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  • 1 secondary workers

    secondary workers PERS, SOC Beschäftigte pl mit instabilen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen; Beschäftigte pl mit prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen (nicht dauerhaft beschäftigte Arbeitskräfte, die z. B. aufgrund geringer Qualifikation wenig gefragt sind und infolgedessen wegen mangelnder Arbeitsmöglichkeiten – insbesondere im Konjunkturablauf – häufig in den Arbeitsmarkt eintreten bzw. aus dem Arbeitsmarkt austreten)

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  • 2 secondary workers

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    Работники, условно принадлежащие к "гражданской" рабочей силе (те, которые могут быть использованы лишь в невоенных отраслях): замужние женщины, подростки и пожилые люди, по сравнению с работниками первой категории [primary workers] - взрослые работоспособные мужчины и незамужние женщины, не достигшие пенсионного возраста

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > secondary workers

  • 3 secondary action

    1) Общая лексика: забастовка с (Action which is taken by workers in one industry in support of striking workers in a separate but related industry. Действия проводимые в поддержку бастующих рабочих в взаимосвязанной отрасли.)
    3) Юридический термин: акцессорный иск
    4) Телекоммуникации: вспомогательное действие
    5) Вычислительная техника: дополнительное действие

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > secondary action

  • 4 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 5 worker

    n
    рабочий; работник; труженик
    - aid worker
    - auxiliary workers
    - blue-collar worker
    - brain worker
    - campaign worker
    - casual worker
    - common run of workers
    - community health worker
    - conscientious worker
    - construction worker
    - contract worker
    - cuts in the number of full-time party workers
    - diligent worker
    - disabled worker
    - disaffected workers
    - disgruntled workers
    - dislocated worker
    - dock worker
    - efficient worker
    - experienced worker
    - factory worker
    - foreign aid worker
    - foreign worker
    - general worker
    - highly-qualified worker
    - human rights worker
    - ideological worker
    - immigrant worker
    - industrial worker
    - link worker
    - managerial workers
    - manual worker
    - mental worker
    - migrant worker
    - non-union worker
    - office worker
    - out-of-town worker
    - part-time worker
    - precinct worker
    - professional worker
    - public sector worker
    - public service worker
    - rank-and-file worker
    - regular worker
    - relief worker
    - replacement worker
    - research worker
    - scientific worker
    - seasonal worker
    - secondary worker
    - second-rank worker
    - semiskilled worker
    - shortage of workers
    - skilled worker
    - social worker
    - temp worker
    - temporary worker
    - threshold worker
    - UN relief worker
    - underground worker
    - undocumented workers
    - union worker
    - unremitting worker for charity
    - volunteer precinct worker
    - volunteer worker
    - wage worker
    - white-collar worker

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  • 6 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

  • 7 cause

    kɔ:z
    1. сущ.
    1) причина, основание (для действия, состояния, результата) deep-rooted, root, underlying cause ≈ глубокая причина, истинная причина immediate cause ≈ непосредственный источник leading, major cause ≈ главная причина primary cause ≈ основной источник secondary cause ≈ источник второстепенной важности ultimate cause ≈ конечная причина Syn: reason, motive, origin
    2) дело;
    благое дело, благотворительное предприятие to advance, champion, fight for, promote cause ≈ способствовать развитию какого-л. предприятия to serve a cause ≈ обслуживать какое-л. мероприятие to espouse, plead a cause ≈ отдаваться какому-л. делу to take up a cause ≈ рассматривать какое-л. дело good, just, worthwhile, worthy cause ≈ стоящее дело;
    правое дело;
    справедливое дело lost cause ≈ проигранное дело to support the cause of the workers ≈ защищать дело рабочего класса the cause of peace ≈ дело мира to make common cause with smb. ≈ объединяться с кем-л. ради общего дела in the cause of science in a good cause
    3) юр. уголовное дело, судебный процесс plead a cause Syn: case
    4) вопрос, требующий решения/рассмотрения
    2. гл. послужить причиной/поводом для чего-л.;
    мотивировать что-л. to cause smb. to be informed ≈ поставить кого-л. в известность to cause a thing to be done ≈ велеть что-л. выполнить The ruin of the empire was caused by the loss of freedom and the growth of despotism. ≈ Крушение империи было вызвано потерей свободы и усилением деспотической власти. Syn: effect, bring about, produce, induce, make причина, основание;
    - * and effect причина и следствие;
    - root *s коренные причины;
    - first * of all *s причина всех причин;
    - * of death причина смерти;
    - the *s of war причины войны;
    - to stay away from school without good * пропускать занятия без уважительных причин;
    - he is the * of all our troubles все наши беды от него, он является причиной всех бед;
    - there is no * for anxiety нет оснований для тревоги мотив, повод, причина;
    - just * убедительный мотив;
    полное основание, полное право;
    - a * of action повод к действиям;
    - without * без повода, без оснований, без причин;
    беспричинно;
    - * for divorce основание для развода;
    мотивы, по которым брак должен быть расторгнут;
    - * for rejoicing повод для торжества дело;
    общее дело;
    - the * of peace дело мира;
    - the * of the workers дело рабочего класса;
    - to make common * with smb. объединяться с кем-л ради общего дела;
    - in the * of science ради общего дела;
    - in the * of science ради науки;
    - he died for the C. он погиб за общее дело;
    - good * правое дело;
    - to work in a good * бороться за правое дело;
    - lost * безнадежное дело;
    - to fight in the * of justice бороться за справедливость;
    - to fight in the * of the oppressed бороться на стороне угнетенных;
    - no one should be judge in his own * никто не может быть судьей в своем собственном деле (юридическое) судебное дело, процесс;
    - to plead a * вести процесс, защищать дело в суде;
    - to gain one's * выиграть процесс мотивы или соображения, высказываемые стороной;
    - to show * привести основания;
    представить доводы;
    - * of action основание для предъявления иска быть причиной, служить поводом;
    вызвать;
    причинять;
    - what *d his death? от чего он умер?, что стало причиной его смерти?;
    - what *s the lides? почему бывают приливы? заставлять;
    побуждать;
    добиваться;
    - he *d me to go он заставил меня уйти;
    - it *d my going я ушел из-за этого;
    - the King *d him to be put to death он был казнен по приказу короля;
    - to * smb. to be informed поставить кого-л в известность;
    - he *d the letter to be sent письмо было отправлено по его приказанию;
    - we *d the roof to be mended нам починили крышу;
    мы починили крышу be the ~ of быть причиной ~ заставлять;
    to cause a thing to be done велеть (что-л.) выполнить ~ before the High Court дело, рассматриваемое в Высоком суде (Великобритания) ~ celebre знаменитый судебный процесс ~ of action мотив действия ~ of action основание для предъявления иска ~ of action причина действия ~ of cancellation причина аннулирования ~ of damage причина ущерба ~ of death причина смерти ~ of loss причина ущерба ~ дело;
    to support the cause of the workers защищать дело рабочего класса;
    the cause of peace дело мира cause быть причиной, причинять, вызывать;
    to cause (smb.) to be informed поставить (кого-л.) в известность ~ to rise вызывать рост ~ to rise добиваться увеличения external ~ внешний повод extraneous ~ внешняя причина good ~ достаточное основание to make common ~ (with smb.) объединяться (с кем-л.) ради общего дела;
    in the cause of science ради (или во имя) науки;
    in a good cause чтобы сделать добро to make common ~ (with smb.) объединяться (с кем-л.) ради общего дела;
    in the cause of science ради (или во имя) науки;
    in a good cause чтобы сделать добро just ~ судебное дело, имеющее основания main ~ главная причина to make common ~ (with smb.) объединяться (с кем-л.) ради общего дела;
    in the cause of science ради (или во имя) науки;
    in a good cause чтобы сделать добро common: ~ общий;
    common lot общий удел;
    common interests общие интересы;
    by common consent с общего согласия;
    to make common cause действовать сообща ~ юр. дело, процесс;
    to plead a cause защищать дело в суде primary ~ дело первостепенной важности proximate ~ непосредственная причина show ~ представлять обоснования show ~ представлять основания show: ~ проявлять;
    выставлять, демонстрировать;
    to show cause привести оправдание;
    he showed me great kindness он проявил ко мне большое участие ~ дело;
    to support the cause of the workers защищать дело рабочего класса;
    the cause of peace дело мира undefended ~ судебное дело, ведущееся без защиты without due ~ без уважительной причины

