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  • 1 выборы выбор·ы

    выиграть выборы — to gain / to win an election

    лидировать на выборах — to head the poll, to outpoll

    победить на выборах — to win / to carry / to swing an election

    потерпеть поражение на выборах — to lose an election; to be defeated in an election

    признать выборы недействительными — to null / to nullify an election; to invalidate the balloting амер.

    принимать участие / участвовать в выборах — to participate / to take part in the elections

    провалить кого-л. на выборах — to vote smb. down

    проводить выборы — to hold an election, to conduct elections

    пройти на выборах от какого-л. округа — to get in for a constituency

    "прокатить" кого-л. на выборах — to row smb. up Salt River амер. жарг.

    альтернативные выборы, выборы на альтернативной основе (на которых выступает несколько кандидатов) — contested / multicandidate election

    внеочередные выборы — off-year election, snap election

    всеобщие выборы — general / national / popular election(s)

    досрочные выборы — early / pre-term election

    многостепенные / непрямые выборы — multi-stage / indirect elections

    очередные выборы — regular / next elections

    предварительные выборы — pre-election; primaries, primary-election амер.

    предстоящие выборы — forthcoming / upcoming election(s)

    президентские выборы, выборы президента — presidential election(s)

    свободные выборы — free election / franchise

    фиктивные выборы — eye-wash / sham election

    выборы в Конгресс, проводимые в год, когда не избирается президент, промежуточные выборы (США) — mid-term elections

    выборы в местные органы власти — local elections, elections to local bodies

    выборы, на которых борьба ведётся вокруг насущных вопросов (цен, налогов, безработицы и т.п.) — bread-and-butter election

    выборы, происходящие раз в четыре года — quadrennial elections

    выборы с несколькими баллотировками / в несколько туров — successive ballots

    выборы (кандидатов) списком — voting for a list

    итоги / результаты выборов — election results / results / returns

    подтасовывать / фальсифицировать результаты выборов — to rig an election; to fix an eljection жарг.

    положение о выборах — elective constitution. Statute of Elections, Election(s) Regulations

    порядок проведения / процедура выборов — procedure for elections, election procedure

    фальсификация выборов — stealing of elections; ballot-box stuffing амер. разг.

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > выборы выбор·ы

  • 2 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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  • 3 result

    n
    1) результат, следствие, последствие
    2) брит. полит. жарг. арест; успешное осуждение преступника
    3) брит. уголовн. жарг. оправдание
    •

    to abide by / to accept the result — признавать результаты ( выборов)

    to achieve results — добиваться / достигать результатов

    to attain results — добиваться / достигать результатов

    to communicate results (to smb) — сообщать результаты (кому-л.)

    to get results — добиваться / достигать результатов

    to give results — давать / приносить результаты

    to obtain results — добиваться / достигать результатов

    to pool the results — подытоживать результаты; подводить итоги

    to produce results — давать / приносить результаты

    to rig / to stage-manage election results — подтасовывать / фальсифицировать результаты выборов

    to yield results — давать / приносить результаты

    - approximate result
    - close result
    - contest results
    - detailed coverage of the election results
    - disappointing results
    - disastrous results
    - early results
    - election results
    - encouraging results
    - end result
    - falsification of the election results
    - final results
    - good results
    - immediate result
    - inconclusive results of an election
    - initial results show a clear lead for...
    - initial results
    - invalid result
    - meaningful results
    - necessary results
    - official results
    - optimum result
    - phoned-in results
    - political results
    - positive result
    - preliminary election results
    - provisional election results
    - referendum results
    - result is definitive
    - result is final
    - results are in the balance
    - results are predetermined
    - results obtained
    - ruinous results
    - significant results
    - smb's poor results in the election
    - tangible result
    - voting results
    - with almost half of the results in
    - without concrete results

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  • 4 general

    adj.
    general.
    tener nociones generales de griego to have a general knowledge of Greek
    esa es la opinión general de los que no leen los periódicos that's what people who don't read the papers usually think
    por lo general, en general in general, generally
    por lo general, suelo ir en tren I generally go by train, in general I go by train
    m.
    general (military).
    general de división major general
    * * *
    1 general
    2 (común) common, usual, widespread
    1 (oficial) general
    \
    en general in general, generally
    por lo general in general, generally
    * * *
    noun mf. adj.
    - por lo general
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=común, no detallado) general

    una visión general de los problemas del país — an overall o general view of the problems of the country

    2)

    en general —

    a) [con verbo] generally, in general

    en general, las críticas de la obra han sido favorables — generally (speaking) o in general, the play has received favourable criticism

    b) [detrás de s] in general

    literatura, música y arte en general — literature, music and the arts in general

    3)

    iban a visitarla, por lo general, dos o tres veces al año — they generally went to see her two or three times a year

    los resultados son, por lo general, bastante buenos — in general o on the whole, the results are pretty good

    2.
    SMF (Mil) general
    3.
    SM (Rel) general
    4. SF
    1) (tb: carretera general)
    Esp main road
    2) (tb: clasificación general) (Ciclismo) general classification
    3)
    * * *
    I
    a) (no específico, global) general

    en general — on the whole, in general

    por lo general: por lo general llega a las nueve she usually o generally arrives at nine; por lo general prefiero ir en auto — in general I prefer to drive

    II
    masculino y femenino (Mil) general
    * * *
    I
    a) (no específico, global) general

    en general — on the whole, in general

    por lo general: por lo general llega a las nueve she usually o generally arrives at nine; por lo general prefiero ir en auto — in general I prefer to drive

    II
    masculino y femenino (Mil) general
    * * *
    general1
    1 = general.
    Nota: Nombre.

