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to decide by majority

  • 1 decide

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  • 2 decide by a two-thirds majority of votes

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > decide by a two-thirds majority of votes

  • 3 decide by a qualified majority

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  • 4 נטי

    נטי, נָטָה(b. h.) 1) (cmp. נָטַע) to stretch; to pitch a tent. Yalk. Gen. 67 בתחלה נ׳ אהלהוכ׳ (Gen. R. s. 39 נטע) first he pitched Sarahs tent 2) to hang over, incline; to decline. Macc.II, 7 ונופו נוֹטֶה, v. נוֹף II; Kidd.40b. Ned.IV, 5, a. e. הנוֹטוֹת overhanging fruit. Y.M. Kat. III, 82a בנוֹטוֹת when ones mustache hangs over the mouth.Snh.6b להיכן הדין נוטה which way the judgment will incline (in whose favor the verdict will be). Ib. 3b (ref. to Ex. 23:2) עשה לך בית דין נוטה arrange for thyself a court which can lean towards one side, i. e. of uneven numbers. Gen. R. s. 96, a. fr. נ׳ למות one inclines towards dying, feels death approaching; a. v. fr. 3) to bend, pervert judgment. Mekh. Mishp. s. 20 שמא תאמר … ואיני נוטה את הדין lest you say, I will take a bribe but will not pervert the law.Part. pass. נָטוּי; f. נְטוּיָה; pl. נְטוּיִים; נְטוּיִין, נְטוּיוֹת a) hanging over, threatening, inclining. Snh.109a קיר נ׳ a threatening wall; R. Hash. 16b; a. e.Gen. R. s. 49 נ׳ למות, v. supra.b) spread; pitched. Ohol. VII, 2. Tosef. ib. VIII, 2; a. e. Hif. הִיטָּה 1) (neut. verb) to incline. B. Mets.59b הִיטּוּ כותליוכ׳ the walls of the school-house bowed (threatening to fall). Ib. ועדיין מַטִּין ועומדין and so they still stand bending over. Ber.11a הִטֵּתִי, v. זָקַף. Keth.84b; Erub.46b מַטִּין one is inclined (in favor of R. Akibas opinion), i. e. the presumption is in his favor, opp. הלכה definite decision for general practice. Y.Snh.I, 18a bot. (ref. to 1 Kings 22:19) אלו מטין לכף זכותוכ׳ these argued in favor, and those against. R. Hash. 17a ורב חסד מַטֶּהוכ׳ and He who is abundant in kindness inclines (the scales) towards the side of kindness; a. fr. 2) to decline, move sideways. Keth.10a a man walking in the dark, ה׳ מצאו פתוח if he moves sideways (towards the door), he finds it open, if he does not (but strikes against the door) Trnsf. to perform coition without violently tearing the hymen. Ib. 3) (act. verb) to bend; ה׳ דין to wrest judgment. Mekh. l. c. שלא תאמר … אַטֶּה עליו את הדין say not, because he is a wicked man, I will turn the verdict against him. Peah VIII, 9 כל דיין … ומַטֶּה את הדין a judge that takes a bribe and perverts judgment; a. fr. 4) (after Ex. 23:2) to decide by majority (cmp. כָּרַע). Snh.IV, 1 דיני ממונות מטיןוכ׳ in civil law a majority of one decides in favor or against (the claimant), ודיני נפשות מטיןוכ׳ in criminal law a majority of one decides in favor of the defendant, but for a verdict against the defendant a majority of two is required, v. הַטָּיָה Mekh. l. c. הרוג על פי מטין put to death on a majority vote; מה עדים … אף מטין בשנים as incriminating witnessess must be two, so must the majority be two.Part. pass. מוּטֶּה; f. מוּטָּה reclining, bending over. M. Kat. 21a; Yeb.103a בין עומד … בין מ׳ standing, sitting or reclining. Kel. IV, 3; Tosef. ib. B. Kam. III, 10 היתה מ׳ על צדהוכ׳ if the vessel was misshaped so as to bend sideways like a sedan chair. Ib.; ib. 5 מַטָּה על צדה.V. מוּטָּה.

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  • 5 נטה

    נטי, נָטָה(b. h.) 1) (cmp. נָטַע) to stretch; to pitch a tent. Yalk. Gen. 67 בתחלה נ׳ אהלהוכ׳ (Gen. R. s. 39 נטע) first he pitched Sarahs tent 2) to hang over, incline; to decline. Macc.II, 7 ונופו נוֹטֶה, v. נוֹף II; Kidd.40b. Ned.IV, 5, a. e. הנוֹטוֹת overhanging fruit. Y.M. Kat. III, 82a בנוֹטוֹת when ones mustache hangs over the mouth.Snh.6b להיכן הדין נוטה which way the judgment will incline (in whose favor the verdict will be). Ib. 3b (ref. to Ex. 23:2) עשה לך בית דין נוטה arrange for thyself a court which can lean towards one side, i. e. of uneven numbers. Gen. R. s. 96, a. fr. נ׳ למות one inclines towards dying, feels death approaching; a. v. fr. 3) to bend, pervert judgment. Mekh. Mishp. s. 20 שמא תאמר … ואיני נוטה את הדין lest you say, I will take a bribe but will not pervert the law.Part. pass. נָטוּי; f. נְטוּיָה; pl. נְטוּיִים; נְטוּיִין, נְטוּיוֹת a) hanging over, threatening, inclining. Snh.109a קיר נ׳ a threatening wall; R. Hash. 16b; a. e.Gen. R. s. 49 נ׳ למות, v. supra.b) spread; pitched. Ohol. VII, 2. Tosef. ib. VIII, 2; a. e. Hif. הִיטָּה 1) (neut. verb) to incline. B. Mets.59b הִיטּוּ כותליוכ׳ the walls of the school-house bowed (threatening to fall). Ib. ועדיין מַטִּין ועומדין and so they still stand bending over. Ber.11a הִטֵּתִי, v. זָקַף. Keth.84b; Erub.46b מַטִּין one is inclined (in favor of R. Akibas opinion), i. e. the presumption is in his favor, opp. הלכה definite decision for general practice. Y.Snh.I, 18a bot. (ref. to 1 Kings 22:19) אלו מטין לכף זכותוכ׳ these argued in favor, and those against. R. Hash. 17a ורב חסד מַטֶּהוכ׳ and He who is abundant in kindness inclines (the scales) towards the side of kindness; a. fr. 2) to decline, move sideways. Keth.10a a man walking in the dark, ה׳ מצאו פתוח if he moves sideways (towards the door), he finds it open, if he does not (but strikes against the door) Trnsf. to perform coition without violently tearing the hymen. Ib. 3) (act. verb) to bend; ה׳ דין to wrest judgment. Mekh. l. c. שלא תאמר … אַטֶּה עליו את הדין say not, because he is a wicked man, I will turn the verdict against him. Peah VIII, 9 כל דיין … ומַטֶּה את הדין a judge that takes a bribe and perverts judgment; a. fr. 4) (after Ex. 23:2) to decide by majority (cmp. כָּרַע). Snh.IV, 1 דיני ממונות מטיןוכ׳ in civil law a majority of one decides in favor or against (the claimant), ודיני נפשות מטיןוכ׳ in criminal law a majority of one decides in favor of the defendant, but for a verdict against the defendant a majority of two is required, v. הַטָּיָה Mekh. l. c. הרוג על פי מטין put to death on a majority vote; מה עדים … אף מטין בשנים as incriminating witnessess must be two, so must the majority be two.Part. pass. מוּטֶּה; f. מוּטָּה reclining, bending over. M. Kat. 21a; Yeb.103a בין עומד … בין מ׳ standing, sitting or reclining. Kel. IV, 3; Tosef. ib. B. Kam. III, 10 היתה מ׳ על צדהוכ׳ if the vessel was misshaped so as to bend sideways like a sedan chair. Ib.; ib. 5 מַטָּה על צדה.V. מוּטָּה.

