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1) насилие•- challenged violenceto do violence — производить, совершать насилие
- covert violence
- criminal violence
- deadly violence
- domestic violence
- excessive violence
- family violence
- gang violence
- illegal violence
- inchoate violence
- lawful violence
- legal violence
- major violence
- mob violence
- necessary violence
- open violence
- personal violence
- police violence
- prison violence
- provocated violence
- provocative violence
- random violence
- resisted violence
- unchallenged violence
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1. n насилие, принуждение2. n физическое насилие; избиение; буйство; хулиганские действияto do violence — производить, совершать насилие
3. n изнасилование4. n оскорбление5. n сила, неистовство; ярость, ожесточённостьviolence of invective — грубые выпады, ожесточённые нападки
Синонимический ряд:1. disorder (noun) clash; commotion; disorder; disturbance; injury; injustice; outrage; uproar; wrong2. force (noun) coercion; compulsion; constraint; duress; force; pressure3. fury (noun) brutality; ferocity; fierceness; fire; fury; intensity; passion; pitch; savagery; severity; vehemenceАнтонимический ряд:forbearance; gentleness; lenity; mildness; observance; preservation; respect -
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1) законна дія2) законний, легальний; заснований на законі; заснований на загальному праві, який регулюється загальним правом; легітимний; правовий; правознавчий; правомірний; правосудний; судовий; узаконений; юридичний•legal and administrative machinery for family support — правові і адміністративні заходи підтримки сім'ї
legal gap in protection afforded — прогалина у правовому захисті, що надається
- legal abortionlegal power to correct legal errors — надане законом право виправляти юридичні ( або судові) помилки
- legal abuse
- legal access
- legal accountability
- legal acquisition
- legal act
- legal action
- legal activities
- legal activities activity
- legal acts
- legal address
- legal administration
- legal advertisement
- legal advice
- legal advice bureau
- legal advice center
- legal advice centre
- legal advice office
- legal adviser
- legal advisor
- legal age
- legal agency
- legal agent
- legal aid
- legal aid agency
- legal aid bureau
- legal aid office
- legal aid order
- legal alien
- legal analogy
- legal analysis
- legal approach
- legal area
- legal argument
- legal arrest
- legal aspect
- legal assets
- legal assignment
- legal assistance
- legal assistant
- legal assumption
- legal author
- legal autonomy
- legal awareness
- legal bar
- legal barrier
- legal basis
- legal bill
- legal body
- legal bond
- legal boundary
- legal burden
- legal business
- legal cadres
- legal calendar
- legal capacity
- legal capital
- legal career
- legal case
- legal category
- legal cause
- legal certainty
- legal challenge
- legal changes
- legal charge
- legal check
- legal cheque
- legal circumstance
- legal citation
- legal claim
- legal closing time
- legal code
- legal coercion
- legal committee
- legal competence
- legal complexity
- legal concept
- legal condition
- legal confinement
- legal conflict
- legal conscience
- legal consequence
- legal consequences
- legal consideration
- legal construction
- legal consultation
- legal context
- legal continuity
- legal control
- legal controversy
- legal conviction
- legal-correctional process
- legal costs
- legal councilor
- legal councillor
- legal counsel
- legal counseling
- legal counselor
- legal counsellor
- legal crackdown
- legal crime
- legal culture
- legal currency
- legal custody
- legal custom
- legal decision
- legal deduction
- legal defect
- legal defence
- legal defense
- legal deficiency
- legal definition
- legal delinquency
- legal delivery
- legal demand
- legal deontology
- legal department
- legal dependence
- legal deposit copy
- legal deposit library
- legal descent
- legal details
- legal detention
- legal device
- legal difference
- legal disability
- legal disadvantage
- legal discretion
- legal discrimination
- legal dispute
- legal doctrine
- legal document
- legal documentation
- legal drinking
- legal drinking age
- legal drinking limit
- legal drug
- legal duty
- legal duty
- legal eagle
- legal eavesdropping
- legal education
- legal effect
- legal effectiveness
- legal efficacy
- legal enforcement
- legal enforcement of law
- legal enforcement procedure
- legal entity under public law
- legal entity
- legal environment
- legal equality
- legal equality of the sexes
- legal error
- legal essence
- legal estate
- legal ethics
- legal evaluation
- legal evidence
- legal excuse
- legal execution
- legal executive
- legal exemption
- legal expenses
- legal expenses insurance
- legal experience
- legal expert
- legal expertise
- legal explanation
- legal exposition
- legal fact
- legal father
- legal fees
- legal fetishism
- legal fiction
- legal field
- legal fight
- legal force
- legal form
- legal formality
- legal formula
- legal formulation
- legal foundation
- legal foundations
- legal frame
- legal framework
- legal framing
- legal fraud
- legal function
- legal gambler
- legal gambling
- legal gap
- legal glossator
- legal government
- legal ground
- legal groundwork
- legal guarantee
- legal guarantees
- legal guardian
- legal guilt
- legal hearing
- legal historian
- legal history
- legal holder
- legal holiday
- legal home
- legal humanism
- legal hypothesis
- legal identity
- legal immigration
- legal immunity
- legal implementation
- legal implication
- legal implications
- legal impossibility
- legal incapacity
- legal incident
- legal income
- legal incompetence
- legal information
- legal injury
- legal innovation
- legal innovation
- legal innovations
- legal insanity
- legal institution
- legal instruction
- legal instrument
- legal intent
- legal interest
- legal interest rate
- legal interpretation
- legal investigation
- legal investigator
- legal irregularity
- legal issue
- legal journal
- legal judge
- legal judgement
- legal judgment
- legal jurisdiction
- legal justice
- legal justification
- legal killer
- legal killing
- legal knowledge
- legal language
- legal liability
- legal lien
- legal limit
- legal limitation
- legal literature
- legal loophole
- legal lynching
- legal malice
- legal malpractice
- legal manufacture
- legal marriage
- legal matter
- legal maxim
- legal means
- legal means of social control
- legal measure
- legal mechanism
- legal medicine
- legal methodology
- legal minimum age of marriage
- legal minimum wage rate
- legal minimum wage rates
- legal minor
- legal monopoly
- legal monument
- legal mortgage
- legal mother
- legal name
- legal nationality
- legal negligence
- legal nihilism
- legal nomenclature
- legal norm
- legal notice
- legal notification
- legal notion
- legal object
- legal objection
- legal objective
- legal obligation
- legal observation method
- legal observer
- legal obstruction
- legal office
- legal office
- legal officer
- legal official
- legal operation
- legal opinion
- legal order
- legal organization
- legal owner
- legal parlance
- legal papers
- legal participation
- legal perjury
- legal permissibility
- legal permission
- legal person
- legal personality
- legal phenomenon
- legal philosopher
- legal philosophy
- legal picketing
- legal platform
- legal play
- legal point
- legal point of view
- legal policy
- legal portion
- legal position
- legal positivism
- legal positivist
- legal possession
- legal power
- legal practice
- legal practitician
- legal practitioner
- legal precept
- legal predecessor
- legal prerequisite
- legal presumption
- legal presumption of death
- legal principle
- legal privilege
- legal problem
- legal procedure
- legal procedure publicity
- legal procedures
- legal proceeding
- legal proceedings
- legal process
- legal profession
- legal profession member
- legal professional
- legal professional privilege
- legal prohibition
- legal proposition
- legal propriety
- legal prosecution
- legal protectee
- legal protection
- legal protection of software
- legal provision
- legal psychiatry
- legal purism
- legal purist
- legal qualification
- legal question
- legal rationale
- legal realism
- legal reality
- legal reasoning
- legal recognition
- legal recourse
- legal redress
- legal reference
- legal reform
- legal reformer
- legal regime
- legal regulation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal rehabilitation
- legal relations
- legal relationship
- legal relationships
- legal relative
- legal relativism
- legal relevance
- legal relief
- legal remedy
- legal representation
- legal representative
- legal reputation
- legal requirement
- legal reservation
- legal reserve
- legal residence
- legal resolution
- legal restraint
- legal restriction
- legal right-enforcing
- legal right
- legal rights
- legal risk
- legal rule
- legal safeguard
- legal safety
- legal sanction
- legal scholar
- legal science
- legal scientist
- legal search
- legal secretary
- legal security
- legal self-help
- legal sense
- legal sentence
- legal sentencing
- legal separation
- legal service
- legal services
- legal significance
- legal source
- legal specialist
- legal speech
- legal sphere
- legal spokesman
- legal spouse
- legal staff
- legal standard
- legal state
- legal statement
- legal statistics
- legal status
- legal status of a person
- legal step
- legal storage period
- legal strike
- legal structure
- legal studies
- legal subbranch
- legal sub-branch
- legal subject
- legal subjectivity
- legal submission
- legal subrogation
- legal succession
- legal successor
- legal suit
- legal system
- legal tapping
- legal technicality
- legal technician
- legal technique
- legal techniques
- legal tender
- legal tender note
- legal term
- legal termination
- legal termination of marriage
- legal territory
- legal test
- legal text
- legal theorist
- legal theory
- legal thinker
- legal thinking
- legal thought
- legal title
- legal tool
- legal topic
- legal tradition
- legal training
- legal transaction
- legal treasury note
- legal treatise
- legal treatment
- legal trial
- legal ubiquity
- legal uncertainty
- legal unit
- legal usage
- legal vacuum
- legal validity
- legal venue
- legal view
- legal viewpoint
- legal violence
- legal volition
- legal voter
- legal waiver
- legal wife
- legal wiretap
- legal wiretapping
- legal wording
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нанести тяжёлый урон, требовать жертв; ≈ сделать своё делоNearly three years in the White House had taken their toll. His... hair was flecked with gray, his face was lined, especially around the mouth. (W. Manchester, ‘The Death of a President’, ch. I) — Почти трехлетнее пребывание в Белом доме сделало свое дело. В волосах президента Кеннеди поблескивала седина... на лице, особенно в уголках рта, появились морщинки.
