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take extraordinary measures

Толкование Перевод

1 take extraordinary measures

вживати (застосовувати) надзвичайні заходи

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > take extraordinary measures
2 take extraordinary security measures

Безопасность: предпринимать чрезвычайные меры безопасности (англ. цитата заимствована из статьи в газете Wall Street Journal)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > take extraordinary security measures
3 take

1) улов

2) заволодівати; затримувати, заарештовувати; обертати у власність

•

take a blood sample from the suspect — брати пробу на аналіз крові у підозрюваного

take a decision by majority vote — = take a decision by majority

take a heavy toll in human life — забирати багато людських життів ( про вибух тощо)

take a specimen of blood breath — = take a specimen of blood

take a statement into consideration — приймати заяву до відома ( або на розгляд)

take a urine sample from the suspect — брати пробу на аналіз сечі у підозрюваного

take a wax impression of one's teeth — робити відбиток зубів ( злочинця)

take acknowledgement acknowledgment — = take acknowledgement

take an unqualified oath of allegiance — складати безумовну клятву вірності

take effect by a mere fact of publication — набувати чинності відразу після опублікування

take justice into one's own hands — брати справу правосуддя в свої руки

take matters into one's own hands — брати справи в свої руки

take over the President's duties — брати на себе обов'язки президента

take part in an election campaign — = take part in an electoral campaign брати участь у передвиборній кампанії

take part in an electoral campaign — = take part in an election campaign

take precedence over Soviet law — бути вищими за закони СРСР ( про закони союзної республіки)

take review against a judgement — = take review against a judgment оскаржувати рішення суду

take the benefit of the bankrupt — оголошувати себе банкрутом

take the case under one's control — = take the case under control

take the form of a joint declaration — мати форму спільної декларації

take the investigation under personal control — = take the investigation under one's personal control брати розслідування під особистий контроль

take the investigation under one's personal control — = take the investigation under personal control

take the law into one's own hands — брати закон в свої руки; розправлятися без суду з кимсь

take the stand in one's own defence — = take the stand in one's own defense виступати на свій захист, давати свідчення на власний захист

take the stand in one's own defense — = take the stand in one's own defence

- take a binding decision
- take a blood sample
- take a bribe
- take a brief
- take a case
- take a case to court
- take a claim to arbitration
- take a copy
- take a decision by majority
- take a drug overdose
- take a hostage
- take a law off the books
- take a lease
- take a lie-detector test
- take a loyalty oath
- take a picture
- take a polygraph test
- take a second ballot
- take a sheet off a hedge
- take a shot
- take a shot at smth.
- take a sight
- take a specimen of blood
- take a specimen of blood urine
- take a statement
- take a verdict
- take a view
- take a vote
- take acknowledgement
- take acknowledgement of a fact
- take acknowledgment of a fact
- take advantage
- take advice
- take alive
- take all measures
- take all measures to prevent
- take all responsibility
- take an action
- take an affidavit
- take an appeal
- take an independent stand
- take an overdose
- take arms
- take as a hostage
- take away
- take ballot
- take by assault
- take by descent
- take by force
- take by purchase
- take by storm
- take care clause
- take chair
- take charge
- take coercive measures
- take cognizance
- take collective action
- take collective actions
- take confession
- take one's confession
- take counsel's opinion
- take count
- take count of votes
- take criminal proceeding
- take criminal proceedings
- take decisive measures
- take decisive steps
- take deposition
- take depositions
- take disciplinary actions
- take discriminatory measure
- take divorce proceedings
- take effect
- take effect on ratification
- take effect on signature
- take effect upon ratification
- take emergency measures
- take enforcement action
- take enforcement actions
- take evidence
- take examination
- take exception
- take exception against
- take exception to
- take extraordinary measures
- take formal note
- take guidance
- take guidance from the law
- take home pay
- take hostage
- take in charge
- take in the mainor
- take in the mainour
- take into account
- take into consideration
- take into custody
- take into one's confidence
- take judicial note
- take judicial notice
- take legal action
- take legal advice
- take legal proceedings
- take legal recourse
- take legal steps
- take life
- take smb.'s life
- take measures
- take mercy
- take minutes
- take necessary measures
- take no chances
- take note
- take notice
- take-off
- take-off accident
- take off an embargo
- take off to jail
- take on hire
- take on sale
- take opinion
- take out a document
- take out a patent
- take out a process
- take out insurance
- take out an insurance policy
- take-over
- take over a case
- take over as President
- take-over of public buildings
- take over the case
- take own life
- take one's own life
- take part
- take part in a debate
- take part in a demonstration
- take part in a discussion
- take part in a duel
- take part in a meeting
- take part in a session
- take part in a sitting
- take part in election
- take part in elections
- take physical part in a crime
- take possession
- take potassium cyanide
- take power
- take power in one's own hands
- take precautions
- take precedence
- take preference
- take preventive actions
- take preventive measures
- take prisoner
- take proceedings
- take prompt action
- take prompt actions
- take proof
- take punitive measures
- take recourse
- take red-handed
- take remedial action
- take responsibility
- take responsibility on oneself
- take review against a judgment
- take risk
- take seat on the court
- take security measures
- take silk
- take stock
- take testimony
- take the ballot
- take the blame upon oneself
- take the case under control
- take the census
- take the chair
- take the change
- take the consequences
- take the decision to court
- take the floor
- take the form of a contract
- take the law
- take the name
- take the oath
- take the poll
- take the rue
- take the side
- take the stand
- take the surname
- take the throne
- take the witness chair
- take the witness stand
- take third-party proceedings
- take title
- take to court
- take to court for trial
- take to freight
- take to prison
- take under advisement
- take under strict control
- take up
- take up a bill
- take up arms
- take up duties
- take up one's duties
- take upon oneself
- take vengeance

English-Ukrainian law dictionary > take
4 take measures

принимать меры

extraordinary measures — чрезвычайные меры

immediate measures — безотлагательные меры

inefficient measures — недейственные меры

the requisite measures — необходимые меры

uncalled-for measures — неоправданная мера

English-Russian base dictionary > take measures
5 вживати надзвичайні заходи

take emergency measures, take extraordinary measures

Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > вживати надзвичайні заходи
6 measure

n

1) мера; мероприятие

- measures to enhance stability

- measure to safeguard against circumvention

- scope and character of measures

- measures derogating from one's obligations

- legal and administrative measures for protecting environmental quality

- adoption of measures

- adopt measures against smth.

- direct measures against smth.

- take measures against smth.

