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  • 1 program

    m (G programu) 1. (plan) programme GB, program US; (harmonogram) schedule
    - przeładowany program wycieczki an overloaded programme for an excursion
    - prace przebiegają zgodnie z programem the work has progressed as scheduled
    - w programie dnia było zwiedzanie muzeum the programme for the day included a visit to the museum
    - co mamy dzisiaj w programie? what’s on the programme for today?
    2. (cele) programme GB, program US
    - program partii a party’s programme; (dokument) a party’s manifesto a. policy statement
    - program wyborczy an electoral programme
    - program poetycki a poetic programme
    - długoterminowy program zalesiania a long-term programme for reforestation
    - wprowadzać program reform to introduce a. launch a programme of reforms
    3. Teatr, TV (repertuar) programme GB, program US
    - teatr ma w programie Hamleta the theatre has Hamlet in its programme
    - ulotka z programem festiwalu a leaflet with the festival programme
    - gazeta z programem (telewizyjnym) a newspaper with a TV guide
    - program telewizyjny zszedł na psy pot. the TV programme has gone down the tubes pot.
    4. (koncertu, występu) programme GB, program US
    - orkiestra wystąpiła z nowym programem the orchestra presented a new programme
    - kolejny punkt programu a further item of a programme
    5. Teatr (broszura) programme GB, program US 6. Radio, TV (audycja) programme GB, program US
    - program informacyjny/sportowy a news/sports programme
    - program o nowych trendach w modzie a programme on a. about the latest trends in fashion
    - nadać program to broadcast a programme
    - wystąpić w programie to appear in/on a programme
    - zrobić program o czymś to do a programme on sth
    7. Radio, TV (kanał) channel
    - program III Polskiego Radia Channel 3 of the Polish Radio
    - program lokalny a local channel
    - mecz jest na drugim programie the game is on channel 2
    - ile programów odbiera twój telewizor? how many channels does your TV set receive?
    - program nauczania w szkole podstawowej the primary school curriculum
    - zrealizować program to cover a syllabus
    - trzymać się programu to stick to a syllabus
    - tego nie ma w programie it’s not on the syllabus
    9. (w urządzeniu) programme GB, program US
    - program prania/płukania a wash/rinse programme
    - wybrać/zmienić program to select/change a programme
    - program komputerowy a computer program
    - program użytkowy an application
    - program do nauki angielskiego a computer program for learning English
    - napisać program to write a program
    - uruchomić program to run a program
    - program zawiesił się the program hanged
    - □ program dowolny Sport free skating
    - program obowiązkowy Sport compulsory dance
    * * *
    -mu, -my; loc sg - mie; m
    programme (BRIT), program (US), ( wyborczy) manifesto, platform; ( spotkania) agenda; ( nauczania) curriculum, syllabus; KOMPUT program
    * * *
    mi
    1. (= założenia i wytyczne) program; Br. programme; plan, schedule, scheme; program wyborczy polit. platform, manifesto; program ubezpieczeń społecznych social security scheme; kompleksowy program comprehensive program; program rozwoju development program; program inwestycyjny investment program; program długoterminowy long-term program.
    2. (= plan zamierzonych czynności) agenda, schedule, plan; program działania action plan; program spotkania agenda; mieć coś w programie have sth on the agenda.
    3. (= zestawienie informacji o przedstawieniu, koncercie, pokazie itp.) program, bill of fare; Br. programme; program teatralny playbill; gwóźdź programu highlight, main feature.
    4. radio, telew. (= jedna audycja) program; Br. programme, broadcast, show; (= zestaw audycji) (program) schedule; (= kanał telewizyjny) channel, station; na pierwszym programie on channel one; program telewizyjny (= audycja telewizyjna) TV program l. broadcast l. show; (= opis, zestawienie audycji) TV l. channel guide; program dokumentalny documentary.
    5. szkoln., uniw. curriculum, syllabus, program; Br. programme; przewidziany programem curricular.
    6. komp. program; program antywirusowy antivirus program, vaccine; pakiet programów software package, suite of programs.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > program

  • 2 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

    (PS)
       Although the Socialist Party's origins can be traced back to the 1850s, its existence has not been continuous. The party did not achieve or maintain a large base of support until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Historically, it played only a minor political role when compared to other European socialist parties.
       During the Estado Novo, the PS found it difficult to maintain a clandestine existence, and the already weak party literally withered away. Different groups and associations endeavored to keep socialist ideals alive, but they failed to create an organizational structure that would endure. In 1964, Mário Soares, Francisco Ramos da Costa, and Manuel Tito de Morais established the Portuguese Socialist Action / Acção Socialista Português (ASP) in Geneva, a group of individuals with similar views rather than a true political party. Most members were middle-class professionals committed to democratizing the nation. The rigidity of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led some to join the ASP.
       By the early 1970s, ASP nuclei existed beyond Portugal in Paris, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sweden, and Switzerland; these consisted of members studying, working, teaching, researching, or in other activities. Extensive connections were developed with other foreign socialist parties. Changing conditions in Portugal, as well as the colonial wars, led several ASP members to advocate the creation of a real political party, strengthening the organization within Portugal, and positioning this to compete for power once the regime changed.
       The current PS was founded clandestinely on 19 April 1973, by a group of 27 exiled Portuguese and domestic ASP representatives at the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bad Munstereifel, West Germany. The founding philosophy was influenced by nondogmatic Marxism as militants sought to create a classless society. The rhetoric was to be revolutionary to outflank its competitors, especially the PCP, on its left. The party hoped to attract reform-minded Catholics and other groups that were committed to democracy but could not support the communists.
       At the time of the 1974 revolution, the PS was little more than an elite faction based mainly among exiles. It was weakly organized and had little grassroots support outside the major cities and larger towns. Its organization did not improve significantly until the campaign for the April 1975 constituent elections. Since then, the PS has become very pragmatic and moderate and has increasingly diluted its socialist program until it has become a center-left party. Among the party's most consistent principles in its platform since the late 1970s has been its support for Portugal's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Union (EU), a view that clashed with those of its rivals to the left, especially the PCP. Given the PS's broad base of support, the increased distance between its leftist rhetoric and its more conservative actions has led to sharp internal divisions in the party. The PS and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) are now the two dominant parties in the Portuguese political party system.
       In doctrine and rhetoric the PS has undergone a de-Marxification and a movement toward the center as a means to challenge its principal rival for hegemony, the PSD. The uneven record of the PS in general elections since its victory in 1975, and sometimes its failure to keep strong legislative majorities, have discouraged voters. While the party lost the 1979 and 1980 general elections, it triumphed in the 1983 elections, when it won 36 percent of the vote, but it still did not gain an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic. The PSD led by Cavaco Silva dominated elections from 1985 to 1995, only to be defeated by the PS in the 1995 general elections. By 2000, the PS had conquered the commanding heights of the polity: President Jorge Sampaio had been reelected for a second term, PS prime minister António Guterres was entrenched, and the mayor of Lisbon was João Soares, son of the former socialist president, Mário Soares (1986-96).
       The ideological transformation of the PS occurred gradually after 1975, within the context of a strong PSD, an increasingly conservative electorate, and the de-Marxification of other European Socialist parties, including those in Germany and Scandinavia. While the PS paid less attention to the PCP on its left and more attention to the PSD, party leaders shed Marxist trappings. In the 1986 PS official program, for example, the text does not include the word Marxism.
       Despite the party's election victories in the mid- and late-1990s, the leadership discovered that their grasp of power and their hegemony in governance at various levels was threatened by various factors: President Jorge Sampaio's second term, the constitution mandated, had to be his last.
       Following the defeat of the PS by the PSD in the municipal elections of December 2001, Premier Antônio Guterres resigned his post, and President Sampaio dissolved parliament and called parliamentary elections for the spring. In the 17 March 2002 elections, following Guterres's resignation as party leader, the PS was defeated by the PSD by a vote of 40 percent to 38 percent. Among the factors that brought about the socialists' departure from office was the worsening post-September 11 economy and disarray within the PS leadership circles, as well as charges of corruption among PS office holders. However, the PS won 45 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections of 2005, and the leader of the party, José Sócrates, a self-described "market-oriented socialist" became prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 3 Social Democratic Party / Partido Social Democrático

    (PSD)
       One of the two major political parties in democratic Portugal. It was established originally as the Popular Democratic Party / Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) in May 1974, following the Revolution of 25 April 1974 that overthrew the Estado Novo. The PPD had its roots in the "liberal wing" of the União Nacional, the single, legal party or movement allowed under the Estado Novo during the last phase of that regime, under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano. A number of future PPD leaders, such as Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Balsemão, hoped to reform the Estado Novo from within, but soon became discouraged. After the 1974 Revolution, the PPD participated in two general elections (April 1975 and April 1976), which were crucial for the establishment and consolidation of democracy, and the party won sufficient votes to become the second largest political party after the Socialist Party (PS) in the number of seats held in the legislature, the Assembly of the Republic. The PPD voting results in those two elections were 26.4 percent and 24.4 percent, respectively.
       After the 1976 elections, the party changed its name from Partido Popular Democrático to Partido Social Democrático (PSD). As political opinion swung from the left to the center and center-right, and with the leadership of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the PSD gained greater popularity and strength, and from 1979 on, the party played an important role in government. After Sá Carneiro died in the air crash of December 1980, he was replaced as party chief and then prime minister by Francisco Balsemão, and then by Aníbal Cavaco Silva. As successors, these two leaders guided the PSD to a number of electoral victories, especially beginning in 1985. After 1987, the PSD held a majority of seats in parliament, a situation that lasted until 1995, when the Socialist Party (PS) won the election.
       The PSD's principal political program has featured the de-Marxi-fication of the 1976 Constitution and the economic system, a free-market economy with privatization of many state enterprises, and close ties with the European Economic Community (EEC) and subsequently the European Union (EU). After the PSD lost several general elections in 1995 and 1999, and following the withdrawal from office of former prime minister Cavaco Silva, a leadership succession crisis occurred in the party. The party leadership shifted from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Manuel Durão Barroso, and, in 2004, Pedro Santana Lopes.
       During 2000 and 2001, as Portugal's economic situation worsened, the PS's popularity waned. In the December 2001 municipal elections, the PSD decisively defeated the PS and, as a result, Prime Minister António Guterres resigned. Parliamentary elections in March 2002 resulted in a Social Democratic victory, although its margin of victory over the PS was small (40 percent to 38 percent). Upon becoming premier in the spring of 2002, then, PSD leader Durão Barroso, in order to hold a slim majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic, was obliged to govern in a coalition with the Popular Party (PP), formerly known as the Christian Democratic Party (CDS). Although the PSD had ousted the PS from office, the party confronted formidable economic and social problems. When Durão Barroso resigned to become president of the EU Commission, Pedro Santana Lopes became the PSD's leader, as prime minister in July 2004. Under Santana Lopes's leadership, the PSD lost the parliamentary elections of 2005 to the PS. Since then, the PSD has sought to regain its dominant position with the Portuguese electorate. It made some progress in doing so when its former leader, Cavaco Silva, was elected president of the Republic of 2006.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Social Democratic Party / Partido Social Democrático

