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  • 1 ♦ party

    ♦ party (1) /ˈpɑ:tɪ/
    n.
    1 partito; parte politica: the Conservative party, il partito conservatore; the Labour party, il partito laburista; opposition party, partito di (o alla) opposizione; political party, partito politico; the ruling party, il partito al potere (o al governo)
    2 squadra; gruppo; comitiva; crocchio: a rescue party, una squadra di soccorso; to make up a party, formare una comitiva; the bridal party, la sposa e il suo seguito
    3 festa; ricevimento; riunione; party: to give a party, dare un ricevimento (o un party); organizzare una festa; dinner party, pranzo ( con invitati); hen party, festa di addio al nubilato; surprise party, festa a sorpresa; stag party, festa di addio al celibato; farewell party, festa d'addio; garden party, garden party; trattenimento in giardino; to throw a party, dare una festa
    4 (leg.) parte; parte contraente; parte in causa: to become party to an action, costituirsi parte in un processo; innocent party, parte in causa non responsabile; the two parties to the contract, le due parti contraenti; the interested parties, le parti interessate; gli interessati; le parti in causa
    5 (fam. scherz. USA) persona; individuo; tipo; tizio
    6 (mil.) distaccamento ( di soldati); squadra; plotone; reparto: a firing party, un plotone d'esecuzione; ( oppure) un plotone d'onore ( a un funerale, dove si spara a salve); a landing party, un reparto di fanteria da sbarco
    7 (telef.) abbonato; utente
    ● (leg.) the party at fault, la parte responsabile □ (leg.) the party concerned, la parte interessata; l'interessato; gli interessati □ (leg.) the party entitled, l'avente diritto; gli aventi diritto □ party funding, finanziamento dei partiti □ party game, gioco di società (spec. di bambini) □ party leader, leader (o segretario) di un partito politico □ (polit.) the party line, la linea (politica) del partito □ (telef.) party line, telefono in duplex; duplex; ( anche) party line, linea calda (o erotica) □ (polit.) party-liner, chi segue la linea politica del partito □ party man, festaiolo, chi va ai party di frequente; (polit.) uomo di partito, sostenitore della linea (politica) d'un partito □ (polit.) party office, sezione □ (ingl.) party piece, pezzo forte ( poesia, canzone, ecc. in cui q. si esibisce in compagnia); (fig.) numero; cavallo di battaglia □ (spec. ingl.) party-political, di partito; partitico: party-political broadcast, tribuna politica ( trasmessa in TV durante il periodo elettorale) □ (fam.) party pooper, guastafeste; musone; muso lungo □ (polit.) party rally, riunione di partito; comizio □ the party grass roots, la base del partito □ party spirit, fedeltà a un partito; spirito di parte; partigianeria; ( anche) umore festaiolo, atmosfera festaiola: to get into the party spirit, cominciare a divertirsi □ (ferr.) party ticket, biglietto collettivo □ (leg.) to be a party to a crime, essere complice in un delitto □ (edil., leg.) party wall, muro divisorio fra due proprietà; muro in comune □ Will you join our party?, vuoi essere dei nostri? □ (iron.) The party is over, la festa (o la pacchia, la cuccagna) è finita.
    NOTA D'USO: - the party is o the party are?- party (2) /ˈpɑ:tɪ/
    a.
    (arald.) partito.
    (to) party /ˈpɑ:tɪ/
    v. i. (fam. spec. USA)
    1 divertirsi; fare festa
    2 bere; drogarsi; fare sesso.

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ party

  • 2 party

    I
    1. [ʹpɑ:tı] n
    партия

    to belong to a party - принадлежать к какой-л. партии, быть членом какой-л. партии

    2. [ʹpɑ:tı] a
    партийный

    party affiliation /membership/ - партийность, принадлежность к партии

    party leader - лидер /вождь/ партии

    party warfare - борьба партий, война между партиями

    II [ʹpɑ:tı] n
    1. отряд, команда; группа, партия

    working party - рабочая группа (комиссии, конференции и т. п.)

    to form [to organize] a party - создать [организовать] группу /отряд/

    our tour ended and the party disbanded - наш поход закончился, и группа распалась

    2. 1) компания

    he had a party of friends at his home - у него дома собралась компания друзей

    the party did not break up until two in the morning - гости разошлись только к двум часам ночи

    we shall be a small party - у нас будут все свои, у нас будет немного народу

    2) приём гостей; вечер, вечеринка; пикник; прогулка в компании

    to give a party - позвать гостей; устроить вечер; принимать гостей

    to make /to get/ up a party - собрать гостей, устроить вечер

    3. сопровождающие лица, свита
    4. (to) участник, участвующее лицо

    to be a party to smth. - принимать участие /участвовать/ в чём-л.

    he was a party to all their proceedings - он принимал участие во всех их делах

    sixty countries are now parties to the treaty - 60 стран уже подписали этот договор

    the defendant was a party to the making of the codicil - обвиняемый принимал участие в составлении дополнительного распоряжения к завещанию

    to be [to become] a party to a crime - быть [стать] соучастником преступления

    to be a party to an undertaking - участвовать в (каком-л.) предприятии /мероприятии/

    to be no party to smth. - не принимать участия в чём-л.

    I shall never be a party to any such thing - я никогда не приму участия в таком деле

    5. 1) разг. особа; человек
    2) амер. студ. жарг. доступная девушка
    6. юр. сторона

    adverse /opposite/ party - противная сторона ( в процессе)

    contracting parties, the parties to a contract - договаривающиеся стороны

    the High Contracting Parties - дип. Высокие Договаривающиеся Стороны

    the parties concerned, interested parties - заинтересованные стороны

    7. амер. студ. жарг. обнимание, нежничание; вечеринка с поцелуями

    ♢ cold-meat party - амер. сл. похороны

    necktie party - амер. сл. линчевание

    II [ʹpɑ:tı] a геральд.
    разделённый сверху донизу на две равные части

    party per pale [fess] - разделённый вертикальной [горизонтальной] линией

    НБАРС > party

  • 3 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 4 Social Democratic Party / Partido Social Democrático

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

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

  • 5 tête

    tête [tεt]
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       a. [de personne, animal] head
    • tenir tête à qn/qch to stand up to sb/sth
       b. ( = visage, expression) face
    • quand il a appris la nouvelle il a fait une drôle de tête ! you should have seen his face when he heard the news!
    • il en fait une tête ! just look at his face!
       c. ( = personne) head
    • le repas coûtera 150 € par tête de pipe (inf!) the meal will cost 150 euros a head
       d. ( = partie supérieure) [de clou, marteau] head ; [d'arbre] top
       e. ( = partie antérieure) head
       f. ( = facultés mentales) avoir toute sa tête to have all one's faculties
    • où ai-je la tête ? whatever am I thinking of?
    • c'est une tête en maths he's (or she's) really good at maths
    • la géométrie, ça me prend la tête (inf) geometry does my head in (inf)
       h. (locutions)
    • foncer or se jeter tête baissée dans to rush headlong into► la tête haute
    • être à la tête d'un mouvement/d'une affaire ( = diriger) to head a movement/a business
    • on monte en tête ou en queue ? shall we get on at the front or the back?
    • dans les sondages, il arrive largement en tête he's well ahead in the polls
    2. <
    ► tête de lecture [de magnétophone, magnétoscope] play-back head ; (Computing) reading head
    ► tête de mort ( = emblème) death's-head ; (sur pavillon) skull and crossbones
    ► tête de nœud (vulg!) dickhead (vulg!)
    * * *
    tɛt
    1) gén head

    la tête basse — ( humblement) with one's head bowed

    la tête haute — ( dignement) with one's head held high

    tête baissée — [se lancer, foncer] headlong

    la tête en bas — [être suspendu, se retrouver] upside down

    être tombé sur la tête — (colloq) fig to have gone off one's rocker (colloq)

    2) ( dessus du crâne) head
    3) ( visage) face

    une bonne/sale tête — a nice/nasty face

    tu en fais une tête! — what a face!, why the long face?

    tu as une tête à faire peur, aujourd'hui! — you look dreadful today!

    4) ( esprit) mind

    de tête — [citer, réciter] from memory; [calculer] in one's head

    ça (ne) va pas, la tête? — (colloq) are you out of your mind or what?

    mets-lui ça dans la tête — drum it into him/her

    se mettre dans la or en tête de faire — to take it into one's head to do

    monter à la tête de quelqu'un, faire tourner la tête de quelqu'un — [alcool, succès] to go to somebody's head

    il n'est pas bien dans sa tête — (colloq) he isn't right in the head

    5) ( personne) face

    avoir ses têtes — to have one's favourites [BrE]

    en tête à tête — [être, dîner] alone together

    gagner d'une courte tête — [personne] to win by a narrow margin; [cheval] to win by a short head

    7) ( unité de troupeau) head (inv)
    8) ( individu)

    par tête — gén a head, each; ( dans des statistiques) per capita

    par tête de pipe — (colloq) each

    9) ( vie) head

    vouloir la tête de quelqu'un — ( mort) to want somebody's head; ( disgrâce) to be after somebody's head

    des têtes vont tomber — fig heads will roll

    10) ( direction)

    être en tête — (de liste, classement) to be at the top; (d'élection, de course, sondage) to be in the lead

    le gouvernement, le premier ministre en tête, a décidé que... — the government, led by the Prime Minister, has decided that...

    des tas de gens viendront, ta femme en tête — heaps of people are coming, your wife to begin with

    12) ( extrémité) ( de train) front; (de convoi, cortège) head; (d'arbre, de mât) top; (de vis, rivet, clou) head
    13) Sport ( au football) header
    14) Armée ( d'engin) warhead
    15) ( en électronique) (d'enregistrement, effacement) head; ( d'électrophone) cartridge

    tête de lecture — (de magnétophone, magnétoscope) head

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    Phrasal Verbs:
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    j'en mettrais ma tête à couper or sur le billot — I'd swear to it

    en avoir par-dessus la tête — (colloq) to be fed up to the back teeth (colloq)

    se prendre la tête à deux mains — (colloq) ( pour réfléchir) to rack one's brains (colloq)

    prendre la tête — (colloq) to be a drag (colloq)

    se prendre la tête — (colloq) to do one's head in (colloq)

    * * *
    tɛt nf
    1) [personne, animal] head
    2) (= visage, expression) face
    3) FOOTBALL header

    faire une tête — to head the ball, to do a header

    4) (= position)

    en tête SPORT — in the lead, (d'un cortège) at the front, at the head

    en tête de SPORT — leading, [cortège] leading

    à la tête de [organisation] — at the head of, in charge of

    prendre la tête de [peloton, course] — to take the lead in, [organisation, société] to become the head of

    calculer qch de tête — to work sth out in one's head, to do a mental calculation of sth

    perdre la tête (= s'affoler) — to lose one's head, (= devenir fou) to go off one's head