- carry out measures

- implement measures

- necessitate measures

- take appropriate measures

- water down proposed measures

2) мера; показатель; мерило; критерий

•

- punitive measures

- interim measures

- non-nuclear disarmament measures

- enforcement measures

- coercive measures

- non-armament measures

- further measures

- agreed measures

- measure of economic welfare

- arms control measures

- mandatory measures

- comprehensive measures

- measure of income

- provisional measures

- non-circumvention measures

- limited interim measures

- associated measures

- legal measures

- apply harmful measures

- proper measures

- enforcement and preventive measures

- initial measures

- discriminatory measures between states

- discriminatory measures

- precautionary measures

- policy measures

- fiscal measures

- effective measures

- measure of performance of economy

- implementation of disarmament measures

- collective measures

- stringent measures

- balanced set of partial disarmament measures

- measures of enforcement

- take security measures

- remedial measures

- macroeconomic measures

- accident measures

- measures of rehabilitation

- preventive measures

- package of disarmament measures

- administrative measures

- measure of agreement

- forbid discriminatory measures between states

- intervention measure

- verification measures

- disarmament measures

- repressive measures

- stabilizing measures

- collateral measures

- multilateral integration measures

- restrictive measures

- meaningful measures

- corollary measures

- forward-looking measures

- publicity and education measures

- suitable verification measures

- deliberate concealment measures

- conciliatory measures

- anti-inflationary measures

- half-baked measures

- compulsory measures

- illegal measures

- measures of business cycle

- measures of compulsion

- carry out disarmament measures

- specific measures

- measure of consumption

- vigorous measures

- harmful measures

- ancillary measures

- partial measures

- high priority measures

- control measures

- international co-operative measures

- extreme measures

- measure of concentration

- retaliatory measures

- real measures

- procedural measures

- multilateral arms control measures

- preparatory measures for war

- confidence-building measures

- reflationary measure

- cooperative measures

- severe measures

- safety measures

- protective measures

- general promotion measures

- drastic measures

- safeguard measures

- take measures of prevention

- extraordinary measures

- economic measures

- take coercive measures

- temporary measures

- measure of efficiency

- adjustment measures

- measures of rationality

- anti-monopoly measures

- partial disarmament measures

- rash measures

- government measures

- joint measures

- measure of productivity

- short-term measures

- emergency measures

- preparatory measures

- security measures

- economic policy measures

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > measure
7 мера

I жен. (единица измерения) measure палата мер и весов ≈ Board of Weights and Measures десятичная система мер и весов ≈ decimal system( of measures and weights) линейные меры ≈ linear measures мера емкости ≈ measure of capacity мера сыпучих тел ≈ dry measure II жен. (мероприятие) measure, step, action;
(предел) degree, extent, limit временные меры ≈ stopgap measure, temporary measure знать меру ≈ to know when to stop мера пресечения ≈ preventive punishment меры предосторожности ≈ precautionary measures, precautions принимать меры ≈ to take (appropriate) measures/steps, to take action on smth. драконовские меры ≈ draconian measures крайние меры ≈ extreme measures надлежащие меры ≈ appropriate measures превентивные меры ≈ preventive measures предохранительные меры ≈ precautions, precautionary measures чрезвычайные меры ≈ extraordinary/emergency measures чувство меры ≈ sense of proportion по мере того, как ≈ as, according as/to;
in proportion as по крайней мере, по меньшей мере ≈ at least по мере возможности ≈ as far as possible в меру ≈ to the extent (of), within reasonable limits (of) ;
fairly, moderately, rather (быть в меру каким-л.) не в меру ≈ immoderately, excessively;
too far без меры ≈ far too much, excessively сверх всякой меры, сверх меры ≈ overely, excessively по мере сил ≈ as much as one can, to the best of one's ability

мер|а - ж.
1. measure;
~ы площади square measures;
~ жидкости liquid measures;

2. (мероприятие) measure, step;
принимать ~ы take* action;
принять все ~ы take* all due measures;
~ взыскания disciplinary measure;

3. (предел, граница чего-л.) limit;
всему есть ~ everything has a limit;
сохранять чувство ~ы retain a sense of proportion;
по ~е того как as;
по ~е возможности as far as possible;
по ~е необходимости as the necessity arises, if necessary;
в значительной ~е to a considerable extent;
в известной ~е to a certain extent;
в ~у
1) (столько, сколько нужно) moderately;

2) (сообразуясь с чем-л.) in accordance with;
всё в ~у everything in moderation;
не в ~у beyond measure, inordinately;
в полной ~е completely;
в той ~е, в какой... to the extent that...

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > мера
8 заходи

мн.

measures, actions, steps, arrangements

заходи безпеки — security measures

запобіжні заходи — precautionary measures, precautions

надзвичайні заходи — extraordinary measures, extremities

заходи в галузі охорони здоров'я — health activities

заходи виконавчої влади — executive measures

заходи по стабілізації (напр., економіки) — stabilization efforts

заходи по урегулюванню — adjustment measures

заходи податкової політики — fiscal tools

заходи протидії — countermeasures

заходи судового захисту — remedial measures

рішучі заходи — drastic measures

вживати заходів — to take measures

вживати заходів безпеки — to take precautions ( against)

Українсько-англійський словник > заходи
9 measure

n міра; захід

- adjustment measures скоректовані заходи, заходи з врегулювання

- administrative measures адміністративні заходи

- agreed measures узгоджені заходи

- anti-monopoly measures міри/ заходи боротьби з монополіями

- arms control measures заходи контролю за озброєнням

- associated measures заходи, пов'язані з чимсь

- coercive measures примусові заходи; заходи примусу

- collateral measures додаткові заходи

- collective measures колективні заходи

- comprehensive measures всеохоплюючі/ загальні заходи

- compulsorymeasures примусові заходи; заходи примусу

- conciliatory measures заходи примирення

- confidence-building measures заходи зі створення довіри

- control measures заходи контролю

- cooperative measures спільні заходи

- deliberate concealment measures навмисні/ обмірковані міри маскування

- disarmament measures заходи з роззброєння

- discriminatory measures between states дискримінація держав

- drastic measures різкі/ рішучі заходи

- effective measures ефективні заходи

- emergency measures надзвичайні заходи

- enforcement measures примусові заходи; заходи примусу

- extraordinary measures надзвичайні заходи

- extreme measures крайні заходи

- fiscal measures фінансові/ бюджетні заходи

- forward-looking measures перспективні заходи

- further measures подальші заходи

- government measures урядові заходи

- half-baked measures непродумані заходи

- high priority measures першочергові завдання; невідкладні заходи

- initial measures перші/ початкові заходи

- joint measures спільні заходи

- legal measures законні заходи

- limited interim measures обмежені тимчасові заходи

- mandatory measure обов'язковий захід

- meaningful measures конструктивні/ логічні заходи

- non-armament measures заходи відмови від озброєння; заходи, що виключають подальше озброєння

- non-circumvention measures заходи запобігання можливого обходу (угоди)

- non-nuclear disarmament measures заходи обмеження та скорочення неядерного озброєння

