different matter
    la cuestión es que... the thing is that...
    ser cuestión de vida o muerte figurado to be a matter of life or death
    cuestión candente burning question
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=asunto) matter, question

    ¡sigue gritando, la cuestión es no dejarme tranquilo! — iró * carry on shouting, don't mind me!

    no sé por qué, pero la cuestión es que ahora soy más pobre — * I don't know why, but the fact is that I'm poorer now than I was

    • cuestión de, una cuestión de honor — a matter of honour

    todo es cuestión de proponérselo — it's all a matter o question of telling yourself you can do it

    puedes beber, pero no es cuestión de que te emborraches — you can have a drink or two, but there's no need to get drunk

    • en cuestión — in question

    quid, vida 1)
    2) (=pregunta) question
    3) (=duda)

    poner algo en cuestión — to call sth into question, raise doubts about sth

    * * *
    1)
    a) (tema, problema) question, matter

    otra cuestión sería que or si estuviera enfermo — if he were ill, that would be another matter o a different matter altogether

    la cuestión es... — the thing is...

    la cuestión es molestar — he/she only does it to annoy

    es cuestión de diez minutos — it'll only take/I'll only be ten minutes

    si fuera cuestión de dinero, no habría problema — if it were a question of money, there'd be no problem

    todo es cuestión de... — it's just a question of...

