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  • 101 answer

    1. I
    1) why don't you answer? почему вы не отвечаете?; the question is not easy to answer на этот вопрос не так легко найти ответ
    2) usually in the negative that won't answer это не годится /не пойдет, не подойдет/; it doesn't answer а) это того не стоит; б) это не имеет смысла; the plan (the experiment) hasn't answered план (опыт) ничего не подтвердил
    2. II
    answer in some manner answer politely (sharply, rudely, etc.) отвечать вежливо и т. д.; he never answered он так и не ответил
    3. III
    1) answer smb. answer the teacher (the manager, the passer by, the neighbour, etc.) отвечать учителю и т. д.; answer smth. answer a question (smb.'s inquiries, smb.'s remark, etc.) отвечать на вопрос и т. д.; I have answered six letters я ответил на шесть писем; he couldn't answer a word он и слова не мог сказать /вымолвить/ в ответ; don't answer anything не отвечай ничего; не отвечай ни на какие вопросы; answer the roll откликаться на перекличке; answer a charge ответить на обвинение; answer a riddle отгадать загадку; answer a problem решить задачу /проблему/
    2) answer smth. answer the bell (the door) открыть дверь (ка звонок, на стук), answer the phone подойти к телефону; answer an appeal (a declaration, a call, etc.) откликаться /отвечать, реагировать/ на призыв и т. д.
    3) answer smth. answer a demand (an order, smb.'s wishes, etc.) отвечать /соответствовать/ потребности /спросу/ и т. д.; his going away answers my plans его отъезд мне на руку; it answers our requirements это отвечает нашим требованиям /удовлетворяет наши требования/; answer the purpose соответствовать своему назначению; will this answer your purpose? это вам годится /подойдет/?; answer smb.'s expectations не обмануть чьих-л. надежд /ожиданий/
    4. IV
    answer smb. in some manner answer smb. sharply (bitterly, briefly, readily, frankly, ironically, proudly, haughtily, in the negative, etc.) резко и т. д. отвечать кому-л.; answer smth. in some manner answer smb.'s question (smb.'s remark, smb.'s criticism, etc.) sharply (briefly, readily, etc.) резко и т. д. отвечать на чей-л. вопрос и т. д.
    5. V
    answer smb. smth. he answered me nothing он мне ничего не ответил; he answered me something but I didn't hear /didn't catch what it was/ он что-то ответил мне, но я не расслышал
    6. XVI
    1) answer in some form answer in the affirmative (in the negative) дать положительный (отрицательный) ответ, ответить положительно (отрицательно) id answer in kind =answer отплатить той же монетой
    2) answer for smb., smth. answer for the child (for one's pupils, for his younger sister, for one's own actions, for smb.'s safety, for the arrangements, etc.) отвечать /нести ответственность, брать на ceбя ответственность/ за ребенка и т. д., who answers for the music? кто ответственный за музыку /за музыкальное оформление/?; answer for a crime (for one's wrongdoings, for all the wrongs which he has done, for one's carelessness, etc.) отвечать /нести ответственность, расплачиваться/ за преступление и т. д., he has a lot to answer for ему за многое придется ответить; answer to smb., smth. for smth., smb. answer to me for his safety (to the mother for her child's well-being, to the committee for the arrangements, to the board for the expenses incurred, etc.) отвечать передо мной за его безопасность и т, д.; who will answer to me for this? кто мне за это ответит?; who will answer to me for my child? кто будет нести ответственность за моего ребенка?
    3) answer for smb., smth. answer for one's friend (for smb. answer loyalty, for smb.'s character, for smb.'s skill, for the truth of the statement, etc.) ручаться /отвечать/ за своего друга и т. д.; I can't answer for his honesty я не могу поручиться за его честность; I will answer for it я ручаюсь за это
    4) answer to smth. answer to the description (to his idea of womanhood, to her first statement, etc.) отвечать /соответствовать/ описанию и т. д.; his conduct doesn't answer to my idea of honesty его поведение идет вразрез с моим пониманием честности
    5) answer to smth. answer to the name of... откликаться /отзываться/ на имя...; the dog answers to the name of Rex собака отзывается на кличку Рекс
    6) answer to smth. answer to the medical treatment поддаваться лечению, реагировать на лечение
    7. XXI1
    answer smb., smth. with smth. answer him with kindness (with ingratitude, etc.) отвечать /платить/ ему добром и т. д.; answer smb.'s kindness with ingratitude (smb.'s arrogance with contempt, etc.) отплачивать неблагодарностью за добро и т. д.; answer blows with blows отвечать ударом на удар
    8. XXV
    answer that... he answered that he was busy он ответил, что он занят abs "Yes", he answered "Да",- ответил /откликнулся/ он; " I can't", he answered sharply (timidly, etc.) "Я не могу",- резко и т. д. ответил он, сказал он в ответ