- partial disarmament measures часткові заходи роззброєння

- policy measures заходи в області політики

- practical measures практичні заходи/ кроки

- precautionary measures запобіжні заходи

- preparatory measures підготовчі заходи

- preventive measures попереджувальні/ превентивні заходи

- proper measures належні заходи

- protective measures запобіжні заходи

- provisional measures попередні заходи

- punitive measures міри покарання

- rash measures поспішні заходи

- real measures реальні заходи

- remedial measures заходи для виправлення ситуації

- retaliatory measures заходи у відповідь

- safeguard measures захисні заходи

- sanitary and phytosanitary measures санітарні та фітосанітарні заходи

- security measures заходи забезпечення безпеки

- severe measures суворі/ різкі міри

- short-term measures короткострокові заходи

- specific measures конкретні заходи

- stabilizing measures стабілізаційні заходи; заходи, спрямовані на зміцнення стабільності

- stringent measures рішучі/ енергійні заходи

- temporary measures тимчасові заходи

- trade-related investment measures інвестиційні заходи, пов'язані з торгівлею

- transitional measures перехідні заходи

- verification measures заходи перевірки виконання (угоди)

- vigorous measures рішучі/ енергійні заходи

- measure of agreement ступінь домовленості; ступінь згоди

- measures of compulsion заходи примусу

- measures of rationality розумні заходи

- measures of verification заходи перевірки виконання (угоди)

- measures to enhance stability стабілізаційні заходи; заходи, спрямовані на зміцнення стабільності

- measure to safeguard against circumvention міри запобігання можливого обходу (угоди)

- adoption of measures прийняття заходів

- package of disarmament measures комплекс/ "пакет" заходів з роззброєння

- scope of measures об'єм заходів

- to adopt measures вжити заходів

- to carry out measures здійснити заходи

- to forbid discriminatory measures заборонити дискримінацію держав

- to implement measures здійснити заходи

- to necessitate measures вимагати вжити заходів

- to take measures вжити заходів

English-Ukrainian diplomatic dictionary > measure
10 measure

1.

измерять

2.

1) масштаб, критерий

2) мероприятие, мера

•

- accurate measure

- adjustment measures

- administrative measures

- agreed measures

- anti-avoidance measures

- anti-delinquency measures

- antidumping measures

- anti-evasion measures

- antiinflationary measures

- antiterrorism measures

- appropriate measures

- austerity measures

- coercive measure

- collective measures

- compensating measures

- cost-effectiveness measure

- decisive measures

- deficit-cutting measures

- deflationary measures

- devaluation measures

- discrimionatory measures

- drastic measures

- effective measures

- effectiveness measure

- efficient measures

- emergency measures

- enforcement measures

- extraordinary measures

- extreme measures

- fierce measures

- follow-up measures

- government measures

- illegal measure

- immediate measures

- inefficient measures

- interim measures

- joint measures

- legal measures

- legislative measures

- money measure

- practical measures

- precautionary measures

- preference measure

- preparatory measures

- preventive measures

- priority measures

- profitability measure

- proper measures

- protectionist measures

- protective measures

- provisional measures

- publicity measures

- restrictive measures

- retaliatory measures

- revenue measures

- security measures

- severe measures

- standard activity measure per unit

- statutory measures

- strong measures

- tax measures

- temporary measures

- timely measures

- tough measure s

- unlawful measures

- urgent measures

- measures against money laundering

- measures for dismantling monetary gaps

- measures for export restraint

- measures for import restraint

- measure of damages

- measure of prices

- measures of protection

- measure of value

- measures of weight

- measures to combat corruption

- adopt fierce measures against price-fixing

- apply measures

- call off measures

- carry out measures

- implement measures

- take measures

- tighten security measures

- undertake measures

- work out measures

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > measure
11 acontecimiento

m.

event.

esto es todo un acontecimiento this is quite an event o occasion!

adelantarse a los acontecimientos to jump the gun; (precipitarse) to take preemptive measures (prevenir)

* * *

acontecimiento

► nombre masculino

1 event, happening

* * *

noun m.

event

* * *

SM event

fue realmente un acontecimiento — it was an event of some importance

fue todo un acontecimiento — it was quite an affair

* * *

masculino event

una fiesta para celebrar el acontecimiento — a party to celebrate the occasion o event

fue todo un acontecimiento — it was quite an event

adelantarse or anticiparse a los acontecimientos — to jump the gun

* * *

= event, move, scene, happening, occasion.

Ex. The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.

Ex. This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.

Ex. Scenes that include conflict, emotions, prejudices, misunderstandings, and unreasonableness but also kindliness, humor, friendliness, and goodwill are acted out daily in different kinds of libraries.

Ex. These cases are drawn from actual happenings.

Ex. Children must be involved in important school occasions like school play performances, orchestral and choir concerts.

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* acontecimiento deportivo = sporting event, sport event.

* acontecimiento especial = festive occasion.

* acontecimiento futuro = futuristic.

* acontecimiento histórico = historical event.

* acontecimiento importante = milestone, red carpet event.

* acontecimiento próximo = coming event.

* acontecimientos + desarrollarse = events + unfold.

* acontecimientos locales = local events.

* acontecimiento social = community event, social event, social.

* acontecimiento + tener lugar = occurrence + take place.

* adelantarse a los acontecimientos = ahead of the curve, jump + the gun.

* celebrar un acontecimiento = hold + event.

* con muchos acontecimientos = event-filled.

* durante el transcurso de los acontecimientos = in the course of events, during the course of events.

* en el curso normal de los acontecimientos = in the normal run of events, in the normal run of things.

* lleno de acontecimientos = eventful, event-filled.

* los acontecimientos = the rush of events, the course of events.

* sin acontecimientos que destacar = uneventful.

* * *

masculino event

una fiesta para celebrar el acontecimiento — a party to celebrate the occasion o event

fue todo un acontecimiento — it was quite an event

adelantarse or anticiparse a los acontecimientos — to jump the gun

* * *

= event, move, scene, happening, occasion.

Ex: The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.

Ex: This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.

Ex: Scenes that include conflict, emotions, prejudices, misunderstandings, and unreasonableness but also kindliness, humor, friendliness, and goodwill are acted out daily in different kinds of libraries.

Ex: These cases are drawn from actual happenings.

Ex: Children must be involved in important school occasions like school play performances, orchestral and choir concerts.

* acontecimiento deportivo = sporting event, sport event.

* acontecimiento especial = festive occasion.

* acontecimiento futuro = futuristic.

* acontecimiento histórico = historical event.

* acontecimiento importante = milestone, red carpet event.

* acontecimiento próximo = coming event.

* acontecimientos + desarrollarse = events + unfold.

* acontecimientos locales = local events.

* acontecimiento social = community event, social event, social.

* acontecimiento + tener lugar = occurrence + take place.

* adelantarse a los acontecimientos = ahead of the curve, jump + the gun.

* celebrar un acontecimiento = hold + event.

* con muchos acontecimientos = event-filled.

* durante el transcurso de los acontecimientos = in the course of events, during the course of events.

* en el curso normal de los acontecimientos = in the normal run of events, in the normal run of things.

* lleno de acontecimientos = eventful, event-filled.

* los acontecimientos = the rush of events, the course of events.

* sin acontecimientos que destacar = uneventful.