    Ex: It should not be assumed that this has got to be a semiformal talk, followed by a few halfhearted questions: a kind of general's visit to the barracks.

    * como norma general = as a general rule.

    general2
    2 = all-embracing, broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], comprehensive, general, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], sweeping, ubiquitous, umbrella, widespread, pervasive, blanket, all-encompassing, broadly based, wide-ranging [wide ranging], overriding, broad-based [broad based], wide-scale, overarching, received, epidemic, pandemic, wide-angle(d), generalised [generalized, -USA], embracing, encompassing.

    Ex: Some databases are very all-embracing in their coverage and attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of entire disciplines.

    Ex: This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex: One of the factors to consider in the selection of a data base is whether the data base is comprehensive or not.
    Ex: Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex: Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex: Such a statement of objectives may appear narrowly defined in its practices and yet, at the same time, rather sweeping in its assumptions.
    Ex: Worldwide, however, the printed book is still the most ubiquitous source of record = Sin embargo, el libro impreso es aún en todo el mundo la fuente de información escrita más común.
    Ex: This article describes how an ' umbrella licence' was obtained covering a group of libraries within the region.
    Ex: Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.
    Ex: The unease is pervasive, not an occasional outcropping of discontent.
    Ex: Likert in no way attempts to make a blanket prescription for employee-centered supervisory styles.
    Ex: In publishing itself there is little use made of the all-encompassing schemes such as Dewey or the Library of Congress.
    Ex: Library schools are offering broadly based courses with increasing emphasis on technology and information systems, but practising librarians still need the traditional skills.
    Ex: The contents of this handbook are comprehensive and wide-ranging.
    Ex: Consequently, the overriding demand made by the academic community is bibliographical in nature.
    Ex: However, the organisation is well on its way to becoming a broad-based provider of databases and end-user oriented information services in all areas of engineering.
    Ex: Without the stimuli of cooperative agencies, many programmes such as wide-scale interlibrary loan would not have developed so rapidly.
    Ex: There appears to be an unhealthy tendency among information technology professionals to elevate any single, highly successful practical experience instantly into an overarching paradigm for managerial success.
    Ex: It was interesting, in view of the received opinion that 'We don't have many problems round here'.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the epidemic growth of its literature' = El artículo se titula "El síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) y el crecimiento exponencial de su literatura".
    Ex: Test score data were broken down to show that the decline is pandemic throughout the culture & not limited to sex, race, or class variables.
    Ex: Except for the principal no one besides the librarian has such a wide-angle view of the school's instructional programme.
    Ex: Although it is coy about admitting the fact it is only mentioned twice in the whole of the thirty pages of publicity material it is in effect a generalized and modernized Thesaurofacet: a facetted classification with a thesaurus structure forming an integral part.
    Ex: What is needed is an embracing approach to guarantee freedom for Palestine and legitimacy for Israel.
    Ex: By drawing Russia into an encompassing coalition with Europe and other powers, the risk of conflict will be diminished.
    * abogado general = advocate-general.
    * Acuerdo General sobre Aranceles y Comercio (GATT) = General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
    * anestesia general = general anaesthesia.
    * asamblea general = general assembly.
    * biblioteca general = general library.
    * como norma general = as a general rule of thumb, as a rough guide.
    * consenso general = general consensus.
    * creencia general = conventional wisdom.
    * criterio general = rule of thumb.
    * dar una idea general = paint + a broad picture.
    * de aplicación general = general-purpose, of general application.
    * de forma general = bulk.
    * de interés general = of general interest.
    * de lo general a lo particular = from the general to the particular.
    * de lo particular a lo general = from the particular to the general.
    * de propósito general = general-purpose.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * desde un punto de vista general = in a broad sense.
    * desde un punto de vista más general = in a broader sense.
    * designación general de la clase de documento = general material designation.
    * de tipo general = broad scoped.
    * de un modo muy general = crudely.
    * de utilidad general = all-purpose.
    * director general = senior director.
    * elección general = general election.
    * encabezamiento demasiado general = much-too-broad heading.
    * encabezamiento informativo general = general explanatory heading.
    * en el sentido más general = in the broadest sense.
    * en general = at large, by and large, for the most part, generally, in general, in the main, on balance, on the whole, overall, broadly, as a whole, generally speaking.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, on the whole, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * ensayo general = dress rehearsal.
    * en su sentido más general = in its/their broadest sense.
    * en términos generales = in broad terms, generally speaking.
    * en un sentido general = in a broad sense.
    * en un sentido más general = in a broader sense.
    * esquema general = outline.
    * gobernador general = Governor General.
    * hablando en términos generales = loosely speaking.
    * idea general = rough idea.
    * índice general = general index.
    * informe sobre el estado general de las carreteras = road report.
    * instrucción general = blanket instruction.
    * interés general = public interest.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * la sociedad en general = society at large.
    * materia más general = broader subject.
    * norma general = rule of thumb.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivvos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * opinión general = consensus of opinion, conventional wisdom.
    * opinión general, la = received wisdom, the.
    * parálisis general = general paresis.
    * población en general, la = general population, the.
    * por lo general = on the whole, all in all, in general, generally, generally speaking, in the normal run of events, in the normal run of things.
    * público en general = broader audience, broad audience, broad public, broader public.
    * público en general, el = general public, the.
    * Secretaría General = Secretariat.
    * ser de uso general = be generally available.
    * sistema de clasificación general = general scheme.
    * Sistema General de Ordenación (SGO) = Broad System of Ordering (BSO).
    * una guía general = a rough guide.
    * una idea general = a rough guide.