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  • 102 consider

    1. II
    consider in some manner consider carefully. before coming to a decision подумайте как следует, прежде чем принять решение; consider for some time he considered briefly он на мгновение /ненадолго/ задумался; let me consider a little дайте мне немного подумать
    2. III
    1) consider smth. consider the facts (a possibility, measures, ways and means, one's actions, an offer, a proposal, etc.) обдумывать факты и т. д., let us consider the matter давайте обсудим /рассмотрим/ это /этот вопрос/; I will consider it я подумаю об этом; the jury retired to consider its verdict присяжные удалились, чтобы обсудить [свое] решение /[свой] вердикт/
    2) consider smth. consider the expense (the difficulties, the danger, all the points in an argument, etc.) принимать во внимание /учитывать/ расходы и т. д., we must consider his youth мы должны принять во внимание /сделать скидку на/ его молодость
    3) consider smb., smth. consider others (the feelings of other people, your room-mates, the susceptibilities of these 'woolen, etc.) считаться с другими и т. д.
    3. IV
    consider smth. in same manner consider the matter impartially (dispassionately, attentively, tentatively, fully, sympathetically, etc.) объективно и т. д. рассматривать вопрос; consider your answer carefully продумай как следует свой ответ
    4. V
    consider smb. smb., smth. consider him a clever man (the man a powerful speaker, her a real artist, the boy a fool, the fellow an ass, him a knave, etc.) считать его умным человеком и r. д.; consider smth. smth. consider teaching a rewarding occupation (writing a lucrative profession, etc.) считать преподавание благодарной работой и т. д., расценивать преподавание как стоящее дело и т. д.; I consider it my duty to tell you about it [я] считаю своим долгом рассказать вам об этом; I consider it a great honour to accompany you считаю для себя большой честью сопровождать вас
    5. VI
    consider smb., smth. as being in some state consider smb., smth. hopeless (crazy, healthy, ill, etc.) считать кого-л., что-л. безнадежным и т. д; consider yourself lucky to have escaped alive ваше счастье /вам повезло/, что вы остались живы; consider smb., smth. as possessing some quality consider smb., smth. bad (adequate, dangerous, etc.) считать кого-л., что-л. плохим и т. д.; we considered her beautiful (lazy, etc.) мы считали ее красивой и т. д.';- it important (clever, necessary, etc.) считать это важным и т. д; do you consider it wise to interfere? вы полагаете, что вмешиваться разумно?;
    6. VII
    consider smb. to be smth. consider him to be a clever man (her to be a lucky girl, him to be wise, etc.) считать его умным человеком и т. д.; I consider him to be worthy of confidence я считаю /полагаю/, что он заслуживает доверия
    7. IX
    consider smb., smth. done consider the time wasted (the matter closed, the problem solved, etc.) считать время потраченным зря/, что время ушло зря/ и т. д.; consider yourself dismissed а) считайте себя свободным, можете идти; б) считайте, что вы уволены
    8. XI
    2) be considered smb. he is considered a rich man его считают богатым человеком; she is generally considered to be a very clever person (a very attractive girl, etc.) ее все считают очень умным человеком и т. д., be considered as being in some state he wishes to be considered conscientious and prudent он хочет, чтобы его считали добросовестным и благоразумным; he spoke about the measures considered [to be necessary to curb the epidemic он говорил о мерах, которые были признаны необходимыми для борьбы с эпидемией; be considered as possessing some quality by smb. he was considered intelligent by his chief начальник считал его умным
    3) be considered he is a man to be considered с этим человеком нельзя не /приходится/ считаться
    9. XIII
    considerhow to do smth. consider how to get there (how to convince him, etc.) обдумывать /обсуждать, рассматривать вопрос о том/, как туда доехать /добраться/ и т. д.; consider what to do next (when to start, where to stay, etc.) обдумывать, что делать дальше и т. д.
    10. XIV
    consider doing smth. consider telling her about it (arranging a party, taking part in the boat race, etc.) думать /подумывать/ о том, чтобы рассказать ей об этом и т. д., have you ever considered going by train? не собираешься /не думаешь/ ли ты поехать поездом?; we are considering going to the country мы подумываем о том, не уехать ли нам за город /на дачу/
    11. XVIII
    consider oneself in some state consider oneself under arrest считать себя под арестом; I always consider myself at home when I'm there там я чувствую себя как дома
    12. XXI1
    consider smth. for some time consider the matter for a few moments (for a day or two, for some time, etc.) обдумывать вопрос несколько минут и т. д.; consider smb. for smth. we are considering him for the post (for the job, etc.) мы обдумываем его кандидатуру на этот пост /эту должность/ и т. д; consider smth. from a certain point consider the problem from different standpoints (from his point of view, from a financial point of view, etc.) рассматривать проблему с разных точек зрения и т. д.; consider smth. in smth. he considered it in a different light он рассматривал это с другой точки зрения
    13. XXIV1
    consider smth. as smth. consider one's action as an effort to be helpful рассматривать свои действия в качестве попытки оказать помощь /быть полезным/; they considered my plan as a possibility они считали, что мой план вполне может быть осуществлен
    14. XXIV4
    consider smth. as done you may consider it as finished (your purse as lost, etc.) можешь считать, что дело кончено и т. д.
    15. XXV
    1) consider whether... (what..., etc.) consider whether it will be worth while (what might be done with the money, etc.) подумать о том, стоит ли это делать и т. д.
    2) consider that... consider that he is very young (that the boy has got little experience, etc.) принимать во внимание /учитывать/, что он очень молод и т. д.; when one considers that he is only 20 если учесть, что ему лишь двадцать лет
    3) consider that... consider that he is a clever man (that he is a fool, that he ought to do it, that you are not to blame, etc.) считать /полагать/, что он умный человек и т. д.; he considers that he has been badly treated он считает, что к нему плохо отнеслись /что с ним плохо обошлись, что с ним дурно поступили/