    Jewish literature > נטה

  • 6 נָטָה

    נטי, נָטָה(b. h.) 1) (cmp. נָטַע) to stretch; to pitch a tent. Yalk. Gen. 67 בתחלה נ׳ אהלהוכ׳ (Gen. R. s. 39 נטע) first he pitched Sarahs tent 2) to hang over, incline; to decline. Macc.II, 7 ונופו נוֹטֶה, v. נוֹף II; Kidd.40b. Ned.IV, 5, a. e. הנוֹטוֹת overhanging fruit. Y.M. Kat. III, 82a בנוֹטוֹת when ones mustache hangs over the mouth.Snh.6b להיכן הדין נוטה which way the judgment will incline (in whose favor the verdict will be). Ib. 3b (ref. to Ex. 23:2) עשה לך בית דין נוטה arrange for thyself a court which can lean towards one side, i. e. of uneven numbers. Gen. R. s. 96, a. fr. נ׳ למות one inclines towards dying, feels death approaching; a. v. fr. 3) to bend, pervert judgment. Mekh. Mishp. s. 20 שמא תאמר … ואיני נוטה את הדין lest you say, I will take a bribe but will not pervert the law.Part. pass. נָטוּי; f. נְטוּיָה; pl. נְטוּיִים; נְטוּיִין, נְטוּיוֹת a) hanging over, threatening, inclining. Snh.109a קיר נ׳ a threatening wall; R. Hash. 16b; a. e.Gen. R. s. 49 נ׳ למות, v. supra.b) spread; pitched. Ohol. VII, 2. Tosef. ib. VIII, 2; a. e. Hif. הִיטָּה 1) (neut. verb) to incline. B. Mets.59b הִיטּוּ כותליוכ׳ the walls of the school-house bowed (threatening to fall). Ib. ועדיין מַטִּין ועומדין and so they still stand bending over. Ber.11a הִטֵּתִי, v. זָקַף. Keth.84b; Erub.46b מַטִּין one is inclined (in favor of R. Akibas opinion), i. e. the presumption is in his favor, opp. הלכה definite decision for general practice. Y.Snh.I, 18a bot. (ref. to 1 Kings 22:19) אלו מטין לכף זכותוכ׳ these argued in favor, and those against. R. Hash. 17a ורב חסד מַטֶּהוכ׳ and He who is abundant in kindness inclines (the scales) towards the side of kindness; a. fr. 2) to decline, move sideways. Keth.10a a man walking in the dark, ה׳ מצאו פתוח if he moves sideways (towards the door), he finds it open, if he does not (but strikes against the door) Trnsf. to perform coition without violently tearing the hymen. Ib. 3) (act. verb) to bend; ה׳ דין to wrest judgment. Mekh. l. c. שלא תאמר … אַטֶּה עליו את הדין say not, because he is a wicked man, I will turn the verdict against him. Peah VIII, 9 כל דיין … ומַטֶּה את הדין a judge that takes a bribe and perverts judgment; a. fr. 4) (after Ex. 23:2) to decide by majority (cmp. כָּרַע). Snh.IV, 1 דיני ממונות מטיןוכ׳ in civil law a majority of one decides in favor or against (the claimant), ודיני נפשות מטיןוכ׳ in criminal law a majority of one decides in favor of the defendant, but for a verdict against the defendant a majority of two is required, v. הַטָּיָה Mekh. l. c. הרוג על פי מטין put to death on a majority vote; מה עדים … אף מטין בשנים as incriminating witnessess must be two, so must the majority be two.Part. pass. מוּטֶּה; f. מוּטָּה reclining, bending over. M. Kat. 21a; Yeb.103a בין עומד … בין מ׳ standing, sitting or reclining. Kel. IV, 3; Tosef. ib. B. Kam. III, 10 היתה מ׳ על צדהוכ׳ if the vessel was misshaped so as to bend sideways like a sedan chair. Ib.; ib. 5 מַטָּה על צדה.V. מוּטָּה.

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  • 7 כרע

    כְּרַעch. sam( Hif. הִכְרִיעַ to cause to kneel; to subdue; to humiliate, sadden), 1) to bow, bend the knee. Targ. O. Gen. 24:26 (Y. גחן). Targ. II Esth. 3:2; a. e.Y.Ber.II, 5a bot. הוא כ׳ מגרמיה it (the head) bowed spontaneously. 2) (of the balance) to sink, outweigh. Targ. Y. Ex. 1:15. 3) to decide by majority. Targ. Y. Deut. 25:1 (v. Snh.10a). Af. אַכְרַע 1) to sadden. Targ. Jud. 11:35. 2) to weigh. Pesik. Bshall., p. 82a> באכרעתא דאַכְרְעוּןוכ׳, v. אַכְרַעְתָּא. Ithpe. אִתְכְּרע to be weighed. Ib.

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  • 8 כְּרַע

    כְּרַעch. sam( Hif. הִכְרִיעַ to cause to kneel; to subdue; to humiliate, sadden), 1) to bow, bend the knee. Targ. O. Gen. 24:26 (Y. גחן). Targ. II Esth. 3:2; a. e.Y.Ber.II, 5a bot. הוא כ׳ מגרמיה it (the head) bowed spontaneously. 2) (of the balance) to sink, outweigh. Targ. Y. Ex. 1:15. 3) to decide by majority. Targ. Y. Deut. 25:1 (v. Snh.10a). Af. אַכְרַע 1) to sadden. Targ. Jud. 11:35. 2) to weigh. Pesik. Bshall., p. 82a> באכרעתא דאַכְרְעוּןוכ׳, v. אַכְרַעְתָּא. Ithpe. אִתְכְּרע to be weighed. Ib.

    Jewish literature > כְּרַע

  • 9 вирішувати кваліфікованою більшістю

    decide by a qualified majority, rule by a qualified majority

    Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > вирішувати кваліфікованою більшістю

  • 10 vote

    1. noun
    1) (individual vote) Stimme, die

    my vote goes to X, X has my vote — (fig. coll.) ich stimme od. bin für X

    2) (act of voting) Abstimmung, die
    3) (right to vote)

    have/be given or get the vote — das Stimmrecht haben/bekommen

    4) (collective) Stimmen; (result) Abstimmungsergebnis, das

    the vote in favour of capital punishmentdie Stimmenzahl für die Todesstrafe

    5) (expression of opinion) Votum, das

    give somebody a vote of confidence/no confidence — jemandem sein Vertrauen/Misstrauen aussprechen

    vote of confidence/no confidence — Vertrauens-/Misstrauensvotum, das

    2. intransitive verb
    abstimmen; (in election) wählen

    vote for/against — stimmen für/gegen

    vote to do something — beschließen, etwas zu tun

    vote by ballot/[a] show of hands — mit Stimmzetteln/durch Handzeichen abstimmen

    vote Conservative/Labour — etc. die Konservativen/Labour usw. wählen

    3. transitive verb
    1) (elect)

    vote somebody Chairman/President — etc. jemanden zum Vorsitzenden/Präsidenten usw. wählen; (approve)