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > cause

  • 8 education

    ˌedju:ˈkeɪʃən сущ.
    1) а) образование;
    обучение, подготовка, просвещение( о человеке) to provide an education ≈ давать образование adult education broad education college education compulsory education continuing education elementary education free education further education general education health education higher education in-service education liberal education physical education primary education professional education progressive education secondary education sex education special education trade education university education vocational education Syn: enlightenment, instruction б) дрессировка, обучение ( о животных, птицах)
    2) воспитание, развитие( характера, способностей) Syn: upbringing
    3) культура, образованность образование;
    просвещение - all-round * разностороннее образование - compulsory * обязательное обучение - free * бесплатное обучение - party * партийное просвещение - trade /vacational/ * профессиональное образование /обучение/ - physical * физическое воспитание, физическая подготовка - audio-visual * аудиовизуальное обучение - * through play игровое обучение - by * he is a lawyer по образованию он юрист - he has had very little formal * он не получил систематического образования воспитание - the * of the will воспитание воли - the * of the audience to appreciate modern music воспитание у публики вкуса к современной музыке - an * in dealing with one's fellowmen привитие норм общения с людьми - * for citizenship воспитание гражданина образованность, культура - a man of * образованный /просвещенный, культурный/ человек (редкое) дрессировка животных adult ~ обучение взрослых;
    образование взрослых adult ~ обучение взрослых ~ образование;
    просвещение, обучение;
    all-round education разностороннее образование basic ~ начальное образование basic ~ основное образование;
    основы знаний (в к.-л. области) basic vocational ~ начальное профессиональное образование basic vocational ~ основной курс профессионального образования business ~ коммерческое образование career ~ образование направленное на карьеру classical (commercial, art) ~ классическое (коммерческое, художественное) образование consumer ~ обучение потребителей continuing ~ постоянно продолжающееся образование continuous ~ непрерывное образование distance ~ заочное образование distance ~ заочное обучение education воспитание, развитие (характера, способностей) ~ воспитание ~ дрессировка, обучение (животных) ~ культура, образованность ~ образование, просвещение ~ образование, воспитание ~ образование;
    просвещение, обучение;
    all-round education разностороннее образование ~ образование ~ образованность, культура ~ образованность ~ просвещение Education: Education: State Centre for Aid to ~ Государственный центр по оказанию помощи образованию education: education: tertiary ~ высшее образование ~ and training promoting employment обучение и дополнительная подготовка ~ with production обучение совмещенное с производственным процессом elementary ~ начальное образование family ~ семейное воспитание;
    домашнее образование further ~ дальнейшее образование further: ~ дальнейший;
    добавочный;
    further education дальнейшее образование (исключая университетское) general ~ всеобщее образование health ~ медицинское образование health: ~ attr. гигиенический, санитарный;
    health education санитарное просвещение;
    health bill карантинное свидетельство higher ~ высшее образование higher: higher высший;
    higher education высшее образование informal ~ неформальное образование (вне организационных форм) legal ~ юридическое образование lifelong ~ непрерывное образование lifelong ~ учеба в течение всей жизни, непрерывная учеба nonformal ~ неформальное образование (организованная систематическая учебная деятельность, часто непосредственно связанная с работой, проводимая вне формальной образовательной системы) occupational ~ профессиональное образование out-of-school ~ внешкольное образование permanent ~ непрерывное обучение permanent ~ постоянное образование popular ~ народное образование post-qualifying ~ последипломное образование postsecondary ~ высшее образование;
    обучение после завершения среднего образования (независимо от продолжительности курса или выдаваемого сертификата) primary ~ начальное образование professional ~ профессиональное обучение public ~ народное образование remedial ~ исправительное обучение safety ~ образование в области безопасности труда secondary-level ~ среднее образование education: tertiary ~ высшее образование trade ~ специальное образование university ~ университетское образование vocational ~ профессионально-техническое образование vocational ~ профессиональное образование vocational ~ профессиональное обучение workers ~ рабочее образование;
    подготовка прфсоюзных работников