    * * *
    1 (no específico, global) general
    el estado general del enfermo the patient's general condition
    temas de interés general subjects of general interest
    el pronóstico general del tiempo para mañana the general weather forecast for tomorrow
    el país está pasando una crisis a nivel general the country as a whole is going through a crisis
    me habló del proyecto en líneas generales she gave me a broad outline of the project
    un panorama general de la situación an overall view o an overview of the situation
    tiene nociones generales de informática he has a general idea about information technology
    2 ( en locs):
    en general on the whole, in general
    ¿qué tal el viaje? — en general bien how was the trip? — good, on the whole
    en general prefiero el vino blanco on the whole o in general, I prefer white wine
    el público en general the general public
    ¿qué te molesta de él? — todo en general y nada en particular what don't you like about him? — everything and nothing
    por lo general: por lo general los domingos nos levantamos tarde we usually o generally get up late on Sundays
    por lo general llega a las nueve she usually o generally arrives at nine, she arrives at nine as a rule
    por lo general prefiero una novela a un ensayo in general I prefer novels to essays
    3
    generales fpl ( Esp) ( Pol) general elections
    1 ( Mil) general
    2 ( Relig) general
    Compuestos:
    (en el ejército) ≈ major general, brigadier general ( in US), brigadier ( in UK); (en las fuerzas aéreas) ≈ brigadier general ( in US), ≈ air commodore ( in UK)
    (en el ejército) ≈ major general; (en las fuerzas aéreas) ≈ major general ( in US), ≈ air vice marshal ( in UK)
    * * *

     

    Multiple Entries:
    Gral.    
    general
    Gral. sustantivo masculino (
    ◊ General) Gen.

    general adjetivo
    a) (no específico, global) general;


    hablando en líneas generales broadly speaking;
    un panorama general de la situación an overall view of the situation
    b) ( en locs)


    el público en general the general public;
    por lo general as a (general) rule
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Mil) general
    general
    I adjetivo general
    director general, general manager, director-general
    huelga general, general strike
    secretario general, Secretary-General
    II m Mil Rel general
    ♦ Locuciones: por lo o en general, in general, generally
    ' general' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogada
    - abogado
    - anestesia
    - asesinar
    - bachillerato
    - bien
    - camino
    - capitán
    - capitana
    - cerrarse
    - CGPJ
    - ciudad
    - comida
    - cuartel
    - decretar
    - desbandada
    - DGT
    - economía
    - EGB
    - el
    - elección
    - enferma
    - enfermo
    - ensayo
    - entre
    - error
    - esperar
    - fiscal
    - golpista
    - gral.
    - huelga
    - ladrón
    - ladrona
    - lata
    - lista
    - LOGSE
    - mayoría
    - nombrar
    - panorama
    - parecerse
    - piso
    - policlínica
    - política
    - protesta
    - pública
    - público
    - regalar
    - regla
    - sazón
    - secretaría
    English:
    AGM
    - all-out
    - as
    - Attorney General
    - backdrop
    - blanket
    - booze
    - bosom
    - breast
    - buck
    - crime
    - current
    - disheveled
    - dishevelled
    - dress
    - dress rehearsal
    - dry run
    - education
    - election
    - GATT
    - GCE
    - GCSE
    - general
    - general anaesthetic
    - general assembly
    - general election
    - general knowledge
    - general practice
    - general practitioner
    - general public
    - generally
    - GP
    - GPO
    - headquarters
    - HQ
    - large
    - main
    - managing
    - master
    - mobilize
    - most
    - opposite
    - outline
    - overall
    - overview
    - Postmaster General
    - practitioner
    - prevailing
    - public
    - quash
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [común] general;
    sólo tengo unas nociones muy generales de griego I only have a very general knowledge of Greek;
    esa es la opinión general de los que no leen los periódicos that's what people who don't read the papers usually think;
    mi valoración general es negativa my overall opinion of it is negative
    2. [en frases]
    por lo general, en general in general, generally;
    los candidatos, en general, estaban muy cualificados the candidates were generally very well qualified, in general, the candidates were very well qualified;
    en general el clima es seco on the whole, the climate is dry, the climate is generally dry;
    ¿qué tal te va la vida? – en general, no me puedo quejar how's life treating you? – I can't complain, on the whole;
    por lo general, suelo ir en tren I generally go by train, in general I go by train
    ♦ nm
    Mil general general de brigada Br brigadier, US brigadier general;
    general de división major general
    ♦ nf
    Dep [clasificación] overall standings;
    con su victoria se ha puesto segunda en la general her victory has moved her up to second place in the overall standings
    * * *
    I adj general;
    en general in general;
    por lo general usually, generally
    II m general
    * * *
    general adj
    1) : general
    2)
    por lo general : in general, generally
    general nmf
    1) : general
    2)
    general de división : major general
    * * *
    general1 adj general
    general2 n (militar) general

    Spanish-English dictionary > general

  • 5 обнародовать

    to make public; (опубликовать) to publish; (провозгласить) to promulgate

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > обнародовать

  • 6 anunciar

    v.
    1 to announce.
    hoy anuncian los resultados the results are announced today
    Ella anunció su boda ayer She announce her wedding yesterday.
    Ella anunció su candidatura She announced her candidacy.
    2 to advertise.
    3 to herald.
    esas nubes anuncian tormenta by the look of those clouds, it's going to rain
    * * *
    1 (avisar) to announce, make public
    2 (hacer publicidad) to advertise
    1 to put an advert (en, in)
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=hacer público) to announce
    2) (=convocar) to call
    3) (Com) to advertise
    4) (=augurar)

    no nos anuncia nada bueno — it is not a good sign, it bodes ill for us

    el pronóstico del tiempo anuncia nevadas — they're forecasting snow, the weather forecast says there will be snow

    5) frm [a una visita] to announce

    ¿a quién debo anunciar? — who shall I say it is?, what name should I say?