* * *

acontecimiento

masculine

event

dieron una fiesta para celebrar el acontecimiento they gave a party to celebrate the occasion o event

fue todo un acontecimiento it was quite an event

no te adelantes or anticipes a los acontecimientos don't get ahead of yourself

* * *

acontecimiento sustantivo masculino
event;
◊ adelantarse a los acontecimientos to jump the gun

acontecimiento sustantivo masculino event

' acontecimiento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
afortunada
- afortunado
- conmemorativa
- conmemorativo
- contingente
- desenvolverse
- fastuosa
- fastuoso
- hecha
- hecho
- llegar
- precipitar
- saludar
- sangrienta
- sangriento
- sede
- señalada
- señalado
- solemne
- aguardar
- esperado
- esperar
- importante
- inflar
- prever
- reciente
- suceso
- transcurrir
English:
affair
- event
- extraordinary
- forthcoming
- happening
- happy
- highlight
- homecoming
- intervene
- merciful
- momentous
- occasion
- occurrence
- oncoming
- one-off
- pass off
- regular
- see
- sequel
- sickening
- turn-up
- unfortunate
- unpredictable
- wreck
- development

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acontecimiento nm

event;

esto es todo un acontecimiento this is quite an event!;

adelantarse a los acontecimientos [precipitarse] to jump the gun;
[prevenir] to take pre-emptive measures
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acontecimiento

m event

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acontecimiento nm

suceso: event

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acontecimiento n event

Spanish-English dictionary > acontecimiento
12 предпринимать чрезвычайные меры безопасности

Security: take extraordinary security measures (англ. цитата заимствована из статьи в газете Wall Street Journal)

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > предпринимать чрезвычайные меры безопасности
13 efecto

m.

1 effect (consecuencia, resultado).

con efecto desde with effect from

hacer efecto to take effect

surtir efecto to have an effect

tener efecto to come into o take effect (vigencia)

efecto dominó domino effect

efecto invernadero greenhouse effect

efecto óptico optical illusion

efectos secundarios side effects

2 aim, purpose.

al efecto, a dicho efecto, a tal efecto to that end

a efectos de algo as far as something is concerned

a efectos legales,… as far as the law is concerned,…, in the eyes of the law,…

a todos los efectos for all practical purposes

3 impression.

producir buen/mal efecto to make a good/bad impression

4 spin.

dar efecto a to put spin on

5 bill (commerce) (document).

efecto de comercio commercial paper

efecto de favor accommodation bill

6 effectiveness, striking quality.

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efecto

► nombre masculino

1 (resultado) effect, result, end

■ aquel jarabe no produjo ningún efecto that cough syrup had no effect

2 (impresión) impression

■ la escena le hizo un gran efecto the scene made a great impression on her

3 (fin) aim, object

4 DEPORTE spin

■ dio efecto a la pelota he put some spin on the ball

5 COMERCIO bill, draft

► nombre masculino plural efectos

1 (bienes) effects, possessions; (mercancías) goods; (personales) effects, belongings

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

a efectos de... with the object of...

a tal efecto to that end

causar efecto to make an impression

chutar con efecto to curl the ball, swerve the ball

en efecto quite, yes indeed

hacer buen efecto to be impressive, look good

hacer efecto to make an impression, take effect, work

ser de efecto retardado figurado to be slow on the uptake

surtir efecto to work, be effective

tener efecto (celebrarse) to take place 2 (entrar en vigor) to take effect

efecto interbancario bank draft, bank bill

efectos de escritorio stationery sing

efectos especiales special effects

efectos personales personal belongings

efectos públicos public bonds

efectos secundarios side effects

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noun m.

effect

- efectos personales
- en efecto
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SM

1) (=consecuencia) effect

los efectos devastadores de la crisis — the devastating effects of the crisis

ya empiezo a notar los efectos de la anestesia — I'm starting to feel the effect of the anaesthetic now

los cambios no produjeron ningún efecto — the changes did not have o produce frm any effect

la reforma tuvo por efecto el aumento de los ingresos — the reform had the effect of increasing revenue

conducía bajo los efectos del alcohol — he was driving under the influence of alcohol

• hacer efecto — to take effect

el calmante no le ha hecho ningún efecto — the sedative has had no effect on him o has not taken effect

• por efecto de — (=por acción de) by; (=a consecuencia de) as a result of

nos movíamos por efecto del viento — we were being driven by the wind

la producción de vino se estancó por efecto de la crisis — wine production came to a halt as a result of the crisis

• de efecto retardado — [bomba] delayed-action antes de s

es de efectos retardados — hum he's a bit slow on the uptake *

• surtir o tener o causar efecto — to have an effect

el truco no surtió el efecto deseado — the trick did not have the desired effect

las picaduras de avispas pueden tener efectos graves — wasp stings can have serious effects

efecto 2000 — (Inform) millennium bug, Y2K

efecto bumerán — boomerang effect

efectos colaterales — collateral damage sing

efecto dominó — domino effect

efecto embudo — funnel effect

efecto invernadero — greenhouse effect

efecto óptico — optical illusion

efectos especiales — special effects

efectos secundarios — side effects

efectos sonoros — sound effects

efecto túnel — tunnel effect

efecto útil — (Mec) efficiency, output

2)

• en efecto — indeed

nos encontramos, en efecto, ante un invento revolucionario — we are indeed faced with a revolutionary invention

en efecto, así es — yes, indeed o that's right

y en efecto, el libro estaba donde él dijo — sure enough, the book was where he had said it would be

3) (=vigencia)
[de ley, reforma]
una ley con efecto desde 1950 — a law that has been in force since 1950

• efecto retroactivo, esas medidas tendrán efecto retroactivo — those measures will be applied retroactively o retrospectively

una subida con efectos retroactivos desde primeros de año — an increase backdated to the beginning of the year

• tener efecto — to take effect, come into effect

4) frm (=objetivo) purpose

• a efectos fiscales/prácticos — for tax/practical purposes

a estos efectos se convocó una nueva reunión — a new meeting was called for this purpose

a efectos legales — for legal purposes, in legal terms

a efectos de contrato, los dos cónyuges son copropietarios — for the purposes of the contract, husband and wife are co-owners

a efectos de máxima seguridad — in order to ensure the tightest security

• al efecto — for the purpose

una comisión designada al efecto — a specially established commission, a commission set up for the purpose

• a efectos de hacer algo — in order to do sth

a efectos de conseguir una rebaja de su condena — in order to achieve a reduction of his sentence

• llevar a efecto — [+ acción, cambio] to carry out; [+ acuerdo, pacto] to put into practice; [+ reunión, congreso] to hold

llevaron a efecto sus amenazas — they carried out their threats

la reunión se llevará a efecto en Bruselas — the meeting is to be held in Brussels

• a tal efecto — to this end, for this purpose

a tal efecto, han convocado un referéndum — to this end o for this purpose, a referendum has been called

una habitación habilitada a tal efecto — a room fitted out for this purpose

• a todos los efectos — to all intents and purposes

lo reconoció como hijo suyo a todos los efectos — he recognized him to all intents and purposes as his son