    2) (coll.): (pronounce) bezeichnen

    vote something a success/failure — etwas als Erfolg/Misserfolg bezeichnen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/93531/vote_down">vote down
    * * *
    [vəut] 1. noun
    ((the right to show) one's wish or opinion, eg in a ballot or by raising a hand etc, especially at an election or in a debate: In Britain, the vote was given to women over twenty-one in 1928; Nowadays everyone over eighteen has a vote; A vote was taken to decide the matter.) das Stimmrecht, die Abstimmung
    2. verb
    1) (to cast or record one's vote: She voted for the Conservative candidate; I always vote Labour; I shall vote against the restoration of capital punishment.) stimmen, wählen
    2) (to allow, by a vote, the provision of (something) eg to someone, for a purpose etc: They were voted $5,000 to help them in their research.) bewilligen
    - voter
    - vote of confidence
    - vote of thanks
    * * *
    [vəʊt, AM voʊt]
    I. n
    1. (expression of choice) Stimme f
    to cast [or record] one's \vote seine Stimme abgeben
    2. (election) Abstimmung f, Wahl f
    to hold [or take] a \vote eine Abstimmung durchführen
    to put sth to the [or a] \vote über etw akk abstimmen lassen
    3. (of group) Stimmen pl
    the working-class \vote die Stimmen pl der Arbeiterklasse
    4. no pl (right)
    the \vote das Wahlrecht [o Stimmrecht]
    to have the \vote das Wahlrecht [o Stimmrecht] haben
    II. vi
    1. (elect candidate, measure) wählen
    to \vote in an election zu einer Wahl gehen
    to \vote against/for sb/sth gegen/für jdn/etw stimmen
    2. (formally choose)
    to \vote to do sth dafür stimmen [o sich akk dafür aussprechen], etw zu tun
    to \vote on sth über etw akk abstimmen
    to \vote on a proposal über einen Vorschlag abstimmen
    4.
    to \vote with one's feet mit den Füßen abstimmen
    III. vt
    to \vote sb in jdn wählen
    to \vote sb into office jdn ins Amt wählen
    to \vote sb out [of office] jdn [aus dem Amt] abwählen
    2. (propose)
    to \vote that... vorschlagen, dass...
    3. (declare)
    to \vote sb/sth sth jdn/etw zu etw dat erklären
    she was \voted the winner sie wurde zur Siegerin erklärt
    the evening was \voted a tremendous success der Abend wurde als überwältigender Erfolg bezeichnet
    4. (decide to give)
    to \vote sb/sth sth [or sth for [or BRIT to] [or AM towards] sb/sth] etw jdm/etw bewilligen
    to \vote £1 million for a project eine Million Pfund für ein Projekt bewilligen
    * * *
    [vəʊt]
    1. n
    1) (= expression of opinion) Stimme f; (= act of voting) Abstimmung f, Wahl f; (= result) Abstimmungs- or Wahlergebnis nt

    to put sth to the voteüber etw (acc) abstimmen lassen

    the vote for/against the change surprised him — dass für/gegen den Wechsel gestimmt wurde, erstaunte ihn

    See:
    2) (= vote cast) Stimme f

    to give one's vote to a party/person — einer Partei/jdm seine Stimme geben

    single-vote majorityMehrheit f von einer Stimme

    one man one voteeine Stimme pro Wähler, ein Mann or Bürger, eine Stimme

    a photo of the Prime Minister casting his vote —

    he won by 22 voteser gewann mit einer Mehrheit von 22 Stimmen

    10% of the voters invalidated their votes — 10% der Wähler machten ihren Stimmzettel ungültig

    3) (POL

    collective) the Labour vote — die Labourstimmen pl

    4) (= franchise) Wahlrecht nt
    5) (= money allotted) Bewilligung f
    2. vt
    1) (= elect) wählen
    2) (inf: judge) wählen zu

    I vote we go back — ich schlage vor, dass wir umkehren

    3) (= approve) bewilligen
    3. vi
    (= cast one's vote) wählen

    to vote for/against sth — für/gegen etw stimmen

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    vote [vəʊt]
    A s
    1. (Wahl)Stimme f, Votum n:
    give one’s vote to ( oder for) seine Stimme geben (dat), stimmen für;
    vote for Jastimme; censure A 1, confidence 1, split A 3
    2. Abstimmung f, Stimmabgabe f, Wahl f:
    put sth to the vote, take a vote on sth über eine Sache abstimmen lassen;
    take the vote die Abstimmung vornehmen, abstimmen
    3. Stimmzettel m, Stimme f:
    4. the vote das Stimm- oder Wahlrecht:
    get the vote wahlberechtigt werden
    5. the vote koll die Stimmen pl:
    vote-catcher, vote-getter Wahllokomotive f
    6. Wahlergebnis n
    7. Beschluss m:
    8. Bewilligung f, bewilligter Betrag
    9. obs
    a) Gelübde n
    b) glühender Wunsch
    B v/i abstimmen, wählen, seine Stimme abgeben:
    vote against stimmen gegen;
    vote for ( oder in favo[u]r of) stimmen für (a. umg für etwas sein), jemanden wählen;
    they voted by 52 to 24 for sie stimmten mit 52 zu 24 für; against B, favor B 1
    C v/t
    1. abstimmen über (akk):
    vote down niederstimmen;
    vote sb in jemanden wählen;
    vote sb out (of office) jemanden abwählen;
    vote sth through etwas durchbringen;
    vote that … dafür sein, dass …; vorschlagen oder beschließen, dass
    2. (durch Abstimmung) wählen oder beschließen oder Geld bewilligen
    3. umg allgemein erklären für oder halten für oder hinstellen als:
    4. vorschlagen:
    I vote (that) you avoid her in future
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (individual vote) Stimme, die

    my vote goes to X, X has my vote — (fig. coll.) ich stimme od. bin für X

    2) (act of voting) Abstimmung, die

    have/be given or get the vote — das Stimmrecht haben/bekommen

    4) (collective) Stimmen; (result) Abstimmungsergebnis, das

    give somebody a vote of confidence/no confidence — jemandem sein Vertrauen/Misstrauen aussprechen

    vote of confidence/no confidence — Vertrauens-/Misstrauensvotum, das

    2. intransitive verb
    abstimmen; (in election) wählen

    vote for/against — stimmen für/gegen

    vote to do something — beschließen, etwas zu tun

    vote by ballot/[a] show of hands — mit Stimmzetteln/durch Handzeichen abstimmen

    vote Conservative/Labour — etc. die Konservativen/Labour usw. wählen

    3. transitive verb

    vote somebody Chairman/President — etc. jemanden zum Vorsitzenden/Präsidenten usw. wählen; (approve)

    2) (coll.): (pronounce) bezeichnen

    vote something a success/failure — etwas als Erfolg/Misserfolg bezeichnen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    abstimmen (für) v.
    abstimmen v.
    stimmen für ausdr.
    wählen v. n.
    Abstimmung f.
    Stimme -n f.
    Wahl -en f.
    Wahlstimme f.