    ça ne va pas, la tête? * — are you crazy?

    tenir tête à qn — to stand up to sb, to defy sb

    * * *
    1 gén (d'animal, insecte, de personne, plante) head; bouger la tête to move one's head; dessiner une tête de femme to draw a woman's head; statue à tête de chien statue with a dog's head; en pleine tête (right) in the head; blessure à la tête head injury; frapper qn à la tête to hit sb on the head; la tête la première [tomber, plonger] head first; la tête basse ( humblement) with one's head bowed; la tête haute ( dignement) with one's head held high; garder la tête haute fig to hold one's head high; tête baissée [se lancer, foncer] headlong; la tête en bas [être suspendu, se retrouver] upside down; au-dessus de nos têtes ( en l'air) overhead; sans tête [corps, cadavre] headless; coup de tête headbutt; donner un coup de tête à qn to headbutt sb; tomber sur la tête lit to fall on one's head; être tombé sur la tête○ fig to have gone off one's rocker○; salut, p’tite tête○! hello, bonehead○!; ⇒ bille, coûter, donner, gros;
    2 ( dessus du crâne) head; se couvrir/se gratter la tête to cover/to scratch one's head; avoir la tête rasée to have a shaven head; sortir tête nue or sans rien sur la tête to go out bareheaded; se laver la tête to wash one's hair; j'ai la tête toute mouillée my hair's all wet;
    3 ( visage) face; une bonne/sale tête a nice/nasty face; il a une belle tête he's got a nice face; si tu avais vu ta tête! you should have seen your face!; t'as vu la tête qu'il a tirée○? did you see his face?; tu en fais une tête! what a face you're pulling!; ne fais pas cette tête-là! don't pull such a face!; faire une tête longue comme ça○ to look miserable; il a fait une drôle de tête quand il m'a vu he pulled a face when he saw me; quelle tête va-t-il faire? how's he going to react?; faire une tête de circonstance to assume a suitable expression; à cette nouvelle, il a changé de tête on hearing this, his face fell; il (me) fait la tête he's sulking; ne fais pas ta mauvaise tête don't be so difficult; elle fait sa mauvaise tête she's being difficult; il a une tête à tricher he looks like a cheat; elle a une tête à être du quartier she looks like a local; tu as une tête à faire peur, aujourd'hui! you look dreadful today!; se faire la or une tête de Pierrot to make oneself up as (a) Pierrot; ⇒ six;
    4 ( esprit) de tête [citer, réciter] from memory; [calculer] in one's head; tu n'as pas de tête! you have a mind like a sieve!; avoir en tête de faire to have it in mind to do; avoir qch en tête to have sth in mind; j'ai bien d'autres choses en tête pour le moment I've got a lot of other things on my mind at the moment; je n'ai pas la référence en tête I can't recall the reference; où avais-je la tête? whatever was I thinking of?; ça (ne) va pas, la tête○? are you feeling all right?; j'ai la tête vide my mind is a blank; j'avais la tête ailleurs I was dreaming, I was thinking of something else; elle n'a pas la tête à ce qu'elle fait her mind isn't on what she's doing; avoir la tête pleine de projets, avoir des projets plein la tête to have one's head full of plans; quand il a quelque chose dans la or en tête, il ne l'a pas ailleurs○ once he's got GB ou gotten US something into his head, he can't think of anything else; n'avoir rien dans la tête to be empty-headed, to be an airhead○; c'est lui qui t'a mis ça dans la tête! you got that idea from him!; mets-lui ça dans la tête drum it into him/her; se mettre dans la or en tête que to get it into one's head that; se mettre dans la or en tête de faire to take it into one's head to do; mets-toi bien ça dans la tête! get it into your head once and for all!; mettez-vous dans la tête que je ne signerai pas get it into your head that I won't sign; passer par la tête de qn [idée] to cross sb's mind; on ne sait jamais ce qui leur passe par la tête you never know what's going through their minds; passer au-dessus de la tête de qn to be ou go (right) over sb's head; sortir de la tête de qn to slip sb's mind; ça m'est sorti de la tête it slipped my mind; cette fille lui a fait perdre la tête he's lost his head over that girl; monter la tête à Pierre contre Paul to turn Pierre against Paul; j'ai la tête qui tourne my head's spinning; ça me fait tourner la tête it's making my head spin; monter à la tête, faire tourner la tête de qn [alcool, succès] to go to sb's head; elle t'a fait tourner la tête she's turned your head; il n'est pas bien dans sa tête○ he isn't right in the head; il a encore toute sa tête (à lui) he's still got all his faculties ou marbles○; il n'a plus sa tête à lui he's no longer in possession of all his faculties, he's lost his marbles○; n'en faire qu'à sa tête to go one's own way; tenir tête à qn to stand up to sb; sur un coup de tête on an impulse; ⇒ fort;
    5 ( personne) face; j'ai déjà vu cette tête-là quelque part I've seen that face somewhere before; voir de nouvelles têtes to see new faces; avoir ses têtes to have one's favouritesGB; en tête à tête [être, rester, dîner] alone together; être (en) tête à tête avec qn to be alone with sb; rencontrer qn en tête à tête to have a meeting with sb in private; un dîner en tête à tête an intimate dinner for two;
    6 ( mesure de longueur) head; avoir une tête de plus que qn, dépasser qn d'une tête to be a head taller than sb; gagner d'une courte tête [personne] to win by a narrow margin; [cheval] to win by a short head; avoir une tête d'avance sur qn to be a short length in front of sb;
    7 ( unité de troupeau) head ( inv); 30 têtes de bétail 30 head of cattle; un troupeau de 500 têtes a herd of 500 head;
    8 ( individu) par tête gén a head, each; Stat per capita; par tête de pipe○ each; ça fera 100 euros par tête it'll be 100 euros each ou a head; le PNB par tête the per capita GNP;
    9 ( vie) head; ma tête est mise à prix there's a price on my head; vouloir la tête de qn ( mort) to want sb's head; ( disgrâce) to be after sb's head; risquer sa tête to risk one's neck○; des têtes vont tomber fig heads will roll;
    10 ( direction) frapper une révolte à la tête to go for the leaders of an uprising; le groupe de tête the leading group; c'est lui la tête pensante du projet/mouvement/gang he's the brains behind the project/movement/gang; être à la tête d'un mouvement/parti to be at the head of a movement/party; il restera à la tête du groupe he will stay on as head of the group; il a été nommé à la tête du groupe he was appointed head of the group; on l'a rappelé à la tête de l'équipe he was called back to head up ou lead the team; prendre la tête du parti to become leader of the party; prendre la tête des opérations to take charge of operations; être à la tête d'une immense fortune to be the possessor of a huge fortune;
    11 ( premières places) top; les él èves qui forment la tête de la classe the pupils at the top of the class; les candidats en tête de liste the candidates at the top of the list; être en tête (de liste, classement) to be at the top; (d'élection, de course, sondage) to be in the lead; venir en tête to come first; marcher en tête to walk at the front; à la tête d'un cortège at the head of a procession; marcher en tête d'un cortège to head ou lead a procession; il est en tête au premier tour Pol he's in the lead after the first round; il est en tête dans les sondages he's leading in the polls; l'équipe de tête au championnat the leading team in the championship; arriver en tête [coureur] to come in first; [candidat] to come first; le gouvernement, le premier ministre en tête, a décidé que… the government, led by the Prime Minister, has decided that…; des tas de gens viendront, ta femme en tête heaps of people are coming, your wife to begin with; en tête de phrase at the beginning of a sentence;
    12 ( extrémité) ( de train) front; (de convoi, cortège) head; (d'arbre, de mât) top; (de vis, rivet, clou) head; les wagons de tête the front carriages GB ou cars US; une place en tête de train a seat at the front of the train; je préfère m'asseoir en tête I prefer to sit at the front; la tête du convoi s'est engagée sur le pont the head of the convoy went onto the bridge; l'avion a rasé la tête des arbres the plane clipped the tops of the trees ou the treetops; en tête de file first in line; ⇒ queue;
    13 Sport ( au football) header; faire une tête to head the ball;
    14 Mil ( d'engin) warhead; tête chimique/nucléaire chemical/nuclear warhead; missile à têtes multiples multiple-warhead missile;
    15 Électron (d'enregistrement, effacement) head; ( d'électrophone) cartridge; tête de lecture (de magnétophone, magnétoscope) head.
    tête d'affiche Cin, Théât top of the bill; tête d'ail Bot, Culin head of garlic; tête en l'air scatterbrain; être tête en l'air to be scatterbrained; tête blonde ( enfant) little one; nos chères têtes blondes hum our little darlings; tête brûlée daredevil; tête de chapitre chapter heading; tête chercheuse Mil homing device; missile à tête chercheuse homing missile; tête à claques○ pain○; quelle tête à claques, ce type! he's somebody you could cheerfully punch in the face; tête de cochon○ = tête de lard; tête couronnée crowned head; tête de delco® Aut distributor cap; tête d'écriture Ordinat write ou writing head; tête d'effacement Ordinat erase ou erasing head; tête d'épingle lit, fig pinhead; tête flottante Ordinat floating head; tête de lard○ péj ( têtu) mule; ( mauvais caractère) grouch; tête de ligne Transp end of the line; tête de linotte scatterbrain; tête de liste Pol chief candidate; tête de lit bedhead GB, headboard; tête magnétique magnetic head; tête de mort ( crâne) skull; ( symbole de mort) death's head; ( emblème de pirates) skull and crossbones (+ v sg); tête de mule○ mule; être une vraie tête de mule to be as stubborn as a mule; tête de nègre Culin chocolate marshmallow; tête de nœud● offensive prick●; tête d'oiseau○ péj featherbrain; tête de pioche○ = tête de mule; tête de pont Mil bridgehead; tête de série Sport seeded player; tête de série numéro deux number two seed; tête de Turc○ whipping boy; être la tête de Turc de qn to be sb's whipping boy; tête de veau Culin calf's head.
    j'en mettrais ma tête à couper or sur le billot I'd put my head on the block; en avoir par-dessus la tête to be fed up to the back teeth○ (de with); se prendre la tête à deux mains ( pour réfléchir)○ to rack one's brains○; prendre la tête○, être une (vraie) prise de tête○ to be a drag○.
    [tɛt] nom féminin
    A.[PARTIE DU CORPS]
    ne tourne pas la tête, elle nous regarde don't look round, she's watching us
    dès qu'il m'a vu, il a tourné la tête as soon as he saw me, he looked away
    j'en donnerais ou j'en mettrais ma tête à couper I'd stake my life on it
    il ne réfléchit jamais, il fonce tête baissée he always charges in ou ahead without thinking
    se cogner ou se taper la tête contre les murs to bang one's head against a (brick) wall
    2. [en référence à la chevelure, à la coiffure]
    3. [visage, expression] face
    ne fais pas cette tête! don't pull (UK) ou make such a long face!
    avec lui, c'est à la tête du client
    4. [mesure] head
    tête pressée (Belgique) [fromage de tête] pork brawn (UK), headcheese (US)
    B.[SIÈGE DE LA PENSÉE]
    1. [siège des pensées, de l'imagination, de la mémoire] mind, head
    avoir la tête chaude, avoir la tête près du bonnet to be quick-tempered
    avoir la tête vide/dure to be empty-headed/stubborn
    excuse-moi, j'avais la tête ailleurs sorry, I was thinking about something else ou I was miles away
    il n'a pas de tête [il est étourdi] he is scatterbrained ou a scatterbrain
    ça m'est sorti de la tête I forgot, it slipped my mind
    2. [sang-froid, présence d'esprit] head
    avoir ou garder la tête froide to keep a cool head
    C.[PERSONNE, ANIMAL]
    1. [individu] person
    être une tête de lard ou de mule to be as stubborn as a mule, to be pig-headed
    tête de linotte ou d'oiseau ou sans cervelle scatterbrain
    2. [vie d'une personne] head, neck
    jouer ou risquer sa tête to risk one's skin
    3. [meneur, leader] head, leader
    4. [animal d'un troupeau] head (invariable)
    D.[PARTIE HAUTE, PARTIE AVANT, DÉBUT]
    1. [faîte] top
    2. [partie avant] front end
    prendre la tête du défilé to head ou to lead the procession
    a. [marcher au premier rang] to take the lead
    b. [commander, diriger] to take over
    a. [généralement] terminus, end of the line
    3. [début]
    4. [dans un classement] top, head
    5. [extrémité - d'un objet, d'un organe] head ; [ - d'un os] head, caput
    a. [sur rivière] bridgehead
    b. [sur plage] beachhead
    à la tête de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [en possession de]
    2. [au premier rang de] at the head ou front of
    3. [à la direction de] in charge of, at the head of
    ————————
    de tête locution adjectivale
    1. [femme, homme] able
    2. [convoi, voiture] front (avant nom)
    ————————
    de tête locution adverbiale
    [calculer] in one's head
    de tête, je dirais que nous étions vingt at a guess I'd say there were twenty of us
    ————————
    en tête locution adverbiale
    1. [devant]
    a. [généralement] to be at the front
    b. [dans une course, une compétition] to (be in the) lead
    2. [à l'esprit]
    en tête à tête locution adverbiale
    en tête de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [au début de] at the beginning ou start of
    2. [à l'avant de] at the head ou front of
    3. [au premier rang de] at the top of
    ————————
    par tête locution adverbiale
    → link=parpar tête
    ————————
    sur la tête de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [sur la personne de]
    le mécontentement populaire s'est répercuté sur la tête du Premier ministre popular discontent turned towards the Prime Minister
    2. [au nom de] in the name of
    3. [en prêtant serment]
    ————————
    tête brûlée nom féminin
    ————————
    tête de mort nom féminin
    1. [crâne] skull
    ————————
    → link=tête-de-nègretête-de-nègre (nom féminin)
    ————————
    tête de Turc nom féminin