Legal and extra legal violence against the Negro people has taken a heavy toll in lives of men and women in both North and South in the attempt to stifle the rising tide of struggle for Negro freedom. (‘Political Affairs’) — Судебные расправы и линчевание негров унесли много жизней на Севере и Юге; эти расправы имели целью удушить растущую борьбу негритянского народа за свободу.
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8 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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1) дело, поступок, деяние act of bravery ≈ подвиг act of faith ≈ акт доверия to commit, perform an act ≈ совершить поступок He committed an act of folly. ≈ Он совершил глупость. barbaric act barbarous act courageous act criminal act foolish act heroic act humane act illegal act impulsive act justified act kind act rash act statesmanlike act thoughtful act volutional act Syn: deed, exploit, feat
2) действие caught in the act of stealing ≈ пойманный при совершении кражи Language interpretation is the whole point of the act of reading. ≈ Интерпретация языковых выражений является самым главным при чтении. Syn: action, operation
3) закон, постановление act of Parliament ≈ парламентский акт Syn: decree, statute
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4) (the Acts) Деяния апостолов
5) акт, действие (в опере, драме) ;
номер программы( в развлекательной программе, шоу и т. п.) nightclub act, variety act брит., vaudeville act амер. ≈ номер эстрадной программы Syn: performance
6) неод. сцена His anger was real. It wasn't an act. ≈ Его гнев был неподдельным. Это не было притворством. There were moments when I wondered: did she do this on purpose, was it all just a game, an act? ≈ Были моменты, когда мне хотелось знать, делает ли она это нарочно, является ли это все игрой, сценой? Syn: pretence
7) диссертация( в университетах)
8) (the act) половое сношение ∙ to put on an act разг. ≈ притворяться, разыграть сцену
2. гл.
1) действовать, поступать;
вести себя to act irresponsibly ≈ действовать безответственно to act impulsively ≈ действовать импульсивно to act immediately ≈ действовать без промедления to act bravely (correctly, generously) ≈ действовать смело (правильно, великодушно) to be quick to act ≈ действовать быстро to act up to a promise ≈ сдержать обещание It is time to act. ≈ Пора действовать. He was quick to act. ≈ Он сразу же откликнулся. Don't act from instinct. ≈ Не надо действовать под влиянием инстинкта. How did they act towards you? ≈ Как они относились к вам? The soldier acted like a real hero. ≈ Этот солдат действовал как настоящий герой. act in unison act out of spite
2) действовать, работать (быть исправным) The brake refused to act. ≈ Тормоз отказал. The gadget acted immediately. ≈ Приспособление тут же сработало.
3) влиять, действовать (on, upon) Has the medicine acted? ≈ Лекарство уже подействовало? This weather acts on my nerves. ≈ Эта погода действует мне на нервы.
4) работать, служить;
действовать в качестве( as - кого-л.) He acted as director for a month. ≈ Он замещал директора в течение месяца. She acts as our interpreter. ≈ Она работает в качестве нашего переводчика. This medicine acts as а stimulus. ≈ Это лекарство оказывает стимулирующее действие.
5) прикидываться, притворяться He acted the idiot. ≈ Он строил из себя идиота. John did not feel fear, he was just acting it. ≈ Джон не испытывал страха, он просто делал вид, что боится.
6) театр. играть, исполнять роль to act the part of Othello ≈ играть роль Отелло Children love to act. ≈ Дети любят играть в театр. Who will act the leading part? ≈ Кто будет играть главную роль? He acted in many films. ≈ Он снимался/играл во многих фильмах. "It's a long time since I acted on this stage," said the actor. ≈ "Как давно это было, когда я играл на этой сцене," - сказал артист. ∙ act for act upon act out act up act up toдело;
поступок;
- * of cruelty жестокий поступок;
проявление жестокости;
- * of kindness доброе дело акт;
действие;
деяние;
- criminal * преступное деяние;
- unilateral * односторонний акт, односторонее действие;
- * of piracy акт пиратства;
- * of delivery роды;
- *s of force действия, связанные с применением силы;
- * of war акт агрессии, вооруженная агрессия;
- * of worship богослужение акт;
закон;
постановление;
решение суда;
- constituent * учредительный акт;
- * of Parliament парламентский акт, закон;
- * of Congress закон, принятый конгрессом (юридическое) (дипломатическое) акт, документ;
- * of the law юридический акт;
- * and deed официальный документ, обязательство;
- final * заключительный акт (театроведение) акт, действие (неодобрительно) сцена;
- to put on an * разыграть сцену, устроить спектакль;
- she does not mean it, it's just an * у нее это не всерьез, она просто прикидывается номер программы - the next * will be a magician следующий номер программы - фокусник труппа, группа актеров, исполнителей (университетское) диссертация (библеизм) Деяния апостолов (искусство) (фотографическое) акт, изображение обнаженной натуры > to catch smb. in the * поймать кого-л. на месте преступления, с поличным;
> to be in the * of doing smth. совершать что-л.;
быть на грани совершения чего-л.;
> to get into the * принимать участие, быть в доле, примазаться к какому-л. делу;
> to get one's * together (сленг) хорошо подготовиться;
спланировать работу;
привести в порядок действовать, поступать;
вести себя;
- to * immediately действовать без промедления;
- to * wisely вести себя умно;
- to * bravely проявить мужество;
действовать смело;
- to * on smth. действовать в соответствии с чем-л.;
- to * on smb.'s suggestion действовать по чьей-л. подсказке;
- to * on advice действовать по совету, поступать как советуют;
(for) действовать, принимать участие;
- to * for smb. выполнять чьи-л. функции;
исполнять обязанности;
замещать;
действовать от чьего-л. лица;
- a solicitor *s for his clients адвокат представляет интересы своих клиентов;
- to * on the defensive обороняться, защищаться, занимать оборонительную позицию;
(военное) находиться в обороне;
действовать, работать (о приборе и т. п.) ;
- brakes refused to * тормоза отказали влиять, воздействовать;
- to * on the emotions воздействовать на чувства;
- these pills * on the liver эти таблетки действуют на печень;
- does the drug take long to * on the pain? скоро ли подействует это болеутоляющее?;
- acids * on metal кислоты воздействуют на металл( up to) быть на высоте;
соответствовать;
- to * up to one's principle(s) действовать в соответствии со своими принципами, поступать согласно своим принципам;
- to * up to one's reputation не обмануть ожиданий (as) работать, служить;
действовать в качестве;
- to * as interpreter работать переводчиком;
- a trained dog can * as a guide to a blind man дрессированная собака может служить слепому проводником (театроведение) исполнять роль, играть;
- to * the Ghost in "Hamlet" играть роль призрака в "Гамлете" играться (о пьесе, роли) ;
- his plays don't * well его пьесы трудно играть, его пьесы малосценичны (неодобрительно) прикидываться, притворяться;
- to * the fool (разговорное) разыгрывать простачка;
- he *ed very angry он сделал вид, что страшно рассердился;
- to * interested притвориться заинтересованным;
- to * outraged virtue разыгрывать оскорбленную невинность > to * one's age поступать в соответствии со своим возрастом;
> * your age! не веди себя как ребенок!, брось ребячиться!act акт, действие (часть пьесы) ~ акт ~ акт (как наименование международного договора) ~ влиять, действовать (on, upon) ~ выполнять функции ~ действие ~ действие;
деяние ~ действовать, поступать;
вести себя;
to act up to a promise сдержать обещание ~ действовать ~ дело, поступок;
акт;
act of bravery подвиг;
act of God стихийное бедствие;
caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления ~ дело ~ деяние ~ документ ~ закон, постановление (парламента, суда) ~ закон ~ (шотл.) заносить, делать запись ~ театр. играть;
to act the part of Othello играть роль Отелло ~ исполнять обязанности ~ миниатюра, номер ( программы варьете или представления в цирке) ;
to put on an act разг. притворяться, разыграть сцену ~ постановление ~ постановление (суда) ~ поступать ~ работать, действовать;
the brake refused to act тормоз отказал ~ работать ~ функционировать Act: Act: Community ~ Закон о Европейском экономическом сообществе act: act: conditional sales ~ закон об условных продажах Act: Act: Finance ~ Закон о государственном бюджете (Великобритания) act: act: fiscal ~ закон о налогообложении Act: Act: Judicature ~ Закон о судоустройстве (Великобритания) act: act: judicial ~ акт судебной власти Act: Act: Limitation ~ Закон о сроках давности (Великобритания) act: act: marriage ~ закон о браке Act: Act: Matrimonial Causes ~ Закон о бракоразводных процессах (Великобритания) act: act: negligent ~ неосмотрительный поступок Act: Act: Settled Land ~ Закон о закрепленной земле( Великобритания) act: act: social assistance ~ закон о социальном обеспечении Act: Act: Social Security ~ Закон о социальном обеспечении (США) act: act: stamp ~ ист. закон о гербовом сборе Act: Act: Tortious Liability ~ Закон об ответственности за гражданские правонарушения (Великобритания) act: act: trade ~ закон о торговле Act: Act: Will's ~ Закон о завещаниях (Великобритания) act: act: wrongful ~ незаконное действие~ and deed официальный документ, обязательство~ as действовать в качестве ~ as работать в качестве~ for выполнять функции другого лица ~ for замещать ~ for исполнять обязанности ~ for представлять другое лицо~ in good faith поступать честно~ in law юридическое действие~ of accession акт присоединения~ дело, поступок;
акт;
act of bravery подвиг;
act of God стихийное бедствие;
caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления~ of court юридический акт~ дело, поступок;
акт;
act of bravery подвиг;
act of God стихийное бедствие;
caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления ~ of God страх. действия сил природы ~ of God юр. непреодолимая сила ~ of God страх. стихийное бедствие ~ of God страх. стихийные явления ~ of God страх.,юр. форс-мажор ~ of God страх. форс-мажорные обстоятельства~ of grace амнистия ~ of grace парламентский акт об амнистии ~ of grace помилование grace: ~ милость, милосердие;
прощение;
Act of grace( всеобщая) амнистия~ of killing совершение убийства~ of necessity действие в силу необходимости~ of pardon амнистия ~ of pardon парламентский акт об амнистии ~ of pardon помилование~ of reprisal акт возмездия~ of restriction ограничивающее постановление~ of union акт объединения~ of violence акт насилия ~ of violence насильственное действие~ of war вооруженная агрессия~ of wills закон о завещаниях~ on legal capacity закон о юридической правоспособности~ театр. играть;
to act the part of Othello играть роль Отеллоad hoc ~ специальный законaliens ~ закон об иностранцахamended ~ юр. закон с внесенными поправкамиbankruptcy ~ закон о банкротствеblanket ~ всеобъемлющий акт~ работать, действовать;
the brake refused to act тормоз отказал~ дело, поступок;
акт;
act of bravery подвиг;
act of God стихийное бедствие;
caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступленияcoinage ~ закон о чеканке монетcommercial bank ~ закон о коммерческих банкахact: conditional sales ~ закон об условных продажахconsolidated ~ объединенный законcriminal ~ преступное действие criminal ~ преступное деяниеcustoms ~ закон о таможенных пошлинахdepreciation ~ акт о списании имуществаemergency ~ чрезвычайный законemergency powers ~ акт о чрезвычайных полномочияхenabling ~ акт конгресса США, разрешающий( какой-л.) территории начать подготовку к переходу на статус штата enabling ~ законодательный акт о предоставлении чрезвычайных полномочий enabling ~ (амер.) законодательный акт о предоставлении чрезвычайных полномочийfinal ~ последнее действиеact: fiscal ~ закон о налогообложенииguilty ~ преступный актhostile ~ враждебный актimplementing ~ выполняемый актimplied ~ подразумеваемый актincome tax ~ закон о подоходном налогеinheritance ~ закон о наследованииintroductory ~ предварительный актact: judicial ~ акт судебной властиjuristic ~ юридическое действиеland charges ~ закон о земельном налогеland registration ~ закон о регистрации земельных участковlegal ~ юридическое действие, юридический актlegislative ~ закон legislative ~ законодательный актact: marriage ~ закон о бракеact: negligent ~ неосмотрительный поступок negligent ~ неумышленное действиеnonbinding ~ необязывающий законnonmandatory ~ декларативный актnotarial ~ нотариальный актpreparatory ~ предварительный законодательный актpromulgate an ~ обнародовать закон promulgate an ~ промульгировать законprovisional ~ временный законодательный акт~ миниатюра, номер (программы варьете или представления в цирке) ;
to put on an act разг. притворяться, разыграть сценуrailway ~ закон о железных дорогахreckless ~ неосторожное действиеrenew an ~ продлевать срок действия законаrent restriction ~ закон об ограничении арендной платыrepeal an ~ отменять законrestrictive practices ~ закон против нарушения свободы конкуренции restrictive practices ~ закон против ограничительной торговой практикиretroactive ~ закон, имеющий обратную силуretrospective ~ закон, имеющий обратную силуact: social assistance ~ закон о социальном обеспеченииact: stamp ~ ист. закон о гербовом сборе stamp ~ закон о гербовом сбореsupplementary estimates ~ закон о дополнительных оценкахtax assessments ~ закон о налогообложенииtax control ~ закон о налоговом контролеact: trade ~ закон о торговлеunlawful ~ противоправное деяниеusury ~ закон против ростовщичестваact: wrongful ~ незаконное действие wrongful ~ неправомерное действие wrongful ~ противоправное действие -
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[ækt]act акт, действие (часть пьесы) act акт act акт (как наименование международного договора) act влиять, действовать (on, upon) act выполнять функции act действие act действие; деяние act действовать, поступать; вести себя; to act up to a promise сдержать обещание act действовать act дело, поступок; акт; act of bravery подвиг; act of God стихийное бедствие; caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления act дело act деяние act документ act закон, постановление (парламента, суда) act закон act (шотл.) заносить, делать запись act театр. играть; to act the part of Othello играть роль Отелло act исполнять обязанности act миниатюра, номер (программы варьете или представления в цирке); to put on an act разг. притворяться, разыграть сцену act постановление act постановление (суда) act поступать act работать, действовать; the brake refused to act тормоз отказал act работать act функционировать Act: Act: Community act Закон о Европейском экономическом сообществе act: act: conditional sales act закон об условных продажах Act: Act: Finance act Закон о государственном бюджете (Великобритания) act: act: fiscal act закон о налогообложении Act: Act: Judicature act Закон о судоустройстве (Великобритания) act: act: judicial act акт судебной власти Act: Act: Limitation act Закон о сроках давности (Великобритания) act: act: marriage act закон о браке Act: Act: Matrimonial Causes act Закон о бракоразводных процессах (Великобритания) act: act: negligent act неосмотрительный поступок Act: Act: Settled Land act Закон о закрепленной земле (Великобритания) act: act: social assistance act закон о социальном обеспечении Act: Act: Social Security act Закон о социальном обеспечении (США) act: act: stamp act ист. закон о гербовом сборе Act: Act: Tortious Liability act Закон об ответственности за гражданские правонарушения (Великобритания) act: act: trade act закон о торговле Act: Act: Will's act Закон о завещаниях (Великобритания) act: act: wrongful act незаконное действие act and deed официальный документ, обязательство act as действовать в качестве act as работать в качестве act for выполнять функции другого лица act for замещать act for исполнять обязанности act for представлять другое лицо act for someone действовать от имени другого лица act in good faith поступать честно act in law юридическое действие act in law for avoidance purposes юридическое действие для лишения юридической силы act of accession акт присоединения act of bankruptcy действие, дающее основания для возбуждения дела о банкротстве act дело, поступок; акт; act of bravery подвиг; act of God стихийное бедствие; caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления act of compounding дисконтирование act of court юридический акт act дело, поступок; акт; act of bravery подвиг; act of God стихийное бедствие; caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления act of God страх. действия сил природы act of God юр. непреодолимая сила act of God страх. стихийное бедствие act of God страх. стихийные явления act of God страх.,юр. форс-мажор act of God страх. форс-мажорные обстоятельства act of grace амнистия act of grace парламентский акт об амнистии act of grace помилование grace: act милость, милосердие; прощение; Act of grace (всеобщая) амнистия act of killing совершение убийства act of mutiny военный мятеж act of necessity действие в силу необходимости act of pardon амнистия act of pardon парламентский акт об амнистии act of pardon помилование act of reprisal акт возмездия act of restriction ограничивающее постановление act of sabotage акт саботажа sabotage: sabotage фр. диверсия; act of sabotage диверсионный акт act of security закон о страховании act of state акт государственной власти act of state действие государственной власти act of union акт объединения act of violence акт насилия act of violence насильственное действие act of volition волевой акт act of war вооруженная агрессия act of wills закон о завещаниях act on behalf of another действовать от имени другого лица act on legal capacity закон о юридической правоспособности act театр. играть; to act the part of Othello играть роль Отелло act действовать, поступать; вести себя; to act up to a promise сдержать обещание ad hoc act специальный закон aliens act закон об иностранцах amended act юр. закон с внесенными поправками appropriation act законопроект об ассигнованиях appropriation act финансовый законопроект bankruptcy act закон о банкротстве blanket act всеобъемлющий акт act работать, действовать; the brake refused to act тормоз отказал building act закон о строительстве act дело, поступок; акт; act of bravery подвиг; act of God стихийное бедствие; caught in the (very) act (of committing a crime) захвачен на месте преступления coinage act закон о чеканке монет commercial bank act закон о коммерческих банках act: conditional sales act закон об условных продажах consolidated act объединенный закон copyright act закон об авторском праве criminal act преступное действие criminal act преступное деяние customs act закон о таможенных пошлинах depreciation act акт о списании имущества education act закон об образовании emergency act чрезвычайный закон emergency powers act акт о чрезвычайных полномочиях enabling act акт конгресса США, разрешающий (какой-л.) территории начать подготовку к переходу на статус штата enabling act законодательный акт о предоставлении чрезвычайных полномочий enabling act (амер.) законодательный акт о предоставлении чрезвычайных полномочий final act последнее действие act: fiscal act закон о налогообложении framework act общий акт framework act основной закон framework act основополагающий закон guilty act преступный акт hostile act враждебный акт implementing act выполняемый акт implied act подразумеваемый акт income tax act закон о подоходном налоге inheritance act закон о наследовании introductory act предварительный акт act: judicial act акт судебной власти juristic act юридическое действие land charges act закон о земельном налоге land registration act закон о регистрации земельных участков legal act юридическое действие, юридический акт legislative act закон legislative act законодательный акт act: marriage act закон о браке act: negligent act неосмотрительный поступок negligent act неумышленное действие nonbinding act необязывающий закон nonmandatory act декларативный