    English-german dictionary > vote

  • 11 mit

    I Präp. (+ Dat)
    1. Gemeinsamkeit, Zugehörigkeit oder Beteiligung ausdrückend: with; ein Mann mit Hund a man with a dog; Ehepaare mit und ohne Kinder married couples with and without children; Tee mit Rum tea with rum; Eis mit Sahne ice cream with whipped cream; Whisky mit Eis whisky with ice ( oder on the rocks); ein Glas mit Wasser a glass of water; Zimmer mit Frühstück bed and breakfast; ein Korb mit Obst a basket of fruit; ein Gespräch mit dem Nachbarn a conversation with the neighbo(u)r; mit Freunden Karten spielen play cards with friends; eine Bluse mit Streifen a blouse with stripes on it, a striped blouse; eine Flasche mit Schraubverschluss a bottle with a screw top, a screw-top bottle; mit Fieber im Bett liegen be in bed with a temperature; Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge JUR. grievous bodily harm resulting in death
    2. (mithilfe von) with; mit Bleistift / Kugelschreiber schreiben write with a ( oder in) pencil / ballpoint; mit Pfeffer würzen season with pepper; sie brät alles mit Butter she fries everything in butter; mit Gewalt by force; mit Bargeld / Scheck / Kreditkarte bezahlen pay in cash / by cheque (Am. check) / by credit card; mit der Bahn / Post etc. by train / post etc.; mit dem nächsten Bus / Zug ankommen / fahren come on the next bus / train / take the next bus / train; List
    3. Art und Weise beschreibend: with; mit Absicht intentionally; mit Freude oder Vergnügen with pleasure; mit Bestürzung to one’s consternation; mit lauter Stimme in a loud voice; mit Appetit essen enjoy one’s food; nur mit Mühe only with (some) difficulty; mit Verlust at a loss; mit einem Mal all of a sudden, suddenly; mit einem Wort in a word; mit 8 zu 11 Stimmen beschließen decide by 8 votes to 11; mit einer Mehrheit von by a majority of; Regierung: with a majority of; mit Einwilligung ihrer Eltern with her parents’ consent; mit Wissen des Chefs with the knowledge of his etc. boss; er ist mit ( einer Geschwindigkeit von) 80 km / h oder mit 80 Sachen umg. durchs Dorf gerast he tore through the village at a speed of 50 mph; Abstand 1, Nachdruck1
    4. jemanden oder etw. betreffend: was ist mit ihm? what’s the matter with him?; wie steht es mit Ihrer Arbeit? how’s your work getting on?; wie stehts mit dir? how about you?; wie wärs mit...? how about...?; mit mir nicht! don’t ( oder they etc. needn’t) try it on with (Am. try that on) me; das ist nichts für dich mit deinen schwachen Nerven umg. that’s no good with your weak nerves; du mit deiner ewigen Unkerei umg. you and your constant gloom and doom; raus mit euch! umg. out with you!, out you go!; Schluss mit dem Unsinn! that’s enough of this nonsense!; mit der Arbeit beginnen start work; mit Weinen aufhören stop crying; mit seinen Kenntnissen ist es nicht weit her he doesn’t know much; sie zögerte mit der Antwort she didn’t reply at once; es ist einfach schlimm mit dir you’re hopeless, what are we to do with you?
    5. (einschließlich): mit ihr waren zehn Personen anwesend there were ten people there including her; die Miete beträgt 1000 Euro mit Nebenkosten the rent is 1000 euros with all extras ( oder all-inclusive); die Fahrkarte kostet mit Zuschlag 60 Euro the ticket is 60 euros including ( oder with) the supplement
    6. zeitlich: mit 20 Jahren at (the age of) twenty; mit dem 3. Mai as of May 3rd; mit dem heutigen Tag as of today; mit Einbruch der Dunkelheit at nightfall; mit dem Tod der Mutter hat sich alles geändert everything changed with the death of his etc. mother; Zeit
    7. gleichlaufende Bewegung kennzeichnend: mit dem Wind im Rücken spielen play with one’s back to the wind; mit der Strömung schwimmen swim with the current; Strom 1, Zeit
    II Adv.
    1. also, too; das gehört mit zu deinen Aufgaben this is another of your tasks; mit dabei sein be there too; wer war außer dir noch mit? umg. who else was there (apart from you)?; etwas mit ansehen watch ( oder witness) something; fig. (dulden) ( auch es mit ansehen) sit back and watch; das muss man mit bedenken you have to consider that too; du kannst auch mal mit anfassen umg. you could lend a hand too for once
    2. mit Superlativ: er war mit der Beste he was one of the (very) best; das ist mit das Schönste this is one of ( oder among) the most beautiful; mitgehen, mitkommen etc.; dazugehören
    * * *
    with; by; withal
    * * *
    mịt [mɪt]
    1. prep +dat
    1) with

    Tee mit Zitrone — lemon tea, tea with lemon

    mit dem Hut in der Hand(with) his hat in his hand

    ein Topf mit Suppe — a pot of soup

    ein Kleid mit Jacke — a dress and jacket

    2) (= mit Hilfe von) with

    mit der Bahn/dem Bus/dem Auto — by train/bus/car

    mit der Post® — by post (Brit) or mail

    mit Bleistift/Tinte/dem Kugelschreiber schreiben — to write in pencil/ink/ballpoint

    mit dem nächsten Flugzeug/Bus kommento come on the next plane/bus

    mit etwas Liebe/Verständnis — with a little love/understanding

    3)

    (zeitlich) mit achtzehn Jahren — at( the age of) eighteen

    mit einem Malall at once, suddenly, all of a sudden

    mit heutigem Tage (form)as from today

    4)

    (bei Maß-, Mengenangaben) mit 1 Sekunde Vorsprung gewinnen — to win by 1 second

    etw mit 50.000 EUR versichern — to insure sth for EUR 50,000

    mit 80 km/h — at 80 km/h

    mit 4:2 gewinnen — to win 4-2

    5) (= einschließlich) with, including

    er mit seinem Herzfehler kann das nichthe can't do that with his heart condition

    ein junger Dichter, Rosenholz mit Namen (old)a young poet, Rosenholz by name or called Rosenholz

    7)

    (= betreffend) was ist mit ihr los? — what's the matter with her?, what's up with her?

    wie geht or steht es mit deiner Arbeit? — how is your work going?, how are you getting on with your work?

    2. adv

    er ist mit der Beste der Gruppe/Mannschaft — he is one of or among the best in the group/the team

    das gehört mit dazuthat's part and parcel of it

    * * *
    1) (onwards or forward: He ran along beside me; Come along, please!) along
    2) (in company, together: I took a friend along with me.) along
    3) (pace or speed: He drove at 120 kilometres per hour.) at
    4) (using: He's going to contact us by letter; We travelled by train.) by
    5) (used to show an amount, measurement of something: a gallon of petrol; five bags of coal.) of
    6) (containing: a box of chocolates.) of
    7) (used to show character, qualities etc: a man of courage.) of
    8) (being carried by: The thief had the stolen jewels on him.) on
    9) to
    10) (in the company of; beside; among; including: I was walking with my father; Do they enjoy playing with each other?; He used to play football with the Arsenal team; Put this book with the others.) with
    11) (by means of; using: Mend it with this glue; Cut it with a knife.) with
    12) (used in expressing the idea of filling, covering etc: Fill this jug with milk; He was covered with mud.) with
    13) (used in describing conflict: They quarrelled with each other; He fought with my brother.) with
    14) (used in descriptions of things: a man with a limp; a girl with long hair; a stick with a handle; Treat this book with care.) with
    15) (in relation to; in the case of; concerning: Be careful with that!; What's wrong with you?; What shall I do with these books?) with
    16) (used in expressing a wish: Down with fascism!; Up with Manchester United!) with
    * * *
    [ˈmɪt]
    I. präp + dat
    1. (unter Beigabe von) with
    trinkst du den Espresso \mit oder ohne Zucker? do you take your espresso with or without sugar?
    isst du das Ei immer \mit so viel Salz und Pfeffer? do you always put so much salt and pepper on your egg?
    Champagner \mit Kaviar champagne and caviar
    Zimmer \mit Frühstück bed and breakfast
    ein Glas \mit Essiggurken a jar of pickled gherkins
    3. (mittels) with
    \mit bequemen Schuhen läuft man besser it's easier to walk in comfortable shoes
    \mit Kugelschreiber geschrieben written in biro
    mit einem Schraubenzieher with [or using a] screwdriver
    4. (per) by
    \mit der Bahn/dem Bus/Fahrrad/der Post by train/bus/bicycle/post
    sie kommt \mit dem nächsten Zug she'll arrive on the next train
    5. (unter Aufwendung von) with
    \mit all meiner Liebe with all my love
    \mit etwas mehr Mühe with a little more effort
    6. (Umstände) with
    sie lag \mit Fieber im Bett she was in bed with fever
    7. zeitlich at
    \mit dem dritten Ton des Zeitzeichens ist es genau 7 Uhr at [or on] the third stroke the time will be exactly 7 o'clock
    \mit 18 [Jahren] at [the age of] 18
    \mit seinem Durchfahren des Zieles when he crossed the line
    8. bei Maß-, Mengenangaben with
    das Spiel endete \mit 1:1 unentschieden the game ended in a 1-1 draw
    der Zug lief \mit zehn Minuten Verspätung ein the train arrived ten minutes late
    er war \mit über 400 Euro im Soll he was over 400 euros in debt
    \mit drei Zehntelsekunden Vorsprung with three tenths of a second advantage
    sich akk \mit Euro 500.000 versichern to insure oneself for 500,000 euros
    \mit einem Kilometerstand von 24567 km with 24,567 km on the clock
    \mit 4 zu 7 Stimmen by 4 to 7 votes
    \mit jdm/etw [zusammen] [together] with sb/sth, including sb/sth
    \mit Axel und Hans waren wir sechs Personen there were six of us including [or with] Axel and Hans
    Montag \mit Freitag Monday to Friday inclusive
    10. (in Begleitung von) with
    11. (fam: und dazu)
    jd \mit seinem/seiner etw sb and sb's sth
    du \mit deiner ewigen Prahlerei you and your constant boasting
    12. (was jdn/etw angeht) with
    \mit meiner Gesundheit steht es nicht zum Besten I am not in the best of health
    wie wär's \mit einer Runde Skat? how about a round of skat?
    \mit jdm/etw rechnen to reckon on [or with] sb/sth
    \mit der Strömung/dem Wind with the current/wind
    14.
    \mit mir nicht don't try it on with me
    II. adv too, as well
    sie gehört \mit zu den führenden Experten auf diesem Gebiet she is one of the leading experts in this field
    er war \mit einer der ersten, die diese neue Technologie angewendet haben he was one of the first to use this new technology
    \mit dabei sein to be there too
    * * *
    1.
    2) (Zugehörigkeit) with