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > tête

  • 6 Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de

    (1949-)
       Political leader and administrator, law professor, editor, and writer. A son of Baltazar Rebelo de Sousa, important administrator, governor-general of Mozambique, and cabinet minister during the Estado Novo, Rebelo de Sousa took a law degree at the University of Lisbon Law Faculty. Near the end of the Estado Novo, he was a founding editor of the influential, independent weekly paper Expresso, and years later became director or chief editor. As a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Rebelo de Sousa held a variety of positions from deputy to the Constituent Assembly, which wrote the 1976 Constitution, to ministerial posts. He moved up in the PSD after the retirement of Aníbal Cavaco Silva in 1995 to become leader of that party, the most important political grouping next to the Socialist Party (PS). Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was an unsuccessful candidate for prime minister in the 1999 elections for the Assembly of the Republic. A noted legal authority and a law academic who publishes frequently, he remained a professor of law at University of Lisbon's Law Faculty and the Catholic University, and was the author of law texts. He has also held various municipal posts from Cascais to Celorico de Basto.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de

  • 7 Gespräch

    n; -(e)s, -e
    1. conversation ( über + Akk about, on; mit with; zwischen between); (Diskussion) discussion; zu zweit: dialog(ue); POL. talks Pl.; am Telefon: telephone conversation; (Anruf) call; ein Gespräch führen mit have a conversation with; Gespräche führen mit talk to; bes. POL. have talks with; ins Gespräch kommen mit get into conversation with, get talking to; fig. make contact with; es ist im Gespräch (wird erwogen) it’s being considered, it’s under discussion ( oder consideration); (wird beredet) it’s a talking point; sie ist als zukünftige Parteichefin im Gespräch she’s being talked about ( oder she’s under consideration) as the future leader of the party; das Gespräch bringen auf (+ Akk) bring the conversation (a)round to; mit jemandem im Gespräch bleiben keep in contact with s.o., keep up (the) contact with s.o.; Gegenstand der Gespräche war... the subject under discussion was...
    2. Thema: talk; das Gespräch der ganzen Stadt the talk of the (whole) town; das Gespräch des Tages sein be the talking-point ( oder topic) of the day
    * * *
    das Gespräch
    (Telefon) call;
    (Unterhaltung) colloquy; talk; conversation; discourse; interlocution
    * * *
    Ge|spräch [gə'ʃprɛːç]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    1) (= Unterhaltung) conversation; (= Diskussion) discussion; (= Dialog) dialogue (Brit), dialog (US)

    Gesprä́che (Pol) — talks

    ich habe ein sehr interessantes Gesprä́ch mit ihm geführt — I had a very interesting conversation or talk with him

    ein Gesprä́ch unter vier Augen — a confidential or private talk

    ein Gesprä́ch unter Freunden — a conversation between friends

    mit jdm ein Gesprä́ch anknüpfen — to start a conversation with sb

    im Gesprä́ch sein (lit) — to be being discussed, to be being talked about; (in der Schwebe) to be under discussion

    mit jdm ins Gesprä́ch kommen — to get into conversation with sb; (fig) to establish a dialogue (Brit) or dialog (US) with sb

    2)

    (= Gesprächsstoff) das Gesprä́ch des Tages — the topic of the hour

    das Gesprä́ch der Stadt — the talk of the town

    zum Gesprä́ch werden — to become a talking point

    3) (TELEC = Anruf) (telephone) call

    wir haben in unserem gestrigen Gesprä́ch vereinbart, dass... — we agreed in our telephone conversation yesterday that...

    ein Gesprä́ch für dich — a call for you

    stundenlange Gesprä́che führen — to be on the telephone for hours

    * * *
    (to talk about: They spent the whole time talking philosophy.) talk
    * * *
    Ge·spräch
    <-[e]s, -e>
    [gəˈʃprɛ:ç]
    nt
    1. (Unterredung) conversation, chat fam
    sich akk in ein \Gespräch einmischen to interfere in a conversation
    jdn in ein \Gespräch einwickeln to engage sb in conversation
    ein \Gespräch mit jdm führen to conduct [or hold] a conversation with sb, to converse with sb, to have a chat with sb fam
    das \Gespräch auf etw akk bringen to steer a conversation on to [the subject of] sth
    mit jdm ins \Gespräch kommen to get into conversation with sb
    [mit jdm] im \Gespräch bleiben to stay [or keep] in touch with sb
    ein \Gespräch unterbrechen to interrupt a conversation
    die Missverständnisse in einem \Gespräch ausräumen to overcome differences by talking about them
    ein \Gespräch unter Frauen/Männern a word [or chat] from woman to woman/man to man
    im \Gespräch sein to be under consideration [or still being considered]
    ein \Gespräch unter vier Augen a private conversation [or fam chat
    2. (Vorstellungsgespräch) [job] interview
    3. pl (Verhandlungen) talks pl
    die \Gespräche haben sich festgefahren the talks have reached a deadlock
    \Gespräche aufnehmen to begin [or commence] talks form
    \Gespräche abbrechen to break off talks
    mit jdm ins \Gespräch kommen to begin talks [or a dialogue
    4. (Anruf) [telephone/phone] call
    ein \Gespräch führen to make a [telephone/phone] call
    ein \Gespräch für dich! it's for you!, there's a call for you!
    das \Gespräch der Stadt/des Tages sein to be the talk of the town/the subject of the day
    * * *
    das; Gespräch[e]s, Gespräche
    1) conversation; (Diskussion) discussion

    der Gegenstand des Gespräch[e]s — the subject or topic under discussion

    mit jemandem ins Gespräch kommen — get into or engage in conversation with somebody; (fig.): (sich annähern) enter into a dialogue with somebody

    2) (Telefonanruf) call
    * * *
    Gespräch n; -(e)s, -e
    1. conversation (
    über +akk about, on;
    mit with;
    zwischen between); (Diskussion) discussion; zu zweit: dialog(ue); POL talks pl; am Telefon: telephone conversation; (Anruf) call;
    ein Gespräch führen mit have a conversation with;
    Gespräche führen mit talk to; besonders POL have talks with;
    ins Gespräch kommen mit get into conversation with, get talking to; fig make contact with;
    es ist im Gespräch (wird erwogen) it’s being considered, it’s under discussion ( oder consideration); (wird beredet) it’s a talking point;
    sie ist als zukünftige Parteichefin im Gespräch she’s being talked about ( oder she’s under consideration) as the future leader of the party;
    das Gespräch bringen auf (+akk) bring the conversation (a)round to;
    mit jemandem im Gespräch bleiben keep in contact with sb, keep up (the) contact with sb;
    Gegenstand der Gespräche war … the subject under discussion was …
    2. Thema: talk;
    das Gespräch der ganzen Stadt the talk of the (whole) town;
    das Gespräch des Tages sein be the talking-point ( oder topic) of the day
    * * *
    das; Gespräch[e]s, Gespräche
    1) conversation; (Diskussion) discussion

    der Gegenstand des Gespräch[e]s — the subject or topic under discussion

    mit jemandem ins Gespräch kommen — get into or engage in conversation with somebody; (fig.): (sich annähern) enter into a dialogue with somebody

    * * *
    -e n.
    chat n.
    conversation n.
    dialogue n.
    interlocution n.
    talk n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Gespräch