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > education

  • 9 ancillary

    1. adjective
    2) (subordinate) zweitrangig
    2. noun
    (Brit.) Hilfskraft, die
    * * *
    an·cil·lary
    [ænˈsɪləri, AM ˈæntsəleri]
    1. (additional) zusätzlich; (of secondary importance) zweitrangig
    ▪ to be \ancillary to sth im Vergleich zu etw dat [nur] an zweiter Stelle stehen
    2. attr, inv (duties, equipment) Zusatz-
    \ancillary agreement/obligation LAW Nebenabrede/-pflicht f
    \ancillary industries Zulieferindustrien pl
    \ancillary roads/role Nebenstraßen pl/-rolle f
    \ancillary staff/workers Hilfspersonal nt/-kräfte pl
    * * *
    [n'sIlərɪ]
    adj
    (= subordinate) Neben-; (= auxiliary) Hilfs-

    ancillary staff/workers — Hilfskräfte pl

    * * *
    ancillary [ænˈsılərı; US ˈænsəˌleriː]
    A adj
    a) Neben…:
    ancillary accommodation Nebenräume pl
    b) Hilfs…:
    be ancillary to Hilfsdienste leisten für;
    ancillary measure begleitende Maßnahme;
    ancillary worker Hilfskraft f
    B s
    1. Hilfsmittel n
    2. Br Hilfskraft f
    * * *
    1. adjective
    2) (subordinate) zweitrangig
    2. noun
    (Brit.) Hilfskraft, die
    * * *
    adj.
    Hilfs- präfix
    Neben- präfix
    Zusatz- präfix
    untergeordnet adj.