    ein Haus mit Garten — a house with a garden

    Herr Müller mit FrauHerr Müller and his wife

    3) (einschließlich) with; including
    4) (Inhalt)

    ein Sack mit Kartoffeln/Glas mit Marmelade — a sack of potatoes/pot of jam

    etwas mit Absicht tun/mit Nachdruck fordern — do something deliberately/demand something forcefully

    mit 50 [km/h] fahren — drive at 50 [k.p.h]

    6) (Hilfsmittel) with

    mit der Bahn/dem Auto fahren — go by train/car

    mit der Fähre/‘Hamburg’ — on the ferry/the ‘Hamburg’

    mit einer Tätigkeit beginnen/aufhören — take up/give up an occupation

    raus/fort mit dir! — out/off you go!

    mit Einbruch der Dunkelheit/Nacht — when darkness/night falls/fell

    mit 20 [Jahren] — at [the age of] twenty

    mit der Zeit/den Jahren — in time/as the years go/went by

    mit dem Strom/Wind — with the tide/wind

    2.
    1) (auch) too; as well

    er ist beim letzten Ausflug nicht mit gewesen — he didn't come [with us] on our last trip

    warst du auch mit im Konzert? — were you at the concert too?; s. auch Partie 6)

    2) (neben anderen) also; too; as well
    3) (ugs.)

    mit das wichtigste der Bücherone of the most important of the books

    4) (vorübergehende Beteiligung)
    5) s. auch damit 1. 3); womit 2)
    * * *
    A. präp (+dat)
    1. Gemeinsamkeit, Zugehörigkeit oder Beteiligung ausdrückend: with;
    ein Mann mit Hund a man with a dog;
    Ehepaare mit und ohne Kinder married couples with and without children;
    Tee mit Rum tea with rum;
    Eis mit Sahne ice cream with whipped cream;
    Whisky mit Eis whisky with ice ( oder on the rocks);
    ein Glas mit Wasser a glass of water;
    Zimmer mit Frühstück bed and breakfast;
    ein Korb mit Obst a basket of fruit;
    ein Gespräch mit dem Nachbarn a conversation with the neighbo(u)r;
    mit Freunden Karten spielen play cards with friends;
    eine Bluse mit Streifen a blouse with stripes on it, a striped blouse;
    eine Flasche mit Schraubverschluss a bottle with a screw top, a screw-top bottle;
    mit Fieber im Bett liegen be in bed with a temperature;
    Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge JUR grievous bodily harm resulting in death
    2. (mithilfe von) with;
    mit Bleistift/Kugelschreiber schreiben write with a ( oder in) pencil/ballpoint;
    mit Pfeffer würzen season with pepper;
    sie brät alles mit Butter she fries everything in butter;
    mit Gewalt by force;
    mit Bargeld/Scheck/Kreditkarte bezahlen pay in cash/by cheque (US check)/by credit card;
    mit der Bahn/Post etc by train/post etc;
    mit dem nächsten Bus/Zug ankommen/fahren come on the next bus/train/take the next bus/train; List
    mit Absicht intentionally;
    Vergnügen with pleasure;
    mit Bestürzung to one’s consternation;
    mit lauter Stimme in a loud voice;
    mit Appetit essen enjoy one’s food;
    nur mit Mühe only with (some) difficulty;
    mit Verlust at a loss;
    mit einem Mal all of a sudden, suddenly;
    mit einem Wort in a word;
    mit 8 zu 11 Stimmen beschließen decide by 8 votes to 11;
    mit einer Mehrheit von by a majority of; Regierung: with a majority of;
    mit Einwilligung ihrer Eltern with her parents’ consent;
    mit Wissen des Chefs with the knowledge of his etc boss;
    er ist mit (einer Geschwindigkeit von) 80 km/h oder
    durchs Dorf gerast he tore through the village at a speed of 50 mph; Abstand 1, Nachdruck1
    was ist mit ihm? what’s the matter with him?;
    wie steht es mit Ihrer Arbeit? how’s your work getting on?;
    wie stehts mit dir? how about you?;
    wie wärs mit …? how about …?;
    mit mir nicht! don’t ( oder they etc needn’t) try it on with (US try that on) me;
    das ist nichts für dich mit deinen schwachen Nerven umg that’s no good with your weak nerves;
    du mit deiner ewigen Unkerei umg you and your constant gloom and doom;
    raus mit euch! umg out with you!, out you go!;
    Schluss mit dem Unsinn! that’s enough of this nonsense!;
    mit Weinen aufhören stop crying;
    sie zögerte mit der Antwort she didn’t reply at once;
    es ist einfach schlimm mit dir you’re hopeless, what are we to do with you?
    mit ihr waren zehn Personen anwesend there were ten people there including her;
    die Miete beträgt 1000 Euro mit Nebenkosten the rent is 1000 euros with all extras ( oder all-inclusive);
    die Fahrkarte kostet mit Zuschlag 60 Euro the ticket is 60 euros including ( oder with) the supplement
    mit 20 Jahren at (the age of) twenty;
    mit dem 3. Mai as of May 3rd;
    mit dem heutigen Tag as of today;
    mit dem Tod der Mutter hat sich alles geändert everything changed with the death of his etc mother; Zeit
    mit dem Wind im Rücken spielen play with one’s back to the wind;
    mit der Strömung schwimmen swim with the current; Strom 1, Zeit
    B. adv
    1. also, too;
    das gehört mit zu deinen Aufgaben this is another of your tasks;
    mit dabei sein be there too;
    wer war außer dir noch mit? umg who else was there (apart from you)?;
    etwas mit ansehen watch ( oder witness) something; fig (dulden) ( auch
    es mit ansehen) sit back and watch;
    das muss man mit bedenken you have to consider that too;
    du kannst auch mal mit anfassen umg you could lend a hand too for once
    er war mit der Beste he was one of the (very) best;
    das ist mit das Schönste this is one of ( oder among) the most beautiful; mitgehen, mitkommen etc; dazugehören
    * * *
    1.
    1) (Gemeinsamkeit, Beteiligung) with
    3) (einschließlich) with; including

    ein Sack mit Kartoffeln/Glas mit Marmelade — a sack of potatoes/pot of jam

    etwas mit Absicht tun/mit Nachdruck fordern — do something deliberately/demand something forcefully

    mit 50 [km/h] fahren — drive at 50 [k.p.h]

    mit der Bahn/dem Auto fahren — go by train/car

    mit der Fähre/‘Hamburg’ — on the ferry/the ‘Hamburg’

    mit einer Tätigkeit beginnen/aufhören — take up/give up an occupation

    raus/fort mit dir! — out/off you go!