  • 8 propulser

    propulser [pʀɔpylse]
    ➭ TABLE 1 transitive verb
       a. [+ missile] to propel
       b. ( = projeter) to hurl
    * * *
    pʀɔpylse
    1) ( faire mouvoir) [moteur] to propel
    2) (colloq) ( promouvoir) to propel
    3) (colloq) ( déplacer violemment) to hurl [personne, objet]
    * * *
    pʀɔpylse vt
    1) [missile] to propel
    2) (= projeter) to hurl, to fling
    * * *
    propulser verb table: aimer
    A vtr
    1 ( faire mouvoir) [moteur] to propel [véhicule, projectile];
    2 ( promouvoir) to propel [personne];
    3 ○( déplacer violemment) to hurl [personne, objet].
    B se propulser○ vpr to propel oneself○.
    [prɔpylse] verbe transitif
    2. [pousser] to push, to fling

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > propulser

  • 9 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 10 Г-20

    ВО ГЛАВЕ PrepP Invar
    1. идти, маршировать и т. п. - кого-чего (the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect) or adv
    (to walk, march etc) in front, ahead of others
    at the head (of sth.)
    leading ( s.o. sth.) in the lead (in limited contexts) in the first row.
    Полгода назад он (Коля) шёл с лопатой через плечо во главе комсомольского воскресника и пел во всю глотку - а сейчас даже о боли своей не мог рассказать громче шёпота (Солженицын 10). Six months ago he (Kolya) had been striding along, a spade over his shoulder, at the head of a Young Communists' Sunday working party, singing at the top of his voice. Now he could not raise his voice above a whisper, even when talking about his pain (10a).
    2. бытье, стоять, (в)стать и т. п. \Г-20 (the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human or collect) or obj-compl with поставить кого etc
    obj: human or collect)) (to be) in a position of authority, (to take over) as leader (of s.o. or sth.): (be (put s.o.)) at the head (of sth.) (be (become)) s.o. fc leader (be (become)) leader of sth. (be (leave s.o. etc)) in charge (of sth.) take command of sth. (in limited contexts) take the lead (in sth.)
    spearhead sth.. По-видимому, он про себя рассуждал так: сегодня женщину поставили во главе государства, а завтра поставят во главе стола (Искандер 4). Не apparently reasoned thus: Today they've put a woman at the head of the government, tomorrow they'll put her at the head of the table (4a).
    (Лорд:) Во главе вас станет ваш царь Кири-Куки 1-ый, а я окажу помощь (Булгаков 1). (Lord:) Your Tsar Kiri-Kuki the First will be our leader, and I will assist (1a).
    Я бы, товарищи, ещё трижды подумал, оставлять ли его во главе столь ответственного участка, как Лаборатория № 4» (Аксёнов 6). "I would think twice, comrades, before leaving him in charge of such a sensitive department as Laboratory Number 4" (6a).
    (Яков Фомин) стал во главе мятежного полка, но... за спиной Фомина правила делами и руководила Фоминым группа большевистски настроенных казаков (Шолохов 4). (Yakov Fomin) took command of the insurgent regi- ment, but...behind him stood a group of Bolshevik-minded Cossacks who held the reins of power (4a).
    3. \Г-20 с кем (the resulting PrepP is nonagreeing modif) having s.o. as leader
    with s.o. at the head
    under the leadership of led (headed) by.
    В дежурное помещение, поддерживая друг друга, явилась невероятная компания во главе с известным в городе гражданином, директором санатория имени XIX партсъезда, генералом в отставке Чувиковым (Аксенов 6). The duty room was invaded by an incredible rabble of people, supporting one another, who were led by a well-known citizen of Yalta, director of the Nineteenth Party Congress Sanatorium, retired Major-General Chuvikov (6a).
    ...Она (труппа) однажды явилась во главе с Шарлем Лагранжем и сообщила Мольеру, что ввиду того, что он соединяет с необыкновенными способностями честность и приятное обращение, труппа просит его не беспокоиться: актёры не уйдут искать счастья на стороне, какие бы выгодные предложения им ни делали (Булгаков 5)....One day his (Мо-lieres) players came to him, headed by Charles La Grange, and assured him that, in view of his fairness and kindness, as well as his extraordinary talents, he had nothing to worry about-they would not leave to seek their fortunes elsewhere no matter how tempting the offers they received (5a).

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  • 11 Parteiführung

    Par|tei|füh|rung
    f
    leadership of a party; (Vorstand) party leaders pl or executive
    * * *
    Par·tei·füh·rung
    f
    die \Parteiführung innehaben to exercise the party leadership, to be [the] party leader
    die \Parteiführung übernehmen to assume [or take on] [or take over] the party leadership, to become [the] party leader
    2. (leitendes Gremium) party leadership no pl
    * * *
    die party leadership
    * * *
    die party leadership

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  • 12 lucha

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

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

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

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

    lucha es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

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

    ( para conseguir algo) struggle;

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


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



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

    d) (Dep) to wrestle

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

    Spanish-English dictionary > lucha

  • 13 Santana Lopes, Pedro Miguel de

    (1956-)
       Portuguese lawyer and politician, and prime minister (2004-05). Born in Lisbon in 1956, Santana Lopes took a law degree from the University of Lisbon and was a Student Union leader. In 1976, he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and became a legal advisor to Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro. Santana Lopes has always considered himself a follower of the late Sá Carneiro. In 1986, he became assistant state secretary to Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and the following year was elected to the European Parliament, in which he served for two years. In 1991, Cavaco Silva named him secretary of state for culture. He served in various other posts, including mayor of Lisbon, and he founded a weekly newspaper, Semanário.
       In 1998, Santana Lopes withdrew from politics after being negatively depicted in a private television station comic sketch. Instead, he continued in politics and rose to the vice-presidency of the PSD. José Manuel Durão Barroso resigned in July 2004 to become president of the European Commission, and Santana Lopes became PSD leader. Since his party was the major partner in the governing coalition at this time and Barroso had resigned his post, Santana Lopes succeeded him.
       Santana Lopes' brief premiership was fraught with difficulties. The national economy was in a crisis, and there were frequent cabinet shuffles, factionalism among PSD leaders, and questions being raised about the competence of Santana Lopes to govern effectively. President Jorge Sampaio called a parliamentary election for February 2005, following the resignation of the minister of sport from the cabinet and that minister's attacks on the prime minister's conduct. The Socialist Party (PS) under José Sócrates won the election, and Santana Lopes left office to resume his post as mayor of Lisbon. Santana Lopes, however, after in-fighting with his party and following the party's failure to endorse him as a candidate for the upcoming municipal elections, resigned this post one month before the election of February 2005.

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  • 14 charge

    1. noun
    1) (price) Preis, der; (payable to telephone company, bank, authorities, etc., for services) Gebühr, die
    2) (care) Verantwortung, die; (task) Auftrag, der; (person entrusted) Schützling, der

    the patients in or under her charge — die ihr anvertrauten Patienten

    the officer/teacher in charge — der Dienst habende Offizier/der verantwortliche Lehrer

    be in charge of something — für etwas die Verantwortung haben; (be the leader) etwas leiten

    put somebody in charge of something — jemanden mit der Verantwortung für etwas betrauen

    take charge of something — (become responsible for) etwas übernehmen

    3) (Law): (accusation) Anklage, die

    bring a charge of something against somebody — jemanden wegen etwas beschuldigen/verklagen

    4) (allegation) Beschuldigung, die
    5) (attack) Angriff, der; Attacke, die
    6) (of explosives etc.) Ladung, die
    7) (of electricity) Ladung, die

    put the battery on charge — die Batterie an das Ladegerät anschließen

    2. transitive verb
    1) (demand payment of or from)

    charge somebody something, charge something to somebody — jemandem etwas berechnen

    charge somebody £1 for something — jemandem ein Pfund für etwas berechnen

    charge something [up] to somebody's account — jemandes Konto mit etwas belasten

    2) (Law): (accuse) anklagen
    3) (formal): (entrust)
    4) (load) laden [Gewehr]
    5) (Electr.) laden; [auf]laden [Batterie]

    charged with emotion — (fig.) voller Gefühl

    6) (rush at) angreifen
    7) (formal): (command) befehlen

    charge somebody to do something — jemandem befehlen, etwas zu tun

    3. intransitive verb
    1) (attack) angreifen

    charge! — Angriff!; Attacke!