акт notarial act нотариальный акт official act государственный акт official act государственный документ parent act старший законодательный акт planning act закон о планировании preparatory act предварительный законодательный акт private act частный закон; закон, действующий в отношении конкретных лиц prohibition act запретительный акт promulgate an act обнародовать закон promulgate an act промульгировать закон provisional act временный законодательный акт act миниатюра, номер (программы варьете или представления в цирке); to put on an act разг. притворяться, разыграть сцену railway act закон о железных дорогах reckless act неосторожное действие renew an act продлевать срок действия закона rent restriction act закон об ограничении арендной платы repeal an act отменять закон restrictive practices act закон против нарушения свободы конкуренции restrictive practices act закон против ограничительной торговой практики retroactive act закон, имеющий обратную силу retrospective act закон, имеющий обратную силу act: social assistance act закон о социальном обеспечении act: stamp act ист. закон о гербовом сборе stamp act закон о гербовом сборе supervision act закон о надзоре supplementary act закон, дополняющий ранее изданный закон supplementary estimates act закон о дополнительных оценках tax assessments act закон о налогообложении tax control act закон о налоговом контроле tortious act гражданское правонарушение tortious act деликтное деяние tortious act деликтный акт act: trade act закон о торговле uniform act единообразный закон unlawful act противоправное деяние usury act закон против ростовщичества act: wrongful act незаконное действие wrongful act неправомерное действие wrongful act противоправное действие -
11 threaten
transitive verb1) (use threats towards) bedrohenthreaten somebody with prosecution/a beating — jemandem Verfolgung/Schläge androhen
2) (announce one's intention)threaten to do something — damit drohen, etwas zu tun
the fire threatened to engulf the whole village — (fig.) das Feuer drohte das ganze Dorf einzuschließen
threaten to commit suicide/to resign — mit Selbstmord/dem Rücktritt drohen
3) drohen mit [Gewalt, Repressalien, Rache usw.]the sky threatens rain — am Himmel hängen drohende Regenwolken
* * *verb (to make or be a threat (to): She threatened to kill herself; He threatened me with violence / with a gun; A storm is threatening.) drohen* * *threat·en[ˈθretən]I. vt1. (warn)▪ to \threaten sb jdn bedrohen, jdm drohenthe bank robber \threatened the staff with a gun der Bankräuber bedrohte das Personal mit einer Schusswaffeto \threaten sb with violence jdm Gewalt androhen2. (be a danger)▪ to \threaten sb/sth jdn/etw gefährden, für jdn/etw eine Bedrohung sein3. (present risk)the sky \threatens rain am Himmel hängen dunkle RegenwolkenII. vi drohena storm is \threatening ein Sturm ist im Anzug▪ to \threaten to do sth damit drohen, etw zu tunit's \threatening to rain es sieht bedrohlich nach Regen aus* * *['ɵretn]1. vtto threaten to do sth — (an)drohen, etw zu tun
to threaten sb with sth — jdm etw androhen, jdm mit etw drohen
2) (= put in danger) bedrohen, gefährdenthe rain threatened to spoil the harvest — der Regen drohte, die Ernte zu zerstören
3) (MET= give warning of)
the sky threatens rain — der Himmel sieht (bedrohlich) nach Regen aus2. vi(danger, storm etc) drohen, im Anzug sein* * *threaten [ˈθretn]A v/t3. drohend ankündigen:4. (damit) drohen ( to do zu tun):5. etwas bedrohen, gefährden:B v/i1. drohen2. fig drohen:a) drohend bevorstehen:b) Gefahr laufen ( to do zu tun)* * *transitive verb1) (use threats towards) bedrohenthreaten somebody with prosecution/a beating — jemandem Verfolgung/Schläge androhen
threaten to do something — damit drohen, etwas zu tun
the fire threatened to engulf the whole village — (fig.) das Feuer drohte das ganze Dorf einzuschließen
threaten to commit suicide/to resign — mit Selbstmord/dem Rücktritt drohen
3) drohen mit [Gewalt, Repressalien, Rache usw.]* * *v.androhen v.bedrohen v.drohen v. -
12 force
fɔ:s I сущ. диал. водопад, водный каскад II
1. сущ.
1) а) сила to spend one's force ≈ растратить силу explosive force irresistible force magnetic force motivating force moral forces physical force spiritual forces vital force by force Syn: impact б) физ. сила centrifugal force centripetal force force of gravity Syn: energy, power
2) насилие, принуждение (также юр.) to apply, resort to, use force ≈ применять силу to renounce( the use of) force ≈ не признавать силу deadly force ≈ беспощадное насилие brute force Syn: compulsion, violence
3) вооруженная группа людей а) полиция( с заглавной буквы с определенным артиклем) б) обыкн. мн. вооруженные силы, войска to marshal (muster, rally) one's forces ≈ выстраивать войска to join forces with ≈ вступать в войска a show of force ≈ смотр войск air force armed forces expeditionary force ground forces guerrilla force military forces naval forces occupation force peacekeeping force Rapid Deployment Force в) любая другая вооруженная группа людей A force of seven thousand men landed in Suffolk. ≈ Отряд в семь тысяч человек высадился в Суффолке.
4) а) юр. юридическая сила, действие;
юр. смысл, реальное значение того или иного постановления, закона, статьи и т.п. to come into force ≈ вступать в силу to put in force ≈ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь to remain in force ≈ оставаться в силе, действовать б) убедительность, действенность, влияние;
смысл, осмысленность In both these two reasons there is force. ≈ Каждый из этих аргументов убедителен. ∙ to come in full force ≈ прибыть в полном составе
2. гл.
1) а) оказывать давление, заставлять, принуждать, вынуждать The loss of money forced her to sell her house. ≈ Денежные потери вынудили ее продать дом. force a confession force a smile force tears from smb.'s eyes force an action force division force one's hand Syn: compel, constrain, oblige б) напрягать, перенапрягать, действовать на пределе сил force one's voice в) притягивать за уши, вчитывать
2) а) с силой преодолевать сопротивление;
запихивать, заталкивать force a lock б) насиловать, совершать изнасилование Syn: violate, ravish, rape в) воен. брать;
форсировать force a crossing - force one's way
3) тех. форсировать, перегружать( какое-л. устройство), в частности ускорять, добавлять обороты
4) карт. попадать в козыря ∙ force in force into force out force up to force down the throat ≈ навязать что-л. силой to force smb.'s hand ≈ заставлять кого-л. действовать немедленно, вопреки его желанию;
толкать на что-л., подталкивать to force up prices ≈ вздувать, взвинчивать цены сила, мощь - the * of the blow сила удара - with all one's * изо всех сил - to hit with * сильно ударить сила, воздействие - the * of superstition сила предрассудка - the * of circumstances сила обстоятельств - the * of example воздействие примера - by sheer * of will иссключительно /только/ силой воли - by * of habit в силу привычки авторитет, престиж - to be a * быть силой, иметь вес, пользоваться большим влиянием - today he is an international * сейчас он пользуется авторитетом во всем мире - he is a spent * он уже не пользуется влиянием, он вышел в тираж действенность;
действительность - the * of an agreement действительность договора - the full * of the treaty полная сила договора - in * действующий, имеющий силу (о договоре, документе и т. п.) - to put in * вводить в силу;
делать действительным;
проводить в жизнь, осуществлять - to come into * вступать в силу - to remain in * оставаться в силе;
действовать - this law remains in * till next year этот закон действителен до будущего года - to have no * быть недействительным, не иметь силы насилие, принуждение - brutal * грубая сила, насилие - by * силой, насильно - to achieve smth. by * добиться чего-л. силой - to use /to resort to/ * прибегать к силе /насилию/ - to believe in * быть сторонником насильственных методов или методов принуждения - the policy of * политика силы - the use of * применение силы - the renunciation of * отказ от применения силы вооруженный отряд;
(воинское) соединение( the F.) полиция (обыкн. pl) войска;
вооруженные силы - sea /naval/ *s военно-морские силы - air * военно-воздушные силы - ground *s сухопутные войска - armed *s вооруженные силы - effective *s наличный боевой состав - to join the *s вступить в армию убедительность;
смысл, резон - there is * in what you say в том, что вы говорите, есть смысл - can't see the * of doing what one dislikes нет смысла /необходимости/ делать то, что не нравится смысл;
значение - verb used with passive * глагол со значением пассивности (физическое) усилие, сила - attractive * сила притяжения - the * of steam сила пара - centrifugal * центробежная сила - * of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение > by * of... путем..., посредством..., при помощи, в силу > by * of contrast путем контраста /противопоставления/ > in * (военное) значительными /крупными/ силами;
всеми силами;
толпами, в большом числе /количестве/ > attack in * наступление крупными силами > in great * в разгаре кипучей деятельности;
в ударе > in full * в полном составе > to join *s объединить усилия, объединиться > by * and arms силой оружия > to hunt at /of, by/ * травить /дичь/ собаками заставлять, принуждать, вынуждать - to * smb. to do smth. заставлять кого-л. делать что-л. - to * a confession вынудить признание - to * a secret заставить открыть тайну /секрет/ - to be *d to yield быть вынужденным уступить - to * oneself to work hard заставить себя усиленно работать - to * facts to fit a case подтасовывать факты - I am *d to conclude that... я вынужден сделать вывод, что... применять силу, брать силой - to * entry ворваться, вломиться( в комнату, дом и т. п.) - to * a town захватить город, крепость - to * a crossing( военное) форсировать реку - to * one's way (through a crowd) пробиться (через толпу) - he *d me through the door он протолкнул меня в дверь взломать( крышку, дверь и т. п.) - to * a look взломать замок - to * a door (open) взломать дверь насиловать делать (что-л.) через силу - to * a smile принужденно улыбнуться, выдавить (из себя) улыбку чрезмерно напрягать;