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  • 103 draw

    I 1. I
    1) rubber draws резина тянется; I like shoes that draw я люблю эластичную обувь; the sails drew паруса надулись
    2) a chimney must draw труба должна тянуть /обладать тягой/: this chimney won't draw в этой трубе нет тяги; the pump is drawing насос [хорошо] качает /работает/
    3) let the tea draw пусть чай настоится; in this jug herbs are drawing в этом кувшине настаиваются травы
    4) the two teams drew команды сыграли вничью; if we draw если у нас будет ничья; play to win, not to draw играй, чтобы выиграть, ничья не нужна; the match has drawn матч окончился с ничейным результатом
    2. II
    1) draw in some manner the cart draws easily эту телегу легко тянуть; the sledge drew slowly санки медленно катились; such a tooth draws easily такой зуб легко удалить /вырвать/; draw somewhere draw near (nearer, close, etc.) приближаться, придвигаться или подходить и т.д..; when he drew near когда он приблизился; draw aside /to one side/ отступать, отодвигаться; отойти в сторону /посторониться/; as time draws near (er) по мере тоге,.как приближается /наступает/ назначенный срок || (as) her time draws near (по мере того, как) приближается ее время /срок/ [рожать]
    2) draw in some manner this chimney draws badly эта труба плохо тянет; this cigar does not draw well эта сигара плохо курится
    3) draw at some time this speaker (such a play, etc.) always draws этот оратор и т.д. всегда собирает большую аудиторию; draw in some manner the play draws /is drawlog/ well эта пьеса делает хорошие сборы
    4) draw in some manner tea draws wen when covered если чай накрыть /укутать/, он хорошо настаивается
    3. III
    1) draw smth. draw a train (a wagon, a cart, etc.) тянуть /тащить/ железнодорожный состав и т.д..: draw a chair (a bench, a table, etc.) пододвигать стул и т.д.., draw the blinds (the curtains) задергивать или открывать шторы (занавеси)
    2) draw smth. draw a rope (a string, a thread, etc.) вытягивать /расправлять/ канат и т.д..; draw a wire а) тянуть проволоку; б) вытягивать проволоку; draw a bow натягивать лук; draw reins (a bridle, a bit, etc.) натягивать вожжи и т.д.
    3) draw smth. draw a cork (a nail, a hook, etc.) вытаскивать пробку и т.д..; draw a tooth выдергивать зуб; draw a pistol (a knife, a sword, etc.) выхватывать /вытаскивать/ пистолет и т.д.
    4) draw smth. draw coal извлекать /добывать/ уголь || draw blood пустить или оттянуть кровь; cups (pultices) draw blood банки (компрессы) оттягивают кровь; leeches draw blood пиявки отсасывают кровь
    5) draw smb., smth. draw a chicken (a duck, the bird, etc.) потрошить курицу и т.д..; draw an abscess вытягивать гной
    6) || draw a (smb.'s) bath налить (для кого-л.) ванну
    7) draw smth. draw one's pay (a salary, supplies, rations, a prize, 5 per cent interest, etc.) получать зарплату и т.д. draw profit извлекать /получать/ прибыль
    8) draw smth. draw lots тянуть жребий: draw a card вытаскивать /вытягивать/ карту [из колоды]; draw a winner (a winning number, etc.) вытащить билет и т.д.., на который пал выигрыш; draw a blank а) вытянуть пустой номер; б) ничего не добиться || draw a prison term coll. получить /заработать, "схлопотать"/ срок [тюремного заключения]
    9) draw smth. draw a deep breath сделать глубокий вдох; he stopped to draw breath он остановился, чтобы перевести дыхание; draw one's last breath умереть, испустить дух; draw one's first breath сделать первый вдох, родиться; draw a sigh вздохнуть
    10) draw smb., smth. draw a crowd (a large audience, etc.) собирать толпу и т.д..; draw a full house делать полный сбор; draw the bees (the butterflies, etc.) привлекать /притягивать/ пчел и т.д.., the bright flower drew her eye яркий цветок привлек ее внимание
    11) draw smth. draw applause (a sigh, tears, etc.) вызывать аплодисменты и т.д..; draw great consequences повлечь за собой серьезные последствия; draw trumps заставить [кого-л.] ходить с козыря; draw the enemy's fire вызывать огонь противника
    12) draw smth. draw tea (herbs) настаивать чай (травы)
    13) draw smth. draw a game сыграть [игру] вничью
    14) || draw so much water naut. иметь определенную осадку; the ship draws ten feet of water этот корабль имеет осадку в десять футов
    4. IV
    draw smth. in some manner
    1) draw a cart heavily с трудом тащить повозку; quickly draw the curtains быстро задернуть занавески
    2) he quickly drew his gun он быстро выхватил пистолет
    3) draw one's pay regularly регулярно получать зарплату
    4) this joke regularly draws applause эта шутка всегда вызывает аплодисменты
    5. V
    || draw smb. a bath налить /приготовить/ кому-л. ванну
    6. VI
    draw smth. to some state
    1) draw a string (a net, a belt, etc.) tighter) затянуть /подтянуть/ веревку и т.д. потуже
    2) draw a well dry выкачивать /осушать/ колодец
    7. XI
    1) be drawn by smb. a carriage was drawn by horses карету тянули /везли/ лошади
    2) be (feel) drawn to smb., smth. I felt (was) drawn to her меня тянуло /я испытывал влечение/ к ней
    3) be drawn the match was drawn матч окончился вничью; the battle was drawn бой не дал перевеса ни той, ни другой стороне
    8. XVI
    1) draw to (into, etc.) smth. draw to the wall отступать /отодвигаться, отходить, пятиться/ [назад] к стене; I want, you to draw closer to the fire я хочу, чтобы вы пододвинулись к камину /подвинулись ближе к огню/; the train draws into the station поезд подходит к перрону /прибывает/; snails draw into their shells улитки прячутся в свои ракушки; draw along smth. a curtain draws freely along the wire занавес легко скользит по проволоке: draw round smth., smb. draw round the table (round the car, round the fire, round the stranger, etc.) собраться вокруг стола и т.д..; draw on smb. draw on those in front (on the other runners, etc.) догонять /настигать/ идущих впереди и т.д..; draw to /towards/ smth. draw to an end /to a close, to conclusion/ подходить к концу; it drew towards night (towards evening) близилась ночь, вечерело, день клонился к вечеру