    charge at somebody/something — jemanden/etwas angreifen

    he charged into a wall — (fig.) er krachte gegen eine Mauer

    2) (coll.): (hurry) sausen
    * * *
    1. verb
    1) (to ask as the price (for something): They charge 50 cents for a pint of milk, but they don't charge for delivery.) berechnen
    2) (to make a note of (a sum of money) as being owed: Charge the bill to my account.) berechnen
    3) ((with with) to accuse (of something illegal): He was charged with theft.) beschuldigen
    4) (to attack by moving quickly (towards): We charged (towards) the enemy on horseback.) angreifen
    5) (to rush: The children charged down the hill.) stürmen
    6) (to make or become filled with electricity: Please charge my car battery.) laden
    7) (to make (a person) responsible for (a task etc): He was charged with seeing that everything went well.) laden
    2. noun
    1) (a price or fee: What is the charge for a telephone call?) der Preis
    2) (something with which a person is accused: He faces three charges of murder.) die Anklage
    3) (an attack made by moving quickly: the charge of the Light Brigade.) der Sturm
    4) (the electricity in something: a positive or negative charge.) die Ladung
    5) (someone one takes care of: These children are my charges.) der Schützling
    6) (a quantity of gunpowder: Put the charge in place and light the fuse.) die Sprengladung
    •
    - academic.ru/12108/charger">charger
    - in charge of
    - in someone's charge
    - take charge
    * * *
    [tʃɑ:ʤ, AM tʃɑ:rʤ]
    I. n
    1. (for goods, services) Gebühr f
    is there a \charge for children or do they go free? kosten Kinder [auch] etwas oder sind sie frei?
    what's the \charge [for it/this]? was [o wie viel] kostet es/das?
    what's the \charge for transfering the money? was [o wie viel] kostet es, das Geld zu überweisen?
    admission \charge Eintritt m, Eintrittsgeld nt
    there is an admission \charge of £5 der Eintritt kostet 5 Pfund
    at no \charge kostenlos, kostenfrei
    for an extra \charge gegen Aufpreis
    free of \charge kostenlos, gebührenfrei
    for a small \charge gegen eine geringe Gebühr
    \charges forward ECON, FIN Gebühr bezahlt Empfänger
    2. LAW (accusation) Anklage f (of wegen + gen); ( fig) Vorwurf m (of + gen), Beschuldigung f (of wegen + gen); (counts)
    ▪ \charges pl Anklagepunkte pl; (in civil cases) Ansprüche pl
    there were \charges from within the party that... in der Partei wurden Vorwürfe laut, dass...
    this left her open to the \charge of positive support for the criminals dadurch kam der Verdacht auf, dass sie die Gewalttäter unterstütze
    \charge sheet polizeiliches Anklageblatt
    to be/be put on a \charge of shoplifting wegen Ladendiebstahls angeklagt sein/werden
    holding \charge Nebenbeschuldigung f (um jdn während der Hauptermittlungen in Haft zu halten)
    to answer \charges sich akk [wegen eines Vorwurfs] verantworten; (in court also) sich akk vor Gericht verantworten
    he has to answer \charges for acting against the electoral law er muss sich wegen des Vorwurfs verantworten, gegen das Wahlgesetz verstoßen zu haben
    to have to answer \charges for murder/tax evasion sich akk wegen Mordes/des Vorwurfs der Steuerhinterziehung verantworten müssen
    to be arrested on a \charge of sth wegen Verdachts auf etw akk festgenommen werden
    he was arrested on a \charge of murder er wurde wegen Mordverdachts festgenommen
    to bring \charges against sb Anklage gegen jdn erheben
    to drop [or withdraw] \charges [against sb] die Anklage gegen jdn zurückziehen [o fallenlassen]
    to face \charges [of sth] [wegen einer S. gen] unter Anklage stehen, sich akk [wegen einer S. gen] vor Gericht verantworten müssen
    she will be appearing in court next month where she will face criminal \charges sie muss kommenden Monat vor Gericht [erscheinen], wo sie sich in einem Strafprozess verantworten muss
    to press \charges against sb gegen jdn Anzeige erstatten
    3. LAW (instructions from a judge) Rechtsbelehrung f
    4. no pl (responsibility) Verantwortung f; (care) Obhut f
    to be in [or under] sb's \charge unter jds Obhut stehen, sich akk unter jds Obhut befinden
    the children under [or in] her \charge die Kinder in ihrer Obhut, die ihr anvertrauten Kinder; (when childminding) die Kinder, die sie betreut
    to place sb in sb's \charge jdn in jds Obhut geben
    to be in \charge die Verantwortung tragen [o haben]
    who's in \charge here? wer ist hier zuständig?
    she's in \charge of the department sie leitet die Abteilung
    she's in \charge here hier hat sie das Sagen
    you're in \charge until I get back Sie haben bis zu meiner Rückkehr die Verantwortung
    in \charge of a motor vehicle ( form) als Führer eines Kraftfahrzeuges form
    to have/take [sole] \charge of sb/sth (take responsibility) für jdn/etw die [alleinige] Verantwortung tragen/übernehmen; (care) sich akk um jdn kümmern
    they need a nanny to have [or take] sole \charge of the children while they are at work sie brauchen ein Kindermädchen, das, während sie bei der Arbeit sind, die Kinder betreut
    to leave sb in \charge of sth jdm für etw akk die Verantwortung übertragen
    5. ECON, FIN (financial burden) Belastung f
    \charge on land [or over property] Grundschuld f
    \charge by way of legal mortgage formelle Hypothekenbestellung fachspr
    fixed \charge Fixbelastung f
    floating \charge variable Belastung
    to be a \charge on sb jdm zur Last fallen
    6. FIN
    Class F \charge Steuergruppe F
    7. no pl ELEC Ladung f
    the battery has a full \charge die Batterie ist voll [aufgeladen]
    to be on \charge aufgeladen werden
    to leave/put sth on \charge BRIT etw aufladen
    8. (explosive) [Spreng]ladung f
    9. no pl (feeling) Emotionsgeladenheit f
    the emotional \charge of the piano piece made me cry das emotionsgeladene Klavierstück brachte mich zum Weinen
    10. (attack) Angriff m, Attacke f
    to sound the \charge zum Angriff blasen
    11. ( dated: person) Schützling m; (ward) Mündel nt
    12. ( dated form: task) Auftrag m, Aufgabe f
    13. (in heraldry) Wappen[bild] nt
    14. AM ( fam: kick) Kick m fam
    sb gets a real \charge out of sth etw gibt jdm einen richtigen Kick fam
    II. vi
    1. (for goods, services)
    ▪ to \charge [for sth] eine Gebühr [für etw akk] verlangen
    to \charge for admission Eintritt verlangen
    to \charge like a wounded bull AUS für etw akk maßlos viel Geld verlangen
    2. ELEC laden, [sich] aufladen
    3. (attack) [vorwärts]stürmen, angreifen
    \charge! (battle cry) vorwärts!
    ▪ to \charge at sb auf jdn losgehen; MIL jdn angreifen
    4. (move quickly) stürmen
    we \charged at the enemy wir näherten uns dem Feind
    the children \charged down the stairs die Kinder stürmten die Treppe hinunter
    to \charge up the staircase die Treppe hinaufstürmen
    to \charge [or come charging] into a room in ein Zimmer stürmen
    III. vt
    1. (for goods, services)
    ▪ to \charge sth etw berechnen
    how much do you \charge for a wash and cut? was [o wie viel] kostet bei Ihnen Waschen und Schneiden?
    to \charge sth to sb's account etw auf jds Rechnung setzen
    to \charge commission Provision verlangen
    ▪ to \charge sth to sb, to \charge sb [with] sth jdm etw berechnen [o in Rechnung stellen]
    to \charge the packing to the customer [or the customer with the packing] dem Kunden die Verpackungskosten in Rechnung stellen
    ▪ to \charge sb for sth jdm Geld [o etwas] für etw akk berechnen
    the school didn't \charge me for the certificate die Schule hat mir nichts [o kein Geld] für das Zertifikat berechnet
    we were not \charged [for it] wir mussten nichts [dafür] bezahlen
    ▪ to \charge sb [with sth] jdn [wegen einer S. gen] anklagen, jdn [einer S. gen] beschuldigen
    to \charge sb with murder jdn des Mordes anklagen
    he has been \charged with murder/theft er ist des Mordes/wegen Diebstahls angeklagt
    to \charge sb with doing sth jdn beschuldigen etw getan zu haben
    she has been \charged with murdering her husband sie wird beschuldigt ihren Ehemann ermordet zu haben
    the report \charged her with using the company's money for her own purposes sie wurde in dem Bericht beschuldigt, Firmengelder für eigene Zwecke missbraucht zu haben
    3. ECON, FIN (take as guarantee)
    ▪ to \charge sth etw als Sicherheit für einen Kredit belasten
    4. ELEC
    ▪ to \charge sth etw aufladen
    \charged particle PHYS geladenes Teilchen, Ladungsträger m
    ▪ to be \charged [auf]geladen sein fig
    emotionally \charged [or \charged with emotions] emotionsgeladen
    a highly \charged atmosphere eine hochgradig geladene Atmosphäre
    the room was \charged with hatred Hass erfüllte den Raum
    6. BRIT ( form: fill)
    to \charge a glass ein Glas füllen
    please \charge your glasses and drink a toast to the bride and groom! lasst uns unsere Gläser füllen und auf die Braut und den Bräutigam anstoßen!
    to \charge a gun ein Gewehr laden
    ▪ to \charge sb jdn angreifen; (animal) auf jdn losgehen fam
    9. (make an assertion)
    ▪ to \charge that... behaupten, dass...
    ▪ to \charge sb to do [or with doing] sth jdn [damit] beauftragen [o betrauen], etw zu tun
    ▪ to \charge sb with sth jdn mit etw dat beauftragen [o betrauen
    11. usu passive (in heraldry)
    ▪ to be \charged with sth mit etw dat als Wappen versehen sein
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    [tʃAːdZ]
    1. n
    1) (JUR: accusation) Anklage f (of wegen)

    to bring a charge against sb — gegen jdn Anklage erheben, jdn unter Anklage stellen

    what is the charge? —

    to put a soldier on a charge — über einen Soldaten eine Disziplinarstrafe verhängen, einen Soldaten verknacken

    you're on a charge, Smith! — das gibt eine Disziplinarstrafe, Smith!

    2) (= attack of soldiers, bull etc) Angriff m; (= trumpet call) Signal nt
    3) (= fee) Gebühr f

    to make a charge (of £5) for sth — (£ 5 für) etw berechnen or in Rechnung stellen

    his charges are quite reasonable — seine Preise sind ganz vernünftig

    free of charge — kostenlos, gratis

    4) (= explosive charge) (Spreng)ladung f; (in firearm, ELEC, PHYS) Ladung f
    5) (= position of responsibility) Verantwortung f (of für)

    to be in charge — verantwortlich sein, die Verantwortung haben

    who is in charge here? —

    look, I'm in charge here — hören Sie mal zu, hier bestimme ich!

    to be in charge of sth — für etw die Verantwortung haben; of department etw leiten

    to put sb in charge of sth — jdm die Verantwortung für etw übertragen; of department jdm die Leitung von etw übertragen

    while in charge of a motor vehicle (form) — am Steuer eines Kraftfahrzeuges

    the man in charge — der Verantwortliche, die verantwortliche Person

    6) (= ward) (= child) Schützling m; (of authorities) Mündel nt; (= patient) Patient(in) m(f)
    7)

    (= financial burden) to be a charge on sb — jdm zur Last fallen

    2. vt
    1) (with +gen) (JUR) anklagen; (fig) beschuldigen

    to charge sb with doing sth — jdm vorwerfen, etw getan zu haben

    to find sb guilty/not guilty as charged — jdn im Sinne der Anklage für schuldig/nicht schuldig befinden

    2) (= attack) stürmen; troops angreifen; (bull etc) losgehen auf (+acc); (SPORT) goalkeeper, player angehen
    3) (= ask in payment) berechnen

    I won't charge you for that — das kostet Sie nichts, ich berechne Ihnen nichts dafür

    4) (= record as debt) in Rechnung stellen

    charge it to the company — stellen Sie das der Firma in Rechnung, das geht auf die Firma (inf)

    5) firearm laden; (PHYS, ELEC) battery (auf)laden

    = command) to charge sb to do sth — jdn beauftragen or anweisen (form), etw zu tun