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <noticia/decisión> to announce, make... public; <lluvias/tormentas> to forecast
    b) (frml) < persona> to announce

    ¿a quién tengo el gusto de anunciar? — whom do I have the pleasure of announcing? (frml)

    2) señal/indicio to herald (frml), to announce
    3) < producto> to advertise, promote
    2.
    anunciarse v pron
    a) ( prometer ser) (+ compl)
    b) (refl) (frml) persona

    sírvase anunciarse en recepción — (frml) kindly report to reception (frml)

    * * *
    = advertise [advertize, -USA], announce, foreshadow, herald, make + announcement, post, publicise [publicize, -USA], tout, bill.
    Ex. A trailer is a short motion picture film consisting of selected scenes from a film to be shown at a future date, used to advertise that film.
    Ex. Some revisions have already been announced.
    Ex. While in Uganda he authored the Markerere Institute list of subject headings, which foreshadowed his later work at the Hennepin County Library, which he joined in 1971.
    Ex. The appearance of a term in a title does not necessarily herald the treatment of the topic at any length in the body of the text.
    Ex. A librarian made the announcement that he had in mind that the Library of Congress and about 13 other ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries do all of the cataloging for the country.
    Ex. A broadside is a separately published piece of paper, printed on one side only and intended to be read unfolded; usually intended to be posted, publicly distributed, or sold, e.g. proclamations, handbills, ballad-sheets, news-sheets.
    Ex. A variety of extension activities, such as book clubs, competitions and quizzes also help to publicize the stock and the work of the library.
    Ex. And may I say parenthetically that two publishers out of the enormous number that are so often touted as belonging to the CIP program are now printing their own homemade and superior cataloging in publication data.
    Ex. What was billed a short time ago as the largest merger in the history of publishing, between Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, collapsed in 1998.
    ----
    * anunciar a bombo y platillo = trumpet.
    * anunciar a los cuatro vientos = shout + Nombre + from the rooftops, trumpet.
    * cuya fecha se anunciará más adelante = at a time to be announced later.
    * pendiente de anunciarse = yet to be announced.
    * se anunciará = to be announced.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <noticia/decisión> to announce, make... public; <lluvias/tormentas> to forecast
    b) (frml) < persona> to announce

    ¿a quién tengo el gusto de anunciar? — whom do I have the pleasure of announcing? (frml)

    2) señal/indicio to herald (frml), to announce
    3) < producto> to advertise, promote
    2.
    anunciarse v pron
    a) ( prometer ser) (+ compl)
    b) (refl) (frml) persona

    sírvase anunciarse en recepción — (frml) kindly report to reception (frml)

    * * *
    = advertise [advertize, -USA], announce, foreshadow, herald, make + announcement, post, publicise [publicize, -USA], tout, bill.

    Ex: A trailer is a short motion picture film consisting of selected scenes from a film to be shown at a future date, used to advertise that film.

    Ex: Some revisions have already been announced.
    Ex: While in Uganda he authored the Markerere Institute list of subject headings, which foreshadowed his later work at the Hennepin County Library, which he joined in 1971.
    Ex: The appearance of a term in a title does not necessarily herald the treatment of the topic at any length in the body of the text.
    Ex: A librarian made the announcement that he had in mind that the Library of Congress and about 13 other ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries do all of the cataloging for the country.
    Ex: A broadside is a separately published piece of paper, printed on one side only and intended to be read unfolded; usually intended to be posted, publicly distributed, or sold, e.g. proclamations, handbills, ballad-sheets, news-sheets.
    Ex: A variety of extension activities, such as book clubs, competitions and quizzes also help to publicize the stock and the work of the library.
    Ex: And may I say parenthetically that two publishers out of the enormous number that are so often touted as belonging to the CIP program are now printing their own homemade and superior cataloging in publication data.
    Ex: What was billed a short time ago as the largest merger in the history of publishing, between Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, collapsed in 1998.
    * anunciar a bombo y platillo = trumpet.
    * anunciar a los cuatro vientos = shout + Nombre + from the rooftops, trumpet.
    * cuya fecha se anunciará más adelante = at a time to be announced later.
    * pendiente de anunciarse = yet to be announced.
    * se anunciará = to be announced.

    * * *
    anunciar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹noticia/decisión› to announce, make … public; ‹lluvias/tormentas› to forecast
    nos anunció su decisión he informed us of o told us of his decision, he announced his decision to us
    anunció su compromiso matrimonial he announced his engagement
    el acto está anunciado para esta tarde the ceremony is due to take place this afternoon
    2 ( frml); ‹persona› to announce
    ¿a quién tengo el gusto de anunciar? whom do I have the pleasure of announcing? ( frml), what name should I say?
    B «señal/indicio» to herald ( frml), to announce
    el tintineo de llaves que anunciaba su llegada the jingling of keys which announced his arrival
    ese cielo gris anuncia tormenta that gray sky heralds o presages a storm ( liter), that gray sky means there is a storm coming
    C ‹producto› to advertise, promote
    1 (prometer ser) (+ compl):
    la temporada de ópera se anuncia interesante the opera season promises to be interesting
    el fin de semana se anuncia lluvioso the weekend looks like being wet, it looks as if the weekend will be wet
    2 ( refl) ( frml)
    «persona»: sírvase anunciarse en recepción ( frml); kindly report to reception ( frml)
    siempre se anunciaba dando un timbrazo largo he always announced his arrival by giving a long ring on the doorbell
    * * *