    2) ( duda)
    3) (fam) ( problema) disagreement, problem; (cosa, objeto) thing, thingamajig* (colloq)
    * * *
    = affair, consideration, enquiry [inquiry, -USA], issue, matter, point, question, topic, business [businesses, -pl.], concern, question.
    Ex. And also until Groome appeared, newcomers were a nullity as an active political force, exerting little influence in city affairs.
    Ex. This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex. A threshold weight appropriate to the specificity of the searcher's enquiry must be established.
    Ex. These issues are reviewed more thoroughly in chapter 10.
    Ex. AACR2 generally recommends collocation although it is suggested that the extent of collocation and the need for uniform titles is a matter for local decisions.
    Ex. The point being that these systems are very much in their infancy and have a long way to go before they reach the comparable sophistication of space probes and reusable rocketry.
    Ex. One argument against including a list of questions is that often analysts will think they are the only questions that might be asked.
    Ex. A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.
    Ex. I think this whole business about whether punctuation is obtrusive or not is quite honestly not worth discussing.
    Ex. Her article lays emphasis on some of the concerns that are important to the continued development of effective information policies.
    Ex. The question is not how much time we have, but what we do with it and how we utilize it.
    ----
    * aclarar una cuestión = clarify + matter, clarify + issue.
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * analizar una cuestión = explore + question, explore + issue.
    * cuestión administrativa = management issue, administrative issue.
    * cuestión candente = burning issue, burning question.
    * cuestión científica = scientific issue.
    * cuestión controvertida = vexed question, vexing question.
    * cuestión crítica = critical issue.
    * cuestión debatible = debatable point.
    * cuestión de importancia = matter of consequence.
    * cuestión delicada = sensitive issue.
    * cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.
    * cuestión difícil = thorny issue, thorny question, poser.
    * cuestión económica = economic issue, financial issue.
    * cuestiones = matters.
    * cuestiones bibliotecarias = library issues.
    * cuestiones clave = key issues.
    * cuestiones de intendencia = housekeeping.
    * cuestiones de reglamento = policy issue.
    * cuestiones implicadas = issues involved.
    * cuestión específica = topical issue.
    * cuestiones poco claras = grey area [gray area].
    * cuestiones prácticas = mechanics, how-to.
    * cuestiones problemáticas = problem areas.
    * cuestiones sociales = social affairs.
    * cuestiones técnicas = check + under the hood, crawl + under the hood.
    * cuestión ética = ethical issue.
    * cuestión financiera = financial issue.
    * cuestión + girar en torno a = question + revolve around.
    * cuestión histórica = historical issue.
    * cuestión imprescindible = imperative.
    * cuestión insignificante = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión laboral = work-related issue.
    * cuestión legal = legal issue.
    * cuestión negociable = negotiable point.
    * cuestión peliaguda = sticky issue.
    * cuestión personal = life issue, personal issue.
    * cuestión polémica = vexed question, vexing question.
    * cuestión política = political issue.
    * cuestión práctica = practicality.
    * cuestión problemática = issue of concern, sticky issue.
    * cuestión relacionada con el trabajo = work-related issue.
    * cuestión sin importancia = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión sin trascendencia = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión social = social issue, societal issue.
    * cuestión + surgir = issue + surface.
    * cuestión técnica = technical issue.
    * cuestión tecnológica = technological issue.
    * debatir una cuestión = discuss + idea, discuss + issue.
    * dejar la cuestión abierta = leave + the question open.
    * desviarse del tema en cuestión = go off on + another track.
    * discutir una cuestión = air + issue.
    * el quid de la cuestión = the crux of the problem, the crux of the matter.
    * eludir una cuestión = dodge + issue.
    * en cuestión = at hand, concerned, in hand, in question, individual, at issue, of concern.
    * en cuestión de minutos = within minutes, in a matter of minutes.
    * en cuestión de segundos = within seconds, in a matter of seconds.
    * en cuestión de + Tiempo = in a matter of + Tiempo, within a matter of + Tiempo.
    * en cuestiones de = in matters of.
    * enfrentarse a una cuestión = run up against + issue.
    * en las cuestiones relacionadas con = in the areas of.
    * esa es la cuestión = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * esquivar la cuestión = sidestep + the issue.
    * esquivar una cuestión = dodge + issue.
    * estado de la cuestión = state of the art.
    * estudio crítico del estado de la cuestión = review.
    * estudio del estado de la cuestión = survey.
    * evitar discutir una cuestión = circumvent + issue.
    * evitar una cuestión = skirt + issue, tiptoe around + issue.
    * exponer una cuestión = raise + point.
    * informe del estado de la cuestión = state of the art report, state of the art review.
    * la cuestión es que = the thing is.
    * la juventud no es cuestión de edad sino de espíritu = you are as old as you feel.
    * llegar al fondo de la cuestión = see to the + bottom of things.
    * llegar al meollo de la cuestión = arrive at + the heart of the matter.
    * llegar al quid de la cuestión = arrive at + the heart of the matter.
    * llevar a hablar de una cuestión = bring up + issue.
    * mencionar una cuestión = bring up + matter, bring up + point.
    * meollo de la cuestión, el = heart of the matter, the, heart of the question, the.
    * no ser cuestión de = there + be + no question of.
    * partes en cuestión, las = parties concerned, the.
    * plantearle a Alguien una cuestión = put before + Nombre + an issue.
    * plantear una cuestión = bring forth + issue, issue + arise, pose + question, raise + argument, raise + issue, raise + point, open up + issue.
    * poner en cuestión = call into + question, render + questionable.
    * poner en cuestión la validez de = bring into + question the validity of, question + the validity of.
    * proyección de cuestiones de interés = issues management.
    * quid de la cuestión, el = heart of the matter, the, heart of the question, the.
    * relacionado con cuestiones raciales = race-related.
    * resolver las cuestiones menores = work out + details.
    * resolver una cuestión = resolve + point, resolve + question, issue + settle.
    * responder la cuestión = get behind + the question.
    * sacar a colación una cuestión = bring up + matter, bring up + issue, bring up + point.
    * ser cuestión de = come down to.
    * ser la cuestión = be the point.
    * ser una cuestión de = be a matter for/of.
    * ser una cuestión debatible = be an open question.
    * ser una cuestión problemática = be at issue.
    * surgir una cuestión = issue + arise, arise + question.
    * suscitar una cuestión = evoke + issue, open up + issue.
    * tocar una cuestión = touch on/upon + issue.
    * tratar la cuestión de = get to + the issue of.
    * tratar una cuestión = address + constraint, address + issue, address + question, consider + issue, tackle + issue, address + concern, deal with + issue, broach + issue, broach + question, grapple with + issue.
    * tratar una cuestión ligeramente = touch on/upon + issue.
    * una cuestión de principios = a matter of principle.
    * una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.
    * zanjar la cuestión = clinch + the affair, clinch + the argument.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (tema, problema) question, matter

    otra cuestión sería que or si estuviera enfermo — if he were ill, that would be another matter o a different matter altogether

    la cuestión es... — the thing is...

    la cuestión es molestar — he/she only does it to annoy

    es cuestión de diez minutos — it'll only take/I'll only be ten minutes

    si fuera cuestión de dinero, no habría problema — if it were a question of money, there'd be no problem

    todo es cuestión de... — it's just a question of...

    2) ( duda)
    3) (fam) ( problema) disagreement, problem; (cosa, objeto) thing, thingamajig* (colloq)
    * * *
    = affair, consideration, enquiry [inquiry, -USA], issue, matter, point, question, topic, business [businesses, -pl.], concern, question.

    Ex: And also until Groome appeared, newcomers were a nullity as an active political force, exerting little influence in city affairs.

