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  • 1 under-master

    under-master[´ʌndə¸ma:stə] n обикновен учител (който не е главен учител).

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  • 2 under

    1. preposition
    1) (in or to a position lower than, or covered by: Your pencil is under the chair; Strange plants grow under the sea.) under
    2) (less than, or lower in rank than: Children under five should not cross the street alone; You can do the job in under an hour.) under, mindre enn
    3) (subject to the authority of: As a foreman, he has about fifty workers under him.) under
    4) (used to express various states: The fort was under attack; The business improved under the new management; The matter is under consideration/discussion.) under
    2. adverb
    (in or to a lower position, rank etc: The swimmer surfaced and went under again; children aged seven and under.) under, ned(e)
    under
    I
    adv. \/ˈʌndə\/
    1) (neden)under
    2) under vann
    3) ( om narkose) borte, bevisstløs
    as under i likhet med nedenstående
    go under synke mislykkes ( ved narkose) miste bevisstheten
    under way i gang
    II
    prep. \/ˈʌndə\/
    1) ( om posisjon eller retning) under, innunder, bortunder, oppunder, inn under, bort under, opp under, innenfor, nedenfor, foran, ved foten av, i skyggen av
    2) (om dominans, autoritet eller kontroll) under, bundet av, hos
    • everything's under control!
    • I can't say anything, I'm under a vow
    jeg kan ikke si noe, jeg er bundet av et løfte
    3) (om lover, regler og avtaler) i samsvar med, etter, i henhold til
    4) ( om kategorisering) under, på
    5) (om beløp, tall eller norm) under, mindre enn
    dette brevet er datert den 5.
    spørsmålet som ble diskutert, var svært ømtålig
    7) ( landbruk) tilsådd med, beplantet med

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  • 3 under lock and key

    master key — ключ, подходящий ко всем замкам

    Синонимический ряд:
    incarcerated (adj.) behind bars; confined; detained; held in custody; imprisoned; in jail; incarcerated; jailed; locked up

    English-Russian base dictionary > under lock and key

  • 4 under plate

    tension lock-up plate — печатная форма, закрепленная натягом

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > under plate

  • 5 carried on or under

    транспортировал на или под; транспортируемый на или под

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > carried on or under

  • 6 Leo (Pope from 440 to 461, master exponent of papal supremacy. His pontificate was devoted to safeguarding orthodoxy and to securing the unity of the Western church under papal supremacy)

    Религия: Лев I Великий

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Leo (Pope from 440 to 461, master exponent of papal supremacy. His pontificate was devoted to safeguarding orthodoxy and to securing the unity of the Western church under papal supremacy)

  • 7 he had his hatred for his master under a mask of loyalty

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > he had his hatred for his master under a mask of loyalty

  • 8 he hid his hatred for his master under a mask of loyalty

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > he hid his hatred for his master under a mask of loyalty