    mit Einbruch der Dunkelheit/Nacht — when darkness/night falls/fell

    mit 20 [Jahren] — at [the age of] twenty

    mit der Zeit/den Jahren — in time/as the years go/went by

    mit dem Strom/Wind — with the tide/wind

    2.
    1) (auch) too; as well

    er ist beim letzten Ausflug nicht mit gewesen — he didn't come [with us] on our last trip

    warst du auch mit im Konzert? — were you at the concert too?; s. auch Partie 6)

    2) (neben anderen) also; too; as well
    3) (ugs.)
    5) s. auch damit 1. 3); womit 2)
    * * *
    präp.
    with prep.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > mit

  • 12 decidirse por

    v.
    1 to decide on, to choose, to decide upon, to determine on.
    2 to decide to, to choose to.
    * * *
    to decide on
    * * *
    (v.) = marry, settle on/upon, go for, come down in + favour of, plump for
    Ex. At that time OCLC was already going strong, and we tried to find some backing from the State of New York and possibly from the federal government to marry those two systems.
    Ex. Each abstracting organisation must consider many factors before settling upon a specific abstracting format and style.
    Ex. If flexibility is required, it may be better to go for a general-purpose data base management system.
    Ex. The author comes down in favour of adding notes to cataloguing records on the grounds that the educational purpose that they are intended to serve is clear.
    Ex. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'.
    * * *
    (v.) = marry, settle on/upon, go for, come down in + favour of, plump for

    Ex: At that time OCLC was already going strong, and we tried to find some backing from the State of New York and possibly from the federal government to marry those two systems.

    Ex: Each abstracting organisation must consider many factors before settling upon a specific abstracting format and style.
    Ex: If flexibility is required, it may be better to go for a general-purpose data base management system.
    Ex: The author comes down in favour of adding notes to cataloguing records on the grounds that the educational purpose that they are intended to serve is clear.
    Ex: There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > decidirse por

  • 13 optar por

    v.
    1 to choose, to decide in someone's favor, to decide in favor of, to decide on.
    2 to choose to, to decide to, to opt to.
    * * *
    (v.) = opt (for), go for, plump for
    Ex. However, in 1983, Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision.
    Ex. If flexibility is required, it may be better to go for a general-purpose data base management system.
    Ex. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'.
    * * *
    (v.) = opt (for), go for, plump for

    Ex: However, in 1983, Forest Press decided to opt for the concept of continuous revision.

    Ex: If flexibility is required, it may be better to go for a general-purpose data base management system.
    Ex: There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but the majority plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > optar por

  • 14 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 15 большинство

    сущ.

    получить большинство голосов — to gain (obtain, receive) a majority of votes

    - абсолютное большинство
    - значительное большинство
    - квалифицированное большинство
    - незначительное большинство
    - относительное большинство
    - парламентское большинство
    - подавляющее большинство
    - простое большинство
    - требуемое большинство

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  • 16 rule

    rule [ru:l]
    règle1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (e) règlement1 (a) gouvernement1 (c) gouverner2 (a) dominer2 (b) juger2 (c) régner3 (a), 3 (b) statuer3 (c)
    1 noun
    (a) (principle) règle f; (regulation) règlement m;
    the rules of chess/grammar les règles fpl du jeu d'échecs/de la grammaire;
    to break the rules ne pas respecter les règles;
    to play according to the rules or by the rules (of the game) jouer suivant les règles (du jeu);
    the rules and regulations le règlement;
    the club rules are very strict on this point le règlement du club est très strict sur ce point;
    smoking is against the rules, it's against the rules to smoke le règlement interdit de fumer;
    that contravenes rule 5b c'est contraire à la règle 5b;
    to stretch or to bend the rules (for sb) faire une entorse au règlement (pour qn);
    Mathematics rule of three règle f de trois;
    rule of thumb point m de repère;
    as a rule of thumb, allow one pound of meat for four people en règle générale, compter une livre de viande pour quatre personnes
    (b) (usual practice, custom) règle f;
    as a (general) rule en règle générale;
    rules of conduct règles fpl de conduite;
    he makes it a rule not to trust anyone il a comme ou pour règle de ne faire confiance à personne;
    we must make it a rule that everyone contributes equally nous devons poser comme principe que chacun contribue à part égale;
    tipping is the rule here les pourboires sont de règle ici;
    long hair was the rule in those days tout le monde avait les cheveux longs à cette époque;
    it's often the case, but there's no hard and fast rule c'est souvent le cas, mais il n'y a pas de règle absolue;
    politeness seems to be the exception rather than the rule on dirait que la politesse est l'exception plutôt que la règle;
    the exception proves the rule l'exception confirme la règle
    (c) (government) gouvernement m, autorité f; (reign) règne m;
    a return to majority/mob rule un retour à la démocratie/à l'anarchie;
    the territories under French rule les territoires mpl sous autorité française;
    in the days of British rule à l'époque de la domination britannique;
    majority rule, the rule of the majority règle f majoritaire;
    the rule of law (l'autorité f de) la loi
    (d) (for measuring) règle f;
    folding rule mètre m pliant;
    metre rule mètre m;
    pocket rule règle f ou mètre m de poche
    (a) (govern → country, people) gouverner;
    if I ruled the world si j'étais maître du monde
    (b) (dominate → person) dominer; (→ emotion) maîtriser;
    their lives are ruled by fear leur vie est dominée par la peur;
    don't let him rule your life ne le laisse pas mener ta vie;
    don't be ruled by what he says ce n'est pas à lui de vous dire ce que vous avez à faire;
    don't let your heart rule your head ne laisse pas tes émotions l'emporter sur la raison;
    to rule the roost faire la loi;
    to rule the waves tenir la mer, être maître ou maîtresse des mers
    (c) (judge, decide) juger, décider;
    the referee ruled the ball out or that the ball was out l'arbitre a déclaré ou jugé que la balle était hors jeu;
    the strike was ruled illegal la grève a été jugée illégale;
    the court ruled that he should have custody of the children c'est à lui que la cour a accordé la garde des enfants;
    the chairperson ruled her or her remark out of order le président a déclaré que sa remarque n'était pas valable
    (d) (draw → line, margin) tirer à la règle; (draw lines on → paper) régler
    (a) (govern → monarch, dictator) régner; (→ elected government) gouverner;
    he ruled over a vast kingdom il régna sur un vaste royaume;
    familiar Chelsea rule OK! vive Chelsea! ;
    Rule Britannia = chant patriotique britannique
    (b) (prevail) régner;
    chaos ruled le désordre régnait;
    the philosophy currently ruling in the party la philosophie actuellement en vigueur au parti
    (c) Law (decide) statuer ( on sth sur qch);
    to rule on a dispute statuer sur un litige;
    to rule against/in favour of sb décider ou prononcer contre/en faveur de qn
    tirer une ligne sous; Finance (account) clore, arrêter
    (possibility, suggestion, suspect) exclure, écarter;
    we cannot rule out that possibility on ne saurait exclure cette éventualité;
    she cannot be ruled out of the inquiry elle n'a pas encore été mise hors de cause;
    the police have ruled out murder la police exclut la possibilité d'un meurtre;
    the presence of hostages ruled out an attack la présence d'otages rendait toute attaque impossible;
    the injury rules him out of Saturday's game sa blessure ne lui permettra pas de jouer samedi