перенапрягать - to * one's voice напрягать голос ускорять (шаг, ход и т. п.) - to * the pace усиливать темп бега - to * events форсировать события - to * a bill through the legislature протащить законопроект через парламент( техническое) добавлять обороты (техническое) нагнетать, форсировать (режим работы) ;
перегружать (машину) (музыкальное) форсировать (звук) выгонять (растение) - to * lilies for the Easter trade выгонять лилии для предпасхальной торговли - to * a pupil( разговорное) торопить развитие учащегося - to force smth., smb. into smth. вогнать, воткнуть что-л. куда-л.;
загнать, втолкнуть кого-л. куда-л. - to * a knife into smb.'s breast воткнуть нож в чью-л. грудь - to * air into the carburettor накачать воздух в карбюратор - she *d a tip into his hand она сунула ему в руку чаевые - to force smb. into smth. вовлечь, втянуть кого-л. во что-л. - to * a nation into war втянуть народ в войну - to force smth. out of smth. выдавить, выжать что-л. из чего-л. - to * juice out of an orange выжать сок из апельсина - to force smb. out of smth. вытеснить кого-л. откуда-л. - to * smb. out of the room вытолкать кого-л. из комнаты - to force smth. out of smb. вынудить кого-л. к чему-л. - to * facts out of smb. заставить кого-л. рассказать все, что ему известно - to force smth. up(on) smb. навязывать что-л. кому-л. - to * a drink upon smb. заставить кого-л. выпить - to * smth. on smb.'s attention усиленно привлекать чье-л. внимание к чему-л. - they said that the war had been *d upon them они заявили, что война была им навязана > to * smb.'s hand заставить кого-л. открыть свои карты, форсировать события > to * down the throat навязывать что-л. силой force: be in ~ юр. действовать be in ~ юр. оставаться в силе binding ~ обязательная сила ~ насилие, принуждение;
brute force грубая сила, насилие ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of( arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
there is force in what you say вы говорите убедительно ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе coming into ~ вступление в действие coming into ~ вступление в силу deferred entry into ~ отсроченное вступление в силу deterrent ~ войска сдерживания deterrent ~ войска устрашения driving ~ движущая сила enter into ~ вступать в силу executory ~ право приведения в исполнение force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
there is force in what you say вы говорите убедительно ~ воздействие ~ (обыкн. pl) вооруженные силы, войска ~ вооруженный отряд ~ тех. вставлять с силой ~ выводить, выращивать ~ действенность ~ действительность ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться ~ вчт. заставлять ~ заставлять ~ напрягать, насиловать;
to force one's voice напрягать голос ~ насилие, принуждение;
brute force грубая сила, насилие ~ насилие, принуждение, заставлять, принуждать ~ насилие ~ принуждать ~ принуждение ~ рабочая сила ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе ~ сила, действие (закона, постановления и т. п.) ;
to come into force вступать в силу ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ сила, действительность, действие ~ сила ~ смысл, значение;
the force of a clause смысл статьи (договора) ~ ускорять (движение) ;
добавлять обороты ~ форсировать (ход) ;
перегружать машину Force: Force: Air ~ военно-воздушные силы force: force: be in ~ юр. действовать the ~ полиция ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться to ~ a crossing воен. форсировать водную преграду force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться to ~ an action вынудить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ;
to force division потребовать голосования (особ. в англ. парламенте) to ~ an action воен. навязать бой to ~ an action вынудить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ;
to force division потребовать голосования (особ. в англ. парламенте) ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой to ~ (smb.'s) hand заставлять (кого-л.) действовать немедленно, вопреки его желанию;
толкать (на что-л.), подталкивать ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ in продавить ~ in law принуждение по закону ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ смысл, значение;
the force of a clause смысл статьи (договора) ~ of attraction сила притяжения ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе ~ of law сила закона ~ напрягать, насиловать;
to force one's voice напрягать голос force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу to ~ tears from (smb.'s) eyes заставить (кого-л.) расплакаться, довести( кого-л.) до слез ~ through пробиваться ~ through прорываться ~ up взвинчивать ~ up повышать to ~ up prices вздувать, взвинчивать цены prices: force up ~ повышать цены ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки immediate executory ~ прямое принуждение, вступающее в силу в будущем in ~ действующий in ~ законный in ~ имеющий силу in full ~ действующий в полную силу labour ~ рабочая сила labour ~ численность работающих labour ~ численность рабочих и служащих labour: ~ attr. трудовой;
рабочий;
labour force рабочая сила;
labour hours рабочее время legal ~ законная сила, юридическая сила legal ~ законная сила legal ~ юридическая сила motive ~ движущая сила moving ~ движущая сила peace-keeping ~ войска по поддержанию мира peace-keeping ~ миротворческие силы police ~ полицейские силы police ~ полиция probative ~ доказательная сила to put in ~ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь;
to remain in force оставаться в силе, действовать to put in ~ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь;
to remain in force оставаться в силе, действовать remain: ~ in force оставаться в силе ~ in force сохранять силу sales ~ работники торговых предприятий sales ~ торговые агенты task ~ оперативная группа task ~ рабочая группа task ~ специальная группа task ~ целевая группа task: ~ амер. норма( рабочего) ;
to take (или to call) (smb.) to task сделать выговор, дать нагоняй( кому-л.) ;
task force воен. оперативная (или тактическая) группа ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
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13 organization
nорганизация; устройство; объединение; структураto ban an organization — объявлять вне закона / запрещать организацию
to be accredited to an organization — быть аккредитованным при какой-л. организации
to boot a country from an organization — выдворять какую-л. страну из какой-л. организации
to disband / to dissolve an organization — распускать организацию
to eliminate smb from an organization — исключать кого-л. из организации
to establish an organization — основывать / учреждать организацию
to found an organization — основывать / учреждать организацию
to infiltrate an organization — внедряться в какую-л. организацию
to keep faith in an organization — сохранять веру в какую-л. организацию
to put an organization on a legal footing — придавать юридический статус какой-л. организации
- AAPSO- Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization
- anti-war organizations
- ASIO
- at the headquarters of the organization
- Australian Security Intelligence Organization
- autonomous organization
- banned organization
- Basque separatist organization
- breakaway organization
- CENTO
- Central Treaty Organization
- child care organization
- competent organization
- comprehensive trade organization
- Conservative Students Organization
- consultative organization
- country-wide organization
- democratic organization
- design organization
- educational organization
- emigrant organization
- environmental organization
- ethnic organization
- European Organization for Nuclear Research
- expansion of an organization
- ex-service organization
- extremist organization
- FAO
- fascist organization
- finance and banking organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- governmental organization
- government-run organization
- grassroots organization
- Greenpeace Organization
- humanitarian organization
- ICAO
- ICPO
- illegal organization
- ILO
- IMO
- independent organization
- inferior organization
- informal organization
- intelligence organization
- intergovernmental organization
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- International Criminal Police Organization
- International Labour Organization
- International Maritime Organization
- international monetary and financial organization
- International Organization of Standardization
- international organization
- International Radio and Television Organization
- International Refugee Organization
- International Shipping Organization
- International Trade Organization
- INTERPOL
- interstate trade and economic organizations
- IOS
- IRTO
- kindred organizations
- legal organization
- mass public organizations
- military organization
- monetary and credit organizations
- mutual-aid organizations
- National Organization for Women
- nongovernmental organizations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NOW
- OANA
- OAS
- OAU
- OCAS
- OECD
- OPEC
- organization based in Washington
- organization committed to violence
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Organization for European Economic Cooperation
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Organization for Trade Cooperation
- Organization of African Unity
- Organization of American States
- Organization of Asian News Agencies
- Organization of Central American States
- organization of labor
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Organization of Regional Cooperation for Development
- OSCE
- outlawed organization
- PAHO
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Pan-American Health Organization
- paramilitary organization
- patriotic organization
- PLO
- political organization
- political wing of an organization
- PPO
- preferred provider organization
- primary organization
- procurement organization
- pro-fascist organization
- proscribed organization