    2) draw (up)on smth. draw upon one's savings (on one's reserves, on one's capital, etc.) черпать [деньги] из своих сбережений и т.д..; draw on the bank брать деньги из банка; I have по resources to draw on у меня нет средств, на которые можно было бы рассчитывать; draw on the strength of smb.'s friendship черпать силы /находить поддержку/ в чьей-л. дружбе; when 1 was writing the book I drew on my memory (on my imagination, etc.) память и т.д. очень помогла мне в работе над книгой; he drew on his faith вера его укрепляла; in her grief she drew largely on her friends' sympathy сочувствие друзей придавало ей силы, чтобы справиться с горем: draw on smb. draw on him for help (on smb. for money, on one's friends for a loan, etc.) обращаться к нему за помощью и т.д..: он whom shall I draw for advance? кто выдаст мне аванс?
    3) draw for smth., smb. draw for places (for seats, for turns, etc.) решать путем жеребьевки, кому какое место и т.д. достанется; draw for partners тянуть жребий, чтобы определить партнера
    9. XVIII
    || draw into oneself уходить в себя, замыкаться
    10. XXI1
    1) draw smth. to (into, toward, over, etc.) smth. draw one's chair to the table (a table nearer to the window, a sofa toward the fire, etc.) пододвинуть стул к столу и т.д..: draw a curtain over a window задернуть занавеску на окне; draw a veil over one's face закрыть лицо вуалью; draw a hat (a cap) over one's face натянуть /надвинуть, нахлобучить/ шапку (фуражку) на лоб; draw a bed into a room втащить кровать в комнату; draw smth., smb. towards smb. draw smth. towards oneself пододвигать что-л. к себе; he drew her towards himself он привлек ее к себе, он обнял ее
    2) draw smth. from /out of/ smth. draw a purse from /out of/ a pocket вытаскивать кошелек из кармана; draw water from the well набирать воды из колодца; draw beer (wine) from a barrel нацеживать пива (вина) из бочки; draw coal from a mine добывать уголь из шахты
    3) || draw a bath for smb. налить /приготовить/ ванну для кого-л.
    4) draw smth. in smth. draw a prize in a lottery вытянуть счастливый билет в лотерее; draw smth. for smth., smb. draw lots for the game устанавливать путем жеребьевки, кто с кем играет или кто на какой половине поля играет; draw cards for a partner cards снять карту, чтобы определить партнера
    5) draw smth. from smth., smb. draw tears from smb.'s eyes исторгнуть слезы у кого-л.; draw a groan from smb. заставить кого-л. застонать; draw a confession from smb. вырвать у кого-л. признание
    6) draw smth. from /within/ smth., smb. draw a salary from a firm (an income from business, information from the newspaper. inspiration from nature, etc.) получать зарплату в какой-л. фирме и т.д.., she drew consolation from his presence она находила утешение в его присутствии; he drew strength from within himself он в самом себе черпал силы; draw a moral from events извлекать урок из событий; draw smth. on smth. draw a commission on a transaction получить комиссионные за сделку; draw smb. from smth., smb. draw the team from members of the club (members from all ranks of society, etc.) набирать команду из членов клуба и т.д.
    7) draw smth. from smth. draw an inference from his actions сделать соответствующий вывод из его поступков; draw different conclusions from the same facts приходить к различным выводам на основании одних и тех же фактов; draw smth. between smth. draw a comparison (a parallel) between smth. проводить сравнение (параллель) между чем-то и чем-то; you must draw distinctions between these two things между этими двумя вещами нужно делать различие, эти две вещи нужно различать
    8) draw smb. to smth. draw many people to the theatre привлекать массы в театр; draw smb. into smth. draw smb. into a conversation (into a conspiracy, into a conflict, into war, etc.) втягивать /вовлекать/ кого-л. в беседу и т.д. || draw smb.'s attention to smth., smb. (to the beautiful picture, to the shop window, to the strange man, to the pretty girl, etc.) привлекать чье-л. внимание к чему-л., кому-л. и т.д.., обращать чье-л. внимание на что-л., кого-л. и т.д..; draw smb.'s attention away from smth., smb. отвлекать чье-л. внимание от чего-л., кого-л.
    11. XXII
    draw smb. into doing smth. draw him into buying a new car уговорить его купить новый автомобиль; вовлечь его в авантюру с покупкой новой машины; draw the neighbours into helping them привлечь соседей к работе по оказанию им помощи; draw them into plotting against the president втянуть /вовлечь/ их в заговор против президента
    II 1. I
    can you draw? вы умеете рисовать?
    2. II
    draw in some manner draw badly (quickly, cleverly, etc.) хорошо и т.д. чертить или рисовать
    3. III
    1) draw smth. draw a plan (a diagram, a map of the area, etc.) начертить план и т.д..; draw a straight line провести прямую линию; draw smth., smb. draw a picture (a bunch of flowers, a portrait, a girl, etc.) нарисовать картину и т.д..; draw a word portrait дать /нарисовать/ словесный портрет; draw a brilliant picture of life in the country нарисовать яркую картону сельской жизни
    2) draw smth. draw a bill of exchange (a cheque) выписать вексель (чек); draw a sentence составить предложение
    4. XVI
    draw in smth. draw in pencil (in ink, in water-colours, etc.) делать рисунок в карандаше и т.д..; he always draws in charcoal он всегда рисует углем
    5. XXI1
    1) draw smth. between smth. draw a line between two points проводить линию между двумя точками: draw smth., smb. from smth., smb. draw a picture from nature (from a model, etc.) рисовать картину с натуры и т.д. ; draw a character in a novel from life (from observations and experience, etc.) нарисовать образ / создать персонаж/ в романе из жизни и т.д.
    2) draw smth. on smth. draw a cheque (a bill, etc.) on a bank (on his firm, etc.) выписать чек на банк и т.д. || draw a cheque to order выписывать чек на предъявителя