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  • 17 rule

    ru:l
    1. noun
    1) (government: under foreign rule.) gobierno
    2) (a regulation or order: school rules.) regla, norma, reglamento
    3) (what usually happens or is done; a general principle: He is an exception to the rule that fat people are usually happy.) regla
    4) (a general standard that guides one's actions: I make it a rule never to be late for appointments.) norma
    5) (a marked strip of wood, metal etc for measuring: He measured the windows with a rule.) regla

    2. verb
    1) (to govern: The king ruled (the people) wisely.) reinar, gobernar
    2) (to decide officially: The judge ruled that the witness should be heard.) decidir, fallar (jurídico)
    3) (to draw (a straight line): He ruled a line across the page.) trazar (con una regla)
    - ruler
    - ruling

    3. noun
    (an official decision: The judge gave his ruling.) fallo, decisión
    - rule off
    - rule out

    rule1 n
    1. regla / norma
    you can't do that, it's against the rules no puedes hacer eso, va en contra de las reglas / no puedes hacer eso, está prohibido
    2. gobierno / dominio
    rule2 vb gobernar
    tr[rʊːl]
    1 (regulation) regla, norma
    2 (control) dominio
    3 (of monarch) reinado; (by government) gobierno
    4 (measure) regla
    1 (govern) gobernar; (reign) reinar en
    2 (decree) decretar, dictaminar
    3 (draw) trazar
    1 (govern) gobernar; (reign) reinar
    2 (decree) decretar, dictaminar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as a rule por lo general, por regla general
    to work to rule hacer una huelga de celo
    as a rule of thumb como regla general
    rule ['ru:l] v, ruled ; ruling vt
    1) control, govern: gobernar (un país), controlar (las emociones)
    2) decide: decidir, fallar
    the judge ruled that...: el juez falló que...
    3) draw: trazar con una regla
    rule vi
    1) govern: gobernar, reinar
    2) prevail: prevalecer, imperar
    3)
    to rule against : fallar en contra de
    rule n
    1) regulation: regla f, norma f
    2) custom, habit: regla f general
    as a rule: por lo general
    3) government: gobierno m, dominio m
    4) ruler: regla f (para medir)
    n.
    arreglo s.m.
    canon s.m.
    código s.m.
    dominación s.f.
    dominio s.m.
    estatuto s.m.
    norma s.f.
    precepto s.m.
    regla s.f.
    reglamento s.m.
    señoría s.f.
    v.
    decidir v.
    dirigir v.
    gobernar v.
    imperar v.
    rayar v.
    regir v.
    reinar v.
    ruːl
    I
    1) c (regulation, principle) regla f, norma f

    to bend o stretch the rules — apartarse un poco de las reglas

    to work to rule — ( Lab Rel) hacer* huelga de celo, trabajar a reglamento (CS)

    2) (general practice, habit) (no pl)

    as a rule — por lo general, generalmente

    3) u ( government) gobierno m; ( of monarch) reinado m

    to be under foreign rule — estar* bajo dominio extranjero

    the rule of law — el imperio de la ley; majority 1) a)

    4) c ( measure) regla f

    II
    1.
    1) (govern, control) \<\<country\>\> gobernar*, administrar; \<\<person\>\> dominar; \<\<emotion\>\> controlar
    2) ( pronounce) dictaminar
    3) ( draw) \<\<line\>\> trazar* con una regla

    ruled paperpapel m con renglones


    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( govern) gobernar*; \<\<monarch\>\> reinar

    to rule OVER somebody — gobernar* a alguien, reinar sobre alguien

    b) (predominate, be current) imperar
    2) ( pronounce)

    to rule (ON something)fallar or resolver* (en algo)

    to rule against/in favor of somebody/something — fallar or resolver* en contra/a favor de alguien/algo

    Phrasal Verbs:
    [ruːl]
    1. N
    1) (=regulation) regla f, norma f
    rules [of competition] bases fpl

    it's the rules — son las reglas, esa es la norma

    it's a rule that all guests must vacate their rooms by 10a.m. — por norma los clientes tienen que dejar la habitación antes de las 10 de la mañana

    running is against the rules, it's against the rules to run — está prohibido correr

    to break the rules — infringir las reglas or las normas or el reglamento

    to make the rules — dictar las normas

    to play by the rules — (fig) obedecer las reglas or las normas

    I couldn't stand a life governed by rules and regulationsno soportaría una vida llena de reglas y normas

    rules of the roadnormas fpl or reglamento msing de tráfico

    bend 2., 1), golden, ground, work 2., 1)
    2) (=guiding principle) regla f

    rule of three — (Math) regla f de tres

    rule of thumbregla f general

    as a rule of thumb, a bottle of wine holds six glasses — por regla general, una botella de vino da para seis vasos

    3) (=habit, custom) norma f

    as a (general) rule — por regla general, en general, normalmente

    he makes it a rule to get up early — tiene por norma or por sistema levantarse temprano

    exception
    4) (=government) gobierno m ; (=reign) reinado m

    military/one-party rule — gobierno m militar/unipartidista

    the rule of lawel imperio de la ley

    under British rule — bajo el dominio británico

    5) (for measuring) regla f
    2. VT
    1) (=govern) gobernar
    - rule the roost
    2) (=dominate, control) controlar, dominar
    heart 1., 2)
    3) (esp Jur) (=declare) dictaminar
    4) (=draw) [+ line] trazar; (=draw lines on) [+ paper] reglar; ruled
    3. VI
    1) (=govern) gobernar; [monarch] reinar

    to rule over sth/sb — gobernar algo/a algn

    rod
    2) (=prevail) reinar

    United rules OK (in graffiti) ¡aúpa United!, ¡arriba United!

    3) (=decide) [chairman, president] decidir, resolver; [judge, jury] fallar

    to rule against sth/sb — fallar or resolver en contra de algo/algn

    to rule in favour of sth/sb — fallar en or a favor de algo/algn, resolver en or a favor de algo/algn

    to rule on sth — fallar or resolver or decidir en algo

    4.
    CPD

    we'll do it by or go by the rule book — lo haremos de acuerdo con las normas

    the rule of law — el estado de derecho

    * * *
    [ruːl]
    I
    1) c (regulation, principle) regla f, norma f

    to bend o stretch the rules — apartarse un poco de las reglas

    to work to rule — ( Lab Rel) hacer* huelga de celo, trabajar a reglamento (CS)

    2) (general practice, habit) (no pl)

    as a rule — por lo general, generalmente

    3) u ( government) gobierno m; ( of monarch) reinado m

    to be under foreign rule — estar* bajo dominio extranjero

    the rule of law — el imperio de la ley; majority 1) a)

    4) c ( measure) regla f

    II
    1.
    1) (govern, control) \<\<country\>\> gobernar*, administrar; \<\<person\>\> dominar; \<\<emotion\>\> controlar
    2) ( pronounce) dictaminar
    3) ( draw) \<\<line\>\> trazar* con una regla

    ruled paperpapel m con renglones


    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( govern) gobernar*; \<\<monarch\>\> reinar

    to rule OVER somebody — gobernar* a alguien, reinar sobre alguien

    b) (predominate, be current) imperar
    2) ( pronounce)

    to rule (ON something)fallar or resolver* (en algo)

    to rule against/in favor of somebody/something — fallar or resolver* en contra/a favor de alguien/algo

    Phrasal Verbs:

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  • 18 vote

    vəut
    1. noun
    ((the right to show) one's wish or opinion, eg in a ballot or by raising a hand etc, especially at an election or in a debate: In Britain, the vote was given to women over twenty-one in 1928; Nowadays everyone over eighteen has a vote; A vote was taken to decide the matter.) voto; derecho de voto

    2. verb
    1) (to cast or record one's vote: She voted for the Conservative candidate; I always vote Labour; I shall vote against the restoration of capital punishment.) votar
    2) (to allow, by a vote, the provision of (something) eg to someone, for a purpose etc: They were voted $5,000 to help them in their research.) votar
    - vote of confidence
    - vote of thanks

    vote1 n
    1. voto
    2. votación
    vote2 vb votar
    tr[vəʊt]
    1 voto
    2 (voting) voto, votación nombre femenino
    3 (right to vote) sufragio, (derecho al) voto
    1 votar
    vote for Shaw! ¡vota a Shaw!
    1 votar
    2 (elect) elegir
    3 familiar considerarse
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be voted into/out of office ganar/perder las elecciones
    to pull in votes atraer el voto
    to vote by a show of hands votar a mano alzada
    to vote on something / take a vote on something someter algo a votación
    vote of censure voto de censura
    vote of confidence voto de confianza
    write-in vote votación nombre femenino por escrito
    vote ['vo:t] vi, voted ; voting : votar
    to vote Democratic: votar por los demócratas
    vote n
    1) : voto m
    2) suffrage: sufragio m, derecho m al voto
    v.
    votar v.
    n.
    sufragio s.m.
    votación (Gobierno) s.f.
    voto s.m.
    voz (Voto) s.f.
    vəʊt
    I
    1)
    a) c ( ballot cast) voto m, sufragio m (frml)

    to cast one's vote — (frml) emitir su (or mi etc) voto (frml)

    the vote — el sufragio, el derecho de or al voto

    to give somebody/gain the vote — conceder a alguien/conseguir* el sufragio or el derecho de or al voto

    2)
    a) c ( act) votación f

    to put something to the vote, to take a vote on something — someter algo a votación

    to pass a vote of confidence/no confidence — aprobar* un voto de confianza/de censura


    II
    1.

    to vote FOR/AGAINST something — votar a favor de/en contra de algo


    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) (support, choose) votar por, votar
    b) ( elect) elegir* por votación

    to vote somebody into officevotar por or a alguien para un cargo

    c) (declare, judge) considerar
    2)
    a) ( approve) aprobar*
    b) ( decide)

    to vote to + INF — votar por + inf

    c) ( propose) (colloq)

    to vote (THAT) — votar por que (+ subj) (fam)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    [vǝʊt]
    1. N
    1) (=single vote) voto m ( for a favor) ( against en contra de)

    he gets my vote any day! — ¡cuenta con mi voto incondicional!

    to count the votesescrutar or computar los votos

    one person, one vote — una persona, un voto

    cast 2., 2)
    2) (=votes cast) votos mpl
    3) (=right to vote) derecho m al voto or a votar, sufragio m

    to give sb the vote — dar a algn el derecho al voto

    to have the vote — tener (el) derecho al voto

    votes for women! — ¡el sufragio para las mujeres!

    4) (=act) votación f

    to have or take a vote on sth — decidir algo por votación, someter algo a votación more frm

    to allow a free vote — dejar libertad de voto

    a vote of no confidence — un voto de censura

    by popular vote — (lit) por votación popular; (fig) en la opinión de muchos

    to put sth to the vote — someter algo a votación

    a vote of thanksun voto de gracias

    2. VT
    1) (=cast one's vote for) votar

    to vote Labour/Conservative — votar por or a los laboristas/conservadores

    vote Ross at the next election! — ¡vote por or a Ross en las próximas elecciones!

    to vote novotar no

    to vote sb into officevotar por or a algn para un cargo

    to vote a bill/measure through parliament — aprobar una ley/una medida en el parlamento

    to vote yesvotar sí

    2) (=elect) elegir (por votación)
    3) (=approve) aprobar (por votación)

    MPs have today voted themselves a pay increase — hoy, los diputados parlamentarios se han aprobado (por votación) un aumento de sueldo

    4) (=suggest)

    I vote we turn backsugiero or propongo que regresemos

    5) (=judge)
    3.

    how did you vote? — ¿a or por quién votaste?

    which way will you be voting? — ¿a quién votarás?

    to vote against sth — votar en contra de algo

    to vote in favour of sth — votar a favor de algo

    to vote for sb — votar por or a algn

    to vote on sth — someter algo a votación

    to vote with one's feet —

    if the bank goes on like this, customers may start voting with their feet — si el banco sigue así, es posible que los clientes empiecen a prescindir de sus servicios

    4.
    CPD

    vote loser * Nlastre m electoral

    it's a vote loser for us — nos hace perder votos, nos supone un lastre electoral

    vote winner * Ntriunfo m electoral

    * * *
    [vəʊt]
    I
    1)
    a) c ( ballot cast) voto m, sufragio m (frml)

    to cast one's vote — (frml) emitir su (or mi etc) voto (frml)

    the vote — el sufragio, el derecho de or al voto

    to give somebody/gain the vote — conceder a alguien/conseguir* el sufragio or el derecho de or al voto

    2)
    a) c ( act) votación f

    to put something to the vote, to take a vote on something — someter algo a votación

    to pass a vote of confidence/no confidence — aprobar* un voto de confianza/de censura


    II
    1.

    to vote FOR/AGAINST something — votar a favor de/en contra de algo


    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) (support, choose) votar por, votar
    b) ( elect) elegir* por votación

    to vote somebody into officevotar por or a alguien para un cargo

    c) (declare, judge) considerar
    2)
    a) ( approve) aprobar*
    b) ( decide)

    to vote to + INF — votar por + inf

    c) ( propose) (colloq)

    to vote (THAT) — votar por que (+ subj) (fam)

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > vote

  • 19 большинство

    сущ.
    majority
    - большинство голосов
    - абсолютное большинство
    - значительное большинство
    - квалифицированное большинство
    - незначительное большинство
    - относительное большинство
    - подавляющее большинство
    - простое большинство
    - требуемое большинство

    быть в \большинствое — to be in the majority

    быть избранным \большинством — to be elected by a majority

    получать большинство голосов — to gain (obtain, receive) a majority of votes

    располагать \большинством (пользоваться поддержкой \большинствоа) — to command a majority

    решать \большинством в две трети голосов — to decide by a two-thirds majority (of votes)

    Юридический русско-английский словарь > большинство

  • 20 beschließen

    beschließen v 1. FIN declare; 2. GEN adopt, decide on; round off (Meeting); 3. POL adopt; 4. RECHT adopt, pass (Gesetz); 5. ADMIN adopt; 6. WIWI pass, approve (Budget) beschließen, etw. zu tun GEN resolve to do sth, decide to do sth
    * * *
    v 1. < Finanz> declare; 2. < Geschäft> adopt, decide on, Meeting round off; 3. < Pol> adopt; 4. < Recht> Gesetz adopt, pass; 5. < Verwalt> adopt; 6. <Vw> Budget pass, approve ■ beschließen, etw. zu tun < Geschäft> resolve to do sth, decide to do sth
    * * *
    beschließen
    to decide, to resolve (US), to pass a resolution;
    Antrag beschließen to carry a motion;
    Dividende beschließen to declare a dividend;
    zusätzliche Mittel in Höhe von 150 Mio. Dollar beschließen to vote $ 150 million in extra money;
    mit Stimmenmehrheit beschließen to decide by a majority of votes;
    Streik beschließen to call out a strike;
    gemeinsames Vorgehen beschließen to decide on a concerted action;
    Vorschlag einstimmig beschließen to accept a proposal with unanimous approval;
    Zustimmung einer Versammlung beschließen to resolve that the meeting is in favor (US).

    Business german-english dictionary > beschließen

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