    English-german dictionary > ancillary

  • 10 right

    ̈ɪraɪt I
    1. сущ.
    1) право;
    справедливое требование( to - на что-л.) ;
    привилегия to abdicate, relinquish, renounce, sign away, waive a right ≈ отказываться от права to achieve, gain a right ≈ приобретать право to achieve full civil rights ≈ получать все права гражданина to assert, claim a right ≈ отстаивать, защищать право to deny (smb.) a right ≈ отнимать( у кого-л.) право, отказать кому-л. в праве to enjoy, exercise a right ≈ пользоваться правом to have a right ≈ иметь право to protect, safeguard smb.'s rights ≈ защищать чьи-л. права patients' rights ≈ права пациента political rights ≈ политические права property rights ≈ права собственности intellectual property rights ≈ авторские права veterans' rights ≈ права ветеранов voting rights ≈ право голоса women's rights ≈ права женщин the right of a free press ≈ свобода прессы the right of free speech ≈ свобода слова the right to privacy ≈ право на уединение, на частную жизнь divine right exclusive right grazing right inalienable right inherent right legal right natural right second serial right sole right vested right civil rights conjugal rights consumers' rights film rights human rights individual rights mineral rights Syn: prerogative
    1., privilege
    1., freedom
    2) правота;
    справедливость;
    правильность;
    (часто во фразе:) do smb. right ≈ отдавать кому-л. должное, справедливость Syn: justice, correctness
    3) мн. права (на использование чего-л.)
    4) обыкн. мн. действительность, истинное положение вещей
    5) мн. порядок ∙ by right or wrong
    2. прил.
    1) правый, правильный, справедливый, верный а) (о поведении, поступках, высказываниях и т. п.) You were right to refuse. ≈ Вы правильно сделали, что отказались. Always do what is right and honourable. ≈ Всегда совершай только правильные и честные поступки. right you are! б) (о положении дел) What is the right time? ≈ Каково точное время? put right ∙ Syn: true
    1., correct
    1., accurate Ant: wrong
    2.
    2) подходящий, надлежащий;
    уместный;
    именно тот, который нужен Are we on the right road? ≈ Мы по той дороге едем? He is the right man for the job. ≈ Для этой работы он подходящая кандидатура. Syn: suitable, fitting
    2., proper
    1., appropriate
    1.
    3) в хорошем или нормальном состоянии;
    здоровый Do you fell all right? ≈ Вы нормально себя чувствуете. not right in the head right as rain Syn: sound II
    1., sane
    4) прямой (градусная мера которого 90 градусов - об угле) at the right angle at a right angle to
    3. нареч.
    1) правильно, верно;
    справедливо Have I guess right or wrong? ≈ Я угадал или нет? if I remember right ≈ если память мне не изменяет Syn: justly, correctly Ant: wrong
    3.
    2) надлежащим образом;
    как следует Nothing seems to go right with him. ≈ Он никогда ничего не может нормально сделать. Syn: properly
    3) прямо, по прямой линии Syn: straight
    2., directly
    1.
    4) точно, как раз The wind was right in our faces. ≈ Ветер дул прямо нам в лицо. right here right now right away right off
    5) полностью, совершенно The pear was rotten right through. ≈ Груша была целиком сгнившей. Syn: completely
    6) очень we were right glad to hear that... ≈ мы были очень рады услышать, что... Syn: very
    2. ∙ right off the bat come right in
    4. гл.
    1) выпрямлять(ся) ;
    исправлять(ся) right oneself right a wrong
    2) защищать права II
    1. сущ.
    1) правая сторона
    2) (the Rights) мн.;
    коллект. полит. правые the extreme, far rights ≈ крайне правые
    2. прил.
    1) правый right hand ≈ правая рука Ant: left I
    1.
    2) полит. правый, реакционный Ant: left I
    1.
    3) лицевой, правый ( о стороне материала) Syn: wrong
    2.
    3. нареч. направо right and left right turn! right face! правильность, правота, справедливость - by * or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами - to be in the * быть правым - to defend the * защищать справедливость /правое дело/ - to know the difference between * and wrong знать, что правильно и что неправильно;
    отличать белое от черного - to do smb. * отдавать кому-л. должное;
    поступать с кем-л. справедливо право;
    привилегия - civil *s гражданские права - fundamental *s основные права - human *s права человека - natural *s of man естественные права человека - treaty *s договорные права - * of action (юридическое) право на иск - * to work право на труд - *s and duties права и обязанности - * of legation( дипломатическое) право посольства;
    право посылать дипломатическое представительство - * of passage право проезда, прохода и т. п. - * of common право на совместное /общее/ пользование( чем-л.) ;
    общее /совместное/ право (на что-л.) - * of war (юридическое) право войны, право обращения к войне - to claim a /one's/ * предъявить претензию( на что-л.) ;
    требовать своего, требовать причитающегося по праву - as of * как полагающийся по праву;
    как само собой разумеющийся - to be member as of * быть автоматически членом (организации) - pensions should be given as of * пенсии должны назначаться как нечто полагающееся по праву - in one's own * (юридическое) в своем праве;
    по себе;
    сам по себе, независимо от других людей или обстоятельств - a peeress in her own * пэресса в своем праве;
    женщина-пэр - a queen in her own * царствующая королева, королева по себе (в отличие от жены короля) - Marie Curie was a great scientist in her own * Мария Кюри и сама была выдающимся ученым - by * of по праву (чего-л.) - by *(s) по праву, справедливо - the property is not mine by * это имущество не принадлежит мне по праву pl право на разработку или эксплуатацию чего-л. - mineral *s право на разработку недр - fishing *s право на рыбную ловлю право на использование произведения искусства - film *s of the novel право на экранизацию романа - stage * право на постановку пьесы обыкн. pl действительные факты, истинное положение вещей - the *s (and wrongs) of a case состояние дела pl порядок - to bring /to set, to put/ to *s приводить в порядок /в должное состояние/;
    наводить порядок;
    восстановить силы, вылечить - he set the boy to *s and showed him where his duty lay он разъяснил юноше его заблуждения и указал ему на его истинные обязанности - to be to *s быть в порядке правый, справедливый - to be * быть правым - to do the * thing by smb. справедливо поступить с кем-л. - to do what is * правильно поступить;
    сделать то, что следует - it would be only * to tell you было бы только справедливо сказать вам - it is not * to tell lies лгать нехорошо верный, правильный - the * answer верный /правильный/ ответ - * use of words правильное употребление слов - * account of the matter правильное изложение дела - to get smth. * прекрасно понять что-л., быть /стать/ совершенно ясным (для кого-л.) - to get it * понять правильно - that's * верно, совершенно справедливо, правильно - * you are! верно!, ваша правда!;
    идет!, есть такое дело! - is that the * address? это правильный адрес? - can you tell me the * time? скажите, пожалуйста, точно, который сейчас час? надлежащий;
    подходящий, уместный - the * size нужный размер - just the * colour как раз подходящий цвет - the * man in the * place человек на своем месте, подходящий для данного дела человек - the * house тот самый дом( который нужен) - not the * Mr. Smith не тот г-н Смит (а другой) - he will always find the * thing to say он всегда говорит подходящие слова /кстати;
    то, что следует/ - he understood that it was not the * thing to do он понял, что этого не следовало делать здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный - to feel all * хорошо себя чувствовать - to be all * быть в порядке;
    чувствовать себя хорошо - not * in the head ненормальный, безумный - in one's * mind в здравом уме;
    нормальный - to put /to set/ smth. * исправить /поправить/ что-л. - to set things * уладить дела - to set oneself * with smb. оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах - this medicine will soon put you * от этого лекарства вы скоро поправитесь - a good night's rest will set you * за ночь вы отдохнете как следует и снова будете чувствовать себя хорошо (часто with) наиболее удобный, предпочтительный - if it is all * with you если это вас устраивает - are you all * now? удобно ли вам теперь? - is it all * for me to come this evening? вы не возражаете, если я приду сегодня вечером? - it is all * with him он согласен, он не против этого прямой (о линии, угле) лицевой, правый (о стороне материи) - to iron the * side гладить с лица - * side up налицо, лицевой стороной /лицом/ кверху( редкое) праведный часто (ироничное) занимающий положение в обществе - he knows all the * people он знает всех нужных людей > Miss R. будущая жена;
    суженая > Mr. R. будущий муж;
    суженый > on the * side of 40 моложе 40 лет > * as rain /as a trivet/ в хорошем состоянии, в полном порядке;
    совершенно здоров;
    в добром здравии, цел и невредим справедливо - to act * действовать /поступать/ справедливо - to live * жить честно - it serves him * поделом ему, так ему и надо верно, правильно - about * более или менее правильно /достаточно/ - to guess * догадаться, отгадать - to get /to do/ a sum * правильно решить пример надлежащим образом - to do a thing * делать что-л. как следует - do it * or not at all делайте это как следует или не беритесь вовсе - nothing goes * with him у него все идет не так точно, как раз - * in the middle как раз /точно/ в середине - * at the moment как раз в тот самый момент прямо - * opposite прямо напротив - * after lunch сразу после завтрака - to go * ahead идти прямо вперед - the wind was * behind us ветер дул нам прямо в спину - curtains * to the floor шторы до самого пола - come * in! (американизм) входите (пожалуйста) ! (эмоционально-усилительно) совершенно, полностью - * to the end до самого конца - rotten * through прогнивший насквозь - to turn * round повернуться кругом, сделать полный поворот - to sink * to the bottom погрузиться на самое дно - veranda * round the house веранда вокруг всего дома - he felt * at home он чувствовал себя совсем как дома (устаревшее) очень - a * pleasant day прекрасный /очень приятный/ день - to know * well очень хорошо знать (что-л.) - a * cunning worker очень искусный работник - to feast * royally пировать совсем по-царски - I was * glad to hear it я был искренне рад услышать это > * here как раз здесь;
    в эту минуту > * now в этот момент, сейчас, сегодня же, сразу > * away, (американизм) * off сразу, немедленно > let's go * away or we'll be late пойдем сейчас же, иначе мы опоздаем > I'll do it * я сразу же сделаю это > to put /to set/ oneself * with smb. снискать чью-л. благосклонность;
    оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах;
    помириться с кем-л. > to put smb. * with smb. оправдать кого-л. в чьих-л. глазах > * off the boat (американизм) с места в карьер, сразу же > R. Reverend Его преосвященство;
    епископ > R. Honourable достопочтенный( титулование пэров, министров и т. п.) исправлять;
    восстанавливать справедливость - to * injustice устранять несправедливость - to * an error исправить ошибку - to * a wrong восстановить справедливость защищать права - to * the oppressed защищать права угнетенных исправлять (ошибки и т. п.) - that is a fault that will * itself это само собой исправится выпрямлять - to * a boat выравнивать лодку - to * the helm (морское) поставить руль прямо - to * oneself выпрямляться;
    реабилитировать себя - the driver quickly *ed the car after it skidded водитель быстро справился с машиной, когда ее занесло выпрямляться приводить в порядок - to * a room убирать комнату, наводить порядок в комнате компенсировать( что-л.), возмещать (убытки) правая сторона - to turn to the * повернуть направо - to keep to the * держаться правой стороны - to sit on the * of the host сидеть направо /по правую руку/ от хозяина (военное) правый фланг - our troops attacked the enemy's * наши войска атаковали правый фланг противника (the R.) (собирательнле) (политика) правая партия, правые консерваторы удар правой рукой;
    правая рука (бокс) - he got in one with his * он нанес удар правой (рукой) - he gave him a hard * on the jaw правой рукой он нанес ему сильный удар в челюсть правая перчатка, правый ботинок и т. п. правый - * hand правая рука - to the * hand направо - on the * hand справа - * turn правый поворот;
    поворот направо - * driving езда по правой стороне;
    правостороннее движение - * back правый защитник (футбол) - * forward( спортивное) правый нападающий - * man (военное) правофланговый( часто R.) (политика) правый, реакционный - the * wing of a party правое крыло партии > to put one's * hand to the work работать энергично направо - he looked neither * nor left он не посмотрел ни вправо, ни влево - * step! шаг вправо! (команда) - * face /turn/! направо!( команда) - * about face! (через правое плечо) кругом! (команда) - eyes *! равнение направо! (команда) > * and left справа и слева;