     

    anunciar ( conjugate anunciar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹noticia/decisión› to announce, make … public;

    ‹lluvias/tormentas› to forecast
    b) (frml) ‹ persona› to announce


    anunciar verbo transitivo
    1 (promocionar un producto) to advertise
    2 (notificar) to announce
    ' anunciar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    declarar
    - gratuitamente
    - hablar
    - señalar
    English:
    advertise
    - announce
    - give out
    - herald
    - portend
    - bill
    - spell
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [notificar] to announce;
    hoy anuncian los resultados the results are announced today;
    me anunció su llegada por teléfono he phoned to tell me that he would be coming;
    anunció que no podría venir she told us she wouldn't be able to come
    2. [hacer publicidad de] to advertise
    3. [presagiar] to herald;
    esas nubes anuncian tormenta by the look of those clouds, there's a storm on the way;
    los primeros brotes anunciaban la primavera the first shoots heralded the spring
    * * *
    v/t
    1 announce
    2 COM advertise
    * * *
    1) : to announce
    2) : to advertise
    * * *
    1. (noticia) to announce
    2. (producto) to advertise

    Spanish-English dictionary > anunciar

  • 7 right

    right [raɪt]
    droite ⇒ 1 (a)-(c) droit ⇒ 1 (d), 2 (a), 2 (b), 3 (a), 3 (i) bien ⇒ 1 (e), 3 (e)-(h), 7 (b), 7 (c), 7 (h) bon ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (c) juste ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (d), 7 (b), 7 (e) vrai ⇒ 3 (j) redresser ⇒ 4 (a), 4 (b) se redresser ⇒ 5 à droite ⇒ 7 (a) tout de suite ⇒ 7 (g)
    1 noun
    (a) (in directions) droite f;
    ∎ look to the or your right regardez à droite ou sur votre droite;
    ∎ keep to the or your right restez à droite;
    ∎ take a right tournez à droite;
    ∎ he was seated on your right il était assis à ta droite;
    ∎ from right to left de droite à gauche
    ∎ the right la droite;
    ∎ the right is or are divided la droite est divisée;
    ∎ to be to or on the right être à droite;
    ∎ he's to the right of the party leadership il est plus à droite que les dirigeants du parti
    (c) (in boxing) droite f;
    ∎ with a right to the jaw d'une droite à la mâchoire
    (d) (entitlement) droit m;
    ∎ to have a right to sth avoir droit à qch;
    ∎ she has a right to half the profits elle a droit à la moitié des bénéfices;
    ∎ to have a or the right to do sth avoir le droit de faire qch;
    ∎ you've no right to talk to me like that! tu n'as pas le droit de me parler ainsi!;
    ∎ you have every right to be angry tu as toutes les raisons d'être en colère;
    ∎ by what right? de quel droit?;
    ∎ what right have you to do that? de quel droit faites-vous cela?;
    ∎ right of abode droit m de séjour;
    ∎ right of asylum droit m d'asile;
    ∎ the right to vote/to know le droit de vote/de savoir;
    ∎ the right to life le droit à la vie;
    ∎ right of reply droit m de réponse ou de rectification;
    ∎ he's American by right of birth il est américain de naissance;
    ∎ as of right de (plein) droit;
    ∎ I know my rights je connais mes droits;
    ∎ the rights of man les droits mpl de l'homme;
    ∎ you'd be within your rights to demand a refund vous seriez dans votre (bon) droit si vous réclamiez un remboursement;
    ∎ American read him his rights (on arresting a suspect) prévenez-le de ses droits;
    ∎ she's rich in her own right elle a une grande fortune personnelle;
    ∎ he became a leader in his own right il est devenu leader par son seul talent
    (e) (what is good, moral) bien m;
    ∎ to know right from wrong faire la différence entre le bien et le mal;
    ∎ to be in the right être dans le vrai, avoir raison;
    ∎ he put himself in the right by apologizing il s'est racheté en s'excusant
    ∎ rights droits mpl;
    ∎ mineral rights droits mpl miniers;
    ∎ film/distribution rights droits mpl d'adaptation cinématographique/de distribution;
    ∎ to hold the translation rights to a book détenir les droits de traduction d'un livre;
    ∎ all rights reserved tous droits réservés
    ∎ (application or subscription) rights droits mpl de souscription
    ∎ to put or to set to rights (room) mettre en ordre; (firm, country) redresser; (situation) arranger;
    ∎ I'll soon have this kitchen set to rights j'aurai vite fait de remettre de l'ordre dans la cuisine;
    ∎ to put or to set the world to rights refaire le monde
    (a) (indicating location, direction) droit;
    ∎ raise your right hand levez la main droite;
    ∎ he's my right hand c'est mon bras droit;
    ∎ the right side of the stage le côté droit de ou la droite de la scène;
    ∎ take the next right turn prenez la prochaine à droite;
    ∎ would you like to try the right shoe? (in shop) vous voulez essayer le pied droit?
    (b) (accurate, correct → answer, address) bon; (→ prediction) juste, exact;
    ∎ the weather forecasts are never right les prévisions météo ne sont jamais exactes;
    ∎ he didn't give me the right change il ne m'a pas rendu la monnaie exacte;
    ∎ have you got the right change? avez-vous le compte exact?;
    ∎ is this the right house? est-ce la bonne maison?, est-ce bien la maison?;
    ∎ the station clock is right l'horloge de la gare est juste ou à l'heure;