    = give as responsibility) to charge sb with sth — jdn mit etw beauftragen

    3. vi
    1) (= attack) stürmen; (at people) angreifen (at sb jdn); (bull) losgehen (at sb auf jdn)
    2) (inf: rush) rennen

    he charged into the room/upstairs — er stürmte ins Zimmer/die Treppe hoch

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    charge [tʃɑː(r)dʒ]
    A v/t
    1. beladen, (auch fig sein Gedächtnis etc) belasten
    2. a) TECH beschicken
    b) obs ein Glas etc füllen ( with mit)
    3. ein Gewehr etc laden:
    the atmosphere was charged with excitement die Atmosphäre war spannungsgeladen
    4. ELEK eine Batterie etc (auf)laden
    5. CHEM sättigen, ansetzen ( beide:
    with mit)
    6. charge with fig jemandem etwas aufbürden
    7. jemanden beauftragen ( with mit):
    charge sb with a task jemanden mit einer Aufgabe betrauen;
    charge sb with doing ( oder to do) sth jemanden beauftragen, etwas zu tun;
    charge sb to be careful jemandem einschärfen, vorsichtig zu sein
    8. belehren, jemandem Weisungen geben:
    charge the jury JUR den Geschworenen Rechtsbelehrung erteilen
    9. (with) jemandem (etwas) zur Last legen oder vorwerfen oder anlasten, auch JUR jemanden (einer Sache) beschuldigen oder anklagen oder bezichtigen:
    he has been charged gegen ihn ist Anklage erhoben worden;
    he has been charged with murder er steht unter Mordanklage;
    charge sb with being negligent jemandem vorwerfen, nachlässig (gewesen) zu sein;
    guilty as charged schuldig im Sinne der Anklage
    10. a) (with) WIRTSCH jemanden belasten (mit einem Betrag), jemandem (etwas) in Rechnung stellen:
    charge an amount to sb’s account jemandes Konto mit einem Betrag belasten
    b) besonders US etwas mit Kreditkarte kaufen
    11. berechnen, verlangen ( beide:
    for für):
    charge sb for sth jemandem etwas berechnen;
    how much do you charge for it? wie viel berechnen oder verlangen Sie dafür?, was kostet das bei Ihnen?;
    he charged me 3 dollars for it er berechnete mir 3 Dollar dafür, er berechnete es mir mit 3 Dollar;
    charged at berechnet mit; → admission 2
    12. a) MIL angreifen, allg auch losgehen auf (akk)
    b) MIL stürmen
    13. SPORT einen Gegenspieler angehen, rempeln
    14. MIL eine Waffe zum Angriff fällen
    B v/i
    1. ELEK sich aufladen
    2. stürmen:
    charge at sb auf jemanden losgehen
    C s
    1. besonders fig Last f, Belastung f, Bürde f
    2. Fracht(ladung) f
    3. TECH
    a) Beschickung(sgut) f(n), METALL Charge f, Gicht f
    b) Ladung f (einer Schusswaffe, Batterie etc), (Pulver-, Spreng-, Schrot- etc) Ladung f:
    4. fig Explosivkraft f, Dynamik f:
    5. (finanzielle) Belastung oder Last:
    charge on an estate Grundstücksbelastung, Grundschuld f
    6. fig (on, upon) Anforderung f (an akk), Beanspruchung f (gen):
    be a charge on sth etwas beanspruchen
    7. a) Preis m, Kosten pl
    b) Forderung f, in Rechnung gestellter Betrag
    c) Gebühr f
    d) auch pl Unkosten pl, Spesen pl:
    charge for admission Eintrittspreis;
    at sb’s charge auf jemandes Kosten;
    free of charge kostenlos, gratis;
    what is the charge? was kostet es?;
    there is no charge es kostet nichts
    8. WIRTSCH Belastung f ( to an account eines Kontos)
    9. Beschuldigung f, Vorwurf m, JUR auch (Punkt m der) Anklage f:
    be on a charge of murder unter Mordanklage stehen;
    there are no charges against him es liegt nichts gegen ihn vor;
    a) (gegen jemanden) Anzeige erstatten,
    b) (gegen jemanden) Anklage erheben;
    a) gegen jemanden wegen einer Sache Anzeige erstatten,
    b) gegen jemanden wegen einer Sache Anklage erheben;
    a) die Anzeige zurückziehen,
    b) die Anklage fallen lassen;
    press charges Anzeige erstatten;
    return to the charge fig auf das alte Thema zurückkommen
    10. MIL
    a) Angriff m
    b) Sturm m
    11. MIL Signal n zum Angriff:
    sound the charge zum Angriff blasen
    12. Verantwortung f:
    a) Aufsicht f, Leitung f
    b) Obhut f, Verwahrung f:
    the person in charge die verantwortliche Person, der oder die Verantwortliche;
    who is in charge around here? wer ist hier der Chef?;
    be in charge of verantwortlich sein für, die Aufsicht oder den Befehl führen über (akk), leiten, befehligen (akk);
    be in charge of a case einen Fall bearbeiten;
    be in ( oder under) sb’s charge unter jemandes Obhut stehen, von jemandem betreut werden;
    have charge of in Obhut oder Verwahrung haben, betreuen;
    place ( oder put) sb in charge (of) jemandem die Leitung (gen) oder Aufsicht (über akk) übertragen;
    take charge die Leitung etc übernehmen, die Sache in die Hand nehmen; → drunk B 1
    13. Br (polizeilicher) Gewahrsam:
    give sb in charge jemanden der Polizei übergeben
    14. a) Schützling m ( auch SPORT eines Trainers), Pflegebefohlene(r) m/f(m), Mündel m/n
    b) jemandem anvertraute Sache
    c) REL Gemeinde(glied) f(n) (eines Seelsorgers), Schäflein n oder pl umg
    15. Befehl m, Anweisung f
    16. JUR Rechtsbelehrung f (an die Geschworenen)
    17. Heraldik: Wappenbild n
    chg. abk
    2. WIRTSCH charge
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (price) Preis, der; (payable to telephone company, bank, authorities, etc., for services) Gebühr, die
    2) (care) Verantwortung, die; (task) Auftrag, der; (person entrusted) Schützling, der

    the patients in or under her charge — die ihr anvertrauten Patienten

    the officer/teacher in charge — der Dienst habende Offizier/der verantwortliche Lehrer

    be in charge of something — für etwas die Verantwortung haben; (be the leader) etwas leiten

    3) (Law): (accusation) Anklage, die

    bring a charge of something against somebody — jemanden wegen etwas beschuldigen/verklagen

    4) (allegation) Beschuldigung, die
    5) (attack) Angriff, der; Attacke, die
    6) (of explosives etc.) Ladung, die
    7) (of electricity) Ladung, die
    2. transitive verb

    charge somebody something, charge something to somebody — jemandem etwas berechnen

    charge somebody £1 for something — jemandem ein Pfund für etwas berechnen

    charge something [up] to somebody's account — jemandes Konto mit etwas belasten

    2) (Law): (accuse) anklagen
    3) (formal): (entrust)
    4) (load) laden [Gewehr]
    5) (Electr.) laden; [auf]laden [Batterie]

    charged with emotion — (fig.) voller Gefühl

    6) (rush at) angreifen
    7) (formal): (command) befehlen

    charge somebody to do something — jemandem befehlen, etwas zu tun

    3. intransitive verb
    1) (attack) angreifen

    charge! — Angriff!; Attacke!

    charge at somebody/something — jemanden/etwas angreifen

    he charged into a wall — (fig.) er krachte gegen eine Mauer

    2) (coll.): (hurry) sausen
    * * *
    (accusation) n.
    Anklage -n f. n.
    Amt ¨-er n.
    Angriff -e m.
    Aufladung f.
    Füllung -en f.
    Ladung -en f.
    Preis -e m.
    Tarif -e (Gebühr) m. v.
    beladen v.
    belasten v.
    berechnen v.
    füllen v.
    laden v.
    (§ p.,pp.: lud, geladen)

    English-german dictionary > charge

  • 15 máximo

    adj.
    maximum, greatest, maximal, top.
    m.
    1 maximum, high point, peak.
    2 Máximo.
    3 maximum, acme of a process or disease.
    * * *
    1 (velocidad) maximum; (puntuación, condecoración) highest
    1 maximum
    ————————
    1 maximum
    * * *
    1. noun m. - como máximo 2. (f. - máxima)
    adj.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [altura, temperatura, velocidad, carga] maximum

    máximo jefe o líder — esp LAm President, leader

    2.

    • al máximo — to the maximum

    debemos aprovechar al máximo nuestros recursos — we must exploit our resources to the maximum, we must make the best of the resources we have

    • como máximo — (=como mucho) at the most, at the outside; (=como muy tarde) at the latest

    te costará 5.000 como máximo — it'll cost you 5,000 at the most

    * * *
    I
    - ma adjetivo <temperatura/velocidad> top (before n), maximum (before n); <carga/altura> maximum (before n); < punto> highest; < esfuerzo> greatest, maximum (before n)

    era su máxima ilusión/ambición — it was her great dream/greatest ambition

    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es... — the worst that can happen is...

    II
    masculino maximum

    100 palabras como máximo — 100 words, maximum

    rendir al máximo — < persona> to give a hundred percent; < máquina> to work to its full capacity

    * * *
    = maximum, utmost, peak, maximal, ultimate, upper bound.
    Ex. When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.
    Ex. Indeed, he must take the utmost care never to jump to conclusions.
    Ex. Peak use of the libraries occurs during lunch hours.
    Ex. Summaries typically convey maximal information in minimal space.
    Ex. The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
    Ex. It also provides a simple yet powerful mechanism for establishing the upper bound of the maximal substructural commonality of a series of compounds.
    ----
    * alcanzar el máximo = reach + a head.
    * al máximo = to the full, to the utmost, to the hilt, to the extreme, at full stretch.
    * a lo máximo = at best, at most, at the most.
    * aprovechamiento al máximo = optimisation [optimization, -USA].
    * aprovechar al máximo = maximise [maximize, -USA], optimise [optimize, -USA], realise + to its full potential, exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), get + the best out of, take + the best advantage, get + the most out of, realise + the potential, make + the best possible use of.
    * aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades = maximise + opportunities.
    * aprovecharse al máximo de = make + the best of.
    * aspirar a lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * búsqueda por máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour searching.
    * cargado al máximo = fully-loaded.
    * coste máximo = maximum cost.
    * de máxima categoría = top-class.
    * de máxima seguridad = safety critical [safety-critical].
    * disfrutar al máximo = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * enojado al máximo = mad as hell.
    * esforzarse al máximo = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best.
    * estar al máximo = overstretch.
    * explotar al máximo = realise + to its full potential, realise + the potential.
    * funcionando al máximo = overstretched.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * hasta el máximo de las posibilidades de Algo = to + Posesivo + full potential.
    * hasta un máximo de + Número = up to + Número.
    * lleno al máximo = packed to capacity, packed to the rafters.
    * lo máximo = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * máximo anotador = highest scorer, top scorer, leading scorer.
    * máximo goleador = leading scorer, top scorer, highest scorer.
    * máximo interés = maximum interest.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * ofrecer lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * premio máximo = jackpot.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de la máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour test.
    * sacar el máximo partido = exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), take + the best advantage.
    * sacar el máximo partido a = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo partido a Algo = reach + the full potential of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de = make + the best of, harness + the power of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de Algo = make + the most of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de Algo = make + the most of.
    * ser el máximo = be the limit.
    * temperatura máxima = maximum temperature.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * velocidad máxima = speed limit.
    * velocidad máxima permitida = speed limit.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.
    * * *
    I
    - ma adjetivo <temperatura/velocidad> top (before n), maximum (before n); <carga/altura> maximum (before n); < punto> highest; < esfuerzo> greatest, maximum (before n)

    era su máxima ilusión/ambición — it was her great dream/greatest ambition

    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es... — the worst that can happen is...