    Ex: This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex: A threshold weight appropriate to the specificity of the searcher's enquiry must be established.
    Ex: These issues are reviewed more thoroughly in chapter 10.
    Ex: AACR2 generally recommends collocation although it is suggested that the extent of collocation and the need for uniform titles is a matter for local decisions.
    Ex: The point being that these systems are very much in their infancy and have a long way to go before they reach the comparable sophistication of space probes and reusable rocketry.
    Ex: One argument against including a list of questions is that often analysts will think they are the only questions that might be asked.
    Ex: A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.
    Ex: I think this whole business about whether punctuation is obtrusive or not is quite honestly not worth discussing.
    Ex: Her article lays emphasis on some of the concerns that are important to the continued development of effective information policies.
    Ex: The question is not how much time we have, but what we do with it and how we utilize it.
    * aclarar una cuestión = clarify + matter, clarify + issue.
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * analizar una cuestión = explore + question, explore + issue.
    * cuestión administrativa = management issue, administrative issue.
    * cuestión candente = burning issue, burning question.
    * cuestión científica = scientific issue.
    * cuestión controvertida = vexed question, vexing question.
    * cuestión crítica = critical issue.
    * cuestión debatible = debatable point.
    * cuestión de importancia = matter of consequence.
    * cuestión delicada = sensitive issue.
    * cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.
    * cuestión difícil = thorny issue, thorny question, poser.
    * cuestión económica = economic issue, financial issue.
    * cuestiones = matters.
    * cuestiones bibliotecarias = library issues.
    * cuestiones clave = key issues.
    * cuestiones de intendencia = housekeeping.
    * cuestiones de reglamento = policy issue.
    * cuestiones implicadas = issues involved.
    * cuestión específica = topical issue.
    * cuestiones poco claras = grey area [gray area].
    * cuestiones prácticas = mechanics, how-to.
    * cuestiones problemáticas = problem areas.
    * cuestiones sociales = social affairs.
    * cuestiones técnicas = check + under the hood, crawl + under the hood.
    * cuestión ética = ethical issue.
    * cuestión financiera = financial issue.
    * cuestión + girar en torno a = question + revolve around.
    * cuestión histórica = historical issue.
    * cuestión imprescindible = imperative.
    * cuestión insignificante = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión laboral = work-related issue.
    * cuestión legal = legal issue.
    * cuestión negociable = negotiable point.
    * cuestión peliaguda = sticky issue.
    * cuestión personal = life issue, personal issue.
    * cuestión polémica = vexed question, vexing question.
    * cuestión política = political issue.
    * cuestión práctica = practicality.
    * cuestión problemática = issue of concern, sticky issue.
    * cuestión relacionada con el trabajo = work-related issue.
    * cuestión sin importancia = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión sin trascendencia = matter of no consequence.
    * cuestión social = social issue, societal issue.
    * cuestión + surgir = issue + surface.
    * cuestión técnica = technical issue.
    * cuestión tecnológica = technological issue.
    * debatir una cuestión = discuss + idea, discuss + issue.
    * dejar la cuestión abierta = leave + the question open.
    * desviarse del tema en cuestión = go off on + another track.
    * discutir una cuestión = air + issue.
    * el quid de la cuestión = the crux of the problem, the crux of the matter.
    * eludir una cuestión = dodge + issue.
    * en cuestión = at hand, concerned, in hand, in question, individual, at issue, of concern.
    * en cuestión de minutos = within minutes, in a matter of minutes.
    * en cuestión de segundos = within seconds, in a matter of seconds.
    * en cuestión de + Tiempo = in a matter of + Tiempo, within a matter of + Tiempo.
    * en cuestiones de = in matters of.
    * enfrentarse a una cuestión = run up against + issue.
    * en las cuestiones relacionadas con = in the areas of.
    * esa es la cuestión = herein lies the rub, there's the rub.
    * esquivar la cuestión = sidestep + the issue.
    * esquivar una cuestión = dodge + issue.
    * estado de la cuestión = state of the art.
    * estudio crítico del estado de la cuestión = review.
    * estudio del estado de la cuestión = survey.
    * evitar discutir una cuestión = circumvent + issue.
    * evitar una cuestión = skirt + issue, tiptoe around + issue.
    * exponer una cuestión = raise + point.
    * informe del estado de la cuestión = state of the art report, state of the art review.
    * la cuestión es que = the thing is.
    * la juventud no es cuestión de edad sino de espíritu = you are as old as you feel.
    * llegar al fondo de la cuestión = see to the + bottom of things.
    * llegar al meollo de la cuestión = arrive at + the heart of the matter.
    * llegar al quid de la cuestión = arrive at + the heart of the matter.
    * llevar a hablar de una cuestión = bring up + issue.
    * mencionar una cuestión = bring up + matter, bring up + point.
    * meollo de la cuestión, el = heart of the matter, the, heart of the question, the.
    * no ser cuestión de = there + be + no question of.
    * partes en cuestión, las = parties concerned, the.
    * plantearle a Alguien una cuestión = put before + Nombre + an issue.
    * plantear una cuestión = bring forth + issue, issue + arise, pose + question, raise + argument, raise + issue, raise + point, open up + issue.
    * poner en cuestión = call into + question, render + questionable.
    * poner en cuestión la validez de = bring into + question the validity of, question + the validity of.
    * proyección de cuestiones de interés = issues management.
    * quid de la cuestión, el = heart of the matter, the, heart of the question, the.
    * relacionado con cuestiones raciales = race-related.
    * resolver las cuestiones menores = work out + details.
    * resolver una cuestión = resolve + point, resolve + question, issue + settle.
    * responder la cuestión = get behind + the question.
    * sacar a colación una cuestión = bring up + matter, bring up + issue, bring up + point.
    * ser cuestión de = come down to.
    * ser la cuestión = be the point.
    * ser una cuestión de = be a matter for/of.
    * ser una cuestión debatible = be an open question.
    * ser una cuestión problemática = be at issue.
    * surgir una cuestión = issue + arise, arise + question.
    * suscitar una cuestión = evoke + issue, open up + issue.
    * tocar una cuestión = touch on/upon + issue.
    * tratar la cuestión de = get to + the issue of.
    * tratar una cuestión = address + constraint, address + issue, address + question, consider + issue, tackle + issue, address + concern, deal with + issue, broach + issue, broach + question, grapple with + issue.
    * tratar una cuestión ligeramente = touch on/upon + issue.
    * una cuestión de principios = a matter of principle.
    * una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.
    * zanjar la cuestión = clinch + the affair, clinch + the argument.