5) (=impresión) effect

no sé qué efecto tendrán mis palabras — I don't know what effect o impact my words will have

les has causado un efecto sorprendente a mis padres — you've made quite an impression on my parents

• ser de buen/mal efecto — to create o give a good/bad impression

es de mal efecto llegar tarde a una reunión — being late for a meeting creates o gives a bad impression

6) (Dep) [gen] spin; (Ftbl) swerve

sacó la pelota con efecto — she put some spin on her service, she served with topspin

dar efecto a la pelota, lanzar la pelota con efecto — (Tenis) to put spin on the ball; (Ftbl) to put a swerve on the ball

7) pl efectos (Com) (=bienes) stock sing, goods; (=documentos) bills

efectos a cobrar — bills receivable

efectos a pagar — bills payable

efectos bancarios — bank bills

efectos de consumo — consumer goods

efectos de escritorio — writing materials

efectos descontados — bills discounted

efectos navales — chandlery sing

efectos personales — personal effects

8) (Numismática)

efecto postal — postage stamp

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masculino

1) (resultado, consecuencia) effect

el castigo surtió efecto — the punishment had the desired effect

un calmante de efecto inmediato — a fast-acting painkiller

hacer efecto — to take effect

bajo los efectos del alcohol — under the influence of alcohol

llevar a efecto una operación — to carry out an operation

de efecto retardado — < mecanismo> delayed-action (before n)

- efecto bumerán

- efecto invernadero/secundario

- efecto óptico

- efecto retroactivo

- efectos especiales/sonoros

2) ( impresión)

su conducta causó muy mal efecto — his behavior made a very bad impression o (colloq) didn't go down at all well

no sé qué efecto le causaron mis palabras — I don't know what effect my words had o what impression my words made on him

3) (Der) ( vigencia)

la nueva ley tendrá efecto a partir de... — the new law will take effect o come into effect from...

con efecto a partir de... — with effect from...

4) (frml) ( fin)

construido expresamente al or a tal or a este efecto — specially designed for this purpose

a efectos legales — legally (speaking) o in the eyes of the law

a todos los efectos es un adulto — to all intents and purposes he is an adult

5) (Dep)

a) ( movimiento rotatorio) spin

le dio a la bola con efecto — she put some spin on the ball

b) ( desvío) swerve

tiró la pelota con efecto — he made the ball swerve

6)

a) (Fin) ( valores) bill of exchange, draft

efectos negociables — commercial paper

b) efectos masculino plural (frml) ( de comercio) stock; ( de local) contents (pl)

•

- efectos bancarios

- efectos personales

* * *

masculino

1) (resultado, consecuencia) effect

el castigo surtió efecto — the punishment had the desired effect

un calmante de efecto inmediato — a fast-acting painkiller

hacer efecto — to take effect

bajo los efectos del alcohol — under the influence of alcohol

llevar a efecto una operación — to carry out an operation

de efecto retardado — < mecanismo> delayed-action (before n)

- efecto bumerán

- efecto invernadero/secundario

- efecto óptico

- efecto retroactivo

- efectos especiales/sonoros

2) ( impresión)

su conducta causó muy mal efecto — his behavior made a very bad impression o (colloq) didn't go down at all well

no sé qué efecto le causaron mis palabras — I don't know what effect my words had o what impression my words made on him

3) (Der) ( vigencia)

la nueva ley tendrá efecto a partir de... — the new law will take effect o come into effect from...

con efecto a partir de... — with effect from...

4) (frml) ( fin)

construido expresamente al or a tal or a este efecto — specially designed for this purpose

a efectos legales — legally (speaking) o in the eyes of the law

a todos los efectos es un adulto — to all intents and purposes he is an adult

5) (Dep)

a) ( movimiento rotatorio) spin

le dio a la bola con efecto — she put some spin on the ball

b) ( desvío) swerve

tiró la pelota con efecto — he made the ball swerve

6)

a) (Fin) ( valores) bill of exchange, draft

efectos negociables — commercial paper

b) efectos masculino plural (frml) ( de comercio) stock; ( de local) contents (pl)

•

- efectos bancarios

- efectos personales

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efecto¹

¹ = effect, action.

Ex: Kaiser also investigated the effect of grouping subheadings of a subject.

Ex: Coates believed that in order to conceptualise an action it is necessary to visualise the thing on which the action is being performed.

* a efectos de = in terms of, for the purpose of + Nombre.

* a efectos prácticos = to all intents and purposes, for all practical purposes, for all intents and purposes, to all intents.

* a tal efecto = to this effect.

* a tales efectos = hereto.

* atenuar el efecto = mitigate + effect.

* a todos los efectos = to all intents and purposes, to all intents, for all practical purposes, for all intents and purposes.

* causa-efecto = causal.

* con efecto desde + Fecha = with effect from + Fecha.

* dar el efecto de = give + the effect of.

* de gran efecto = wide-reaching.

* diluir el efecto = dissipate + effect.

* efecto adverso = ill effect [ill-effect], adverse effect.

* efecto bola de nieve = snowball effect.

* efecto coercitivo = chilling effect.

* efecto de halo = halo effect.

* efecto de la guerra = effect of war.

* efecto del santo = halo effect.

* efecto desastroso = chilling effect.

* efecto dominó = knock-on effect, chain reaction.

* efecto dominó, el = ripple effect, the, domino effect, the.

* efecto duradero = lasting effect, long-lasting effect.

* efecto especial = special effect.

* efecto final = net effect.

* efecto invernadero, el = greenhouse effect, the.

* efecto látigo, el = whip effect, the.

* efecto moderador = toned effect.

* efecto multiplicador = multiplier effect.

* efecto nefasto = deleterious effect.

* efecto negativo = ill effect [ill-effect], chilling effect, blowback.

* efecto nocivo = damaging effect, toxic effect, harmful effect.

* efecto óptico = optical illusion.

* efecto perjudicial = damaging effect, harmful effect.

* efecto positivo = beneficial effect, positive effect.

* efecto profundo = profound effect.

* efecto represivo = chilling effect.

* efecto secundario = side effect [side-effect], spillover effect, after effect [after-effect].

* efecto sicológico = psychological effect.

* efecto sonoro = sound effect.

* efectos secundarios = knock-on effect.

* efecto tóxico = toxic effect.

* efecto visual = visual.

* emisión de gases de efecto invernadero = carbon emission.

* en efecto = to all intents and purposes, for all intents and purposes.

* estropear el efecto = spoil + effect.

* gas que produce el efecto invernadero = greenhouse gas.

* intensificar el efecto de algo = intensify + effect.

* los efectos negativos se están dejando sentir ahora = chickens come home to roost.

* luchar con los efectos adversos de = combat + the effects of.

* mitigar el efecto = mitigate + effect.

* mitigar el efecto de Algo = minimise + effect.

* paliar el efecto = mitigate + effect.

* para todos los efectos prácticos = for all practical purposes.

* profundo efecto = profound effect.