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > draw

  • 104 ISA

    British( abbreviation individual savings account) ≃ PEA m, plan m d'épargne en actions

    ISAs should be the first investments you consider because they are the next most tax-efficient, after pensions. They allow you to hold up to £5,000 a year... in three types of investment: cash, life insurance and stock market investments, such as shares and unit trusts.

    English-French business dictionary > ISA

  • 105 LISA

    English-French business dictionary > LISA

  • 106 executive

    (person) directeur(trice) m, f, cadre m; (board, committee) bureau m, comité m central
    (power) exécutif(ive); (ability) d'exécution; (job) de cadre; (car, plane) de direction
    executive board conseil m d'administration;
    executive director directeur(trice) m, f administratif(ive);
    executive functions fonctions f pl d'encadrement;
    executive member membre m du comité de direction;
    executive officer cadre m supérieur;
    executive pension fund caisse f de retraite des cadres;
    executive power pouvoir m exécutif;
    executive secretary secrétaire m f de direction;
    executive share option scheme plan m d'investissement en actions pour cadres

    English-French business dictionary > executive

  • 107 method

    ['meƟəd]
    1) (the way in which one does something: I don't like his methods of training workers.) metodă
    2) (an orderly or fixed series of actions for doing something: Follow the method set down in the instruction book.) metodă
    3) (good sense and a definite plan: Her work seems to lack method.) metodă
    •
    - methodically

    English-Romanian dictionary > method

  • 108 method

    ['meƟəd]
    1) (the way in which one does something: I don't like his methods of training workers.) μέθοδος
    2) (an orderly or fixed series of actions for doing something: Follow the method set down in the instruction book.) σύστημα
    3) (good sense and a definite plan: Her work seems to lack method.) μεθοδικότητα
    •
    - methodically

    English-Greek dictionary > method

  • 109 approval

    [ə'pruːv(ə)l]
    сущ.
    1) одобрение; благоприятное мнение

    complete / unqualified approval — безоговорочное одобрение

    He gave his approval to our plan. — Он одобрил наш план.

    I met approval in her look. — Я встретил одобрение в её взгляде.

    Mankind had stamped its approval upon certain actions. — Человечество уже высказало одобрение в отношении определённых действий.

    Syn:
    Ant:
    2) утверждение; санкция

    We received their approval to continue the research. — Мы получили их согласие на продолжение исследований.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > approval

  • 110 approval

    [ə'pruːv(ə)l]
    n
    одобрение, одобрительный отзыв, благоприятное мнение, согласие, утверждение

    He gave his approval to our plan. — Он одобрил наш план.

    We bought the bike on his approval. — Мы купили этот велосипед с его одобрения/согласия.

    I met approval in her look. — Я встретил одобрение в ее взгляде.

    Mankind had stamped its approval upon certain actions. — Человечество уже высказало одобрение в отношении определенных действий

    - qualified approval
    - tacit approval
    - public approval
    - smb's approval for the trip
    - on smb's approval
    - meet with approval
    - send the papers for approval
    - receive smb's approval to do smth

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > approval

  • 111 loud

    [laud]
    adj
    громкий, яркий

    The children were loud in their disapproval of the plan. — Дети громко выражали неодобрение этого плана.

    Their voices were loud with excitment. — Их голоса звучали громко от возбуждения.

    Her cry was loud with terror. — Она громко кричала от ужаса.

    The air was loud with explosions. — Воздух был наполнен шумом взрывов.

    They were loud in their conversation. — Они вели шумный/крикливый разговор.

    Actions speak louder than words. — ◊ Дела красноречивее слов. /Не на бумаге сказано - делом показано. /Не спеши языком, торопись делом

    - loud voice
    - loud colours
    - loud ties
    - in a loud voice
    - everybody was loud in praise

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > loud

  • 112 urge

    I [əːdʒ] n
    1) желание, побудительный мотив, толчок

    I was angry and had an urge to hit him. — Я был зол и готов его стукнуть.

    - strong urge
    - strong urge to do smth
    2) настоятельность, порыв, необходимость

    They have a strong urge to communicate. — У них сильное стремление к общению

    - feel the urge of smth
    - feel the urge to learn English
    - satisfy men's natural urge     II [əːdʒ] v
    1) подгонять, торопить

    He needed no urging. — Его не надо было подгонять.