  • 4 independent third-party oversight program

    Engineering: ITPOP

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > independent third-party oversight program

  • 5 Parteiprogramm

    n (party) manifesto ( oder platform)
    * * *
    das Parteiprogramm
    platform; party programme; party program
    * * *
    Par|tei|pro|gramm
    nt
    (party) manifesto, (party) programme (Brit) or program (US)
    * * *
    Par·tei·pro·gramm
    nt [party] manifesto
    * * *
    das party manifesto or programme
    * * *
    Parteiprogramm n (party) manifesto ( oder platform)
    * * *
    das party manifesto or programme
    * * *
    n.
    party platform n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Parteiprogramm

  • 6 Political parties

       Portugal's political party system began only in the 19th century, and the first published, distinct political party program appeared about 1843. Under the constitutional monarchy (1834-1910), a number of political groupings or factions took the name of a political figure or soldier or, more commonly until the second half of the century, the name of the particular constitution they supported. For example, some were called "Septembrists," after the group that supported the 1836 (September) Revolution and the 1822 Constitution. Others described themselves as "Chartists" after King Pedro IV's 1826 Charter ( Carta). From the Regeneration to the fall of the monarchy in 1910, the leading political parties were the Regenerators and the Progressists (or Historicals). During the first parliamentary republic (1910-26), the leading political parties were the Portuguese Republican Party or "The Democrats," the Evolutionists, the Unionists, various monarchist factions, the Liberals, and the Nationalists. Small leftist parties were also established or reestablished after the collapse of President Sidónio Pais's New Republic (1917-18), the Socialist Party (PS) and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
       Under the Estado Novo dictatorship (1926-74), all political parties and civic associations (such as the Masons) were banned in 1935, and the only legitimate political movement allowed was the regime's creature, the União Nacional (1930-74). Various oppositionist parties and factions began to participate in the rigged elections of the Estado Novo, beginning with the municipal elections of 1942 and continuing with general elections for president of the republic or the National Assembly (legislature) in 1945, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1961, 1969, 1972, etc. Among these parties were elements of the Communist Party, remnants of the old Portuguese Republican Party elite and of the old Socialist Party (originally founded in 1875), various workers' groups, and special electoral committees allowed by the regime to campaign during brief preelectoral exercises.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 swept away the regime's institutions and ushered in a flood of new political groups. During 1974 and 1975, about 60 new political parties and factions sprung up, but the PCP remained the senior, experienced political party. During the period of fallout and adjustment to the new pluralist, multiparty system of democracy (1974-85), four main political parties became the principal ones and garnered the largest percentage of votes in the many general and municipal elections held between the first free election of 25 April 1975, and the general election of 1985. These parties were the PCP, the PS, the Social Democrat Party (PSD), and the Social Democratic Center Party (CDS) or "Christian Democrats." Until 1985-87, the socialists were ahead in votes, but the social democrats were victorious, with clear majorities in 1987 and 1991. In the general elections of 1995 and 1999, the PS returned to power in the legislature, and in the presidential elections of 1996 and 2001, the victor was the socialist leader Jorge Sampaio. The PSD replaced the socialists in power in the 2002 general election.
        See also Left Bloc.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Political parties

  • 7 puolueohjelma

    yks.nom. puolueohjelma; yks.gen. puolueohjelman; yks.part. puolueohjelmaa; yks.ill. puolueohjelmaan; mon.gen. puolueohjelmien puolueohjelmain; mon.part. puolueohjelmia; mon.ill. puolueohjelmiin
    party program (noun)
    platform (noun)
    * * *
    • party programme
    • platform
    • party program

    Suomi-Englanti sanakirja > puolueohjelma

  • 8 Parteiprogramm

    n
    1. party manifesto
    2. party platform
    3. party programme Br.
    4. party program Am.

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > Parteiprogramm

  • 9 partiprogram

    subst. party programme, party program, party platform, platform

    Norsk-engelsk ordbok > partiprogram

  • 10 партийная программа

    1) Diplomatic term: party platform

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > партийная программа

  • 11 программа партии

    1) General subject: party program
    2) Business: party programme

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > программа партии

  • 12 партийная программа

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > партийная программа

  • 13 espacio

    m.
    1 space.
    no tengo mucho espacio I don't have much room
    por espacio de over a period of
    espacio aéreo air space
    espacio verde green area
    2 program (radio & television) (programa independiente).
    espacio electoral party political broadcast
    espacio publicitario advertising slot
    3 room, available space, space.
    4 character space.
    5 spatium, crevice.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: espaciar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) space
    2 (que se ocupa) space, room
    3 (de tiempo) period, space
    4 (programa) programme (US program)
    \
    a doble espacio double-spaced
    por espacio de... for...
    doble espacio double spacing
    espacio aéreo air space
    espacio radiofónico radio programme (US program)
    espacio televisivo TV programme (US program)
    espacio verde open space, green space
    espacio vital living space
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) room
    3) period, length
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Astron, Fís, Aer) space

    espacio exterior, espacio extraterrestre — outer space

    2) (=sitio) room, space

    no hay espacio para tantas sillas — there isn't room o space for so many chairs

    ¿me haces un espacio para que me siente? — can you make a bit of room o space for me to sit down?

    3) (=superficie) space

    espacio vital — (Pol) living space; [de persona] living space

    4) [en un escrito] space

    un texto mecanografiado a un espacio/a doble espacio — a single-spaced/double-spaced typescript

    escríbelo a un espacio/a doble espacio — type it with single spacing/double spacing

    espacio interlineal — interlinear spacing, inter-line spacing

    5) [de tiempo] space
    6) (Radio, TV) [en la programación] slot; (=programa) programme, program (EEUU)

    espacio electoral — ≈ party political broadcast

    espacio publicitario — advertising spot, commercial

    7) (Mús) interval
    8) †† (=tardanza) delay, slowness
    * * *
    1)
    a) (amplitud, capacidad) space, room
    b) (entre líneas, palabras) space; ( entre objetos) space, gap

    un folio mecanografiado a doble espacio/a un espacio — a sheet of double-spaced/single-spaced typing

    c) (recinto, área) area
    2) (Espac)
    3) ( de tiempo)

    por espacio de 24 horas — for 24 hours o for a period of 24 hours

    4)
    a) (Rad, TV) ( hueco) slot; ( programa) program*

    espacio deportivo/informativo — sports/news program

    b) (en periódico, revista) space
    * * *
    1)
    a) (amplitud, capacidad) space, room
    b) (entre líneas, palabras) space; ( entre objetos) space, gap

    un folio mecanografiado a doble espacio/a un espacio — a sheet of double-spaced/single-spaced typing

    c) (recinto, área) area
    2) (Espac)
    3) ( de tiempo)

    por espacio de 24 horas — for 24 hours o for a period of 24 hours

    4)
    a) (Rad, TV) ( hueco) slot; ( programa) program*

    espacio deportivo/informativo — sports/news program

    b) (en periódico, revista) space
    * * *
    espacio1
    1 = space.

    Ex: For example, 629.1388 in DC has to house all documents on Astronautics documents on Instrumentation, Earth satellites, Monkeys in space, Manned flights, and so on.

    * agricultura en el espacio = astroculture.
    * ciencias del espacio, las = space science(s), the.
    * ciencias sobre la vida en el espacio = space life sciences.
    * criatura del espacio = space monster.
    * cultivo en el espacio = astroculture.
    * espacio aéreo = airspace.
    * espacio exterior = outer space.
    * fotografía del espacio = space photograph.
    * NASA (Administración Nacional para la Aeronáutica y el Espacio) = NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

    espacio2
    2 = capacity, gap, room, slot, space, spacing, spaciousness, span, headroom, elbow room.

    Ex: Marginal storage cards normally have capacity for storing citations and abstracts.