    * * *
    A
    1 (tema, problema) question, matter
    es experto en cuestiones de derecho internacional he is an expert on matters o questions of international law
    otra cuestión sería que or si estuviera enfermo if he were ill, that would be another matter o a different matter
    llegar al fondo de la cuestión to get to the heart of the matter o issue, to get to the root of the problem
    2 ( en locs):
    en cuestión in question
    el museo en cuestión va a ser clausurado the museum in question is going to be closed
    en cuestión de in a matter of
    aprendió inglés en cuestión de meses she learnt English in a matter of months
    la cuestión es … the thing is …
    la cuestión es que no tengo tiempo the problem o thing is that I don't have time
    la cuestiónes divertirnos the main thing is to enjoy ourselves
    pide por pedir, la cuestión es molestar she asks just for the sake of asking, she only does it to annoy
    ser cuestión de to be a matter o question of
    es una cuestión de principios it's a matter o question of principle
    en taxi es cuestión de diez minutos it's only a ten-minute taxi ride
    si fuera cuestión de dinero, no habría problema if it were a question of money, there'd be no problem
    todo es cuestión de darle tiempo al tiempo it's just a question of waiting
    todo es cuestión de poner atención it's just o all a question of concentrating, it's just o all a matter of concentration
    será cuestión de planteárselo y ver we'll just have to put it to him and see
    tampoco es cuestión de enloquecernos there's no need to get in a flap ( colloq)
    ayúdala, pero tampoco es cuestión de que lo hagas todo tú help her by all means, but there's no reason why you should do it all yourself
    B
    (duda): poner algo en cuestión to call sth into question, to raise questions o doubts about sth
    este descubrimiento pone en cuestión la validez del método this discovery raises questions about o raises doubts about o calls into question the validity of the method
    C ( fam)
    1 (problema) disagreement, problem
    2 (cosa, objeto) thing, thingamajig* ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    cuestión sustantivo femenino
    a) (tema, problema) question, matter;

    ◊ cuestiones de derecho internacional matters o questions of international law;

    llegar al fondo de la cuestión to get to the heart of the matter
    b) ( en locs)