* protegerse de los efectos de Algo = ward off + effects.

* relación causa-efecto = cause-effect relation, causal relationship.

* sentir los efectos de = feel + the effects of.

* sufrir el efecto de Algo = suffer + effect.

* surtir efecto = take + effect, have + effect, pay off, pay, come into + effect.

* tener efecto = take + effect.

* tener efecto sobre = impinge on/upon.

* tener su efecto = take + Posesivo + toll (on).

* tener un efecto adverso sobre = have + an adverse effect on.

efecto²

* efecto bancario = bank draft, banker's draft, banker's cheque.

* efectos negociables = commercial paper.

* efectos personales = personal belongings, belongings.

* tienda de efectos navales = chandlery.

efecto³

³ = topspin.

Ex: In order to be effective with passing shots, you need to be able to impart a lot of topspin on the ball.

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efecto

masculine

A

1 (resultado, consecuencia) effect

el castigo surtió efecto the punishment had the desired effect

las medidas no han producido el efecto deseado ( frml); the measures have not had the desired effect

un calmante de efecto inmediato a fast-acting painkiller

ya ha empezado a hacerle efecto la anestesia the anesthetic has begun to work o to take effect

bajo los efectos del alcohol under the influence of alcohol

medidas para paliar los efectos de la sequía measures to alleviate the effects of the drought

la operación se llevó a efecto con gran rapidez ( frml); the operation was carried out extremely swiftly

de efecto retardado ‹bomba/mecanismo› delayed-action ( before n)

soy de efectos retardados ( hum); I'm a bit slow on the uptake ( hum)

2

en efecto indeed

en efecto, así ocurrió it did indeed happen like that

estamos, en efecto, presenciando un hecho único we are indeed witnessing an extraordinary event

¿es usted el doctor? — en efecto are you the doctor? —I am indeed

Compuestos:

● efecto bumerán

puede tener un efecto bumerán it may boomerang o backfire

● efecto dominó

domino effect

● efecto invernadero

greenhouse effect

● efecto 2000

( Hist, Inf) millennium bug

● efecto óptico

optical illusion

● efecto retroactivo

la ley no tendrá efecto retroactivo the law will not be retroactive o retrospective

el aumento se aplicará con efecto retroactivo the increase will be backdated

● efecto secundario

side effect

● efectos escénicos

mpl stage effects (pl)

● efectos especiales

mpl special effects (pl)

● efectos sonoros

mpl sound effects (pl)

● efectos visuales

mpl visual effects (pl)

● efectos visuales digitales

mpl videographics (pl)

B

(impresión): su conducta causó muy mal efecto his behavior gave a very bad impression o ( colloq) didn't go down at all well

no sé qué efecto le causaron mis palabras I do not know what effect my words had o what impression my words made on him

C ( Der) (vigencia) effect

la nueva ley tendrá efecto a partir de octubre the new law will take effect o come into effect from October

D ( frml)

(fin): el edificio ha sido construido expresamente al or a tal or a este efecto the new building has been specially designed for this purpose

debe rellenar el formulario que se le enviará a estos efectos you must fill in the relevant form which will be sent to you

a efectos legales tal matrimonio es inexistente legally (speaking) o in the eyes of the law o for legal purposes such a marriage does not exist

se trasladó a Bruselas a (los) efectos de firmar el acuerdo she traveled to Brussels to sign o in order to sign the agreement

estos gastos se admiten a efectos de desgravación de impuestos these expenses are tax-deductible

tendrá que comparecer ante el juez a los efectos oportunos he must appear before the judge to complete the necessary formalities

a todos los efectos un joven de 18 años es un adulto to all intents and purposes a youth of 18 is an adult

E

(fenómeno científico): el efecto de Barnum the Barnum effect

F ( Dep)

1 (movimiento rotatorio) spin

le dio a la bola con efecto she put some spin on the ball

2 (desvío) swerve

tiró la pelota con efecto he made the ball swerve

G

1 ( Fin) (valores) bill of exchange, draft

efectos negociables commercial paper

2 efectos mpl ( frml) (de un comercio) stock; (de un local) contents (pl)

Compuestos:

● efecto cambiario

bill of exchange

● efecto postal

( frml); postage stamp

● efectos bancarios

mpl bank bills (pl), bank paper

● efectos navales

mpl chandlery

● efectos personales

mpl personal effects (pl)

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efecto sustantivo masculino
1
a) (resultado, consecuencia) effect;

◊ hacer efecto to take effect;

un calmante de efecto inmediato a fast-acting painkiller;
mecanismo de efecto retardado delayed-action mechanism;
bajo los efectos del alcohol under the influence of alcohol;
efecto dos mil (Inf) millennium bug;
efecto invernadero greenhouse effect;
efecto óptico optical illusion;
efecto secundario side effect;
efectos especiales special effects;
efectos sonoros sound effects
b)

◊ en efecto in fact;

( así es) indeed
2 ( impresión):
◊ su conducta causó mal efecto his behavior made a bad impression o (colloq) didn't go down well;

no sé qué efecto le causaron mis palabras I don't know what effect my words had on him
3 (Dep) ( desvío) swerve;
( movimiento rotatorio) spin;
◊ le dio a la bola con efecto she put some spin on the ball

4
◊ efectos personales personal effects (pl)

efecto sustantivo masculino
1 (consecuencia, resultado) effect: no tiene efectos secundarios, it has no side effects
se marea por efecto de la medicación, she feels ill because of the medicine
2 (impresión) impression: su discurso no me causó el menor efecto, his speech made no impression on me
hace mal efecto, it makes a bad impression
efectos especiales, special effects
3 (fin, propósito) purpose: se le comunica al efecto de que.., you are informed that... 4 efectos personales, personal belongings o effects
5 Meteor efecto invernadero, greenhouse effect
6 Dep spin
♦ Locuciones: a efectos de..., for the purposes of...
su firma es válida a todos los efectos, his signature is valid for any purpose
surtir efecto, to take effect: nuestro plan no surtió efecto, our plan didn't work out
' efecto' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
ambiente
- consecuencia
- deberse
- destructor
- destructora
- difusor
- difusora
- ser
- estabilizador
- estabilizadora
- fulminante
- golpe
- imagen
- impresión
- imprimir
- incidir
- influencia
- invernadero
- mella
- mirada
- obra
- prohibición
- resultado
- retardada
- retardado
- retroactiva
- retroactivo
- surtir
- swing
- afectar
- agradable
- compensar
- denominar
- disuasivo
- enfoque
- impactante
- inmediato
- pasar
- recorte
- relación
- simular
- soporífero
- surrealista
- trascendental
English:
act
- actually
- adverse
- aerial
- after-effect
- bite
- boomerang
- cause
- domino effect
- effect
- effectively
- enough
- evil
- fall
- flourish
- fuck
- greenhouse effect
- heighten
- leverage
- ripple effect
- send
- side
- some
- special
- spin
- void
- wear off
- work
- after
- draft
- effective
- green
- indeed
- millennium
- sedation
- succeed
- sure