    Ex: New editions will be essentially cumulations and therefore a longer gap will exist between editions.
    Ex: It then displays a screen with room to enter 28 copy numbers.
    Ex: These frames are of different types and have slots also of different types, which can be filled by other frames.
    Ex: There is only space to review briefly the special problems associated with the descriptive cataloguing of nonbook materials.
    Ex: Guidelines can be expected to discuss some or all of the following: instructions on the way in which abstracts are to be presented, e.g. typing, paper, layout, spacing.
    Ex: The overall plan of the library is to provide an atmosphere of spaciousness and calm, in contrast to the urban bustle outside = El proyecto general de la biblioteca es ofrecer un ambiente de amplitud y calma, en contraste con el bullicio urbano exterior.
    Ex: The disc held an 18-month span of data from CAB ABSTRACTS.
    Ex: I was also encouraged to read a subscriber to this list has over 40,000 items meaning this software has plenty of headroom = También me sentí animado al leer que un miembro de esta lista tiene más de 40.000 registros lo que significa que este software tiene bastante capacidad.
    Ex: People will work at a higher level when they have adequate elbow room for decision making.
    * acabarse el espacio = run out of + space.
    * a doble espacio = double-spaced.
    * agotar el espacio = run out of + space.
    * ahorrar espacio = conserve + space, save + space.
    * ahorro de espacio = economy of space.
    * asignación de espacio = space allocation.
    * a un solo espacio = single-spaced.
    * barrera espacio-temporal = space-time barrier.
    * compartir espacio = share + space.
    * dejar espacio para = leave + room for.
    * derrochar espacio = waste + space.
    * desperdicio de espacio = space waster.
    * en el espacio = spatially.
    * en espacios cerrados = indoors.
    * en un corto espacio de tiempo = in a short space of time.
    * espacio abierto = open space.
    * espacio abierto público = public open space.
    * espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.
    * espacio cerrado = closed space.
    * espacio de almacenamiento = storage space.
    * espacio de almacenamiento en disco = drive storage space.
    * espacio dedicado a estanterías = stack space.
    * espacio destinado a encuentros de todo tipo = meeting space.
    * espacio de trabajo = workspace.
    * espacio en blanco = blank, blank space.
    * espacio en blanco final = trailing blank.
    * espacio en blanco inicial = beginning blank.
    * espacio en disco = disc space.
    * espacio entre columnas = intercolumn spacing.
    * Espacio Europeo para la Educación Superior (EEES) = European Space for Higher Education (ESHE).
    * espacio físico = physical facility, physical space.
    * espacio físico disponible = floor space.
    * espacio interlineal = interline spacing.
    * espacio interpersonal = personal boundaries.
    * espacio libre = vacant space.
    * espacio para las piernas = legroom.
    * espacio para los expositores = display space.
    * espacio para trabajar = workspace.
    * espacio personal = personal space, territorial space, personal space territory.
    * espacio privado = personal space, territorial space, personal space territory.
    * espacio público = public space, public area, commons.
    * espacio público común = commons.
    * espacio reservado para el estudio = study space.
    * espacio social = social space.
    * espacio territorial = territorial space.
    * espacio vacío = vacant space.
    * espacio virtual = virtual space.
    * espacio vital = life-space.
    * falta de espacio = tightness of space.
    * falto de espacio = cramped.
    * invasión del espacio personal = invasion of space.
    * limitaciones de espacio = space constraints.
    * mantenimiento de espacios exteriores = ground maintenance.
    * necesidades de espacio = space requirements.
    * ocupar espacio = occupy + space, take up + space, take up + room.
    * optimizar el espacio de almacenamiento = maximise + storage space.
    * problema de espacio = space problem.
    * que ocupa mucho espacio = space-consuming.
    * que ocupa poco espacio = space-saving.
    * relativo al espacio físico = spatial.
    * rellenar con ceros los espacios vacíos = zero fill.

    * * *
    A
    1 (amplitud, capacidad) space, room
    en el parque hay mucho espacio para jugar there is plenty of space to play in the park
    tus cosas ocupan demasiado espacio your things take up too much space o room
    aquí no cabe, no hay suficiente espacio it won't fit here, there isn't enough space o room
    2 (hueco — entre líneas, palabras) space; (— entre objetos) space, gap
    ocho folios mecanografiados a dos espacios or a doble espacio/a un espacio eight sheets of double-spaced/single-spaced typing
    rellenar los espacios en blanco fill in the blank spaces o the blanks
    deja un espacio entre los pupitres leave some space o a space o a gap between the desks
    3 (recinto, área) area
    un espacio cercado a fenced-off area
    espacios cerrados confined spaces o areas
    Compuestos:
    political niche, niche
    mpl open spaces (pl)
    mpl green spaces (pl)
    lebensraum, living space
    webspace
    B ( Espac):
    el espacio space
    Compuestos:
    airspace
    ● espacio exterior or sideral
    outer space
    C
    (de tiempo): en un corto espacio de tiempo in a short space of time
    los efectos persisten por espacio de 24 horas the effects last for 24 hours o for a period of 24 hours
    por espacio de varios años over a period of several years
    D
    1 (en la radio, televisión — hueco) slot; (— programa) program*
    espacio deportivo/informativo/musical sports/news/music program
    espacio publicitario advertising slot
    2 (en un periódico, revista) space
    * * *

     

    Del verbo espaciar: ( conjugate espaciar)

    espacio es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    espació es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    espaciar    
    espacio
    espacio sustantivo masculino
    1

    ◊ ocupan demasiado espacio they take up too much space o room

    b) (entre líneas, palabras) space;

    ( entre objetos) space, gap;
    ◊ rellenar los espacios en blanco fill in the blank spaces o the blanks

    c) (recinto, área) area

    2 (Espac):

    espacio aéreo airspace
    3 ( de tiempo):

    por espacio de 24 horas for 24 hours o for a period of 24 hours
    4
    a) (Rad, TV) ( programa) program( conjugate program);


    b) (en periódico, revista) space

    espaciar verbo transitivo to space out
    espacio sustantivo masculino
    1 space
    espacio aéreo, air space
    espacio sideral, outer space
    espacio vital, living space
    2 (periodo de tiempo) period
    3 (sitio) room: ocupa poco espacio, it takes little room
    4 Rad TV programme, US program
    ' espacio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acordonar
    - agobiante
    - ámbito
    - amplitud
    - antes
    - aprovechada
    - aprovechado
    - área
    - blanca
    - blanco
    - cámping
    - conquista
    - después
    - discurso
    - en seguida
    - enseguida
    - estrecha
    - estrecho
    - evaporarse
    - extenderse
    - hasta
    - holgada
    - holgado
    - holgura
    - hueca
    - hueco
    - interlineal
    - linterna
    - margen
    - noche
    - ocupar
    - orientación
    - periodo
    - período
    - plaza
    - primera
    - primero
    - radio
    - reducida
    - reducido
    - remota
    - remoto
    - rincón
    - robar
    - rompecabezas
    - separación
    - sitio
    - sobrar
    - tapiar
    - temporada
    English:
    accommodate
    - ahead
    - bay
    - beyond
    - blank
    - breathing space
    - by
    - clearance
    - come into
    - confined
    - cyber space
    - elbow room
    - expanse
    - extension
    - fill
    - fit in
    - forward
    - gap
    - gate
    - go
    - headroom
    - in
    - length
    - long
    - near
    - on
    - outer space
    - party political broadcast
    - room
    - roomy
    - single-space
    - slot
    - smoky
    - space
    - space-saving
    - spacing
    - span
    - spot
    - stretch out
    - take
    - take up
    - throughout
    - towards
    - turn away
    - wide open
    - workspace
    - elbow
    - leg
    - maneuver
    - outer
    * * *
    1. [extensión física] space;
    la relación entre el espacio y el tiempo the relationship between space and time
    Fís espacio-tiempo space-time; Mat espacio vectorial vector space
    2. [hueco libre] space, room;
    hay espacio de sobra para construir una piscina there's plenty of space o room to build a swimming pool;
    no queda espacio en mi maleta there's no room (left) in my suitcase;
    deja más espacio entre las plantas leave more space o room between the plants
    espacio aéreo airspace;
    espacio vital living space;
    me falta espacio vital I need more space;
    Informát espacio Web Web space
    3. [lugar] space;
    no soporto los espacios cerrados I can't bear enclosed spaces
    espacio verde [grande] park; [pequeño] lawn, green
    4. [en texto] space;
    a dos espacios, a doble espacio double-spaced;
    cuatro folios a un espacio four single-spaced sheets
    espacio en blanco blank;
    rellene los espacios en blanco fill in the blanks;
    Informát espacio indivisible hard space
    5. [más allá de la Tierra]
    el espacio (outer) space;
    la conquista del espacio es todavía un sueño the conquest of (outer) space is still a dream
    espacio exterior outer space;
    espacio sideral outer space
    6. [radiofónico, televisivo] [programa independiente] programme;
    [dentro de otro programa] slot;
    espacios informativos news programmes;
    tiene un espacio en el programa de los sábados he has a slot on the Saturday programme
    espacio electoral Br party political broadcast, US political advertisement;
    espacio publicitario advertising slot, commercial
    7. [duración]
    cortaron el agua por espacio de dos horas the water was cut off for two hours;
    en un corto espacio de tiempo in a short space of time;
    en el espacio de tiempo que se tarda en escribir una postal in the time it takes to write a postcard
    * * *
    m
    1 space;
    espacio en blanco (blank) space;
    espacio de tiempo space of time;
    no tengo suficiente espacio I don’t have enough space o room;
    en el espacio de tres meses in the space of three months;
    por espacio de una hora for a full hour
    2 TV program, Br
    programme
    * * *
    1) : space, room
    2) : period, length (of time)
    3)
    espacio exterior : outer space
    * * *
    1. (en general) space
    2. (sitio) room
    3. (programa) programme

    Spanish-English dictionary > espacio

  • 14 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

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    f.
    1 line, tracing.
    2 trajectory.
    3 product line, line of production.
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    1 (gen) line
    2 (tipo) figure
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    de primera línea first-class, first-rate
    guardar la línea to keep one's figure
    línea aérea airline
    línea continua solid line, unbroken line
    línea de meta finishing line
    línea de puntos dotted line
    línea de salida starting line
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    noun f.
    * * *
    1. SF
    1) (=raya) line

    en línea — (=alineado) in (a) line, in a row

    tirar una línea — (Arte) to draw a line

    en toda la línea — [ganar, vencer] outright; [derrotar] totally

    línea de base — (Agrimensura) base-line

    línea de flotación — (Náut) water line

    línea de montaje — assembly line, production line

    línea discontinua — (Aut) broken line

    2) [en un escrito] line
    3) (Com) (=género, gama) line

    es único en su línea — it is unique in its line, it is the only one of its kind

    de primera línea — first-rate, top-ranking

    4) (Elec) line, cable
    5) (Telec) line

    han cortado la línea — I've o we've been cut off

    línea de socorro — helpline, telephone helpline

    línea (telefónica) de ayuda — helpline, telephone helpline

    6) (Mil) line

    de línea — regular, front-line

    línea de batalla — line of battle, battle line

    7) (Aer, Ferro)

    autobús de línea — service bus, regular bus

    línea férrea — railway, railroad (EEUU)