    II
    masculino maximum

    100 palabras como máximo — 100 words, maximum

    rendir al máximo — < persona> to give a hundred percent; < máquina> to work to its full capacity

    * * *
    = maximum, utmost, peak, maximal, ultimate, upper bound.

    Ex: When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.

    Ex: Indeed, he must take the utmost care never to jump to conclusions.
    Ex: Peak use of the libraries occurs during lunch hours.
    Ex: Summaries typically convey maximal information in minimal space.
    Ex: The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
    Ex: It also provides a simple yet powerful mechanism for establishing the upper bound of the maximal substructural commonality of a series of compounds.
    * alcanzar el máximo = reach + a head.
    * al máximo = to the full, to the utmost, to the hilt, to the extreme, at full stretch.
    * a lo máximo = at best, at most, at the most.
    * aprovechamiento al máximo = optimisation [optimization, -USA].
    * aprovechar al máximo = maximise [maximize, -USA], optimise [optimize, -USA], realise + to its full potential, exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), get + the best out of, take + the best advantage, get + the most out of, realise + the potential, make + the best possible use of.
    * aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades = maximise + opportunities.
    * aprovecharse al máximo de = make + the best of.
    * aspirar a lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * búsqueda por máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour searching.
    * cargado al máximo = fully-loaded.
    * coste máximo = maximum cost.
    * de máxima categoría = top-class.
    * de máxima seguridad = safety critical [safety-critical].
    * disfrutar al máximo = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * enojado al máximo = mad as hell.
    * esforzarse al máximo = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best.
    * estar al máximo = overstretch.
    * explotar al máximo = realise + to its full potential, realise + the potential.
    * funcionando al máximo = overstretched.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * hasta el máximo de las posibilidades de Algo = to + Posesivo + full potential.
    * hasta un máximo de + Número = up to + Número.
    * lleno al máximo = packed to capacity, packed to the rafters.
    * lo máximo = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * máximo anotador = highest scorer, top scorer, leading scorer.
    * máximo goleador = leading scorer, top scorer, highest scorer.
    * máximo interés = maximum interest.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * ofrecer lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * premio máximo = jackpot.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de la máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour test.
    * sacar el máximo partido = exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), take + the best advantage.
    * sacar el máximo partido a = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo partido a Algo = reach + the full potential of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de = make + the best of, harness + the power of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de Algo = make + the most of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de Algo = make + the most of.
    * ser el máximo = be the limit.
    * temperatura máxima = maximum temperature.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * velocidad máxima = speed limit.
    * velocidad máxima permitida = speed limit.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.

    * * *
    máximo1 -ma
    ‹temperatura/velocidad› top ( before n), maximum ( before n); ‹carga/precio› maximum
    le fue conferido el máximo galardón she was awarded the highest honor
    su máxima ilusión/ambición es llegar a ser senadora her great dream/greatest ambition is to become a senator
    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es que llegue con retraso the worst that can happen is that she'll arrive late
    Compuestos:
    masculine ( period); penalty
    masculine highest common factor
    maximum
    el máximo de tiempo que le concedieron para pagar fue un año he was given a maximum of one year in which to pay
    el trabajo puede tener un máximo de 20 folios the piece can be up to 20 pages long
    como máximo te costará mil pesetas it'll cost you a thousand pesetas at the most o at the outside
    como máximo llegaremos a las once we'll get there at eleven at the latest
    aprovechó las vacaciones al máximo he enjoyed his vacation to the full, he made the most of his vacation
    las máquinas están rindiendo al máximo the machines are working flat out
    se esforzó al máximo she did her utmost
    * * *

     

    máximo 1
    ◊ -ma adjetivo ‹temperatura/velocidad› top ( before n), maximum ( before n);


    ‹carga/altura› maximum ( before n);
    ‹ punto› highest;
    ‹esfuerzo/ambición› greatest ( before n);

    máximo 2 sustantivo masculino
    maximum;
    como máximo at the most;
    aprovechar algo al máximo to make the most of sth;
    se esforzó al máximo she did her utmost;
    rendir al máximo [ persona] to give a hundred percent;

    [ máquina] to work to its full capacity
    máximo,-a
    I adjetivo maximum, highest
    carga máxima autorizada, maximum load allowed
    el máximo esplendor del imperio, the most brilliant period of the empire
    II m (tope) maximum: nos esforzamos al máximo, we did our utmost
    un máximo de cinco personas, a maximum of five people
    como máximo, (como mucho) at the most
    (a más tardar) at the latest
    ' máximo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    límite
    - máxima
    - suma
    - sumo
    - tasar
    - techo
    - tope
    English:
    absolute
    - aim
    - level
    - max
    - maximum
    - most
    - N
    - nth degree
    - out
    - peak
    - top
    - ultimate
    - limit
    - live
    - load
    - mileage
    - outside
    - stretch
    - take
    - utmost
    * * *
    máximo, -a
    ♦ superlativo
    ver grande
    ♦ adj
    [capacidad, cantidad, temperatura] maximum; [honor, galardón] highest;
    la máxima puntuación [posible] the maximum score;
    [entre varias] the highest score;
    el máximo goleador the top scorer;
    soy el máximo responsable del proyecto I am the most senior person on the project;
    los máximos responsables políticos del partido the party's senior politicians
    Mat máximo común denominador highest common denominator; Mat máximo común divisor highest common factor
    ♦ nm
    maximum;
    trabajan un máximo de 35 horas they work a maximum of 35 hours;
    al máximo to the utmost;
    llegar al máximo to reach the limit;
    pon la calefacción al máximo put the heating on maximum o as high as it will go;
    están trabajando al máximo they're working flat out;
    la libra alcanzó un máximo histórico frente al dólar the pound reached an all-time high against the dollar
    ♦ como máximo loc adv
    [a más tardar] at the latest; [como mucho] at the most;
    llegaremos como máximo a las seis we'll be there by six at the latest;
    podemos gastar como máximo cinco millones we can spend up to a maximum of five million
    * * *
    adj maximum
    * * *
    máximo, -ma adj
    : maximum, greatest, highest
    1) : maximum
    2)
    al máximo : to the utmost
    3)
    como máximo : at the most, at the latest
    * * *
    máximo1 adj maximum
    ¿cuál es la velocidad máxima? what's the maximum speed?
    máximo2 n maximum

    Spanish-English dictionary > máximo

  • 16 Parteiführung

    Par·tei·füh·rung f
    die \Parteiführung innehaben to exercise the party leadership, to be [the] party leader;
    die \Parteiführung übernehmen to assume [or take on]; [or take over] the party leadership, to become [the] party leader
    2) ( leitendes Gremium) party leadership no pl

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > Parteiführung

  • 17 Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

    (1889-1970)
       The Coimbra University professor of finance and economics and one of the founders of the Estado Novo, who came to dominate Western Europe's longest surviving authoritarian system. Salazar was born on 28 April 1889, in Vimieiro, Beira Alta province, the son of a peasant estate manager and a shopkeeper. Most of his first 39 years were spent as a student, and later as a teacher in a secondary school and a professor at Coimbra University's law school. Nine formative years were spent at Viseu's Catholic Seminary (1900-09), preparing for the Catholic priesthood, but the serious, studious Salazar decided to enter Coimbra University instead in 1910, the year the Braganza monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the First Republic. Salazar received some of the highest marks of his generation of students and, in 1918, was awarded a doctoral degree in finance and economics. Pleading inexperience, Salazar rejected an invitation in August 1918 to become finance minister in the "New Republic" government of President Sidónio Pais.
       As a celebrated academic who was deeply involved in Coimbra University politics, publishing works on the troubled finances of the besieged First Republic, and a leader of Catholic organizations, Sala-zar was not as modest, reclusive, or unknown as later official propaganda led the public to believe. In 1921, as a Catholic deputy, he briefly served in the First Republic's turbulent congress (parliament) but resigned shortly after witnessing but one stormy session. Salazar taught at Coimbra University as of 1916, and continued teaching until April 1928. When the military overthrew the First Republic in May 1926, Salazar was offered the Ministry of Finance and held office for several days. The ascetic academic, however, resigned his post when he discovered the degree of disorder in Lisbon's government and when his demands for budget authority were rejected.
       As the military dictatorship failed to reform finances in the following years, Salazar was reinvited to become minister of finances in April 1928. Since his conditions for acceptance—authority over all budget expenditures, among other powers—were accepted, Salazar entered the government. Using the Ministry of Finance as a power base, following several years of successful financial reforms, Salazar was named interim minister of colonies (1930) and soon garnered sufficient prestige and authority to become head of the entire government. In July 1932, Salazar was named prime minister, the first civilian to hold that post since the 1926 military coup.
       Salazar gathered around him a team of largely academic experts in the cabinet during the period 1930-33. His government featured several key policies: Portuguese nationalism, colonialism (rebuilding an empire in shambles), Catholicism, and conservative fiscal management. Salazar's government came to be called the Estado Novo. It went through three basic phases during Salazar's long tenure in office, and Salazar's role underwent changes as well. In the early years (1928-44), Salazar and the Estado Novo enjoyed greater vigor and popularity than later. During the middle years (1944—58), the regime's popularity waned, methods of repression increased and hardened, and Salazar grew more dogmatic in his policies and ways. During the late years (1958-68), the regime experienced its most serious colonial problems, ruling circles—including Salazar—aged and increasingly failed, and opposition burgeoned and grew bolder.
       Salazar's plans for stabilizing the economy and strengthening social and financial programs were shaken with the impact of the civil war (1936-39) in neighboring Spain. Salazar strongly supported General Francisco Franco's Nationalist rebels, the eventual victors in the war. But, as the civil war ended and World War II began in September 1939, Salazar's domestic plans had to be adjusted. As Salazar came to monopolize Lisbon's power and authority—indeed to embody the Estado Novo itself—during crises that threatened the future of the regime, he assumed ever more key cabinet posts. At various times between 1936 and 1944, he took over the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of War (Defense), until the crises passed. At the end of the exhausting period of World War II, there were rumors that the former professor would resign from government and return to Coimbra University, but Salazar continued as the increasingly isolated, dominating "recluse of São Bento," that part of the parliament's buildings housing the prime minister's offices and residence.
       Salazar dominated the Estado Novo's government in several ways: in day-to-day governance, although this diminished as he delegated wider powers to others after 1944, and in long-range policy decisions, as well as in the spirit and image of the system. He also launched and dominated the single party, the União Nacional. A lifelong bachelor who had once stated that he could not leave for Lisbon because he had to care for his aged mother, Salazar never married, but lived with a beloved housekeeper from his Coimbra years and two adopted daughters. During his 36-year tenure as prime minister, Salazar engineered the important cabinet reshuffles that reflect the history of the Estado Novo and of Portugal.
       A number of times, in connection with significant events, Salazar decided on important cabinet officer changes: 11 April 1933 (the adoption of the Estado Novo's new 1933 Constitution); 18 January 1936 (the approach of civil war in Spain and the growing threat of international intervention in Iberian affairs during the unstable Second Spanish Republic of 1931-36); 4 September 1944 (the Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy and the increasing likelihood of a defeat of the Fascists by the Allies, which included the Soviet Union); 14 August 1958 (increased domestic dissent and opposition following the May-June 1958 presidential elections in which oppositionist and former regime stalwart-loyalist General Humberto Delgado garnered at least 25 percent of the national vote, but lost to regime candidate, Admiral Américo Tomás); 13 April 1961 (following the shock of anticolonial African insurgency in Portugal's colony of Angola in January-February 1961, the oppositionist hijacking of a Portuguese ocean liner off South America by Henrique Galvão, and an abortive military coup that failed to oust Salazar from office); and 19 August 1968 (the aging of key leaders in the government, including the now gravely ill Salazar, and the defection of key younger followers).
       In response to the 1961 crisis in Africa and to threats to Portuguese India from the Indian government, Salazar assumed the post of minister of defense (April 1961-December 1962). The failing leader, whose true state of health was kept from the public for as long as possible, appointed a group of younger cabinet officers in the 1960s, but no likely successors were groomed to take his place. Two of the older generation, Teotónio Pereira, who was in bad health, and Marcello Caetano, who preferred to remain at the University of Lisbon or in private law practice, remained in the political wilderness.
       As the colonial wars in three African territories grew more costly, Salazar became more isolated from reality. On 3 August 1968, while resting at his summer residence, the Fortress of São João do Estoril outside Lisbon, a deck chair collapsed beneath Salazar and his head struck the hard floor. Some weeks later, as a result, Salazar was incapacitated by a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage, was hospitalized, and became an invalid. While hesitating to fill the power vacuum that had unexpectedly appeared, President Tomás finally replaced Salazar as prime minister on 27 September 1968, with his former protégé and colleague, Marcello Caetano. Salazar was not informed that he no longer headed the government, but he never recovered his health. On 27 July 1970, Salazar died in Lisbon and was buried at Santa Comba Dão, Vimieiro, his village and place of birth.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Salazar, Antônio de Oliveira