    везде, где попало > he owes money * and left он кругом в долгу acknowledge a ~ признавать право acquire a ~ получать право acquired ~ юр. полученное право acquired ~ юр. приобретенное право adverse ~ противоположное право all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке all ~ вполне удовлетворительно, приемлемо;
    как нужно all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? all ~ хорошо!, ладно!, согласен! appendant ~ дополнительное право ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо artist's ~ право на художественную собственность asylum ~ право убежища ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом bargaining ~ право ведения переговоров to be all ~ быть в порядке to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами beneficial ~ право получения доходов с доверительной собственности beneficial ~ право пользования собственностью для извлечения выгоды birth ~ право первородства birth ~ право по рождению bonus ~ право на получение льгот ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами civil ~ гражданское право ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите consequential ~ право, вытекающее из другого права constitutional ~ конституционное право contractual ~ право, вытекающее из контракта conversion ~ право конверсии corporeal ~ вещное право create a ~ создавать право diffusion ~ право распространения ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав drawing ~ право жеребьевки drawing ~ право заимствования equal ~ равноправный all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке exclusive ~ исключительное право extinguishing a ~ аннулирование права first mortgage ~ право первой закладной flush ~ вчт. выровненное правое поле full legal ~ законное право собственности, соединенное с фактическим владением fundamental ~ основное право ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав honorary ~ почетное право human ~ права человека human ~ право человека ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет in one's own ~ по праву (благодаря титулу, образованию и т. п.) ;
    to reserve the right оставлять за собой право inalienable ~ неотъемлемое право incorporeal ~ право требования;
    право, могущее быть основанием для иска indefeasible ~ неотъемлемое право indisputable ~ неоспоримое право individual ~ частное право all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? landing ~ право на высадку legal ~ субъективное право, основанное на нормах общего права licensing ~ лицензионное право licensing ~ разрешительное право maintenance of acquired ~s сохранение приобретенных прав (на пению, другие виды социального обеспечения) managerial ~ право руководителя marital ~ супружеское право;
    право, возникающее в связи с вступлением в брак marketing ~s права на продажу membership ~ право членства minority ~ право меньшинства moral ~ моральное право natural ~ естественное право the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз notification ~ право уведомления to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ore mining ~ право на горнорудные разработки partial ~ неполное право participation ~ право на участие в прибылях partnership ~ право на участие pension ~ право на получение пенсии personal ~ личное право political ~ политическое право possessory ~ право собственности preemption ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive subscription ~ преимущественное право на покупку акций по подписке preferential subscription ~ преимущественное право подписки на акции prescriptive ~ право, основанное на давности prior ~ преимущественное право priority ~ преимущественное право proprietary ~ вещное право proprietary ~ право собственности protective ~ защитительное право prove one's ~ доказывать право publishing ~ право на издание ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо reemployment ~ право на получение нового места работы в случае увольнения reporting ~ право представления отчета restricted voting ~ ограниченное право голоса reversionary ~ возвратное право reversionary ~ право на обратный переход имущества right в хорошем состоянии ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ выпрямлять(ся) ;
    исправлять(ся) ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ именно тот, который нужен (или имеется в виду) ;
    подходящий, надлежащий;
    уместный ~ исправный ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела ~ лицевой, правый (о стороне материала) ~ надлежащий ~ надлежащим или должным образом ~ направо ~ нужный ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ подходящий ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ правильный ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ право (обычно в субъективном смысле) ~ право ~ правомерный, правый, справедливый, правильный, надлежащий ~ правомерный ~ правопритязание ~ (the Rights) pl собир. полит. правые ~ полит. правый, реакционный ~ правый ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым ~ правый ~ привилегия ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ справедливость ~ справедливый ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду ~ after сразу после ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn( или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ and left направо и налево ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите ~ here как раз здесь ~ in personam обязательственное право ~ in personam относительное право ~ in personam право обязательственного характера ~ in rem абсолютное право ~ in rem вещное право ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз ~ of abandonment право отказа ~ of abode право на жилище ~ of accrual право увеличения доли ~ of action право на иск ~ of action право предъявления иска ~ of administration and disposal of property право распоряжения и передачи имущества ~ of all workers to a fair remuneration право всех рабочих на справедливое вознаграждение за труд;
    это понятие шире, чем концепция заработной платы и включает основную или минимальную зарплату (и любые другие прямые или косвенные выплаты деньгами и ~ of appointment право назначения ~ of assembly право собраний ~ of audience право аудиенции ~ of cancellation право аннулирования ~ of cancellation право отмены ~ of cancellation право расторжения контракта ~ of challenge право отвода присяжного заседателя ~ of chastisement право наказания ~ of claim право заявлять претензию ~ of complaint право подавать иск ~ of consultation право давать консультацию ~ of deduction право удержания ~ of deposit право депонирования ~ of detention право задержания ~ of disposal право передачи ~ of disposal право распоряжения ~ of exchange право обмена ~ of execution право оформления ~ of execution право приведения в исполнение ~ of exploitation пат. право использования ~ of first refusal право преимущественной покупки ~ of free lodging право бесплатного хранения ~ of inheritance право наследования ~ of intervention право вступления в процесс ~ of intervention право на вмешательство ~ of litigant to be present in court право тяжущейся стороны присутствовать в суде ~ of notification право уведомления ~ of occupation право владения ~ of occupation право завладения ~ of occupation of the matrimonial home право завладения домом супруга ~ of option бирж. право опциона ~ of option бирж. право сделки с премией ~ of ownership право собственности ~ of passage право проезда, прохода ~ of passage право прохода судов ~ of pledge право отдавать в залог ~ of possession право владения ~ of preemption преимущественное право покупки ~ of primogeniture насл. право первородства ~ of priority преимущественное право ~ of property право собственности ~ of recourse право оборота ~ of recourse право регресса ~ of redemption право возвращения ~ of redemption право выкупа заложенного имущества ~ of redemption право изъятия из обращения ~ of redemption право погашения ~ of regress право регресса ~ of removal орг.бизн. право отстранения от должности ~ of reply право ответа истца на возражения по иску ~ of reproduction право воспроизведения ~ of repurchase право выкупа ~ of repurchase право перекупки ~ of rescission право аннулирования ~ of rescission право расторжения ~ of residence право пребывания ~ of residence право проживания ~ of retainer право удержания ~ of retention право сохранения ~ of retention право удержания ~ of review право пересмотра ~ of review право проверки ~ of search право обыска search: ~ обыск;
    right of search юр. право обыска судов ~ of setoff право судебного зачета ~ of stoppage in transit право задержания в пути ~ of stoppage in transit право остановки в пути ~ of subscription право подписки ~ of succession право наследования ~ of surrender право отказа ~ of surrender право признания себя несостоятельным должником ~ of surrender право уступки ~ of survivorship право наследования, возникшее в результате смерти одного или нескольких наследников ~ of termination право прекращения действия ~ of testation право представлять доказательства ~ of use право использования ~ of use право пользования ~ of use право применения ~ of use and consumption право пользования и потребления ~ of veto право вето ~ of voting право голосования ~ of way полоса отчуждения ~ of way право проезда ~ of way право прохода, проезда ~ of way право прохода ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to ~ oneself выпрямляться to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать договор ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать соглашение ~ to be consulted право на получение консультации ~ to be informed право на получение информации ~ to begin восстанавливать исходное юридическое положение ~ to benefits право на льготы ~ to bind the company право связать компанию договором ~ to call for repayment право требовать возмещения ~ to claim for damages право предъявлять иск за нанесенный ущерб ~ to collect firewood право заготавливать дрова ~ to compensation право на возмещение ~ to compensation право на компенсацию ~ to cut turf право резать торф ~ to decide право принимать решения ~ to dispose of shares право изымать акции ~ to dividend право на получение дивиденда ~ to know право быть в курсе дел ~ to know право на информацию ~ to negotiate право вести переговоры ~ to obtain satisfaction право получать встречное удовлетворение ~ to organize право создавать организацию ~ to pay off a creditor право полностью расплатиться с кредитором ~ to petition the Community institutions право обращаться с заявлениями в учреждения Европейского экономического сообщества ~ to purchase shares право приобретать акции ~ to put questions право обращаться с вопросами ~ to put questions to minister право обращаться с вопросами к министру ~ to recovery of property право на возвращение имущества ~ to restitution право реституции ~ to retain the necessaries of life право сохранять личное имущество ~ to return право возврата ~ to share in any winding up surplus право на долю прибыли при ликвидации фирмы ~ to speak право на высказывание speak: right to ~ право говорить ~ to stand for election право выдвигать кандидатуру для избрания ~ to strike право на забастовку ~ to take industrial action право на проведение производственных мероприятий ~ to take proceedings право вести судебное разбирательство ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ to unionize право объединяться в профсоюз ~ to unobstructed view право на свободный осмотр места преступления ~ to use beach право выхода на берег ~ to vote право на голосование ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn (или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ you are! разг. верно!, ваша правда ~ you are! разг. идет!, есть такое дело! ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела sales ~ право продажи secondary ~ дополнительное право selling ~ право продажи to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) помириться (с кем-л.) to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) снискать (чью-л.) благосклонность ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами share ~ право на акции social ~s социальные права sole ~ исключительное право;
    монопольное право sole selling ~ исключительное право на продажу;
    монопольное право на продажу sovereign ~ суверенное право special ~ специальное право stage ~ исключительное право театра на постановку пьесы stock ~ право на покупку некоторого числа акций компании по фиксированной цене stockholders' preemptive ~ преимущественное право акционера subscription ~ право подписки на акции succession ~ право наследования supervisory ~ право контроля taxation ~ право взимания налогов ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) transfer a ~ передавать право under a ~ in international law в соответствии с нормами международного права union ~ право на создание профессионального союза user ~ право пользователя usufructuary ~ право на узуфрукт veto ~ право вето visiting ~s право посещения (ребенка) voting ~ право голоса voting ~ право участия в голосовании;
    право голоса