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efecto

♦ nm

1. [consecuencia, resultado] effect;

los efectos del terremoto fueron devastadores the effects of the earthquake were devastating;

sus declaraciones causaron el efecto que él esperaba his statements had the desired effect;

el analfabetismo es un efecto de la falta de escuelas illiteracy is a result of the lack of schools;

la decisión de bajar los tipos de interés tuvo un efecto explosivo the decision to lower interest rates had an explosive impact;

un medicamento de efecto inmediato a fast-acting medicine;

un mecanismo de efecto retardado a delayed-action mechanism;
Esp
conducía o Am [m5] manejaba bajo los efectos del alcohol she was driving under the influence (of alcohol);

hacer efecto to take effect;

todavía no me ha hecho efecto la aspirina the aspirin still hasn't taken effect;

llevar algo a efecto to put sth into effect, to implement sth;

el desalojo de las viviendas se llevará a efecto mañana the evacuation of the homes will be carried out tomorrow;

llevaron a efecto sus promesas/amenazas they made good o carried out their promises/threats;

surtir efecto to have an effect, to be effective;

las medidas contra el desempleo no han surtido efecto the measures against unemployment haven't had any effect o haven't been effective;

por efecto de as a result of;

el incendio se declaró por efecto de las altas temperaturas the fire broke out as a result of the high temperatures

Comp
Informát el efecto 2000 the millennium bug;
efecto bumerán boomerang effect;

efecto dominó domino effect;
Fís efecto Doppler Doppler effect;
efecto fotoeléctrico photoelectric effect;

efecto invernadero greenhouse effect;

efecto mariposa butterfly effect;

efecto óptico optical illusion;

efecto placebo placebo effect;

efectos secundarios side effects;
Fís efecto túnel tunnel effect
2. [finalidad] aim, purpose;

al efecto, a dicho efecto, a tal efecto to that end;

rogamos contacte con nosotros, a tal efecto le adjuntamos… you are requested to contact us, and to that end please find attached…;

un andamio levantado al efecto scaffolding erected for the purpose;

las medidas propuestas a dicho efecto the measures proposed to this end;

a estos efectos, se te suministrará el material necesario you will be provided with the necessary materials for this purpose;

a efectos o [m5] para los efectos de algo as far as sth is concerned;

a efectos fiscales, estos ingresos no cuentan this income is not counted for tax purposes, this income is not taxable;

a efectos legales, esta empresa ya no existe as far as the law is concerned o in the eyes of the law, this company no longer exists;

a todos los efectos el propietario es usted for all practical purposes you are the owner

3. [impresión] impression;

sus declaraciones causaron gran efecto his statements made a great impression;

nos hizo mucho efecto la noticia the news came as quite a shock to us;

producir buen/mal efecto to make a good/bad impression

4. [vigencia] effect;

con efecto desde with effect from;

con efecto retroactivo retroactively;

con efecto inmediato with immediate effect;

un juez ha declarado sin efecto esta norma municipal a judge has declared this by-law null and void;

tener efecto [vigencia] to come into o take effect;

¿desde cuándo tiene efecto esa norma? how long has that law been in force?

5. [de balón, bola] spin;

lanzó la falta con mucho efecto he put a lot of bend on the free kick;

dar efecto a la pelota, golpear la pelota con efecto [en tenis] to put spin on the ball, to spin the ball;
[en fútbol] to put bend on the ball, to bend the ball;
dar a la bola efecto de la derecha/izquierda [en billar] to put right-hand/left-hand side on the ball;

dar a la bola efecto alto [en billar] to put topspin on the ball

6. Com [documento] bill

Comp
efecto bancario bank bill;
efectos a cobrar bills receivable;

efecto de comercio commercial paper;

efectos del estado government securities;

efecto de favor accommodation bill;

efecto interbancario bank draft;

efectos a pagar bills payable;

efectos públicos government securities

♦ efectos nmpl

1. Cine & TV efectos especiales special effects;

efectos sonoros sound effects;

efectos visuales visual effects

2. [posesiones] efectos personales personal possessions o effects

3. [mercancías] goods

Comp
efectos de consumo consumer goods
♦ en efecto loc adv

indeed;

y, en efecto, fuimos a visitar la ciudad and we did indeed visit the city;

¿lo hiciste tú? – en efecto did you do it? – I did indeed o indeed I did

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efecto

m

1 effect;

surtir efecto take effect, work;

efecto a largo plazo long-term effect;

aplicarse con efecto retroactivo be applied retroactively;

la subida con efecto retroactivo de las pensiones the retroactive increase in pensions;

llevar a efecto carry out;

dejar sin efecto negate, undo

2

:

hacer buen/mal efecto give o create a good/bad impression

3

:

al efecto for the purpose;

en efecto indeed

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efecto nm

1) : effect

2)

en efecto : actually, in fact

3) efectos nmpl

: goods, property

efectos personales: personal effects

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efecto n

1. (en general) effect

efectos especiales special effects

efecto invernadero greenhouse effect

2. (pelota) spin

golpeó la pelota con mucho efecto he put a lot of spin on the ball

en efecto indeed

hacer efecto to take effect [pt. took; pp. taken] / to work

surtir efecto to work

efecto secundario side effect

Spanish-English dictionary > efecto
14 мера мер·а

1) (действие) measure, move, step

намечать меры — to single out measures

осуществлять меры — to carry out / to implement measures

предложить меры — to initiate measures

предложить государствам-членам принять меры — to invite member-states to take measures

предпринимать / принимать меры — to take measures / steps / actions, to make arrangements

прибегать к каким-л. мерам — resort to some measures

антиинфляционные меры, меры по борьбе с инфляцией — antiinflationary / antiinflation measures

бюджетные / финансовые меры — fiscal measures

временные меры — interim / temporary measures

всеобъемлющие меры — comprehensive measures

высшая мера наказания — supreme / death penalty, capital punishment; last sanctions of the law

гуманная мера — humane measure

дальнейшие меры — further measures

действенная мера — effective measure

дискриминационная мера — discriminatory measure

дисциплинарные меры — disciplinary actions / measures

дополнительные меры — additional measures

жёсткие меры — strict / strong measures

законная мера — legal measure

защитная мера — safeguard measure

исполнительные меры юр. — measures of execution

карательные меры — punitive measures, vindictive actions

коллективные меры — collective actions

конкретные меры — specific measures

корректировочные меры, меры по урегулированию — adjustment measures

крайние меры — extreme measures

краткосрочные меры — short-term measures

крутые меры — drastic measures

надлежащие / соответствующие меры — adequate / appropriate / due / proper measures / steps / actions