    8) (Dep) line

    línea de banda — sideline, touchline

    línea de meta — [en fútbol] goal line; [en carrera] finishing line

    línea de saque — baseline, service line

    línea lateral — sideline, touchline

    9) (Inform)

    línea de estado, línea de situación — status line

    10) (=talle) figure

    guardar o conservar la línea — to keep one's figure (trim)

    11) (=moda)
    12) [de pensamiento, acción] line

    explicar algo a grandes líneas o en sus líneas generales — to set sth out in broad outline, give the broad outline of sth

    línea dura — (Pol) hard line

    13) [genealógica] line

    línea sucesoria — line of succession, order of succession

    2.
    SMF (Dep) linesman, assistant referee
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    1)
    a) ( raya) line
    b) (Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    c) ( de cocaína) (fam) line (colloq)
    2) (Dep)
    a) ( en fútbol) line

    línea de gol or de fondo — goal line

    b) ( en béisbol) drive
    3)
    a) ( renglón) line

    leer entre líneas — to read between the lines

    b) líneas femenino plural ( carta breve)
    4) (fila, alineación) line

    de primera línea — < tecnología> state-of-the-art; < producto> top-quality, high-class; <actor/jugador> first-rate

    en primera línea: sigue en primera línea — she/he still ranks among the best

    5)
    a) (Transp)

    no hay servicio en la línea 5 — ( de autobuses) there are no buses operating on the number 5 bus route; ( de metro) there is no service on line 5

    b) (Elec, Telec) line

    no hay línea or no me da línea — the phone o the line is dead

    c) ( en genealogía) line

    por línea materna — on his (o her etc) mother's side

    d) (Arg) ( de pescar) line
    6) ( sobre un tema) line

    en la línea de... — along the lines of...

    7)
    a) (estilo, diseño)
    b) (gama, colección) line
    8) ( figura)

    mantener/cuidar la línea — to keep/watch one's figure

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    = line, line-up, trajectory.
    Ex. Longer titles since each title can occupy only one line will be truncated and only brief source references are included.
    Ex. The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex. In hindsight, it is easy to see a trajectory of inevitability that made MARC, the ISBDs, and AACR2 seem more the result of historical forces than the often faltering and separate steps they were in truth.
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    * acceso en línea = online access.
    * acceso mediante línea telefónica = dial-access.
    * adquisición en línea = online acquisition.
    * aprendizaje en línea = online learning.
    * baile en línea = line dance.
    * base de datos en línea = online database.
    * búsqueda en línea = online searching, online search.
    * cabeza de línea = railhead.
    * catálogo en línea = online catalogue.
    * comercio en línea = online business.
    * compra en línea = online shopping.
    * conexión a través de línea dedicada = leased line connection.
    * continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.
    * conversación en línea = online chat.
    * cruzar la línea = cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea divisoria = cross + the boundary, cross + the great divide, cross + the dividing line, cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea que separa = cross over + the line separating.
    * cruzar las líneas divisorias que separan + Nombre = cross + Adjetivo + lines.
    * de línea blanda = soft-line.
    * de línea dura = hard-line.
    * de líneas rectas = straight-line.
    * de primera línea = first-line.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * de última línea = streamlined.
    * distribuidor de información en línea = host, online host.
    * empleado de línea aérea = airline official.
    * en el momento de escribir estas líneas = at the time of writing.
    * en la línea de = along the lines.
    * en la línea de fuego = in the hot seat, in the front line, on the front line.
    * en la misma línea de = in the vein of.
    * en la misma línea que = in line with.
    * en línea = online [on-line], online-based, inline [in-line].
    * en línea con = in line with.
    * en línea recta = as the crow flies.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * en línea sucesoria = in line of descent.
    * en + Posesivo + línea de tiro = in + Posesivo + sights.
    * en primera línea = in the front line, first-line, on the front line.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * estado del ordenador en fuera de línea = offlineness.
    * estado del ordenador en línea = onlineness.
    * estar accesible en línea = go + online.
    * facsímil de línea = line-block facsimile.
    * foro de debate en línea = online forum.
    * fuera de línea = offline [off-line].
    * gráfica de líneas = line graph.
    * grosor de línea = line-width.
    * impresión en línea = online print.
    * impresión fuera de línea = offline print.
    * impresora de líneas = line printer.
    * información en línea = online information.
    * juez de línea = linesman, assistant referee.
    * línea ADSL (Línea de Subscripción Digital Asimétrica) = ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
    * línea aérea = airline.
    * línea a línea = line-by-line.
    * línea arbolada, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea argumental = line of discussion, line of direction.
    * línea base = baseline [base line].
    * línea con marcas entrecortadas = dashed line.
    * línea curva = curved line.
    * línea de acción = course of action.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * línea de agua, la = water line, the.
    * línea de alta tensión = power line.
    * línea de argumentación = line of discussion.
    * línea de búsqueda = query line.
    * línea de comunicación = line of communication.
    * línea de comunicaciones = communications line.
    * línea de demarcación = demarcation line.
    * línea dedicada = dedicated line, leased line.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de falla = fault line.
    * línea defensiva = line of defence, defence line.
    * línea de ferrocarril = rail line, rail link, railway line, railroad(s), railway(s).
    * línea de flotación, la = water line, the.
    * línea de fuego = firing line, front-line, line of fire.
    * línea de investigación = line of enquiry, line of research, line of enquiry, research front, avenue (for/of) research, research avenue, avenue of investigation, research line.
    * línea de investigación futura = avenue (for/of) future research.
    * línea de investigación posible = avenue for further research.
    * línea del horizonte = skyline.
    * línea de los árboles, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * línea de medio campo = halfway line.
    * línea de meta = finish line, finishing line.
    * línea de montaje de coches = car assembly line.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * línea de pensamiento = line of thought.
    * línea de productos = product line.
    * línea de puntos = dotted line.
    * línea de seguridad = lifeline.
    * línea de trabajo = line of work.
    * línea de transmisión = line transmission.
    * línea de vegetación arbórea, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de vegetación, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de ventas = line.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * línea directa = hotline [hot-line].
    * línea divisoria = cut-off point, demarcation, divide, dividing line, borderline, cut off [cutoff].
    * linea divisoria, la = great divide, the.
    * línea fija = fixed line.
    * línea horizontal = flat.
    * línea indicativa de la evolución de una gráfica = trend line [trend-line].
    * línea informativa = caption.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * línea numérica = number line.
    * línea oblicua (/) = oblique stroke (/), oblique line (/), oblique.
    * línea recta = straight line.
    * líneas de sombras = hachures.
    * líneas de transmisión por onda luminosa = light-wave transmission lines.
    * línea separatoria = dividing line.
    * línea telefónica = phone line, telephone line.
    * línea telefónica dedicada = leased telephone line, leased phone line.
    * listado de impresora de líneas = line printer output.
    * mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.
    * modalidad en línea = online mode.
    * módulo de catálogo de acceso público en línea = online public access catalogue module.
    * negocio en línea = online business.
    * nueva línea = linefeed.
    * OCLC (Centro Bibliotecario en Línea) = OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
    * patinador en línea = inline skater.
    * patinaje en línea = inline skating, roller-blading.
    * persona que se cuida la línea = weight watcher.
    * por línea telefónica = over the telephone line.
    * presentación en línea = online display.
    * primera línea = front-line [front line], forefront.
    * primera línea de defensa = first line of defence.
    * recuperación en línea = online retrieval.
    * recurso en línea = online resource.
    * red en línea = online network.
    * revista electrónica en línea = online journal.
    * seguir líneas diferentes = be on different lines.
    * Servicio de Consulta en Línea de BLAISE = BLAISE-LINE.
    * servicio de información en línea = online information service.
    * servicio en línea = online service.
    * símbolo de avance de línea = line feed character.
    * sistema en línea = online system.
    * suscripción en línea = online subscription.
    * teléfono de línea directa = direct-dial telephone.
    * terminal en línea = online terminal.
    * tiempo de conexión en línea = online time.
    * tienda en línea = online store.
    * título por línea = title-a-line.
    * tres en línea = noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe.
    * usuario conectado en línea = online user.
    * vehículo con ruedas en línea = cycle.
    * vehículo de dos ruedas en línea = two-wheeler.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( raya) line
    b) (Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    c) ( de cocaína) (fam) line (colloq)
    2) (Dep)
    a) ( en fútbol) line

    línea de gol or de fondo — goal line

    b) ( en béisbol) drive
    3)
    a) ( renglón) line

    leer entre líneas — to read between the lines

    b) líneas femenino plural ( carta breve)
    4) (fila, alineación) line

    de primera línea — < tecnología> state-of-the-art; < producto> top-quality, high-class; <actor/jugador> first-rate

    en primera línea: sigue en primera línea — she/he still ranks among the best

    5)
    a) (Transp)

    no hay servicio en la línea 5 — ( de autobuses) there are no buses operating on the number 5 bus route; ( de metro) there is no service on line 5

    b) (Elec, Telec) line

    no hay línea or no me da línea — the phone o the line is dead

    c) ( en genealogía) line

    por línea materna — on his (o her etc) mother's side

    d) (Arg) ( de pescar) line
    6) ( sobre un tema) line

    en la línea de... — along the lines of...

    7)
    a) (estilo, diseño)
    b) (gama, colección) line
    8) ( figura)

    mantener/cuidar la línea — to keep/watch one's figure

    * * *
    = line, line-up, trajectory.

    Ex: Longer titles since each title can occupy only one line will be truncated and only brief source references are included.