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > right

  • 11 SCW

    1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Single- Chromosome Workshop
    4) Химия: Super- Critical Water
    6) Транспорт: South Chicago Wheelmen
    9) Образование: Syracuse Cultural Workers
    10) Химическое оружие: Secondary cooling water
    12) Правительство: South Central Wisconsin, Sun City West
    13) Аэропорты: Syktyvkar, Russia

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > SCW

  • 12 ancillary

    tr[æn'sɪlərɪ]
    1 auxiliar
    adj.
    • ancilar adj.
    • auxiliar adj.
    • subordinado, -a adj.
    'ænsəleri, æn'sɪləri
    adjective (frml)
    a) ( supplementary) <service/worker> auxiliar
    b) ( subordinate) < road> secundario
    [æn'sɪlǝrɪ]
    ADJ
    1) (=secondary) subordinado (to a)
    2) (=supporting) [staff, workers] auxiliar; [services] complementario
    3) (=additional) [charges, costs] adicional
    * * *
    ['ænsəleri, æn'sɪləri]
    adjective (frml)
    a) ( supplementary) <service/worker> auxiliar
    b) ( subordinate) < road> secundario

    English-spanish dictionary > ancillary

  • 13 ancillary

    an·cil·lary [ænʼsɪləri, Am ʼæntsəleri] adj
    1) ( additional) zusätzlich;
    ( of secondary importance) zweitrangig;
    to be \ancillary to sth im Vergleich zu etw dat [nur] an zweiter Stelle stehen
    2) attr, inv (duties, equipment) Zusatz-;
    \ancillary industries Zulieferindustrien fpl;
    \ancillary roads/ role Nebenstraßen fpl /-rolle f;
    \ancillary staff/ workers Hilfspersonal nt /-kräfte fpl

    English-German students dictionary > ancillary

  • 14 centre

    ['sentə] 1. сущ.; амер. center
    1) центр, середина чего-л.; центральная точка, ключевой момент (чего-л.)
    - centre of buoyancy
    - centre of gravity
    - centre of impact
    Syn:
    Ant:
    2) часть ( города), район

    amusement centre — центр развлечений, культурный центр ( города)

    business / commercial centre — деловой центр, район

    This is the business centre of the capital and is no longer residential. — Теперь это уже не жилой, а деловой район столицы.

    business centre — деловой центр, бизнес-центр

    shopping centre — торговый центр / комплекс

    Business travellers will be satisfied by the new business centre of the hotel. — Бизнесмены, приезжающие сюда в командировку, останутся довольны новым деловым центром, расположенным в отеле.