насильственные меры — coercive measures

незаконные меры — illegal measures

немедленные меры — prompt actions / measures / steps

необходимые (в данном случае) меры — requisite measures

неотложные / первоочередные меры — high priority measures

непродуманная мера — half-baked measure

ничем не оправданная мера — uncalled for measure

обязательная мера — mandatory measure

ограниченные меры — limited / restrictive measures / arrangements

ответная мера — retaliatory measure

побочные меры — ancillary measures

перспективные меры — forward-looking measures

подготовительные меры — preparatory measures

половинчатые меры — half-way measures

поспешные меры — rash measures

правительственные меры — government measures

правовые и административные меры по сохранению качества окружающей среды — legal and administrative measures for protecting environmental quality

практические меры — practical measures

предварительные меры — preliminary / provisional measures / steps

предлагаемые меры — proposed measures

смягчить предлагаемые меры — to water down proposed measures

предупредительные меры — preventive measures

предусмотренная законом мера наказания — sanction(s)

примирительные меры — conciliatory measures

протекционистские меры — protective measures

противозаконные меры — illegal measures

доохранные меры — environmental protection measures

радикальные меры — drastic / radical measures

разумные меры — measures of rationality

реальные меры — real measures

репрессивные меры — repressive measures

решительные меры — drastic / decisive / firm / resolute / tough / strong measures

прибегать к решительным мерам — to resort to strong measures

своевременные меры — timely measures / steps

совместные меры — cooperative / joint measures

согласованные меры — agreed / agreed-upon measures

сопутствующие меры — colleteral measures

срочные меры — high-priority / urgent measures

строгие меры — rigorous / severe measures

целесообразные меры — meaningful measures

чрезвычайные меры — extraordinary / emergency measures

экстренные меры — emergency measures

энергичные меры — active / vigorous measures

эффективные меры — effective / effectual measures

введение мер — introduction of measures

(весь) комплекс мер — (the whole) complex of measures

меры безопасности / по обеспечению безопасности — safetyjmeasures

меры доверия — confidence measures

меры по укреплению доверия — confidence-building measures

переговоры по мерам по укреплению доверия — negotiations / talks on confidence-building measures

меры, исключающие обход / нарушение условий договора / соглашения — measures to safeguard against circumvention

меры, касающиеся процедурных вопросов — procedural measures

меры, несовместимые с обязательствами — measure derogating from (one's) obligations

меры общественного воздействия — measures of public influence

меры по борьбе с монополиями — anti-monopoly measures

меры по восстановлению в правах — measures of rehabilitation

меры по исправлению положения — remedial measures

меры по контролю — control / verification measures

меры по контролю над вооружением — arms control measures

обеспечивать соответствующие меры по контролю — to provide adequate measures of verification

мера по нормированию / распределению — rationing arrangements

меры по ограничению — restrictive arrangements

меры по оказанию помощи — relief actions

меры по ограничению и сокращению обычных / неядерных вооружений — nonnuclear disarmament measures

меры по оказанию помощи гражданскому населению — relief actions for the benefit of the civilian population

меры по предотвращению возможного обхода (соглашения) — measures to safeguard against circumvention, noncircumvention measures

мера по проведению национализации — nationalization measures

меры по проверке (выполнения соглашения) — verification measures, measures of verification

меры по разоружению — disarmament measures, measures of disarmament

частичные меры по разоружению — partial disarmament measures, partial measures of disarmament

"пакет" мер по разоружению — package of disarmament measures

меры по стабилизации экономики — stabilization efforts

мера по укреплению стабильности — stabilizing measures, measures to enhance stability

мера предосторожности — safeguard / precautionary measures

меры предупреждения случайностей — accident measures

меры принуждения — measures of enforcement / compulsion

меры, причиняющие вред — harmful measures

противодействия — countermeasure

меры, связанные с чем-л. — associated measures

объём и характер мер — scope and character of measures

принятие мер — adoption of measures

принятие крутых мер (по борьбе с преступностью) — crackdown

требовать принятия мер — to necessitate measures

2) (величина) measure

мера потребления — measure of consumption

мера стоимости — measure of value

Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > мера мер·а
15 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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dose [doz]

feminine noun

a. [de médicament] dose

• dose mortelle lethal dose

b. ( = proportion) amount

• forcer la dose (figurative) to overdo it

• pour faire cela, il faut une dose de courage peu commune you need an extraordinary amount of courage to do that

• j'aime bien la poésie mais seulement à petites doses I like poetry but only in small doses

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doz
nom féminin

1) ( quantité) lit, fig dose

à petites doses — in small doses

à dose homéopathique — in tiny doses

avoir une bonne dose de bêtise/d'égoïsme — not to be short on stupidity/selfishness

forcer la dose — (colloq) to go a bit far (colloq)

2) ( mesure) measure

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doz nf
1) MÉDECINE dose

Ne pas dépasser la dose prescrite. — Do not exceed the stated dose.

2) fig amount

Il faut une certaine dose de culot pour faire ça. — You need a certain amount of cheek to do that.

forcer la dose — to overstep the mark

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dose nf

1 Pharm, fig dose; dose mortelle lethal dose; augmenter les doses to increase the dose; à petites doses in small doses; à dose homéopathique in tiny doses; ne pas dépasser la dose prescrite do not exceed the stated dose; en avoir sa dose○ fig to have one's fill○;

2 ( quantité) amount; avoir une bonne dose de bêtise/d'égoïsme not to be short on stupidity/selfishness; forcer la dose○ to go a bit far○;

3 ( mesure) measure; deux doses par litre two measures per litre^GB.

Idiome

en tenir une bonne dose○ to be thick as two short planks.

[doz] nom féminin

1. PHARMACIE dose

MÉDECINE dose, dosage

prendre une forte dose ou une dose massive de sédatifs to take an overdose of sedatives

‘respecter les doses prescrites’ ‘do not exceed the prescribed dose’

2. COMMERCE [quantité prédéterminée - généralement] dose, measure ; [ - en sachet] sachet

une dose de désherbant pour 10 doses d'eau one part weedkiller to 10 parts water

3. [quantité - d'un aliment, d'un composant] amount, quantity

dose de: ses documentaires ont tous une petite dose d'humour there's a touch of humour in all his documentaries

il a une dose de paresse peu commune he's uncommonly lazy

avec une petite dose de bon sens/volonté with a modicum of common sense/willpower

j'ai eu ma dose de problèmes! (familier) I've had my (fair) share of problems!

du moment qu'il a sa dose journalière de télévision, il est content as long as he gets his daily dose of television, he's happy

4. (locution)

avoir sa dose (familier) [lassé, ivre]: il a sa dose he's had a bellyful ou as much as he can stand

en avoir sa dose (familier) : les problèmes, j'en ai ma dose! (familier) don't talk to me about problems!

il tient sa ou en a une bonne dose (familier) he's as thick as two short planks (UK), he's as dumb as they come (US)

à faible dose locution adverbiale

in small doses ou quantities

à forte dose locution adverbiale

in large quantities ou amounts

à haute dose locution adverbiale

in large doses ou quantities

irradié à haute dose having received a large level of radiation

à petite dose locution adverbiale,

à petites doses locution adverbiale

in small doses ou quantities

j'aime bien le sport/ma sœur, mais à petites doses I like sport/my sister, but (only) in small doses

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