- public organization
- rebirth of an organization
- regional organization
- related organizations
- religious organization
- revanchist organization
- revolutionary organization
- sales organization
- scientific organization of labor
- SEATO
- self-financing organization
- self-governing organization
- self-supporting organization
- self-sustained organization
- separatist organization
- sister organizations
- social organization
- socio-political organization
- South-East Asia Treaty Organization
- splinter organization
- sponsoring organization
- state-political organization
- steering organization
- terrorist organization
- trade-union organization
- trading organization
- transnational organization
- ultra-right fascist-type organization
- umbrella organization
- underground organization
- underworld organization
- UNESCO
- UNIDO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- United Nations Organization
- United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine
- United Towns Organization
- universal organization
- UNO
- unofficial organization
- UNTSO
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
- WHO
- withdrawal from an organization
- WMO
- World Health Organization
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- World Meteorological Organization
- World Tourism Organization
- World Trade Organization
- worldwide organization
- WTO
- youth organization -
14 act
1. n1) действие, поступок, акт, шаг2) акт, закон, постановление ( судебного органа), законодательство3) акт, документ•to block the passage of the act — мешать принятию акта / закона
to carry out an act — совершать какое-л. действие / какой-л. акт
to catch smb in the act of doing smth — поймать кого-л. в момент совершения чего-л.; брать кого-л. с поличным
to challenge an act — не подчиняться закону; бросать вызов закону
to commit an act — совершать какое-л. действие / какой-л. акт
to hold smb under the Prevention of Terrorism Act — задерживать кого-л. в соответствии с Законом о предотвращении терроризма
to hush up a criminal act — замять / скрыть преступный акт
to invoke an act — воспользоваться законом / актом
to pass an act — принимать акт / закон
to perform an act — совершать какое-л. действие / какой-л. акт
to prevent smb's act — пресекать чьи-л. действия
- Acquitted of Godto protest against smb's unilateral acts — протестовать / выступать против чьих-л. односторонних действий / шагов
- Act of Parliament
- act in law
- act is before the Parliament
- act of accession
- act of aggression
- act of amnesty
- act of barbarism
- act of betrayal
- act of deception
- act of defiance
- act of despair
- act of faith
- act of flexibility
- act of force
- act of good faith
- act of good will
- act of grace
- act of heroism
- act of homage
- act of hostage taking
- act of hostility
- act of humanity
- act of insubordination
- act of intimidation
- act of law
- act of lawlessness
- act of mutiny
- act of piracy
- act of Providence
- act of provocation
- act of public nature
- act of remembrance
- act of reprisal
- act of sabotage
- act of state
- act of terrorism
- act of treachery
- act of treason
- act of violence
- act of war
- act of worship
- act warranted by law
- administration of justice act
- Agents Identities Act
- aggressive act
- anti-labor act
- anti-social act
- Anti-Terrorism Act
- arbitrary act
- barbaric act
- barbarous act
- belligerent act
- brave act
- clear cut act
- Companies Act
- conciliatory act
- constituent act
- Corrupt Practices Act
- courageous act
- covert act
- criminal acts
- dangerous acts
- despicable acts
- discourteous acts
- epoch making act
- Equal Pay Act
- equitable acts
- ethical act
- Ethics in Government Act
- final act
- foolish act
- formal act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government Official Secrets Act
- Hatch Act
- heroic act
- historic act
- hostile acts
- House of Commons Disqualification Act
- humane act
- illegal act
- immoral act
- impartial acts
- Industrial Relations Act
- infamous acts
- Internal Security Act
- international act
- international law act
- irresponsible acts
- justified acts
- lawful acts
- legal act
- legislative act
- legitimate acts
- Lend-Lease Act
- logical act
- magnanimous act
- noble act
- penal act
- perpetrator of a criminal act
- Prevention of Terrorism Act
- public act
- Public Order Act
- Race Relations Act
- rash acts
- Rent Act
- senseless act
- Separate Amenities Act
- Sex Discrimination Act
- Special Powers Act
- statesmanlike act
- statutory act
- Street Offences Act
- Suppression of Communism Act
- terrorist act
- thoughtful act
- under the act
- unfriendly act
- unilateral act
- unlawful act
- US Atomic Energy Act
- US Freedom of Information Act
- vile act
- violable act 2. vдействовать, поступать, вести себяto act against smb — действовать против кого-л.
to act as a go-between / as an intermediary / as a mediator — действовать / выступать в качестве посредника
to act at the behest of smb — действовать по чьему-л. научению
to act for smb — выполнять чьи-л. функции; действовать от чьего-л. лица / имени
to act illegally — поступать незаконно, совершать незаконные действия
to act in the execution of one's duties — действовать в соответствии со своими обязанностями
to act in the interests of smb — действовать / поступать в чьих-л. интересах
to act on smb's behalf / on behalf of smb — выполнять чьи-л. функции; действовать от чьего-л. лица / имени; действовать по поручению кого-л.
to act on the defensive — обороняться, защищаться
to act unlawfully — поступать незаконно, совершать незаконные действия
to act up to one's principles — действовать / поступать в соответствии со своими принципами / убеждениями
to act with the approval of smb — действовать с чьего-л. одобрения
to act with the knowledge of smb — действовать с чего-л. ведома
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15 limit
limit [ˈlɪmɪt]1. noun• there is a 60km/h limit on this road la vitesse est limitée à 60 km/h sur cette route• that's the limit! (inf) ça dépasse les bornes !• there are limits! (inf) il y a des limites !• off limits [area, district] d'accès interdit• to limit o.s. to a few remarks se limiter à quelques remarques• to limit o.s. to ten cigarettes a day se limiter à dix cigarettes par jour• the government's attempts to limit unemployment to 2.5 million les efforts du gouvernement pour maintenir le chômage en dessous de la barre des 2,5 millions* * *['lɪmɪt] 1.1) ( boundary) lit, fig limite fto be off limits — Military être interdit d'accès
2) ( legal restriction) limitation f (on sur)2.to be over the limit — ( of alcohol) avoir trop d'alcool dans le sang
transitive verb limiter -
16 limit
A n1 ( maximum extent) limite f ; there will be no limit to the violence la violence ne connaîtra pas de limites ; it's beyond the limit(s) of my experience cela sort des limites de mon expérience ; to push sb to the limit pousser qn à bout ; he has pushed my patience to the limit ou to its limits il est venu à bout de ma patience ; it's the limit ○ ! ça dépasse les bornes! ; you're the limit ○ ! tu dépasses les bornes! ;2 ( legal restriction) limitation f (on sur) ; public spending limits limitation des dépenses publiques ; speed limit limitation de vitesse ; safety limits limites imposées par les normes de la sécurité ; to be over/under the limit ( of alcohol) avoir trop/ne pas avoir trop d'alcool dans le sang ;3 ( boundary) (of territory, universe, power, science) limite f (of de) ; within the limits of what we can do dans la limite de ce que l'on peut faire ; ‘is it possible?’-‘yes, within limits’ ‘est-ce possible?’-‘oui, dans une certaine limite’ ; to be off limits Mil être interdit d'accès ; the garden is off limits l'accès au jardin est interdit ; my private life is off limits ma vie privée ne vous concerne pas.B vtr ( restrict) limiter [use, imports, actions] ; to be limited to doing se limiter à faire ; spending is limited to two million les dépenses sont limitées à deux millions ; places are limited to 60 le nombre de places est limité à 60.C v refl to limit oneself s'imposer des limites ; to limit oneself to se limiter à [amount, quantity] ; you're limiting yourself by not doing tu te limites trop en ne faisant pas. -
17 First of May
An important holiday for organized labor, and a Labor Day for many countries in Europe, among them Portugal. Traditionally, beginning in the last decades of the monarchy, this was a day when labor groups, including unions of laborers, would demonstrate and commemorate European Labor Day in Portugal. When trade unions were given legal status during the First Republic, the First of May was a day during which labor openly organized demonstrations of solidarity and strength. During the Estado Novo, when traditional unions did not enjoy legal status but were required to be part of official labor syndicates in the corporatist system, May First was a day when labor challenged the regime's labor policies and its control of the streets. An important test of democratic Portugal occurred on 1 May 1974, following the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Freedom to celebrate that labor holiday was present, but some observers feared violence, disorder, and confusion as long-repressed forces of labor emerged in the streets. That May First celebration, however, went smoothly; media estimates were that 1 million Portuguese marched in the capital's streets peacefully that day. -
18 defence
dɪˈfens сущ.;
тж. defense
1) а) защита to speak out in defence of justice ≈ высказываться в защиту справедливости best defence is offence ≈ лучшая защита - это нападение Syn: protection, justification, vindication б) оборона to conduct a defence, organize a defence, put up a defence ≈ оборонять, защищать to overwhelm smb.'s defences ≈ прорывать оборону line of defence ≈ линия обороны heroic defence ≈ героическая защита inadequate defence, weak defence ≈ слабая защита stubborn defence ≈ упорная защита the defence of our country ≈ защита нашей страны They are to take measures for the defence of the country. ≈ Они должны принять меры для обороны страны. в) псих. защитная реакция defence mechanism ≈ защитный механизм The faith of modern Germany is, in psychological language, a 'defence' against reasoning. ≈ Вера в современной Германии это, на языке психологии, 'защитная реакция' против разума. г) спорт защита man-to-man defence ≈ индивидуальная защита zone defence ≈ защита зоны