    - urge smb
    - urge the horse forward
    - time urges
    2) настаивать, настойчиво требовать, убеждать
    - urge smth
    - urge this plan of action
    - urge smb to do smth
    - urge her children to study
    - urge smb to smth
    - urge him to an explanation
    - urge that they should leave
    - urge the difficulty of the situation
    - urge the importance of this decision
    - urge the necessity of immediate actions

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > urge

  • 113 point

    1. n физ. стадия, критическая точка; температура
    2. n спец. точка, отметка; точка деления

    point of reference — репер, отметка условного уровня

    3. n мор. румб

    cardinal point — страна света; главный румб

    4. n след, отметина
    5. n место, пункт, точка

    assembly point — место сбора; сборный пункт

    6. n полицейский пост
    7. n разг. станция; граница тарифного участка
    8. n момент
    9. n порог; край; грань
    10. n амер. единица, очко
    11. n талон; купон; единица продовольственной или промтоварной карточки
    12. n нужный результат, требуемое число

    decimal point — десятичная точка; точка в десятичном числе

    13. n карт. очко

    match point — очко, решающее исход матча

    14. n одно из 12-ти делений на доске для игры в триктрак
    15. n место принимающего игрока
    16. n принимающий игрок

    saluting point — место, трибуна для принимающего парад

    17. n уровень, стандарт
    18. n степень, ступень

    frankness to the point of insult — откровенность, граничащая с оскорблением

    to the point of — до такой степени; что

    to the point that — до такой степени; что

    19. n эл. точка присоединения потребляющего прибора; штепсельная розетка
    20. n пойнт
    21. n толщина бумаги

    конец; заключение

    22. v указывать, показывать
    23. v указывать, выделять
    24. v указывать, обращать внимание; отмечать, подчёркивать

    he pointed out that there were certain formalities to be observed — он подчеркнул, что необходимо соблюсти некоторые формальности

    point to the fact that — обращать внимание на то; что

    25. v наводить, направлять; прицеливаться, целиться
    26. v быть обращённым, направленным; смотреть
    27. v указывать, свидетельствовать, говорить
    28. v иметь целью, стремиться
    29. v точить, заострить

    sharpened a point — заострил; заостренный

    30. v оживлять; заострять, придавать остроту
    31. v мор. обделывать конец «редькой»
    32. v мед. созревать
    33. v охот. делать стойку

    to cede a point — сделать, допущение

    34. v стр. расшивать швы кирпичной или каменной кладки
    35. v ставить знаки препинания
    36. v ставить точки
    37. v муз. делать разметку

    to come directly to the point — подойти прямо к сути дела, без обиняков заговорить о главном

    38. v делать паузы
    39. v отделять десятичную дробь точкой

    condensation point — точка росы; температура конденсации

    40. v мор. идти крутой бейдевинд
    41. v ставить ногу на пуанты
    42. v танцевать на пуантах

    a point, which has bothered us — вопрос, который нас беспокоил

    43. v иск. переносить размеры с макета на камень
    44. v с. -х. закапывать в землю
    45. v метал. заострять, острить конец
    46. v редк. вставлять белые волоски
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. case (noun) argument; case; reason
    2. characteristic (noun) birthmark; character; characteristic; feature; trait
    3. detail (noun) article; component; detail; element; item; particular; thing
    4. edge (noun) borderline; brink; edge; threshold; verge
    5. end (noun) aim; design; end; goal; intent; intention; motive; objective; plan; purpose; target; view
    6. essence (noun) essence; heart; message; pith
    7. idea (noun) idea; import; meaning; purport; significance
    8. issue (noun) issue; question
    9. place (noun) location; locus; place; position; site; situation; spot; station; where
    10. promontory (noun) beak; bill; cape; foreland; head; headland; naze; promontory
    11. speck (noun) dot; flyspeck; mote; pinpoint; speck; spot
    12. subject (noun) matter; motif; subject; subject matter; text; theme; topic
    13. time (noun) duration; instant; juncture; moment; period; time
    14. tip (noun) apex; barb; cusp; pointer; prick; prong; spike; spine; steer; tine; tip; tip-off
    15. validity (noun) cogency; effectiveness; force; punch; validity; validness
    16. direct (verb) address; aim; cast; direct; head; incline; lay; level; present; refer; set; train; turn; zero in
    17. indicate (verb) denote; hint; imply; indicate; signify; suggest
    18. punctuate (verb) punctuate
    Антонимический ряд:
    contradict; deny; divert

    English-Russian base dictionary > point

  • 114 way

    1. n путь; дорога; маршрут
    2. n направление
    3. n расстояние
    4. n движение вперёд; ход
    5. n образ действия; метод, способ

    so and in no other way — только так ; только таким образом

    in the following way — таким образом; следующим методом

    6. n манера поведения

    way of behavior — способ поведения; поведение

    7. n особенность, характерная черта
    8. n уклад, обычай, привычка

    the way of the world — общепринятый уклад жизни; традиционные взгляды; общепринятые нормы поведения

    9. n отношение, аспект
    10. n положение, состояние
    11. n размах, масштабы деятельности
    12. n разг. область, сфера; занятие

    hunting is not in my way — охота — это не по моей категория, род

    13. n возможность, путь, средство

    eightfold way — «восьмеричный путь»

    14. n мор. стапель
    15. n тех. направляющая
    16. n юр. право прохода, проезда

    any way — и в том и в другом случае; в любом случае

    better by a long way, a long way better — гораздо лучше

    in a way — в известном смысле; до некоторой степени, в известной мере

    no two ways about it — это несомненно; об этом не может быть двух мнений

    one way or another, some way or other — так или иначе; в любом случае; как бы то ни было

    nothing came my way — мне ничего не удавалось, мне не подвёртывалось ничего хорошего

    way enough! — шабаш!, на воду!