    - birthing centre
    - childbearing centre
    - convention centre
    - fashion centre
    - financial centre
    - maternity consulting centre
    - secondary centre
    - medical centre
    - tertiary medical centre
    4) ось; стержень

    centre of a wheel / centre boss — ступица колеса

    5) тех. угольник, шаблон
    6) спорт. центральный игрок (нападающий, защитник); центровой, центр-форвард
    2. гл.; амер. center
    1) ( centre in) сосредоточиваться, концентрироваться на чём-л.

    His life's work centred in the search for a cure for the terrible disease. — Он всю жизнь работал над созданием лекарства от этой страшной болезни.

    All our interest centres in our family. — Все наши интересы сосредоточены на семье.

    Syn:
    focus 2.
    2) (centre (up)on, centre (a)round) сосредоточиваться, скапливаться, собираться вокруг чего-л. / кого-л.

    The village centred on its market square. — Центром деревни был рынок.

    The children always centred round the teacher at story time. — Когда учитель рассказывал истории, дети собирались вокруг него в кружок.

    The conversation centred on the election. — Разговор шёл о выборах.

    The workers' demands centred around pay and conditions. — В основном, рабочие выступали за повышение заработной платы и улучшения условий труда.

    The action of the play centres on the struggle between the two women. — Действие пьесы сосредоточено на противостоянии двух женщин.

    4) уст. согласиться, прийти к соглашению; сойтись во взглядах

    I wondered how they could all centre upon the same proposal. (P. Heylin, Cosmography, 1622-1662) — Я не мог понять, как они все смогли согласиться на одно и то же предложение.

    5) тех. центрировать, подгонять; отмечать кернером
    •

    Англо-русский современный словарь > centre

  • 15 migration

    n

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > migration

  • 16 cause

    I [kɔːz] n
    1) причина, основание, источник

    There is no cause for alarm. — Нет причин для беспокойства. /Нет оснований для тревоги.

    - real cause
    - immediate cause
    - leading cause
    - primary cause
    - secondary cause
    - ultimate cause
    - give no cause for complaint
    2) дело; a (the) common (just) cause общее (справедливое) дело
    - fight for the common cause
    - serve a just cause
    - support the cause of the workers
    - make common cause with smb     II [kɔːz] v
    вызывать, причинять, наносить

    The accident was caused by carelessness. — Несчастный случай произошел в результате халатности

    - cause smth
    - cause damage
    - cause losses
    - cause a fire
    - cause a sensation
    - cause smb smth
    - cause smb a lot of trouble

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > cause

  • 17 ancillary

    1. n книжн. дополнение, дополнительная или вспомогательная часть, деталь
    2. n книжн. помощник; ассистент
    3. a книжн. подчинённый, вспомогательный, подсобный

    ancillary act — дополнительный, вспомогательный акт

    4. a книжн. дополнительный

    ancillary evidence is needed — нужны новые доказательства; нужно подтверждение этих показаний

    5. a книжн. арх. раболепный, прислужнический
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. additional (adj.) accessory; additional; adjuvant; appurtenant; assisting; auxiliary; contributory; helping; secondary; subordinate; subservient; subsidiary; supplementary
    2. concomitant (adj.) accompanying; attendant; attending; coincident; collateral; concomitant; incident; satellite
    Антонимический ряд:

    English-Russian base dictionary > ancillary

  • 18 cause

    1. n причина, основание

    root cause — основная причина, первопричина

    2. n мотив, повод, причина

    just cause — убедительный мотив; полное основание, полное право

    without cause — без повода, без оснований, без причин; беспричинно

    3. n дело; общее дело
    4. n юр. судебное дело, процесс

    to plead a cause — вести процесс, защищать дело в суде

    5. n юр. мотивы или соображения, высказываемые стороной

    to show cause — привести основания ; представить доводы

    impulsive cause — побудительная причина, побудительный мотив

    6. v быть причиной, служить поводом; вызывать; причинять

    what caused his death? — от чего он умер?, что было причиной его смерти?

    7. v заставлять; побуждать; добиваться
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. aspiration (noun) aspiration; conviction; crusade
    2. basis (noun) basis; foundation; grounds; origin; rationale; root; source
    3. call (noun) call; justification; necessity; obligation; occasion
    4. motive (noun) consideration; motive; spring
    5. reason (noun) aim; antecedent; determinant; end; goal; ground; motivation; object; objective; purpose; reason; subject
    6. suit (noun) action; case; lawsuit; suit
    7. originate (verb) be behind; create; engender; give rise to; originate
    8. produce (verb) breed; bring about; draw on; effect; effectuate; generate; get up; hatch; incite; induce; lead to; make; muster up; occasion; precipitate; procure; produce; prompt; provoke; raise; result in; secure; spawn; stir; touch off; work; work up
    Антонимический ряд:
    deter; development; effect; end; fruit; issue; outcome; outgrowth; prevent; product; production; result