    Ex: The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex: In hindsight, it is easy to see a trajectory of inevitability that made MARC, the ISBDs, and AACR2 seem more the result of historical forces than the often faltering and separate steps they were in truth.
    * acceso en línea = online access.
    * acceso mediante línea telefónica = dial-access.
    * adquisición en línea = online acquisition.
    * aprendizaje en línea = online learning.
    * baile en línea = line dance.
    * base de datos en línea = online database.
    * búsqueda en línea = online searching, online search.
    * cabeza de línea = railhead.
    * catálogo en línea = online catalogue.
    * comercio en línea = online business.
    * compra en línea = online shopping.
    * conexión a través de línea dedicada = leased line connection.
    * continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.
    * conversación en línea = online chat.
    * cruzar la línea = cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea divisoria = cross + the boundary, cross + the great divide, cross + the dividing line, cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea que separa = cross over + the line separating.
    * cruzar las líneas divisorias que separan + Nombre = cross + Adjetivo + lines.
    * de línea blanda = soft-line.
    * de línea dura = hard-line.
    * de líneas rectas = straight-line.
    * de primera línea = first-line.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * de última línea = streamlined.
    * distribuidor de información en línea = host, online host.
    * empleado de línea aérea = airline official.
    * en el momento de escribir estas líneas = at the time of writing.
    * en la línea de = along the lines.
    * en la línea de fuego = in the hot seat, in the front line, on the front line.
    * en la misma línea de = in the vein of.
    * en la misma línea que = in line with.
    * en línea = online [on-line], online-based, inline [in-line].
    * en línea con = in line with.
    * en línea recta = as the crow flies.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * en línea sucesoria = in line of descent.
    * en + Posesivo + línea de tiro = in + Posesivo + sights.
    * en primera línea = in the front line, first-line, on the front line.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * estado del ordenador en fuera de línea = offlineness.
    * estado del ordenador en línea = onlineness.
    * estar accesible en línea = go + online.
    * facsímil de línea = line-block facsimile.
    * foro de debate en línea = online forum.
    * fuera de línea = offline [off-line].
    * gráfica de líneas = line graph.
    * grosor de línea = line-width.
    * impresión en línea = online print.
    * impresión fuera de línea = offline print.
    * impresora de líneas = line printer.
    * información en línea = online information.
    * juez de línea = linesman, assistant referee.
    * línea ADSL (Línea de Subscripción Digital Asimétrica) = ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
    * línea aérea = airline.
    * línea a línea = line-by-line.
    * línea arbolada, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea argumental = line of discussion, line of direction.
    * línea base = baseline [base line].
    * línea con marcas entrecortadas = dashed line.
    * línea curva = curved line.
    * línea de acción = course of action.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * línea de agua, la = water line, the.
    * línea de alta tensión = power line.
    * línea de argumentación = line of discussion.
    * línea de búsqueda = query line.
    * línea de comunicación = line of communication.
    * línea de comunicaciones = communications line.
    * línea de demarcación = demarcation line.
    * línea dedicada = dedicated line, leased line.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de falla = fault line.
    * línea defensiva = line of defence, defence line.
    * línea de ferrocarril = rail line, rail link, railway line, railroad(s), railway(s).
    * línea de flotación, la = water line, the.
    * línea de fuego = firing line, front-line, line of fire.
    * línea de investigación = line of enquiry, line of research, line of enquiry, research front, avenue (for/of) research, research avenue, avenue of investigation, research line.
    * línea de investigación futura = avenue (for/of) future research.
    * línea de investigación posible = avenue for further research.
    * línea del horizonte = skyline.
    * línea de los árboles, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * línea de medio campo = halfway line.
    * línea de meta = finish line, finishing line.
    * línea de montaje de coches = car assembly line.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * línea de pensamiento = line of thought.
    * línea de productos = product line.
    * línea de puntos = dotted line.
    * línea de seguridad = lifeline.
    * línea de trabajo = line of work.
    * línea de transmisión = line transmission.
    * línea de vegetación arbórea, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de vegetación, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de ventas = line.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * línea directa = hotline [hot-line].
    * línea divisoria = cut-off point, demarcation, divide, dividing line, borderline, cut off [cutoff].
    * linea divisoria, la = great divide, the.
    * línea fija = fixed line.
    * línea horizontal = flat.
    * línea indicativa de la evolución de una gráfica = trend line [trend-line].
    * línea informativa = caption.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * línea numérica = number line.
    * línea oblicua (/) = oblique stroke (/), oblique line (/), oblique.
    * línea recta = straight line.
    * líneas de sombras = hachures.
    * líneas de transmisión por onda luminosa = light-wave transmission lines.
    * línea separatoria = dividing line.
    * línea telefónica = phone line, telephone line.
    * línea telefónica dedicada = leased telephone line, leased phone line.
    * listado de impresora de líneas = line printer output.
    * mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.
    * modalidad en línea = online mode.
    * módulo de catálogo de acceso público en línea = online public access catalogue module.
    * negocio en línea = online business.
    * nueva línea = linefeed.
    * OCLC (Centro Bibliotecario en Línea) = OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
    * patinador en línea = inline skater.
    * patinaje en línea = inline skating, roller-blading.
    * persona que se cuida la línea = weight watcher.
    * por línea telefónica = over the telephone line.
    * presentación en línea = online display.
    * primera línea = front-line [front line], forefront.
    * primera línea de defensa = first line of defence.
    * recuperación en línea = online retrieval.
    * recurso en línea = online resource.
    * red en línea = online network.
    * revista electrónica en línea = online journal.
    * seguir líneas diferentes = be on different lines.
    * Servicio de Consulta en Línea de BLAISE = BLAISE-LINE.
    * servicio de información en línea = online information service.
    * servicio en línea = online service.
    * símbolo de avance de línea = line feed character.
    * sistema en línea = online system.
    * suscripción en línea = online subscription.
    * teléfono de línea directa = direct-dial telephone.
    * terminal en línea = online terminal.
    * tiempo de conexión en línea = online time.
    * tienda en línea = online store.
    * título por línea = title-a-line.
    * tres en línea = noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe.
    * usuario conectado en línea = online user.
    * vehículo con ruedas en línea = cycle.
    * vehículo de dos ruedas en línea = two-wheeler.

    * * *
    A
    1 (raya) line
    una línea curva/recta/quebrada a curved/straight/broken line
    línea divisoria dividing line
    la línea del horizonte the line of the horizon, the horizon
    cortar por la línea de puntos cut along the dotted line
    2 ( Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    3 (de cocaína) ( fam); line ( colloq)
    Compuestos:
    continuous o unbroken line
    Plimsoll line, load line
    demarcation line
    water line
    life line
    heart line
    police line
    time line
    equinoctial circle o line
    international date line
    meridian
    B ( Dep)
    línea de gol or de fondo goal line
    Compuestos:
    sideline, touchline
    line of scrimmage
    (en el tenis) baseline; (en el baloncesto) end line
    line of scrimmage
    finishing line, wire ( AmE)
    (en rugby) twenty-two meter line
    (en una carrera) finishing line, wire ( AmE); (en fútbol) goal line
    starting line
    C
    1 (renglón) line
    te saltaste una línea you missed out o skipped a line
    leer entre líneas to read between the lines
    (carta breve): les mandó unas líneas para decir que estaba bien she dropped them a few lines to say that she was well
    D (fila, alineación) line
    las líneas enemigas the enemy lines
    de primera línea ‹tecnología› state-of-the-art;
    ‹producto› top-quality, high-class; ‹actor/jugador› first-rate
    en primera línea: el alero demostró que sigue en primera línea the winger showed that he still ranks among the best o he is still a top-class player
    Compuestos:
    battle line, line of battle
    forward line
    E
    1 ( Transp):
    no hay línea directa, tiene que hacer transbordo en Río there is no direct service, you have to change in Rio
    final de la línea end of the line
    no hay servicio en la línea 5 (de autobuses) the number 5 (bus) is not running, there are no buses operating o there is no service on the number 5 bus route; (de metro) there is no service on line 5
    los barcos que cubren la línea Cádiz-Las Palmas the ships which cover the Cadiz-Las Palmas route o run
    2 ( Elec, Telec) line
    línea telefónica/telegráfica telephone/telegraph line
    no hay líneaor no me da línea the phone o the line is dead
    la línea está ocupada the line is busy o ( BrE) engaged
    Compuestos:
    ( Tel) party line
    ( Tel) land line
    por línea materna on his ( o her etc) mother's side
    4 ( Arg) (de pescar) line
    Compuestos:
    airline
    assembly line
    railroad track ( AmE), railway line ( BrE)
    F
    (sobre un tema): seguir la línea del partido to follow the party line
    los partidarios de una línea más radical those in favor of taking a more radical line
    las principales líneas de su programa político the main points of their political program
    en la línea de … along the lines of …
    el proyecto, en líneas generales, consiste en … broadly speaking o broadly, the project consists of …
    en líneas generales las dos versiones coinciden broadly speaking, the two versions coincide, on the whole o by and large the two versions coincide
    ser de una sola línea ( Chi); to be straight (as a die) ( colloq)
    G
    1
    (estilo, diseño): un coche de líneas aerodinámicas a streamlined car, an aerodynamically designed car
    le gusta la ropa de línea clásica she likes the classical look
    2 (gama, colección) line
    nuestra nueva línea de productos de belleza our new line o range of beauty products
    Compuesto:
    línea blanca/marrón
    white/brown goods (pl)
    H
    (figura): mantener/cuidar la línea to keep/watch one's figure
    * * *

     

    línea sustantivo femenino
    1 ( en general) line;

    escribirle unas líneas a algn to drop sb a line;
    seguir la línea del partido to follow the party line;
    en líneas generales broadly speaking;
    por línea materna on his (o her etc) mother's side;
    línea de montaje assembly line;
    línea de gol goal line;
    línea de llegada finishing line, wire (AmE);
    línea de salida starting line;
    de primera línea ‹ tecnología› state-of-the-art;

    ‹ producto› top-quality, high-class;
    ‹actor/jugador› first-rate;
    ◊ leer entre líneas to read between the lines

    2 (Transp, Tele) line;

    final de la línea end of the line;
    no hay línea directa a Córdoba there is no direct service to Cordoba;
    intenté llamarte pero no había línea I tried to ring you but the phone o the line was dead;
    la línea está ocupada the line is busy
    3
    a) (gama, colección) line, range;

    ◊ nuestra nueva línea de cosméticos our new line o range of cosmetics

    b) ( estilo):