2) а) защитные средства, то, что защищает, предохраняет Mountains are necessary as a defence against the violence of heat, in the warm latitudes. ≈ Горы необходимы как средство защиты против безумной жары в жарких широтах. airtight defence, impenetrable defence ≈ герметическая защита, непроницаемая б) мн.;
воен. укрепления, оборонительные сооружения military defences ≈ военные укрепления
3) юр. защита а) сторона, защищающая на суде обвиняемого б) часть судебного разбирательства, проводимого защитой a legal defence ≈ судебная защита the defence rests ≈ защита отдыхает защита - missile * противоракетная защита - * mechanism защитный механизм - a thick overcoat is a good * against cold теплое пальто хорошо предохраняет от холода - in * of peace в защиту мира - to die in * of liberty пасть в борьбе за свободу оборона - national * национальная оборона;
оборона страны - last-ditch * последнее отчаянное сопротивление - all-round * круговая оборона - active * активная оборона - civil * гражданская оборона - air * противовоздушная оборона - heavy * плотная оборона - territorial * территориальная оборона - * tactics оборонительная тактика - * expenditure расходы на оборону - D. Board совет обороны - the Ministry of D. министерство обороны - line of * полоса обороны;
оборонительный рубеж - first line of * (образное) "первая линия обороны", военно-морской флот( Великобритании) - second line of * (образное) "вторая линия обороны", армия( Великобритании) - to fix /to establish/ a line of * построить линию обороны - weapons of * оборонительное оружие - the system of collective * система коллективной безопасности - * in depth( военное) эшелонированная оборона - * in place( военное) стабильная оборона - to rise to the * of one's nation подняться на защиту своего народа - to make a good * against the enemy успешно отбивать атаки противника - best * is offence нападение -лучшая защита оправдание, защита - in * в защиту, в оправдание - in one's * в свою защиту - to speak in * of smb. выступать в чью-л. защиту, заступаться за кого-л. - it may be said in his * that... в его оправдание можно сказать, что... - to make no * against accusations ничего не сказать в свою защиту pl (военное) укрепления, оборонительные сооружения;
система, средства обороны - coast *s береговые укрепления - to set up *s организовывать оборону, строить оборонительные сооружения (юридическое) защита (тж. как сторона на процессе) - the case for the * защита - the counsel for the * защитник обвиняемого - to conduct one's own * отказаться от защитника, взять на себя защиту, защищаться самому речь защитника письменное возражение ответчика против иска( спортивное) защита - Indian * (шахматное) индийская защита - man-to-man * защита "игрок против игрока" - team * командная защита > the science /art/ of * бокс affirmative ~ заявление о фактах, опровергающих риск ~ запрещение( рыбной ловли) ;
best defence is offence нападение - лучший вид защиты ~ юр. защита (на суде) ;
оправдание, реабилитация;
counsel for the defence защитник обвиняемого defence адвокат ~ аргументация ответчика ~ возражение по иску ~ запрещение (рыбной ловли) ;
best defence is offence нападение - лучший вид защиты ~ запрещение ~ спорт. защита ~ юр. защита (на суде) ;
оправдание, реабилитация;
counsel for the defence защитник обвиняемого ~ защита (на суде), аргументация ответчика, возражение по иску, возражение ответчика ~ защита ~ защита на суде ~ оборона;
защита ~ оборона, защита ~ оборона ~ письменное возражение ответчика против иска ~ речь защитника ~ pl воен. укрепления, оборонительные сооружения defense: defense амер. = defence ~ of nonpayment оправдание неплатежа gas ~ противохимическая оборона naval ~ военно-морская оборона Pac-Man ~ орг.бизн. стратегия "Пэк Мэн" (защита от поглощения путем попытки поглотить компанию-агрессора) personal ~ личная защита procedural ~ процессуальная защита -
19 policy
̈ɪˈpɔlɪsɪ I сущ.
1) а) политика, линия поведения, установка, курс to adopt, establish, formulate, set a policy ≈ принимать курс, устанавливать политику to adhere to, follow, pursue a policy ≈ следовать политике, держать курс, проводить политику to carry out, implement a policy ≈ проводить политику to form, shape a policy ≈ вырабатывать политику cautious policy ≈ осмотрительная, осторожная политика clear, clear-cut policy ≈ четкий политический курс conciliatory policy ≈ примиренческая политика deliberate policy ≈ обдуманная, взвешенная политика economic policy ≈ экономическая политика established, set policy ≈ установленная политика firm policy ≈ твердая политика flexible policy ≈ гибкая политика foolish policy ≈ недальновидная политика foreign policy ≈ внешняя политика friendly policy ≈ дружественная политика government, public policy ≈ политика правительства long-range, long-term policy ≈ долгосрочная политика military policy ≈ военная политика monetary policy ≈ денежная политика national policy ≈ национальная политика official policy ≈ официальная политика open-door policy ≈ политика открытых дверей personnel policy ≈ кадровая политика prudent policy ≈ разумная, предусмотрительная политика rigid policy ≈ твердая, жесткая политика scorched-earth policy ≈ воен. тактика выжженной земли short-range, short-term policy ≈ краткосрочная политика sound, wise policy ≈ здравая, мудрая политика tough policy ≈ жесткий политический курс, твердая политика wait-and-see policy ≈ политика выжидания It is our established policy to treat everyone fairly. ≈ У нас принято со всеми обращаться справедливо. It is company policy that all workers be/should be paid according to the same criteria. ≈ Политика компании состоит в том, чтобы все сотрудники получали зарплату на общих основаниях. bridge-building policy ≈ политика наведения мостов б) искусство управлять Syn: statecraft, diplomacy
2) благоразумие, политичность;
ловкость, хитрость In this case he was actuated by policy rather than by sentiment. ≈ На этот раз он руководствовался благоразумием, а не чувствами. Syn: prudence, sense
3) шотланд. парк (вокруг усадьбы) II сущ.
1) страховой полис to take out a policy ≈ получать страховой полис to issue, write up a policy ≈ выдавать, выписывать страховой полис to reinstate a policy ≈ восстанавливать страховой полис to cancel a policy ≈ аннулировать страховой полис endowment policy homeowner's policy insurance policy lifetime policy term policy
2) а) амер. род азартной игры, лотерея( построенная по принципу угадывания чисел) б) число, комбинация чисел (в азартной игре) Syn: number политика - home /internal, domestic/ * внутренняя политика - foreign * внешняя политика - long-range * долгосрочная политика - wait-and-see * выжидательная политика - give-and-take * политика взаимных уступок - kid-glove * умеренная /осторожная/ политика - big stick * (американизм) политика "большой дубинки" - ostrich * политика, основанная на самообмане - laissez-faire * политика (государственного) невмешательства (в экономику) - open-door * политика открытых дверей - procrastination * политика проволочек - "scorched-earth" * политика /тактика/ выжженной земли - carrot and stick * политика кнута и пряника - position-of-strength * политика (с позиции) силы - * of neutrality политика нейтралитета - * of pin-pricks политика булавочных уколов - brink-of-war *, * of brinkmanship( американизм) политика балансирования на грани войны - for reasons of * по политическим соображениям - to follow /to pursue, to conduct, to carry out/ a * проводить политику политика, линия поведения, курс;
установка;
стратегия - * authority директивный орган - their * is to satisfy the customers их цель - удовлетворить клиентов - honesty is the best * честность - лучшая политика - it is a poor * to promise more than you can do плохо обещать больше, чем можешь сделать система;
методика;
правила - all-in and all-out * (сельскохозяйственное) система использования( птичника) с однократным заполнением и последующей однократной реализацией птицы - feeding * (сельскохозяйственное) система кормления - first-in-first-out * очередность обслуживания в порядке поступления политичность, благоразумие - the * of such a course is doubtful разумность подобного курса сомнительна хитрость, ловкость проницательность;
дальновидность;
практичность;
предусмотрительность - he was actuated by * rather than sentiment он больше руководствовался практическими соображениями, нежели чувствами часто pl (шотландское) парк (при усадьбе или поместье) (редкое) правление;