    to have a way with one — обладать обаянием; иметь подход к людям

    she has a winning way with her — в ней есть обаяние; она привлекает сердца

    to bet both ways — ставить на лошадь и место, которое она займёт

    to make way — уступить дорогу ; расчистить путь; расступиться, раздвинуться

    to pay its way — окупаться, оправдывать себя, быть рентабельным

    17. a промежуточный; расположенный по пути
    18. adv амер. усил. далеко; на значительном расстоянии, в отдалении
    19. adv амер. усил. полностью, до конца
    20. adv амер. усил. близ
    21. int тпру!
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. behaviour (noun) actions; behaviour; comportment; conduct; demeanour; deportment
    2. distance (noun) distance; interval; space; ways
    3. door (noun) access; adit; admission; admittance; door; entrance; entree; entry; ingress
    4. habit (noun) consuetude; custom; form; habit; habitude; manner; practice; praxis; trick; usage; use; wont
    5. means (noun) design; fashion; means; method; mode; modus; plan; policy; procedure; process; style; system; technique; wise
    6. passage (noun) channel; course; drag; line; passage; path; route; throughway
    7. progress (noun) direction; extent; progress
    8. road (noun) artery; avenue; boulevard; drive; freeway; highway; road; roadway; street; thoroughfare; track
    9. type (noun) breed; cast; character; class; cut; description; feather; ilk; kidney; kind; lot; mold; nature; order; persuasion; sort; species; stamp; stripe; type; variety

    English-Russian base dictionary > way

  • 115 method

    ['meƟəd]
    1) (the way in which one does something: I don't like his methods of training workers.) méthode
    2) (an orderly or fixed series of actions for doing something: Follow the method set down in the instruction book.) méthode
    3) (good sense and a definite plan: Her work seems to lack method.) méthode
    •
    - methodically

    English-French dictionary > method

  • 116 method

    ['meƟəd]
    1) (the way in which one does something: I don't like his methods of training workers.) método
    2) (an orderly or fixed series of actions for doing something: Follow the method set down in the instruction book.) método
    3) (good sense and a definite plan: Her work seems to lack method.) método
    •
    - methodically