  • 18 Soares, Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes

    (1924-)
       Lawyer, staunch oppositionist to the Estado Novo, a founder of Portugal's Socialist Party (PS), key leader of post-1974 democratic Portugal, and twice-elected president of the republic (1986-91; 1991-96). Mário Soares was born on 7 December 1924, in Lisbon, the son of an educator and former cabinet officer of the ill-fated First Republic. An outstanding student, Soares received a degree in history and philosophy from the University of Lisbon (1951) and his law degree from the same institution (1957). A teacher and a lawyer, the young Soares soon became active in various organizations that opposed the Estado Novo, starting in his student days and continuing into his association with the PS. He worked with the organizations of several oppositionist candidates for the presidency of the republic in 1949 and 1958 and, as a lawyer, defended a number of political figures against government prosecution in court. Soares was the family attorney for the family of General Humberto Delgado, murdered on the Spanish frontier by the regime's political police in 1965. Soares was signatory and editor of the "Program for the Democratization of the Republic" in 1961, and, in 1968, he was deported by the regime to São Tomé, one of Portugal's African colonies.
       In 1969, following the brief liberalization under the new prime minister Marcello Caetano, Soares returned from exile in Africa and participated as a member of the opposition in general elections for the National Assembly. Although harassed by the PIDE, he was courageous in attacking the government and its colonial policies in Africa. After the rigged election results were known, and no oppositionist deputy won a seat despite the Caetano "opening," Soares left for exile in France. From 1969 to 1974, he resided in France, consulted with other political exiles, and taught at a university. In 1973, at a meeting in West Germany, Soares participated in the (re)founding of the (Portuguese) Socialist Party.
       The exciting, unexpected news of the Revolution of 25 April 1974 reached Soares in France, and soon he was aboard a train bound for Lisbon, where he was to play a major role in the difficult period of revolutionary politics (1974-75). During a most critical phase, the "hot summer" of 1975, when a civil war seemed in the offing, Soares's efforts to steer Portugal away from a communist dictatorship and sustained civil strife were courageous and effective. He found allies in the moderate military and large sectors of the population. After the abortive leftist coup of 25 November 1975, Soares played an equally vital role in assisting the stabilization of a pluralist democracy.
       Prime minister on several occasions during the era of postrevolu-tionary adjustment (1976-85), Soares continued his role as the respected leader of the PS. Following 11 hectic years of the Lusitanian political hurly-burly, Soares was eager for a change and some rest. Prepared to give up leadership of the factious PS and become a senior statesman in the new Portugal, Mário Soares ran for the presidency of the republic. After serving twice as elected president of the republic, he established the Mário Soares Foundation, Lisbon, and was elected to the European Parliament.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Soares, Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes

  • 19 hazmerreír

    m.&f. s&pl.
    laughingstock, laughing-stock.
    * * *
    1 laughing stock
    * * *
    * * *
    masculino (fam) laughing stock
    * * *
    = comic butt, laughing stock.
    Ex. The comic butt, the natural-born leader, and the bully are archetypal figures found in any social group.
    Ex. Through the much-publicized bankruptcies and other failures this company has become a laughing stock and investors have lost confidence.
    * * *
    masculino (fam) laughing stock
    * * *
    = comic butt, laughing stock.

    Ex: The comic butt, the natural-born leader, and the bully are archetypal figures found in any social group.

    Ex: Through the much-publicized bankruptcies and other failures this company has become a laughing stock and investors have lost confidence.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    laughing stock
    eran el hazmerreír del pueblo they were the laughing stock of the village
    * * *

    hazmerreír sustantivo masculino (fam) laughing stock
    hazmerreír sustantivo masculino laughing stock: fui el hazmerreír de la fiesta, I was the laughing stock of the party
    ' hazmerreír' also found in these entries:
    English:
    joke
    - laughing stock
    - object
    - laughing
    * * *
    laughing stock;
    se convirtió en el hazmerreír de la política nacional he became the laughing stock of national politics
    * * *
    m laughing stock
    * * *
    hazmerreír nm, fam : laughingstock

    Spanish-English dictionary > hazmerreír

  • 20 erigir

    v.
    1 to erect, to build (to build).
    2 to name.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ DIRIGIR], like link=dirigir dirigir
    1 (alzar) to erect, build
    2 (instituir) to establish, found
    3 (convertir) to convert
    1 (elevar de categoría) to promote (en, to)
    1 (atribuirse) to set oneself up (en, as)
    * * *
    verb
    1) to erect, build
    2) establish, found
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (Arquit) [+ monumento] to erect; [+ edificio] to build
    2) (=fundar) to establish, found
    3)
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (frml) < edificio> to build, erect (frml); < monumento> to erect (frml), to raise (frml)
    b) (frml) (convertir, elevar)

    erigir algo/a alguien en algo — to set something/somebody up as something

    2.

    erigirse en algo — to become something; ( atribuirse funciones de) to set oneself up as something

    * * *
    = erect, elevate.
    Ex. Other walls, where security and privacy are absolutely essential, are not structural and are designed to be easily demounted and erected elsewhere.
    Ex. Some of the things that are said about genuine bookselling do at times seem to elevate this occupation to a level far beyond mere commerce.
    ----
    * erigirse = self-appointed, self-proclaimed.
    * erigirse en = set + Reflexivo + up as.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (frml) < edificio> to build, erect (frml); < monumento> to erect (frml), to raise (frml)
    b) (frml) (convertir, elevar)

    erigir algo/a alguien en algo — to set something/somebody up as something

    2.

    erigirse en algo — to become something; ( atribuirse funciones de) to set oneself up as something

    * * *
    = erect, elevate.

    Ex: Other walls, where security and privacy are absolutely essential, are not structural and are designed to be easily demounted and erected elsewhere.

    Ex: Some of the things that are said about genuine bookselling do at times seem to elevate this occupation to a level far beyond mere commerce.
    * erigirse = self-appointed, self-proclaimed.
    * erigirse en = set + Reflexivo + up as.

    * * *
    erigir [I7 ]
    vt
    1 ( frml); ‹edificio› to build, erect ( frml); ‹monumento› to erect ( frml), to raise ( frml)
    2 ( frml) (convertir, elevar) erigir algo/a algn EN algo to set sth/sb up AS sth
    erigió el partido en árbitro científico y cultural he set the party up as scientific and cultural arbiter
    lo han erigido en mártir nacional they have made him into a national hero, he has been elevated o raised to the status of a national hero
    (llegar a ser) erigirse EN algo to become sth; (atribuirse funciones de) to set oneself up AS sth
    se erigió en árbitro de la polémica he set himself up as arbiter of the controversy
    se erigió en portavoz del grupo he took it upon himself to act as spokesman for the group
    * * *

    erigir ( conjugate erigir) verbo transitivo
    a) (frml) ‹ edificio› to build, erect (frml);

    ‹ monumento› to erect (frml), to raise (frml)
    b) (frml) (convertir, elevar) erigir algo/a algn en algo to set sth/sb up as sth

    erigirse verbo pronominal ( llegar a ser) erigirse en algo to become sth;
    ( atribuirse funciones de) to set oneself up as sth
    erigir verbo transitivo to erect, build
    ' erigir' also found in these entries:
    English:
    erect
    - raise
    - re-erect
    - set up
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [construir] to erect, to build
    2. [nombrar] to name;
    fue erigido rey de Dinamarca he was named king of Denmark
    * * *
    v/t
    1 erect
    2 persona set up (en as)
    * * *
    erigir {35} vt
    : to build, to erect
    * * *
    erigir vb to erect

    Spanish-English dictionary > erigir

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