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looming large on the horizon

  • 1 avecinarse de un modo amenazador

    (v.) = loom + large on the horizon, loom + large
    Ex. Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.
    Ex. The philosophy of central collections providing back up for local libraries will loom large on the British library scene for some time.
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    (v.) = loom + large on the horizon, loom + large

    Ex: Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.

    Ex: The philosophy of central collections providing back up for local libraries will loom large on the British library scene for some time.

    Spanish-English dictionary > avecinarse de un modo amenazador

  • 2 dificultades económicas

    f.pl.
    money problems, money trouble, financial embarrassment.
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    (n.) = fiscal constraints, fiscal adversity, economic adversity
    Ex. Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.
    Ex. This paper discusses the fiscal adversities facing East Asian collections in the USA.
    Ex. The article has the title 'A radical response to economic adversity'.
    * * *
    (n.) = fiscal constraints, fiscal adversity, economic adversity

    Ex: Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.

    Ex: This paper discusses the fiscal adversities facing East Asian collections in the USA.
    Ex: The article has the title 'A radical response to economic adversity'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > dificultades económicas

  • 3 austeridad económica

    (n.) = financial stringency, fiscal austerity, fiscal constraints
    Ex. However, in these days of financial stringency, no library achieves complete self-sufficiency but has to rely on the back-up services of the inter-library loan network.
    Ex. In these times of fiscal austerity there is growing pressure for academic institutions to show positive results.
    Ex. Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.
    * * *
    (n.) = financial stringency, fiscal austerity, fiscal constraints

    Ex: However, in these days of financial stringency, no library achieves complete self-sufficiency but has to rely on the back-up services of the inter-library loan network.

    Ex: In these times of fiscal austerity there is growing pressure for academic institutions to show positive results.
    Ex: Fiscal constraints looming large on the horizon for most libraries.

    Spanish-English dictionary > austeridad económica

  • 4 amenazador

    adj.
    threatening, menacing, ominous.
    * * *
    1 threatening, menacing
    * * *
    (f. - amenazadora)
    adj.
    menacing, threatening
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing
    * * *
    = ominous, threatening, frowning, forbidding, looming, scary [scarier -comp., scariest -sup.], menacing, nasty looking, portentous.
    Ex. At first blush, nothing seemed particularly ominous about the formation of the ad hoc committee.
    Ex. It is easy to become carried away by the sheer size of the so-called 'information explosion' and to regard the growth of literature as a phenomenon as threatening to civilization as a virulent epidemic or the 'population explosion' in the third world.
    Ex. The impulse to learn is a ruling passion in very few people; in most of us it is so weak that a frowning aspect can discourage it.
    Ex. All those shelves full of books are forbidding, daunting.
    Ex. The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.
    Ex. The very term 'outsourcing' is seen by many cataloguing departments as a scary word.
    Ex. This is a collection of articles on the theme: Books for children with murderous, shocking, menacing endings.
    Ex. The large and nasty-looking African Buffalo is highly dangerous to humans due to its unpredictable nature.
    Ex. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
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    * avecinarse de un modo amenazador = loom + large on the horizon.
    * conducta amenazadora = threatening behaviour.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing
    * * *
    = ominous, threatening, frowning, forbidding, looming, scary [scarier -comp., scariest -sup.], menacing, nasty looking, portentous.

    Ex: At first blush, nothing seemed particularly ominous about the formation of the ad hoc committee.

    Ex: It is easy to become carried away by the sheer size of the so-called 'information explosion' and to regard the growth of literature as a phenomenon as threatening to civilization as a virulent epidemic or the 'population explosion' in the third world.
    Ex: The impulse to learn is a ruling passion in very few people; in most of us it is so weak that a frowning aspect can discourage it.
    Ex: All those shelves full of books are forbidding, daunting.
    Ex: The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.
    Ex: The very term 'outsourcing' is seen by many cataloguing departments as a scary word.
    Ex: This is a collection of articles on the theme: Books for children with murderous, shocking, menacing endings.
    Ex: The large and nasty-looking African Buffalo is highly dangerous to humans due to its unpredictable nature.
    Ex: Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
    * avecinarse de un modo amenazador = loom + large on the horizon.
    * conducta amenazadora = threatening behaviour.

    * * *
    adj,
    amenazante adjective threatening, menacing
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    amenazador
    ◊ - dora, amenazante adjetivo

    threatening, menacing
    amenazador,-ora, amenazante adjetivo threatening, menacing

    ' amenazador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amenazadora
    - amenazante
    English:
    forbidding
    - menace
    - menacing
    - threatening
    - threateningly
    * * *
    amenazador, -ora adj
    threatening, menacing
    * * *
    adj threatening
    * * *
    : threatening, menacing

    Spanish-English dictionary > amenazador

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