правительство страховой полис - open * невалютированный полис - floating /running/ * генеральный полис - life (insurance) * полис страхования жизни - to issue /to draw up, to make out/ a * оформить полис( американизм) род азартной игры (в числа) - * shop место, где делаются ставки в этой игре accounting ~ общие принципы отражения хозяйственных операций в учете accounting ~ учетная политика adjustment ~ политика направленая на обеспечение трудоустройства (лиц, теряющих работу в результате структурных изменений в экономике) agricultural ~ аграрная политика alcohol ~ алкогольная политика (акциз, разрешение или запрещение производства, торговли и т. п.) all-in ~ универсальный страховой полис annuity insurance ~ договор страхования ренты antiinflationary ~ полит.эк. антиинфляционная политика austerity ~ полит.эк. политика строгой экономии banker ~ банковский страховой полис banking ~ политика банка bearer ~ полис на предъявителя blanket ~ генеральный полис blanket ~ полис, покрывающий все страховые случаи block ~ постоянный полис borrowing ~ кредитная политика capital contribution ~ полис страхования капиталов capital insurance ~ полис страхования капитала cargo ~ фрахтовый полис cheap money ~ политика низких процентных ставок coalition ~ политика сотрудничества collective bargaining ~ правила ведения переговоров о заключении коллективного договора commercial ~ торговая политика compensatory fiscal ~ компенсационная финансовая политика comprehensive household ~ полис комбинированного страхования квартиры и имущества comprehensive ~ полис комбинированного страхования consolidation ~ политика слияния consumer ~ политика в области защиты потребителей consumer ~ потребительская политика contractionary fiscal ~ жесткая финансово-кредитная политика contractionary fiscal ~ жесткая фискальная политика conversion ~ полис, предусматривающий возможность изменения страховой ответственности credible ~ политика, заслуживающая доверия credit ~ кредитная политика criminal ~ уголовная полиция currency ~ валютная политика data ~ политика в области информационной технологии dear-money ~ ограничение кредита путем повышения процентных ставок declaration ~ генеральный страховой полис development ~ политика развития (политический курс направленный на преимущественное развитие тех или иных областей) discount rate ~ политика регулирования учетных ставок discretionary fiscal ~ дискреционная финансовая политика dividend ~ дивидендная политика domestic ~ внутреняя политика easy monetary ~ политика "дешевых" денег easy money ~ политика "дешевых" денег economic ~ экономическая политика educational ~ политика в области образования employment ~ политика обеспечения занятости endowment ~ страхование на дожитие до определенного возраста environmental ~ экологическая политика exchange ~ валютная политика expansionary fiscal ~ экспансионистская финансово-бюджетная политика expansionary fiscal ~ экспансионистская фискальная политика expansionist monetary ~ экспансионистская денежно-кредитная политика external monetary ~ внешняя кредитно-денежная политика fidelity ~ полис страхования от финансовых потерь, связанных со злоупотреблениями служащих компании financial ~ финансовая политика fiscal ~ финансовая политика fiscal ~ финансово-бюджетная политика fiscal ~ фискальная политика fisheries ~ политика в области рыболовства fleet ~ морской полис floating ~ генеральный или постоянный полис floating ~ генеральный полис for reasons of ~ по политическим соображениям;
tough policy твердая политика foreign exchange ~ валютная политика foreign trade ~ политика в области внешней торговли free ~ бесплатный полис global ~ глобальный страховой полис grant a ~ выдавать страховой полис group ~ групповой полис growth ~ стратегия развития householder's comprehensive ~ страх. полис страхования нескольких видов домашнего имущества по одному договору hull ~ мор. страх. полис страхования корпуса судна immigrant ~ иммиграционная политика income distribution ~ политика распределения доходов incomes ~ политика в области контроля доходов index-linked ~ индексированный страховой полис individual ~ личный страховой полис industrial development ~ политика индустриального развития industrial ~ промышленная политика innovation ~ политика перемен insurance ~ договор страхования insurance ~ страховой полис insurance ~ amount сумма страхового полиса insurance ~ number номер страхового полиса interest rate ~ политика в области ставок процента internal ~ внутренняя политика inventory ~ политика управления запасами investment ~ инвестиционная политика isolation ~ политика изоляции issue a ~ выдавать страховой полис joint lives ~ полис совместного страхования жизни joint lives ~ полис страхования жизни двух или более лиц labour market ~ политика рынка труда laissez-faire ~ политика невмешательства государства в экономику laissez-faire ~ политика свободного предпринимательства land use ~ политика землепользования lapsed ~ полис, действие которого прекращено досрочно last survivor ~ полис лица, дожившего до определенного возраста legal ~ правовая политика lending ~ кредитная политика liberal trade ~ политика свободной торговли life annuity ~ полис пожизненной ренты life ~ полис страхования жизни liquidity ~ политика ликвидности loan against ~ ссуда под полис loan ~ кредитная политика loss ~ полис страхования от потерь management ~ политика руководства manpower ~ кадровая политика marine insurance ~ полис морского страхования marine ~ полис морского страхования marketing ~ политика в области сбыта marketing ~ стратегия в области сбыта master ~ групповой полис migration policies политика в вопросах миграции рабочей силы mixed ~ смешанный полис moderate ~ осторожная политика monetary ~ валютная политика monetary ~ денежно-кредитная политика monetary ~ монетарная политика mortgage protection ~ полис страхования погашения ипотечной задолженности national ~ государственная политика neutrality ~ политика нейтралитета nonalignment ~ политика неприсоединения obstructive ~ обструкционная политика omnium ~ страховой полис на общую сумму open ~ невалютированный полис, полис без указания стоимости предмета страхования open ~ невалютированный полис open ~ нетаксированный полис open-door ~ политика открытых дверей original ~ основной полис paging ~ вчт. алгоритм замещения страниц paid-up ~ оплаченный страховой полис ~ политика;
peace policy политика мира, мирная политика personal accident ~ полис личного страхования от несчастного случая personal accident ~ полис персонального страхования от несчастного случая personnel ~ кадровая политика policy вчт. алгоритм распределения ресурса ~ благоразумие, политичность;
хитрость, ловкость ~ курс ~ линия поведения ~ методика ~ шотл. парк (вокруг усадьбы) ~ поведение ~ полис (страховой) ~ политика, линия поведения, установка, курс ~ политика;
peace policy политика мира, мирная политика ~ политика ~ правила ~ амер. род азартной игры ~ вчт. стратегия ~ стратегия ~ страховой полис ~ страховой полис ~ of compromise политика компромиссов ~ of court судебная практика ~ of fiscal and monetary restraints политика финансовых и денежно-кредитных ограничений ~ of law правовая политика ~ of low interest rates политика низких процентных ставок ~ of violence политика насилия premium ~ полис с уплатой страховых взносов price ~ ценовая политика prices ~ политика цен pricing ~ политика ценообразования public ~ государственная политика reallotment ~ политика перераздела земли reform ~ политика реформ refugee ~ эмиграционная политика regional ~ региональная политика restrictive monetary ~ ограничительная денежно-кредитная политика restrictive monetary ~ ограничительная монетарная политика restrictive ~ политика ограничения restrictive ~ политика сдерживания restrictive trade ~ политика ограничения торговли retrenchment ~ политика экономии savings insurance ~ договор страхования сбережений security ~ вчт. стратегия защиты security ~ стратегия обеспечения безопасности service ~ вчт. стратегия обслуживания short-term economic ~ краткосрочная экономическая политика short-term ~ краткосрочная политика single-premium life ~ полис страхования жизни с единовременным страховым взносом single-premium ~ полис с единовременным страховым взносом social development ~ политика социального развития social ~ социальная политика solidary pay ~ политика платежей с солидарной ответственностью stabilization ~ политика стабилизации stabilization ~ политика стабилизации валюты stabilization ~ политика стабилизации цен stabilization ~ политика стабилизации экономической конъюнктуры stabilization ~ стратегия экономической стабилизации staff ~ кадровая политика stationary ~ вчт. стационарная стратегия structural ~ структурная политика subvention ~ политика в области субсидий supplementary ~ дополнительный полис supply-side ~ политика в области предложения survivorship ~ страховой полис пережившего супруга systematic ~ согласованная политика tax ~ налоговая политика taxation ~ политика налогообложения ticket ~ типовой полис tight money ~ жесткая кредитная политика tight money ~ политика дорогого кредита time ~ полис на срок time ~ срочный полис, полис страхования на срок for reasons of ~ по политическим соображениям;
tough policy твердая политика tough: ~ policy полит. жесткий курс;
a tough problem трудноразрешимая проблема trade ~ торговая политика translation ~ политика в области обменного курса валют turnover ~ полис страхования товарооборота uniform accounting ~ единая методика бухгалтерского учета unvalued ~ невалютированный полис unvalued ~ нетаксированный полис valued ~ валютированный полис valued ~ таксированный полис wage ~ политика в области зарплаты wage ~ политика в области оплаты труда wage restraint ~ политика сдерживания роста заработной платы wager ~ азартный полис whole-life ~ полис пожизненного страхования на случай смерти worldwide ~ глобальная политика worldwide ~ мировая политика youth ~ молодежная политика -
20 advocacy network
соц., пол. правозащитная сеть*, сеть [сообщество, общество\] поддержки [пропаганды, защиты\]* (неформальная организация, направленная на защиту прав и расширение возможностей людей, имеющих какие-л. физические или социальные ограничения; занимается информированием этих людей об их правах и возможностях, способствует их нормальным контактам с властями, привлекает внимание общества к проблемам этих людей и т. д.; в отличие advocacy group, больше похожа на сетевую организацию, члены которой находятся в различных местах, но поддерживают контакты друг с другом, часто через интернет)Irish Advocacy Network — Ирландская правозащитная сеть ( защищает интересы людей с психическими расстройствами)
United Kingdom Advocacy Network — Правозащитная сеть Соединенного Королевства ( защищает интересы людей с психическими расстройствами)
California Youth Advocacy Network — Сеть защиты молодежи Калифорнии ( от негативных последствий курения)
Families Against Violence Advocacy Network — правозащитная сеть "Семьи против насилия"
Advocacy networks are pressure groups which campaign against companies predominantly. — Правозащитные сети являются группами давления, действующими преимущественно против каких-л. компаний.
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