    ∎ have you got the right time? est-ce que vous avez l'heure (exacte)?;
    ∎ that can't be right ça ne peut pas être ça, ça ne peut pas être juste;
    ∎ the sentence doesn't sound/look quite right la phrase sonne/a l'air un peu bizarre;
    ∎ there's something not quite right in what he says il y a quelque chose qui cloche dans ce qu'il dit;
    ∎ to be right (person) avoir raison;
    ∎ you're quite right! vous avez bien raison!;
    ∎ the customer is always right le client a toujours raison;
    ∎ you were right about the bus schedules/about him/about what she would say vous aviez raison au sujet des horaires de bus/à son sujet/sur ce qu'elle dirait;
    ∎ I was right in thinking he was an actor j'avais raison de penser que c'était un acteur;
    ∎ am I right in thinking you're German? vous êtes bien allemand, ou est-ce que je me trompe?;
    ∎ you're the eldest, am I right or is that right? c'est (bien) toi l'aîné, ou est-ce que je me trompe?;
    ∎ I owe you $5, right? je te dois 5 dollars, c'est (bien) ça?;
    ∎ and I'm telling you you still owe me £10, right! et moi je te dis que tu me dois encore 10 livres, vu?;
    ∎ he's sick today, right? il est malade aujourd'hui, non?;
    ∎ that's right c'est juste, oui;
    ∎ he got the pronunciation/spelling right il l'a bien prononcé/épelé;
    ∎ she got the answer right elle a donné la bonne réponse;
    ∎ I never get those quadratic equations right je me trompe toujours avec ces équations quadratiques;
    ∎ he got the time right but the date wrong il ne s'est pas trompé d'heure mais de date;
    ∎ make sure you get your figures/her name right faites attention de ne pas vous tromper dans vos calculs/sur son nom;
    ∎ place the document right side down/up placez le document face en bas/vers le haut;
    ∎ the right side of the material l'endroit m du tissu;
    ∎ turn the socks right side in/out mettez les chaussettes à l'envers/à l'endroit;
    ∎ he's on the right side of forty il n'a pas encore quarante ans;
    ∎ to get on the right side of sb s'insinuer dans les bonnes grâces de qn;
    ∎ you're not doing it the right way! ce n'est pas comme ça qu'il faut faire ou s'y prendre!;
    ∎ there's no one right way to go about it il n'y a pas qu'une façon de s'y prendre;
    ∎ that's the right way to approach the problem c'est comme ça qu'il faut aborder la question;
    ∎ get your facts right! vérifiez vos renseignements!;
    ∎ he got it right this time il ne s'est pas trompé cette fois-ci;
    ∎ let's get this right mettons les choses au clair;
    ∎ time proved her right le temps lui a donné raison;
    ∎ how right you are! vous avez cent fois raison!;
    ∎ to put sb right (about sb/sth) détromper qn (au sujet de qn/qch);
    ∎ he thought he could get away with it, but I soon put him right il croyait qu'il pourrait s'en tirer comme ça mais je l'ai vite détrompé;
    ∎ to put or to set right (fallen or squint object) redresser, remettre d'aplomb; (clock) remettre à l'heure; (machine, mechanism) réparer; (text, mistake, record) corriger; (oversight, injustice) réparer;
    ∎ to put things or matters right (politically, financially etc) redresser ou rétablir la situation; (in relationships) arranger les choses;
    ∎ he made a mess of it and I had to put things right il a raté son coup et j'ai dû réparer les dégâts
    (c) (most appropriate → diploma, tool, sequence, moment) bon; (→ choice, decision) meilleur;
    ∎ I think it's the right strategy je crois que c'est la bonne stratégie;
    ∎ when the time is right au bon moment, au moment voulu;
    ∎ you'll know when the time is right tu sauras quand ce sera le bon moment;
    ∎ to be in the right place at the right time être là où il faut quand il faut;
    ∎ I can't find the right word je ne trouve pas le mot juste;
    ∎ are we going in the right direction? est-ce que nous allons dans le bon sens?;
    ∎ we're on the right road nous sommes sur le bon chemin ou la bonne route;
    ∎ if the price is right si le prix est intéressant;
    ∎ the colour is just right la couleur est parfaite;
    ∎ the magazine has just the right mix of news and commentary la revue a juste ce qu'il faut d'informations et de commentaires;
    ∎ she's the right woman for the job c'est la femme qu'il faut pour ce travail;
    ∎ the right holiday for your budget les vacances qui conviennent le mieux à votre budget;
    ∎ the frame is right for the picture le cadre convient tout à fait au tableau;
    ∎ her hairdo isn't right for her sa coiffure ne lui va pas;
    ∎ teaching isn't right for you l'enseignement n'est pas ce qu'il vous faut;
    ∎ she's the right person to talk to c'est à elle qu'il faut s'adresser;
    ∎ is this the right sort of outfit to wear? est-ce la bonne tenue?;
    ∎ it wasn't the right thing to say ce n'était pas la chose à dire;
    ∎ you've done the right thing to tell us about it vous avez bien fait de nous en parler;
    ∎ he did the right thing, but for the wrong reasons il a fait le bon choix mais pour de mauvaises raisons
    (d) (fair, just) juste, équitable; (morally good) bien (inv); (socially correct) correct;
    ∎ it's not right to separate the children ce n'est pas bien de séparer les enfants;
    ∎ I don't think capital punishment is right je ne crois pas que la peine de mort soit juste;
    ∎ it is only right and proper for the father to be present il est tout à fait naturel que le père soit présent;