    English-Russian base dictionary > cause

  • 19 general

    general ['dʒenərəl]
    (a) (common) général;
    ∎ as a general rule en règle générale, en général;
    ∎ in general terms en termes généraux;
    ∎ in the general interest dans l'intérêt de tous;
    ∎ the general feeling was that he should have won le sentiment général était qu'il aurait dû gagner;
    ∎ there was a general movement to leave the room la plupart des gens se sont levés pour sortir
    (b) (approximate) général;
    ∎ a general resemblance une vague ressemblance;
    ∎ to go in the general direction of sth se diriger plus ou moins vers qch;
    ∎ their house is over in that general direction leur maison se trouve vers là-bas
    (c) (widespread) général, répandu;
    ∎ a general opinion une opinion générale ou répandue;
    ∎ to be in general use être d'usage courant ou répandu;
    ∎ to come into general use se généraliser;
    ∎ this word is no longer in general use ce mot est tombé en désuétude;
    ∎ there is general agreement on the matter il y a consensus sur la question;
    ∎ this kind of attitude is fairly general in Europe ce genre d'attitude est assez répandu en Europe;
    ∎ the rain has been pretty general il a plu un peu partout
    (d) (overall → outline, plan, impression) d'ensemble;
    ∎ the general effect is quite pleasing le résultat général est assez agréable;
    ∎ I get the general idea je vois en gros;
    ∎ he gave her a general idea or outline of his work il lui a décrit son travail dans les grandes lignes;
    ∎ the general tone of her remarks was that… ce qui ressortait de ses remarques c'est que…;
    ∎ he made himself a general nuisance il a été embêtant à tout point de vue
    ∎ this book is for the general reader ce livre est destiné au lecteur moyen;
    ∎ the general public le grand public
    2 noun
    ∎ to go from the general to the particular aller du général au particulier
    (b) Military général m
    (c) (domestic servant) bonne f à tout faire
    en général
    ►► Banking general account manager chargé(e) m,f de clientèle grand public;
    general accounts comptabilité f générale;
    American General Accounting Office = Cour des comptes américaine;
    Finance & Commerce general and administrative expenses frais mpl généraux et frais de gestion;
    Commerce general agent agent m d'affaires;
    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade accord m général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce;
    Medicine general anaesthetic anesthésie f générale;
    General Assembly assemblée f générale;
    Australian Cinema general (audience) = tous publics;
    Insurance general average avarie f commune;
    Commerce general business (on agenda) questions fpl diverses;
    formerly School General Certificate of Education = certificat de fin d'études secondaires en deux étapes (O level et A level) dont la première est aujourd'hui remplacée par le GCSE;
    School General Certificate of Secondary Education = premier examen de fin de scolarité en Grande-Bretagne; see also GCSE ;
    American general dealer bazar m;
    University general degree = licence comportant plusieurs matières;
    American general delivery poste f restante;
    general election élections fpl législatives;
    British General Electric Company = société britannique fabriquant des produits électriques, électroniques et de télécommunications;
    American School general equivalency diploma = aux États-Unis, diplôme d'études secondaires pour adultes souvent obtenu par correspondance;
    Accountancy & Finance general expenses frais mpl généraux;
    general headquarters (grand) quartier m général;
    general hospital centre m hospitalier;
    general knowledge culture f générale;
    Accountancy general ledger grand-livre m;
    Law general lien privilège m général;
    general management committee comité m de direction;
    general manager directeur(trice) m,f général(e);
    British General Medical Council ≃ conseil m de l'ordre des médecins;
    general meeting assemblée f générale;
    British General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union = important syndicat britannique;
    British General and Municipal Workers' Union = syndicat britannique des employés des collectivités locales;
    British School General National Vocational Qualification = formation professionnelle sur deux ans que l'on peut suivre à partir de seize ans;
    Finance general obligation bond emprunt m de collectivité locale;
    general officer général m en chef; Accountancy &
    Finance British general overheads, American general overhead frais mpl d'administration générale;
    General Post Office (in Britain) = titre officiel de la Poste britannique avant 1969; (in US) = les services postaux américains;
    general practice médecine f générale;
    general practitioner médecin m généraliste, omnipraticien(enne) m,f;
    Finance general price level niveau m général des prix;
    general secretary (of trade union, political party) secrétaire mf général(e);
    general staff état-major m;
    general store bazar m;
    general strike grève f générale;
    the General Strike = la grève de mai 1926 en Grande-Bretagne, lancée par les syndicats par solidarité avec les mineurs;
    School General Studies ≃ cours m de culture générale;
    General Synod = le Synode général de l'Église anglicane;
    Finance general wage level niveau m général des salaires

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > general

  • 20 education

    [ˌedju:ˈkeɪʃən]
    adult education обучение взрослых; образование взрослых adult education обучение взрослых education образование; просвещение, обучение; all-round education разностороннее образование basic education начальное образование basic education основное образование; основы знаний (в к.-л. области) basic vocational education начальное профессиональное образование basic vocational education основной курс профессионального образования business education коммерческое образование career education образование направленное на карьеру classical (commercial, art) education классическое (коммерческое, художественное) образование consumer education обучение потребителей continuing education постоянно продолжающееся образование continuous education непрерывное образование distance education заочное образование distance education заочное обучение education воспитание, развитие (характера, способностей) education воспитание education дрессировка, обучение (животных) education культура, образованность education образование, просвещение education образование, воспитание education образование; просвещение, обучение; all-round education разностороннее образование education образование education образованность, культура education образованность education просвещение Education: Education: State Centre for Aid to education Государственный центр по оказанию помощи образованию education: education: tertiary education высшее образование education and training promoting employment обучение и дополнительная подготовка education with production обучение совмещенное с производственным процессом elementary education начальное образование family education семейное воспитание; домашнее образование further education дальнейшее образование further: education дальнейший; добавочный; further education дальнейшее образование (исключая университетское) general education всеобщее образование health education медицинское образование health: education attr. гигиенический, санитарный; health education санитарное просвещение; health bill карантинное свидетельство higher education высшее образование higher: higher высший; higher education высшее образование informal education неформальное образование (вне организационных форм) legal education юридическое образование lifelong education непрерывное образование lifelong education учеба в течение всей жизни, непрерывная учеба nonformal education неформальное образование (организованная систематическая учебная деятельность, часто непосредственно связанная с работой, проводимая вне формальной образовательной системы) occupational education профессиональное образование out-of-school education внешкольное образование permanent education непрерывное обучение permanent education постоянное образование popular education народное образование post-qualifying education последипломное образование postsecondary education высшее образование; обучение после завершения среднего образования (независимо от продолжительности курса или выдаваемого сертификата) primary education начальное образование professional education профессиональное обучение public education народное образование remedial education исправительное обучение safety education образование в области безопасности труда secondary-level education среднее образование education: tertiary education высшее образование trade education специальное образование university education университетское образование vocational education профессионально-техническое образование vocational education профессиональное образование vocational education профессиональное обучение workers education рабочее образование; подготовка прфсоюзных работников

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