    4 ( figura):

    línea sustantivo femenino
    1 Geom line
    2 (trayecto de autobús) route
    (de ferrocarril, metro) line
    Av línea aérea, airline
    3 Inform en línea, on-line
    4 (figura, cuerpo esbelto) figure
    mantener la línea, to keep one's figure
    (diseño) design
    5 Com (de productos) line
    6 (fila) line
    poner en línea, to line up
    7 (cable) line
    línea telegráfica, telegraph line
    ♦ Locuciones: en líneas generales, roughly speaking
    entre líneas, between the lines
    Tel línea caliente, hotline
    ' línea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aerodinámica
    - aerodinámico
    - alinear
    - banda
    - continua
    - continuo
    - derecha
    - derecho
    - estacionamiento
    - extensión
    - flotación
    - fuego
    - horizonte
    - intervenir
    - juez
    - punto
    - salida
    - sucesión
    - trazar
    - trazo
    - verso
    - autobús
    - comer
    - conservar
    - controlar
    - curva
    - delantero
    - descendente
    - discontinuo
    - ecuador
    - ininterrumpido
    - lateral
    - oblicuo
    - ocupado
    - paralela
    - patín
    - prolongar
    - quebrado
    - raya
    - recto
    - renglón
    - saltar
    - separar
    - tenue
    - transversal
    - vertical
    English:
    airline
    - borderline
    - bus route
    - busline
    - commercial pilot
    - credit line
    - crow
    - cut off
    - dead
    - describe
    - draw
    - editorial
    - electrify
    - extend
    - faint
    - file
    - finishing line
    - fire
    - firing line
    - frill
    - hard line
    - length
    - line
    - name
    - oblique
    - overbook
    - party line
    - plot
    - product line
    - range
    - rank
    - roller blades
    - rollerblade
    - route
    - sideline
    - skyline
    - starting line
    - straight
    - touchline
    - vein
    - waistline
    - waterline
    - watershed
    - winning post
    - wiretapping
    - air
    - carrier
    - demarcation
    - directly
    - dividing line
    * * *
    línea nf
    1. [raya, trazo, renglón, límite] line;
    una línea recta a straight line;
    una línea quebrada a crooked line;
    la línea del cielo the skyline;
    ir en línea recta to go in a straight line;
    leerle a alguien las líneas de la mano to read (the lines on) sb's hand;
    estar en línea to be in (a) line;
    poner/ponerse en línea to line up;
    estacionar en línea to park end-to-end;
    escribir o [m5] mandar unas líneas a alguien to drop sb a line;
    leer entre líneas to read between the lines
    línea continua [en carretera] solid white line; Com línea de crédito credit limit; Com línea de descubierto overdraft limit;
    línea discontinua [en carretera] broken white line;
    línea divisoria dividing line;
    Mil línea de fuego firing line;
    línea de mira line of fire;
    línea punteada dotted line;
    línea de puntos dotted line;
    línea de tiro line of fire
    2. [ruta] line;
    han añadido varias paradas a la línea 30 the number 30 bus has several new stops;
    la línea circular del metro the Br underground o US subway circle line
    línea férrea railway (line), US railroad track;
    línea de ferrocarril railway (line), US railroad track
    3. [compañía aérea]
    una línea de vuelos charter a charter airline
    línea aérea airline
    4. [de telecomunicaciones] line;
    cortar la línea (telefónica) to cut off the phone;
    dar línea a alguien to put in a line for sb;
    no hay o [m5] no tenemos línea the line's dead
    línea arrendada leased line; Fam línea caliente [erótica] chat line, telephone sex line; [de atención al cliente] hot line;
    línea directa direct line;
    Fig
    tiene línea directa con el presidente she has a direct line to the president's office;
    línea erótica telephone sex line;
    línea exterior outside line;
    línea privada private line;
    Informát línea RDSI ISDN line; RP líneas rotativas [centralita] switchboard
    5. [en deportes] line;
    la línea defensiva/delantera the back/front line, the defence/attack;
    la línea medular the midfield
    línea de banda sideline, touchline;
    línea de fondo [en fútbol] goal line [at end of field];
    [en baloncesto] end line;
    línea de gol goal line [between goalposts];
    línea de llegada finishing line;
    línea de marca [en rugby] try o goal line;
    línea de medio campo halfway line;
    línea de meta [en fútbol] goal line;
    [en carreras] finishing line;
    línea de salida starting line;
    línea de saque baseline, service line;
    línea de servicio service line;
    línea de seis veinticinco [en baloncesto] three-point line;
    línea de tiros libres [en baloncesto] free throw line
    6. [en comercio] line;
    una nueva línea de productos a new line of products
    línea blanca white goods;
    línea marrón brown goods
    7. [silueta] [de persona] figure;
    guardar/mantener la línea to watch/keep one's figure
    8. [contorno]
    9. [estilo, tendencia] style;
    la línea del partido the party line;
    la línea dura del sindicato the union's hard line;
    de línea clásica classical;
    eso está muy en su línea that's just his style;
    seguir la línea de alguien to follow sb's style
    línea de conducta course of action;
    línea de investigación line of inquiry
    10. [categoría] class, category;
    de primera línea [actor, pintor, producto] first-rate;
    [marca, empresa] top
    11. [de parentesco] line;
    está emparentada con ella por línea materna she's related to her on her mother's side
    12. Informát line;
    en línea on-line;
    fuera de línea off-line
    línea de base baseline;
    línea de comando command line
    13. [en el bingo] line;
    cantar línea to call a line;
    ¡línea! line!
    14. Fam [de cocaína] line
    15. Comp
    en líneas generales in broad terms;
    fueron derrotados en toda la línea they were soundly defeated
    * * *
    f line;
    mantener la línea watch one’s figure;
    de primera línea fig first-rate;
    tecnología de primera línea state-of-the art technology;
    perdieron en toda la línea they were soundly beaten;
    entre líneas fig between the lines;
    dos o
    cuatro líneas a alguien drop s.o. a line;
    la línea se ha cortado TELEC the line’s gone dead;
    no hay línea TELEC the line’s dead
    * * *
    línea nf
    1) : line
    línea divisoria: dividing line
    línea de banda: sideline
    2) : line, course, position
    línea de conducta: course of action
    en líneas generales: in general terms, along general lines
    3) : line, service
    línea aérea: airline
    línea telefónica: telephone line
    * * *
    línea n line
    cuidar la línea / mantener la línea to watch your weight

    Spanish-English dictionary > línea

  • 16 programático

    adj.
    1 programmatic, that follows a preconceived program.
    2 programmatic, that has a plan or program.
    * * *
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo < discurso> programmatic (frml)
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo < discurso> programmatic (frml)
    * * *
    programmatic ( frml)
    un discurso programático a programmatic speech, a speech outlining their program o policies o manifesto
    los principales puntos programáticos del partido the main points of the party's program o manifesto
    * * *
    programático, -a adj
    [de programa electoral]
    una propuesta programática a manifesto proposal;
    los partidos llegaron a un acuerdo programático the parties reached an agreement on policy

    Spanish-English dictionary > programático

  • 17 Programm

    Programm n 1. COMP program; 2. GEN plan, schedule (Zeitplan); 3. MEDIA (AE) program, (BE) programme (Sendung); 4. MGT agenda, plan, (AE) program, (BE) programme, timetable (Sitzung) • ein Programm durchführen WIWI, PERS manage a programme, administer a programme, administer a scheme, run a programme, run a scheme • ein volles Programm haben GEN work to a very tight schedule
    * * *
    n 1. < Comp> program; 2. < Geschäft> Zeitplan plan, schedule; 3. < Medien> Sendung program (AE), programme (BE) ; 4. < Mgmnt> Sitzung agenda, plan, program (AE), programme (BE), timetable
    * * *
    Programm
    program(me), plan, (Fernsehen) program(me), channel, (Unternehmen) product line;
    • auf Konsumbeschränkung abgestelltes Programm austerity program(me);
    • in allen Einzelheiten ausgearbeitetes Programm (Computer) package;
    • von verschiedenen Fernsehanstalten gemeinsam ausgestrahltes Programm television linkup;
    • beliebtes Programm (Fernsehen) high-rated program(me);
    • beschäftigungsförderndes Programm employment program(me);
    • finanzpolitisches Programm financial program(me);
    • konjunkturpolitisches Programm [anti]cyclical program(me);
    • konzerneigenes Programm captive program(me);
    • kopflastiges Programm head-start program(me);
    • langfristiges Programm long-term program(me);
    • von Menschen lesbares Programm (Computer) source language;
    • parteipolitisches Programm party platform;
    • politisches Programm policy lines;
    • steuerpolitisches Programm fiscal policy (tax) program(me);
    • umfassendes Programm comprehensive program(me);
    • ganze Skala umfassendes Programm full-scale program(me);
    • wirklichkeitsnahes Programm bread-and-butter program(me);
    • zonales Programm zonal program(me);
    • Programm für die Aufhebung einschränkender Bestimmungen deregulation plan;
    • Programm zur Bekämpfung der Inflation anti-inflation program(me);
    • Programm für die Beschaffung billiger Mietwohnungen (von Sozialwohnungen) low-cost housing program(me);
    • Programm zur Energieeinsparung energy-saving program(me);
    • Programm für Forschung und Entwicklung research and development program(me);
    • Programm mit zwei Hauptfilmen double feature program(me);
    • Programm für technische Hilfe an Entwicklungsländer Expanded Program(me) of Technical Assistance;
    • Programm zur Leistungsbeurteilung appraisal program(me);
    • Programm zur Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen job placement program (US);
    • Programm für Schulung ungelernter Arbeiter manpower training program (US);
    • Programm der Sicherheitsnormen für radioaktiven Abfall (Vereinte Nationen) Radioactive Waste Safety Standards Program;
    • Programm staatsverbürgter Studentendarlehen Federal Insurance Loan Program (US);
    • Programm zur Umsiedlung von Industriearbeitern Resettlement Transfer Scheme (Br.);
    • umfassendes Programm zusätzlicher Vergünstigungen overall compensation program(me);
    • Programm zur Weiterbildung von Führungskräften executive development program(me);
    • Programm ankündigen to bill;
    • Programm aufstellen to formulate a program(me);
    • Programm für die breiten Massen ausstrahlen (Fernsehprogramm) to cater for the masses;
    • sich in reguläre Programme einnisten (Computervirus) to creep into regular program(me)s;
    • codiertes Programm herstellen (Computer) to code; Programm
    • kaufen to buy a program(me);
    • Programm kürzen to pare a program(me);
    • mit einem breiteren Programm vor die Öffentlichkeit treten to speak from a broader national platform;
    • scharfe Einsparungsmaßnahmen eines Programms verhindern to spare a program(me) from meat-axe cuts;
    • ins Programm eingestellt (eingestreut) werden to be thrown [in]to the program(me);
    • Programm zusammenstellen to arrange a program(me);
    • Programmablauf (Computer) routine;
    • Programmablaufplan program(me) flow;
    • Programmabsturz (Computer) program(me) crash;
    • Programmagentur (Rundfunk) agency;
    • Programmänderung change in the program(me);
    • verfügbares Programmangebot (Fernsehen) range of program(me)s available;
    • Programm ankündigung, Programmansage program(me) (broadcast) announcement;
    • Programmauflockerung dissemination of program(me)s;
    • Programmaufzeichnungsprotokoll journal;
    • Programmausgabe (Computer) information output;
    • Programm- und Haushaltsausschuss (Vereinte Nationen) Program and Budget Committee;
    • Programmauswahl (Fernsehen) television viewing;
    • Programmauswertung, evaluierung program(me) evaluation;
    • Programmberichtigung (Lochkarten) debugging (US);
    • Programmbibliothek (Computer) library [of program(me)s];
    • Programmcode function code;
    • Programmdirektor (Rundfunk, Film) [program(me)] director;
    • Programmdurchführung program(me) management;
    • Programmdurchlauf (Computer) [machine] run;
    • Programmeinblendung fading-in, blurb;
    • Programmeingabe (Computer) information input;
    • Programmeinheit program(me) unit;
    • Programmfehler (Datenverarbeitung) program(me) bug.