    ∎ do you think it's right for them to sell arms? est-ce que vous croyez qu'ils ont raison de vendre des armes?;
    ∎ I can't accept the money, it wouldn't look right je ne peux pas accepter cet argent, ça ferait mauvais effet;
    ∎ I thought it right to ask you first j'ai cru bon de vous demander d'abord;
    ∎ I don't feel right leaving you alone ça me gêne de te laisser tout seul;
    ∎ it's only right that you should know il est juste que vous le sachiez;
    ∎ I only want to do what is right je ne cherche qu'à bien faire;
    ∎ to do the right thing (by sb) bien agir (avec qn);
    ∎ British old-fashioned I hope he's going to do the right thing by you (marry you) j'espère qu'il va agir honorablement à ton égard (et demander ta main)
    (e) (healthy) bien (inv);
    ∎ I don't feel right je ne me sens pas très bien, je ne suis pas dans mon assiette;
    ∎ my knee doesn't feel right j'ai quelque chose au genou;
    ∎ a rest will put or set you right again un peu de repos te remettra;
    ∎ nobody in their right mind would refuse such an offer! aucune personne sensée ne refuserait une telle offre!;
    ∎ familiar he's not quite right in the head ça ne va pas très bien dans sa tête
    ∎ the window is still not right la fenêtre ne marche pas bien encore;
    ∎ there's something not quite right with the motor le moteur ne marche pas très bien
    (g) (satisfactory) bien (inv);
    ∎ things aren't right between them ça ne va pas très bien entre eux;
    ∎ does the hat look right to you? le chapeau, ça va?;
    ∎ I can't get this hem right je n'arrive pas à faire un bel ourlet;
    ∎ familiar to come right s'arranger□
    (h) (indicating social status) bien (inv), comme il faut;
    ∎ she took care to be seen in all the right places elle a fait en sorte d'être vue partout où il fallait;
    ∎ you'll only meet her if you move in the right circles vous ne la rencontrerez que si vous fréquentez le beau monde;
    ∎ to know the right people connaître des gens bien placés;
    ∎ he went to the right school and belonged to the right clubs il a fréquenté une très bonne école et a appartenu aux meilleurs clubs
    (i) Geometry (angle, line, prism, cone) droit
    (j) British familiar (as intensifier) vrai□, complet(ète)□ ;
    ∎ I felt like a right idiot je me sentais vraiment bête□ ;
    ∎ the government made a right mess of it le gouvernement a fait un beau gâchis;
    ∎ there was a right one in here this morning! on a eu un vrai cinglé ce matin!
    ∎ a right guy un chic type
    (a) (set upright again → chair, ship) redresser;
    ∎ the crane righted the derailed carriage la grue a redressé le wagon qui avait déraillé;
    ∎ the raft will right itself le radeau se redressera (tout seul)
    (b) (redress → situation) redresser, rétablir; (→ damage, injustice) réparer; (→ mistake) corriger, rectifier;
    ∎ to right a wrong redresser un tort;
    ∎ to right the balance rétablir l'équilibre;
    ∎ the problem won't just right itself ce problème ne va pas se résoudre de lui-même ou s'arranger tout seul
    (car, ship) se redresser
    ∎ come tomorrow - right (you are)! venez demain - d'accord!;
    ∎ right, let's get to work! bon ou bien, au travail!;
    ∎ right (you are) then, see you later bon alors, à plus tard;
    ∎ familiar too right! tu l'as dit!;
    ∎ familiar right on! bravo!
    (a) (in directions) à droite;
    ∎ turn right at the traffic lights tournez à droite au feu (rouge);
    ∎ look right regardez à droite;
    ∎ the party is moving further right le parti est en train de virer plus à droite;
    ∎ familiar right, left and centre (everywhere) de tous les côtés;
    ∎ familiar he owes money right and left or right, left and centre il doit de l'argent à droite et à gauche;
    ∎ familiar they're giving out gifts right and left or right, left and centre ils distribuent des cadeaux à tour de bras
    (b) (accurately, correctly → hear) bien; (→ guess) juste; (→ answer, spell) bien, correctement;
    ∎ if I remember right si je me rappelle bien;
    ∎ he predicted the election results right il a vu juste en ce qui concernait les résultats des élections
    (c) (properly) bien, comme il faut;
    ∎ the door doesn't shut right la porte ne ferme pas bien;
    ∎ nothing works right in this house! rien ne marche comme il faut dans cette maison!;
    ∎ you're not holding the saw right tu ne tiens pas la scie comme il faut;
    ∎ the top isn't on right le couvercle n'est pas bien mis;
    ∎ if we organize things right, there'll be enough time si nous organisons bien les choses, il y aura assez de temps;
    ∎ I hope things go right for you j'espère que tout ira bien pour toi;
    ∎ nothing is going right today tout va de travers aujourd'hui;
    ∎ he can't do anything right il ne peut rien faire correctement ou comme il faut;
    ∎ do it right the next time! ne vous trompez pas la prochaine fois!;
    ∎ the roast is done just right le rôti est cuit à la perfection
    ∎ the lamp's shining right in my eyes j'ai la lumière de la lampe en plein dans les yeux ou en pleine figure;
    ∎ it's right opposite the post office c'est juste en face de la poste;
    ∎ it's right in front of/behind you c'est droit devant vous/juste derrière vous;
    ∎ he parked right in front of the gate il s'est garé en plein devant le portail;
    ∎ figurative I'm right behind you there je suis entièrement d'accord avec vous là-dessus;