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > method

  • 117 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

  • 118 fall

    A n
    1 lit (of person, horse, rocks, curtain) chute f (from de) ; (of snow, hail) chutes fpl ; (of earth, soot) éboulement m ; (of axe, hammer, dice) coup m ; a fall of 20 metres, a 20-metre fall une chute de 20 mètres ; a heavy fall of rain une grosse averse ; to have a fall faire une chute, tomber ;
    2 (in temperature, shares, production, demand, quality, popularity) baisse f (in de) ; ( more drastic) chute f (in de) ; the pound has suffered a sharp fall/a slight fall la livre a subi une forte chute/une légère baisse ; a fall in value une dépréciation ; a fall of 10% to 125 une baisse de 10% pour arriver à 125 ;
    3 (of leader, regime, empire, fortress, town) chute f ; ( of monarchy) renversement m ; ( of seat) perte f ; the government's fall from power la chute du gouvernement ;
    4 fall from grace ou favour disgrâce f ; the Fall Relig la chute ;
    5 US ( autumn) automne m ; in the fall of 1992 à l'automne 1992 ;
    6 (in pitch, intonation) descente f ;
    7 ( in wrestling) tombé m ; ( in judo) chute f.
    B falls npl chutes fpl.
    C vi ( prét fell, pp fallen)
    1 ( come down) tomber ; falling rain la pluie qui tombe ; he was hurt by falling masonry il a été blessé par une pierre qui tombait de la façade ; to fall 10 metres tomber de 10 mètres ; five centimetres of snow fell il est tombé cinq centimètres de neige ; to fall from ou out of tomber de [boat, nest, bag, hands] ; to fall off ou from tomber de [chair, table, roof, bike, wall] ; the skirt falls in pleats from a waistband la jupe tombe en plis à partir de la ceinture ; to fall on tomber sur [person, town] ; it fell on my head cela m'est tombé sur la tête ; to fall on the floor tomber par terre ; to fall on one's back tomber sur le dos ; to fall in ou into tomber dans [bath, river, sink] ; to fall down tomber dans [hole, shaft, stairs] ; to fall under tomber sous [table] ; passer sous [bus, train] ; to fall through passer à travers [ceiling, hole] ; to fall through the air tomber dans le vide ; to fall to earth tomber sur terre ; to fall to the floor ou to the ground tomber par terre ;
    2 ( drop) [speed, volume, quality, standard, level] diminuer ; [temperature, price, inflation, wages, production, number, attendance, morale] baisser ; ( more dramatically) chuter ○, tomber ; to fall (by) baisser de [amount, percentage] ; to fall to descendre à [amount, place] ; to fall from descendre de ; to fall below zero/5% descendre au-dessous de zéro/5% ; to fall in the charts perdre des places dans le hit-parade ;
    3 ( yield position) tomber ; to fall from power tomber ; to fall to tomber aux mains de [enemy, allies] ; the seat fell to Labour le siège a été perdu au profit des travaillistes ;
    4 euph ( die) tomber ; to fall on the battlefield tomber au champ d'honneur ;
    5 fig ( descend) [darkness, night, beam, silence, gaze] tomber (on sur) ; [blame] retomber (on sur) ; [shadow] se projeter (over sur) ; suspicion fell on her husband les soupçons se sont portés sur son mari ;
    6 ( occur) [stress] tomber (on sur) ; Christmas falls on a Monday Noël tombe un lundi ; to fall into/outside a category rentrer/ne pas rentrer dans une catégorie ; to fall under the heading of… se trouver sous la rubrique de… ;
    7 ( be incumbent on) it falls to sb to do c'est à qn de faire, c'est à qn qu'il incombe de faire fml ;
    8 ( throw oneself) to fall into bed/into a chair se laisser tomber sur son lit/dans un fauteuil ; to fall to ou on one's knees tomber à genoux ; to fall at sb's feet se jeter aux pieds de qn ; to fall into sb's/each other's arms tomber dans les bras de qn/l'un de l'autre ; to fall on each other s'embrasser, tomber dans les bras l'un de l'autre ; to fall on sb's neck se jeter au cou de qn ;
    9 [ground] = fall away 2 ;
    10 Relig succomber ;
    11 GB dial ( get pregnant) tomber enceinte.
    did he fall or was he pushed? hum est-ce qu'il est parti de lui-même ou est-ce qu'on l'a forcé? ; the bigger you are ou the higher you climb, the harder you fall plus dure sera la chute ; to stand or fall on sth reposer sur qch, dépendre de qch.
    ■ fall about ○ GB to fall about (laughing ou with laughter) se tordre ○ de rire.
    1 [bike, table] être délabré ; [shoes] être usé ; [car, house, hotel] tomber en ruine ;
    2 [marriage, country] se désagréger ;
    3 ○ [person] craquer ○, perdre ses moyens.
    1 [paint, plaster] se détacher (from de) ;
    2 [ground] descendre en pente (to vers) ;
    3 [demand, support, numbers] diminuer.
    ■ fall back gen reculer ; Mil se replier (to sur).
    ▶ fall back on [sth] avoir recours à [savings, parents, old method] ; to have something to fall back on avoir quelque chose sur quoi se rabattre.
    ▶ fall behind [runner, country, student] se laisser distancer ; [work, studies] prendre du retard ; to fall behind with GB ou in US prendre du retard dans [work, project] ; être en retard pour [payments, rent, correspondence] ;
    ▶ fall behind [sth/sb] se laisser devancer par [horses, classmates, competitors].
    ■ fall down:
    1 lit [person, child, tree, poster] tomber ; [tent, wall, house, scaffolding] s'effondrer ; this whole place is falling down tout tombe en ruine ici ;
    2 GB fig [argument, comparison, plan] faiblir ; where he falls down is… là où il faiblit, c'est… ; to fall down on échouer à cause de [detail, question, obstacle] ; to fall down on a promise/on the job être incapable de tenir sa promesse/de faire le travail.
    ■ fall for:
    ▶ fall for [sth] se laisser prendre à, se faire avoir ○ par [trick, story] ;
    ▶ fall for [sb] tomber amoureux/-euse de [person].
    ■ fall in
    1 [sides, walls, roof] s'écrouler, s'effondrer ;
    2 Mil [soldier] rentrer dans les rangs ; [soldiers] former les rangs ; fall in! à vos rangs!
    ▶ fall in with [sth/sb]
    1 ( get involved with) faire la connaissance de [group] ; to fall in with a bad crowd avoir de mauvaises fréquentations ;
    2 ( go along with) se conformer à [timetable, plans, action] ;
    3 ( be consistent with) être conforme à [expectations, concerns].
    1 lit [person, leaf, hat, label] tomber ;
    2 fig [attendance, takings, sales, output] diminuer ; [enthusiasm, standard, quality] baisser ; [support, interest] retomber ; [curve on graph] décroître.
    ■ fall on:
    ▶ fall on [sth] se jeter sur [food, treasure] ;
    ▶ fall on [sb] attaquer, tomber sur [person].
    ■ fall open [book] tomber ouvert ; [robe] s'entrebâiller.
    ■ fall out:
    1 [page, contact lens] tomber ; his hair/tooth fell out il a perdu ses cheveux/une dent ;
    2 Mil [soldiers] rompre les rangs ; fall out! rompez! ;
    3 ○ ( quarrel) se brouiller, se fâcher (over à propos de) ; to fall out with sb GB ( quarrel) se brouiller or se fâcher avec qn ; US ( have fight) se disputer avec qn ; I've fallen out with him GB je suis brouillé or fâché avec lui ;
    4 GB ( turn out) se passer ; it fell out that… il s'avéra que…
    ■ fall over:
    ▶ fall over [person] tomber (par terre) ; [object] se renverser ;
    ▶ fall over [sth] trébucher sur [object] ; to fall over oneself to help sb ○ se mettre en quatre ○ pour aider qn ; people were fall ing over themselves to buy shares c'était à qui achèterait les actions.
    ■ fall through [plans, deal] échouer, tomber à l'eau ○.
    ■ fall to:
    ▶ fall to attaquer ;
    ▶ fall to doing se mettre à faire.

    Big English-French dictionary > fall

  • 119 premium

    1 gen ( extra payment) supplément m ; to buy/sell at a premium (price) acheter/vendre au prix fort ;
    2 ( Stock Exchange) prime f d'émission ; to sell shares ou stock at a premium vendre des actions au-dessus du pair ;
    3 Insur prime f (d'assurance) ;
    4 Comm ( payment for lease) reprise f ;
    5 fig to be at a premium valoir de l'or ; time is at a premium le temps devient précieux ; to put ou place ou set a (high) premium on sth mettre qch au (tout) premier plan.

    Big English-French dictionary > premium

  • 120 share option scheme

    share option scheme n plan m de participation par achat d'actions.

    Big English-French dictionary > share option scheme

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