    en cuestión de in a matter of;
    la cuestión es … the thing is …;
    la cuestión es divertirnos the main thing is to enjoy ourselves;
    ser cuestión de to be a matter of;
    todo es cuestión de … it's just a question of …
    cuestión sustantivo femenino
    1 (asunto) matter, question
    2 (pregunta) question
    ♦ Locuciones: en cuestión, in question: el muchacho en cuestión, the boy in questión
    en cuestión de unas horas, in just a few hours
    poner en cuestión algo, to doubt sthg
    si te cansas de conducir, es cuestión de parar en cualquier lado, if you get tired of driving, we can stop anywhere
    ' cuestión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    discutir
    - inaccesible
    - indecisa
    - indeciso
    - intrincada
    - intrincado
    - palpitante
    - quid
    - radicar
    - resolverse
    - seno
    - soslayar
    - tratar
    - volar
    - asunto
    - chabolismo
    - delicado
    - empezar
    - fondo
    - plantear
    - tema
    - vida
    English:
    arise
    - burning
    - cast
    - crux
    - issue
    - matter
    - morality
    - nitty-gritty
    - open
    - pose
    - principle
    - proceed
    - question
    - raise
    - stake
    - undecided
    - vexed
    - whip on
    - come
    - point
    * * *
    1. [pregunta] question
    2. [problema] problem;
    no es cuestión de tamaño sino de peso it's a question o matter of weight not size
    3. [asunto] matter, issue;
    una cuestión de honor/de principios a matter of honour/principle;
    los investigadores quieren llegar al fondo de la cuestión the investigators want to get to the bottom of the matter;
    la cuestión es que no he tenido tiempo the thing is, I haven't had time;
    en cuestión in question;
    el candidato en cuestión es venezolano the candidate in question is Venezuelan;
    tenemos que discutir el tema en cuestión we must discuss the matter at hand;
    en cuestión de [en materia de] as regards;
    en cuestión de una hora in no more than an hour;
    el edificio se hundió en cuestión de segundos the building collapsed in a matter of seconds;
    es cuestión de un par de días it is a matter of a couple of days;
    ya acabo, es cuestión de cinco minutos I'm nearly finished, I'll only be five minutes;
    es cuestión de trabajar más it's a question of working harder;
    será cuestión de ir yéndose it's time we were on our way;
    será cuestión de esforzarnos más we'll just have to work harder;
    no es cuestión de que el abuelo se ponga a hacerlo there's no need for grandad to have to do it
    4.
    poner algo en cuestión to call sth into question
    * * *
    f
    1 question
    2 ( asunto) matter, question;
    en cuestión de dinero as far as money is concerned;
    no es cuestión de dinero it’s not a question of money;
    en cuestión in question;
    la cuestión es que the thing is
    * * *
    cuestión nf, pl - tiones asunto, tema: matter, affair
    * * *
    1. (asunto) matter
    2. (pregunta) question

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuestión

  • 20 sagacidad

    f.
    1 astuteness.
    2 sagacity, canniness, sharp-sightedness, astuteness.
    * * *
    1 sagacity, cleverness
    2 (astucia) shrewdness, astuteness
    * * *
    SF (=astucia) shrewdness, cleverness; (=perspicacia) sagacity
    * * *
    femenino astuteness, shrewdness
    * * *
    = cunning, artfulness, sagacity, shrewdness.
    Ex. The dictionary defines policy as 'any governing principle or course of action' and as 'political wisdom or cunning: diplomacy; prudence; artfulness'.
    Ex. The dictionary defines policy as 'any governing principle or course of action' and as 'political wisdom or cunning: diplomacy; prudence; artfulness'.
    Ex. In terms of accountability and political sagacity, cooperation is definitely to be valued in today's information age.
    Ex. If the incomplete question is difficult to detect at the initial stage, to recognise those instances where it may be the wrong question that is being asked requires almost a sixth sense, or at least an uncommon shrewdness.
    ----
    * con sagacidad = shrewdly.
    * sagacidad para los negocios = business acumen.
    * sagacidad política = political wisdom.
    * * *
    femenino astuteness, shrewdness
    * * *
    = cunning, artfulness, sagacity, shrewdness.

    Ex: The dictionary defines policy as 'any governing principle or course of action' and as 'political wisdom or cunning: diplomacy; prudence; artfulness'.

    Ex: The dictionary defines policy as 'any governing principle or course of action' and as 'political wisdom or cunning: diplomacy; prudence; artfulness'.
    Ex: In terms of accountability and political sagacity, cooperation is definitely to be valued in today's information age.
    Ex: If the incomplete question is difficult to detect at the initial stage, to recognise those instances where it may be the wrong question that is being asked requires almost a sixth sense, or at least an uncommon shrewdness.
    * con sagacidad = shrewdly.
    * sagacidad para los negocios = business acumen.
    * sagacidad política = political wisdom.

    * * *
    astuteness, shrewdness
    * * *

    sagacidad f (perspicacia) shrewdness, astuteness
    ' sagacidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    olfato
    English:
    shrewdness
    - acumen
    * * *
    astuteness, shrewdness
    * * *
    f shrewdness, sharpness
    * * *
    : sagacity, shrewdness

    Spanish-English dictionary > sagacidad

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