    ∎ I stepped right in it j'ai marché en plein dedans;
    ∎ he shot him right in the forehead il lui a tiré une balle en plein front;
    ∎ the hotel was right on the beach l'hôtel donnait directement sur la plage;
    ∎ it broke right in the middle ça a cassé juste au milieu;
    ∎ I left it right here je l'ai laissé juste ici;
    ∎ stay right there ne bougez pas
    (e) (emphasizing precise time) juste, exactement;
    ∎ I arrived right at that moment je suis arrivé juste à ce moment-là;
    ∎ right in the middle of the fight au beau milieu de la bagarre
    ∎ it's right at the back of the drawer/at the front of the book c'est tout au fond du tiroir/juste au début du livre;
    ∎ right down to the bottom jusqu'au fond;
    ∎ right at the top tout en haut;
    ∎ a wall right round the house un mur tout autour de la maison;
    ∎ he turned right round il a fait un tour complet;
    ∎ right from the start dès le début;
    ∎ move right over allez jusqu'au fond;
    ∎ his shoes were worn right through ses chaussures étaient usées jusqu'à la corde;
    ∎ the car drove right through the road-block la voiture est passée à travers le barrage;
    ∎ the path leads right to the lake le sentier va jusqu'au lac;
    ∎ the water came right up to the window l'eau est montée jusqu'à la fenêtre;
    ∎ she walked right up to me elle se dirigea tout droit vers moi;
    ∎ we worked right up until the last minute nous avons travaillé jusqu'à la toute dernière minute;
    ∎ figurative that girl is going right to the top cette fille ira loin;
    ∎ figurative you have to go right to the top if you want to get anything done il faut aller tout en haut de la hiérarchie pour arriver à quelque chose
    (g) (immediately) tout de suite;
    ∎ I'll be right back je reviens tout de suite;
    ∎ I'll be right over je viens tout de suite;
    ∎ I'll be right with you je suis à vous tout de suite;
    ∎ let's talk right after the meeting parlons-en juste après la réunion
    (h) (justly, fairly) bien; (decently, fittingly) correctement;
    ∎ you did right tu as bien fait;
    ∎ to see sb right (financially) veiller à ce que qn ne soit pas à court d'argent;
    ∎ to do right by sb agir correctement envers qn
    ∎ the Right Reverend William Walker le très révérend William Walker
    (j) British familiar (for emphasis) vachement, drôlement;
    ∎ I was right angry j'étais vachement en colère;
    ∎ it's a right cold day ça pince drôlement aujourd'hui, il fait drôlement frisquet aujourd'hui;
    ∎ she was right nice elle était bien aimable;
    ∎ I was right glad to hear it j'étais très heureux de l'apprendre
    8 by right, by rights adverb
    en principe;
    ∎ she ought, by rights, to get compensation en principe, elle devrait toucher une compensation
    (at once) tout de suite, aussitôt; (from the start) dès le début; (first go) du premier coup;
    ∎ right away, sir! tout de suite, monsieur!;
    ∎ I knew right away there'd be trouble j'ai su tout de suite ou dès le début qu'il y aurait des problèmes
    (a) (at once) tout de suite
    (b) (at the moment) pour le moment
    ►► right angle angle m droit;
    ∎ the corridors are at right angles les couloirs sont perpendiculaires;
    ∎ a line at right angles to the base une ligne perpendiculaire à la base;
    ∎ the path made a right angle le sentier formait un coude;
    Computing right arrow flèche f vers la droite;
    Computing right arrow key touche f de déplacement vers la droite;
    British Right Honourable = titre utilisé pour s'adresser à certains hauts fonctionnaires ou à quelqu'un ayant un titre de noblesse;
    ∎ the Right Honourable Member for Edinburgh West le député de la circonscription "Edinburgh West";
    Finance rights issue émission f de nouvelles actions à taux préférentiel;
    Typography right justification justification f à droite;
    British right to roam = droit d'emprunter des sentiers sur des terres appartenant à de grands propriétaires terriens;
    American Geometry right triangle triangle m rectangle;
    right of way Cars priorité f; (right to cross land) droit m de passage; (path, road) chemin m; American (for power line, railroad etc) voie f;
    ∎ it's your right of way vous avez (la) priorité;
    ∎ to have (the) right of way avoir (la) priorité;
    Zoology right whale baleine f franche;
    right wing Politics droite f; Sport (position) aile f droite; (player) ailier m droit;
    ∎ the right wing of the party l'aile droite du parti
    ✾ Book 'The Rights of Man' Paine 'Les Droits de l'homme'
    ✾ Book 'The Right Stuff' Wolfe 'L'Étoffe des héros'
    ⓘ RIGHT TO ROAM Depuis toujours, une très grande partie des plus beaux endroits de la campagne britannique est interdite au public et pendant des siècles, les propriétaires terriens ont tout fait pour que la situation reste inchangée. Cependant, en mai 2000, le gouvernement travailliste introduisit le "right to roam" qui devrait ouvrir aux promeneurs plus d'1,6 million d'hectares de campagne et environ 6400 kilomètres de droits de passage. De nombreux propriétaires terriens ont exprimé leur mécontentement car ils estiment que les promeneurs abîment les cultures et perturbent le bétail mais avec les nouvelles propositions de loi, ils ne pourraient interdire le passage sur leurs terres que 28 jours par an au maximum.

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