    Business german-english dictionary > Programm

  • 18 lucha

    f.
    1 fight.
    la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer
    lucha de clases class struggle o war
    lucha libre all-in wrestling
    2 tug-of-war.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: luchar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) fight, struggle
    2 DEPORTE wrestling
    \
    lucha de clases class struggle
    lucha libre free-style wrestling
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF [forma familiar] de Luz, Lucía
    * * *
    1) (combate, pelea) fight; ( para conseguir algo) struggle
    2) (Dep) wrestling
    •
    * * *
    = combat, contention, scramble, fight, struggle, fray, crusade, strife, contest, fighting, tug of war, battle.
    Ex. It is not without significance perhaps that some writers on the reference interview use the term 'encounter', which the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines as 'meet as adversary', 'meeting in combat'.
    Ex. Among the trends are: more focus on user needs, a contention between optical products and on-line access; and a focus in the USA on formulation of major information policies.
    Ex. Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.
    Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    Ex. The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.
    Ex. The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.
    Ex. The Thatcher government's crusade for privatisation is also hitting British libraries.
    Ex. If performance evaluation is viewed as a tool of second or third-level by supervisors it loses its clout and encourages strife.
    Ex. Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.
    Ex. The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.
    Ex. Library administrators might be able to predict their fortunes in the academic tug of war for funds if they understood more clearly the attitudes of institutional administrators towards libraries.
    Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and battles when the colonists won.
    ----
    * emprender una lucha contra = launch + attack on.
    * en la lucha contra = in the battle against.
    * enzarzarse en la lucha = engage in + combat.
    * enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.
    * lucha a muerte = fight to death.
    * lucha armada = armed struggle.
    * lucha contra las drogas = war on drugs.
    * lucha contra los insectos = pest control.
    * lucha de clases = class warfare.
    * lucha de ingenio = battle of wits.
    * lucha de poderes = power struggle, battle of wills.
    * lucha de resistencia = battle of wills.
    * lucha diaria = daily grind.
    * luchador de lucha libre = wrestler.
    * lucha enconada = bitter struggle.
    * lucha entre tres = three-horse race.
    * lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.
    * lucha intelectual = battle of wits.
    * lucha libre = professional wrestling, wrestling.
    * lucha por el poder = power struggle.
    * lucha por el título = title race.
    * luchas internas = infighting [in-fighting].
    * lucha territorial = turf war.
    * * *
    1) (combate, pelea) fight; ( para conseguir algo) struggle
    2) (Dep) wrestling
    •
    * * *
    = combat, contention, scramble, fight, struggle, fray, crusade, strife, contest, fighting, tug of war, battle.

    Ex: It is not without significance perhaps that some writers on the reference interview use the term 'encounter', which the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines as 'meet as adversary', 'meeting in combat'.

    Ex: Among the trends are: more focus on user needs, a contention between optical products and on-line access; and a focus in the USA on formulation of major information policies.
    Ex: Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.
    Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    Ex: The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.
    Ex: The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.
    Ex: The Thatcher government's crusade for privatisation is also hitting British libraries.
    Ex: If performance evaluation is viewed as a tool of second or third-level by supervisors it loses its clout and encourages strife.
    Ex: Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.
    Ex: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.
    Ex: Library administrators might be able to predict their fortunes in the academic tug of war for funds if they understood more clearly the attitudes of institutional administrators towards libraries.
    Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and battles when the colonists won.
    * emprender una lucha contra = launch + attack on.
    * en la lucha contra = in the battle against.
    * enzarzarse en la lucha = engage in + combat.
    * enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.
    * lucha a muerte = fight to death.
    * lucha armada = armed struggle.
    * lucha contra las drogas = war on drugs.
    * lucha contra los insectos = pest control.
    * lucha de clases = class warfare.
    * lucha de ingenio = battle of wits.
    * lucha de poderes = power struggle, battle of wills.
    * lucha de resistencia = battle of wills.
    * lucha diaria = daily grind.
    * luchador de lucha libre = wrestler.
    * lucha enconada = bitter struggle.
    * lucha entre tres = three-horse race.
    * lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.
    * lucha intelectual = battle of wits.
    * lucha libre = professional wrestling, wrestling.
    * lucha por el poder = power struggle.
    * lucha por el título = title race.
    * luchas internas = infighting [in-fighting].
    * lucha territorial = turf war.

    * * *
    A
    1 (combate, pelea) fight
    2 (para conseguir algo, superar un problema) struggle
    decidieron abandonar la lucha they decided to give up the struggle
    la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal the eternal struggle between good and evil
    las luchas internas están debilitando el partido infighting o internal conflict is weakening the party
    una campaña de lucha contra el hambre a campaign to combat famine
    la lucha por la supervivencia the fight o struggle for survival
    la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer
    Compuestos:
    armed struggle o conflict
    class struggle
    B ( Dep) wrestling
    Compuestos:
    cage fighting
    all-in wrestling, freestyle wrestling
    tag wrestling
    * * *

     

    Del verbo luchar: ( conjugate luchar)

    lucha es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    lucha    
    luchar
    lucha sustantivo femenino
    a) (combate, pelea) fight;

    ( para conseguir algo) struggle;

    la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer
    b) (Dep) wrestling;


    luchar ( conjugate luchar) verbo intransitivo
    a) (combatir, pelear) to fight



    lucha por la paz to fight for peace
    c) ( batallar) lucha con algo ‹ con problema› to wrestle with sth

    d) (Dep) to wrestle

    lucha sustantivo femenino
    1 (combate) fight
    lucha libre, wrestling
    2 (trabajo, esfuerzo) struggle: hubo una lucha interna para cambiar a los dirigentes del partido, there was internal turmoil regarding replacing party heads
    lucha de clases, class struggle
    luchar verbo transitivo to fight wrestle
    ♦ Locuciones: luchar con uñas y dientes, to fight nail and tooth
    ' lucha' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antiterrorista
    - cuartel
    - duelo
    - pelea
    - abandonar
    - armado
    - continuo
    - cooperar
    - desigual
    - equilibrado
    - guerrilla
    - implacable
    - llave
    - pugna
    - sostener
    English:
    all-in wrestling
    - battle
    - charity
    - class struggle
    - contest
    - desperate
    - fight
    - grim
    - struggle
    - throw
    - tug-of-war
    - tussle
    - war
    - wrestling
    - warden
    * * *
    lucha nf
    1. [combate físico] fight
    la lucha armada the armed struggle
    2. [enfrentamiento] fight;
    la lucha contra el cáncer/el desempleo the fight against cancer/unemployment;
    hubo una lucha muy dura por el liderato the leadership was bitterly contested;
    fracasó en su lucha por cambiar la ley she failed in her struggle o fight to change the law;
    las luchas internas del partido the in-fighting within the party
    lucha de clases class struggle
    3. [esfuerzo] struggle;
    es una lucha conseguir que se coman todo it's a struggle to get them to eat it all up
    4. [deporte] wrestling
    lucha grecorromana Graeco-Roman wrestling;
    lucha libre freestyle o all-in wrestling
    5. [en baloncesto] jump ball
    LUCHA LIBRE
    Lucha libre, or freestyle wrestling, is a very popular spectator sport in Mexico and features comical masked wrestlers who often become larger-than-life figures. In any fight there will be a goodie (“técnico”) and a baddie (“rudo”) and the action consists of spectacularly acrobatic leaps and throws, and pantomime violence. These wrestlers are so popular that they often feature in special wrestling magazines, as well as on television and radio. The most famous of all was “el Santo” (The Saint), who always wore a distinctive silver mask. He appeared in dozens of films and is still remembered with affection despite his death in 1984.
    * * *
    f
    1 fight, struggle
    2 DEP wrestling
    3 en baloncesto jump ball
    * * *
    lucha nf
    1) : struggle, fight
    2) : wrestling
    * * *
    lucha n fight / struggle

    Spanish-English dictionary > lucha

  • 19 orientación

    f.
    1 orientation, guidance, pointing, positioning.
    2 direction, bearing.
    3 direction finding, positioning.
    4 orientation, awareness of your environment.
    * * *
    1 (capacidad) sense of direction
    3 (dirección) orientation, direction; (tendencia) leanings plural, tendency
    4 (guía) guidance, orientation
    \
    orientación profesional career guidance, vocational guidance
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de casa] aspect; [de habitación] position, orientation; (=dirección) direction
    2) (=guía) guidance, orientation
    3) (Dep) orienteering
    * * *
    1) (de habitación, edificio) aspect (frml)

    ¿cuál es la orientación de la casa? — which way does the house face?

    la orientación de la antena — the way the antenna (AmE) o (BrE) aerial is pointing

    2) (enfoque, dirección) orientation
    3) ( guía) guidance, direction; ( acción de guiar) orientation
    4) ( en un lugar) bearings (pl)
    * * *
    = orientation, slant, advice, outlook, orienteering, wayfinding, bearing, targeting, centredness, bent of mind.
    Ex. A summary at the end of a document is intended to complete the orientation of the reader, and to identify the significant ideas for the reader to remember.
    Ex. The 7th edition of CC is due to appear in 1971, and Ranganathan has given an extensive preview in an article in Library Science with a slant to documentation, cited at the end of this chapter.
    Ex. A large part of the work of information and advice has been the interpretation of people's eligibility for welfare benefits and other social services.
    Ex. In their first review article of children's reference books in 1982, the School Library Journal's Review Committe for children's reference books presents a bleak outlook.
    Ex. There are certain types of subject matter better suited to the nonbook format for which no subject heading exists, such as kits designed to develop orienteering.
    Ex. The author identifies the architectural barriers in library buildings facing disabled users with particular reference to wayfinding and the provision of suitable signage.
    Ex. When the real reading starts the mind, as a result of this skim, already has its bearings and so works more effectively.
    Ex. An analysis of customers in terms of benefits can inform effective segmentation, which in turn can lead to more efficient targeting of resources.
    Ex. The principles of learner centredness and constructivism provided the bases for the design of synchronous activities such as student moderated seminars in this study.
    Ex. Only when students have a scientific bent of mind, will a community and a country grow.
    ----
    * cambiar de orientación = reposition [re-position].
    * cambio de orientación = paradigm change, paradigm shift.
    * centro de orientación = referral centre.
    * con una orientación profesional = career-focused.
    * con una orientación social = socially-oriented.
    * con una orientación temática específica = subject-oriented.
    * de orientación = directional.
    * desorientación = disorientation.
    * orientación académica = educational guidance.
    * orientación a la lectura = readers' guidance.
    * orientación bibliográfica = bibliographic instruction (BI).
    * orientación hacia el hombre = human-centredness [human-centeredness, -USA].
    * orientación profesional = careers guidance, vocational guidance, career guidance, career education, career planning, careers education, career information.
    * orientación sexual = sexual orientation.
    * orientación sobre salidas profesionales = career guidance.
    * programa de orientación = orientation programme.
    * programa de orientación bibliográfica = bibliographic instruction program(me).
    * servicio de orientación = referral service, advisory service.
    * servicio de orientación al lector = readers' advisory service point, readers' advisory service.
    * * *
    1) (de habitación, edificio) aspect (frml)

    ¿cuál es la orientación de la casa? — which way does the house face?

    la orientación de la antena — the way the antenna (AmE) o (BrE) aerial is pointing

    2) (enfoque, dirección) orientation
    3) ( guía) guidance, direction; ( acción de guiar) orientation
    4) ( en un lugar) bearings (pl)
    * * *
    = orientation, slant, advice, outlook, orienteering, wayfinding, bearing, targeting, centredness, bent of mind.

    Ex: A summary at the end of a document is intended to complete the orientation of the reader, and to identify the significant ideas for the reader to remember.

    Ex: The 7th edition of CC is due to appear in 1971, and Ranganathan has given an extensive preview in an article in Library Science with a slant to documentation, cited at the end of this chapter.
    Ex: A large part of the work of information and advice has been the interpretation of people's eligibility for welfare benefits and other social services.
    Ex: In their first review article of children's reference books in 1982, the School Library Journal's Review Committe for children's reference books presents a bleak outlook.
    Ex: There are certain types of subject matter better suited to the nonbook format for which no subject heading exists, such as kits designed to develop orienteering.
    Ex: The author identifies the architectural barriers in library buildings facing disabled users with particular reference to wayfinding and the provision of suitable signage.
    Ex: When the real reading starts the mind, as a result of this skim, already has its bearings and so works more effectively.
    Ex: An analysis of customers in terms of benefits can inform effective segmentation, which in turn can lead to more efficient targeting of resources.
    Ex: The principles of learner centredness and constructivism provided the bases for the design of synchronous activities such as student moderated seminars in this study.
    Ex: Only when students have a scientific bent of mind, will a community and a country grow.
    * cambiar de orientación = reposition [re-position].
    * cambio de orientación = paradigm change, paradigm shift.
    * centro de orientación = referral centre.
    * con una orientación profesional = career-focused.
    * con una orientación social = socially-oriented.
    * con una orientación temática específica = subject-oriented.
    * de orientación = directional.
    * desorientación = disorientation.
    * orientación académica = educational guidance.
    * orientación a la lectura = readers' guidance.
    * orientación bibliográfica = bibliographic instruction (BI).
    * orientación hacia el hombre = human-centredness [human-centeredness, -USA].
    * orientación profesional = careers guidance, vocational guidance, career guidance, career education, career planning, careers education, career information.
    * orientación sexual = sexual orientation.
    * orientación sobre salidas profesionales = career guidance.
    * programa de orientación = orientation programme.
    * programa de orientación bibliográfica = bibliographic instruction program(me).
    * servicio de orientación = referral service, advisory service.
    * servicio de orientación al lector = readers' advisory service point, readers' advisory service.

    * * *
    A (de una habitación, un edificio) aspect ( frml)
    ¿cuál es la orientación de la casa? which way does the house face?
    la orientación de la antena the way the antenna is pointing
    la orientación de las placas solares the way o direction the solar panels are facing
    B
    1 (enfoque, dirección) orientation
    le dio una orientación práctica al curso he gave the course a practical bias, he oriented o ( BrE) orientated the course along practical lines
    la nueva orientación del partido the party's new direction
    2 (inclinación) leaning
    C (en un lugar) bearings (pl)
    perdí la orientación I lost my bearings
    sentido2 (↑ sentido (2))
    D
    1 (guía, consejo) guidance, direction
    2 (acción de guiar) orientation
    Compuestos:
    ● orientación profesional or (CS) vocacional
    (para colegiales, estudiantes) vocational guidance, careers advice; (para desempleados) career guidance o advice
    sexual orientation
    discriminar sobre la base de la orientación sexual to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation
    * * *

     

    orientación sustantivo femenino
    a) (de habitación, edificio) aspect (frml);

    ◊ ¿cuál es la orientación de la casa? which way does the house face?;

    la orientación de la antena the way the antenna (AmE) o (BrE) aerial is pointing
    b) (enfoque, dirección) orientation


    ( acción de guiar) orientation;


    ( para desempleados) career guidance o advice

    orientación sustantivo femenino
    1 (en el espacio) orientation, direction: perdí la orientación, I lost my bearings
    2 (en el conocimiento) guidance
    gabinete de orientación psicológica, psychological guidance office
    3 (ideología, tendencia) direction
    ' orientación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    COU
    - guía
    - curso
    English:
    A-level
    - exposure
    - face
    - guidance
    - marriage guidance
    - orientation
    - sense
    - vocational
    - aspect
    - counseling
    - direction
    - orienteering
    * * *
    1. [dirección] [acción] guiding;
    [rumbo] direction;
    sentido de la orientación sense of direction
    2. [posicionamiento] [acción] positioning;
    [lugar] position; [de edificio] aspect;
    una casa con orientación al oeste a house that faces west;
    hay que ajustar la orientación del sensor the position o angle of the sensor needs adjusting;
    ¿cuál tiene que ser la orientación de la antena? which way should the aerial be pointing?
    Informát orientación horizontal horizontal o landscape orientation; Informát orientación vertical vertical o portrait orientation
    3. [enfoque] orientation;
    le dieron una orientación práctica al curso the course had a practical bias o slant
    4. [información] guidance, advice;
    algunas orientaciones some guidance
    orientación pedagógica = guidance on courses to be followed;
    orientación profesional careers advice o guidance, career counselling;
    CSur orientación vocacional careers advice
    5. [tendencia] tendency, leaning;
    un partido con una orientación liberal a party with liberal leanings o tendencies
    orientación sexual sexual orientation
    6. [deporte de aventura] orienteering
    * * *
    f
    1 orientation
    2 ( ayuda) guidance
    3
    :
    sentido de la orientación sense of direction
    * * *
    1) : orientation
    2) dirección: direction, course
    3) guía: guidance, direction
    * * *
    orientación n aspect
    tener orientación a/hacia to face
    orientación profesional vocational guidance / careers advice

    Spanish-English dictionary > orientación

  • 20 маркетинговый контроль

    1. marketing control

     

    маркетинговый контроль
    Оргкомитет «Сочи-2014» осуществляет «маркетинговый контроль» над мероприятием или программой, если:
    • Оргкомитет «Сочи-2014» (или назначенная им третья сторона) предоставляет любые маркетинговые права в связи с тем или иным мероприятием или программой;
    • мероприятие или программа инициируется (Оргкомитетом «Сочи-2014» или назначенной им третьей стороной) в связи с Играми, или символикой Оргкомитета «Сочи-2014», или использованием символики Оргкомитет «Сочи-2014» или ОКР; или
    • мероприятие иного рода инициируется (Оргкомитетом «Сочи-2014» или назначенной им третьей стороной) как «Олимпийское».
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

    EN

    marketing control
    Sochi 2014 is deemed to have "marketing control" over an event or program if:
    • Sochi 2014 (or a third party appointed by Sochi 2014) offers any marketing rights in connection with the event or program;
    • the event or program is promoted (whether by Sochi 2014 or by a third party appointed by Sochi 2014) in connection with the Games or a Sochi 2014 mark or is using a Sochi 2014 mark or a ROC mark; or
    • the event is otherwise promoted (whether by Sochi 2014 or by a third party appointed by Sochi 2014) as “Olympic”.
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

    Тематики

    EN

    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > маркетинговый контроль

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