  • 9 arm

    {a:m}
    I. 1. ръка (от китката до рамото)
    to walk ARM in ARM with someone вървя подръка с някого
    under one's ARM под мишница
    to take someone's ARM хващам някого подръка
    to keep at ARM's length държа на разстояние
    to make a long ARM протягам ръка, протягам се (да стпигна нещо), baby/child/infant in ARM s бебе, пеленаче
    with open ARMs с отворени обятия
    to fly to someone's ARMs хвърлям се в прегръдките/обятията на някого
    within ARM's reach достатъчно близо да се стигне с ръка, под ръка
    2. преден крайник/лапа
    3. ръкав (на дреха)
    4. ръкав (на река и пр.)
    5. подпора за ръката (на кресло и пр.)
    6. голям клон
    7. власт
    the ARM of the law (ръката на) правосъдието
    long ARM силна власт
    strong ARM прен. здрава/твърда ръка
    8. тех. рамо, лост, ръчка, дръжка, конзола, стрела (на кран), напречна греда, траверса
    II. 1. обик. рl оръжие, въоръжение
    ARMs race надпревара във въоръжаването
    small ARMs лично огнестрелно оръжие, пушка, револвер
    by force of ARMs насила, с оръжие
    deeds of ARMs бойни подвизи
    in ARMs въоръжен
    to ARMs! на оръжие! under ARMs въоръжен и в бойна готовност
    up in ARMs готов за борба/съпротива, въстанал, прен. наежен
    to be up in ARMs against протестирам/боря се енергично срещу
    master of ARMs учител по фехтовка
    to appeal to ARMs прибягвам до оръжие
    comrade in ARMs другар по оръжие, боен другар
    to bear ARMs служа войник, войник съм
    to beat to ARMs вдигам на оръжие, свиквам под знамената
    to fly to ARM s грабвам оръжието, бързо се приготвям за война/съпротива
    to lay down/ground ARM s слагам оръжието, прекъсвам военните действия, търся примирие
    to rise in ARMs against въставам срещу, вдигам се на оръжие срещу
    cessation/suspension of ARMs примирие
    2. род войска
    3. рl герб (и coat of ARMs)
    College of ARM s Хералдически институт в Лондон. arm v 1. въоръжавам (се), укрепявам
    ARMed forces/services въоръжени сили
    2. зареждам (бомба)
    3. снабдявам, съоръжавам
    4. refl прен. въоръжавам се (with)
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    {a:m} n 1. ръка (от китката до рамото); to walk arm in arm with s.o. (2) n 1. обик. рl оръжие, въоръжение; arms race надпревара във в
    * * *
    ръкав; рамо; оръжие; въоръжавам; въоръжение;
    * * *
    1. armed forces/services въоръжени сили 2. arms race надпревара във въоръжаването 3. by force of arms насила, с оръжие 4. cessation/suspension of arms примирие 5. college of arm s Хералдически институт в Лондон. arm v въоръжавам (се), укрепявам 6. comrade in arms другар по оръжие, боен другар 7. deeds of arms бойни подвизи 8. i. ръка (от китката до рамото) 9. ii. обик. pl оръжие, въоръжение 10. in arms въоръжен 11. long arm силна власт 12. master of arms учител по фехтовка 13. pl герб (и coat of arms) 14. refl прен. въоръжавам се (with) 15. small arms лично огнестрелно оръжие, пушка, револвер 16. strong arm прен. здрава/твърда ръка 17. the arm of the law (ръката на) правосъдието 18. to appeal to arms прибягвам до оръжие 19. to arms! на оръжие! under arms въоръжен и в бойна готовност 20. to be up in arms against протестирам/боря се енергично срещу 21. to bear arms служа войник, войник съм 22. to beat to arms вдигам на оръжие, свиквам под знамената 23. to fly to arm s грабвам оръжието, бързо се приготвям за война/съпротива 24. to fly to someone's arms хвърлям се в прегръдките/обятията на някого 25. to keep at arm's length държа на разстояние 26. to lay down/ground arm s слагам оръжието, прекъсвам военните действия, търся примирие 27. to make a long arm протягам ръка, протягам се (да стпигна нещо), baby/child/infant in arm s бебе, пеленаче 28. to rise in arms against въставам срещу, вдигам се на оръжие срещу 29. to take someone's arm хващам някого подръка 30. to walk arm in arm with someone вървя подръка с някого 31. under one's arm под мишница 32. up in arms готов за борба/съпротива, въстанал, прен. наежен 33. with open arms с отворени обятия 34. within arm's reach достатъчно близо да се стигне с ръка, под ръка 35. власт 36. голям клон 37. зареждам (бомба) 38. подпора за ръката (на кресло и пр.) 39. преден крайник/лапа 40. род войска 41. ръкав (на дреха) 42. ръкав (на река и пр.) 43. снабдявам, съоръжавам 44. тех. рамо, лост, ръчка, дръжка, конзола, стрела (на кран), напречна греда, траверса
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    arm [a:m] I n 1. ръка (от китката до рамото); \arm in \arm ръка за ръка; to walk \arm in \arm with вървя под ръка с; to give ( offer) o.'s \arm to s.o. подавам някому ръка (за да ме хване под ръка); to keep at \arm's length държа на разстояние; to shorten the \arm of s.o. ограничавам властта на някого; stretch your \arm no farther than your sleeve will reach простирай се според чергата си; to chance o.'s \arm разг. пробвам си късмета; put the \arm on s.o. ам. жарг. притискам някого да направи нещо; right \arm рядко, прен. дясна ръка, пръв помощник; a child in \arms бебе, пеленаче; in the \arm of Morpheus заспал; to fly to s.o.'s \arms хвърлям се в обятията на някого; twist s.o.'s \arm принуждавам някого да направи нещо; to fold in o.'s \arms прегръщам, притискам в обятията си; to fold o.'s \arms скръствам ръце, бездействам; cost an \arm and a leg ам. разг. струва твърде скъпо; 2. преден крайник на всяко гръбначно животно, предна лапа; 3. ръкав (на дреха); 4. ръкав (на река); 5. облегалка за ръката (на кресло и пр.); 6. голям клон; 7. прен. власт; the \arm of the law ръката на закона; the secular \arm гражданска власт, която привежда в изпълнение решенията на църковен съд; 8. тех. рамо (на лост, пергел, семафор, везни); дръжка, ръкохватка, ръчка; конзола, стрела (на кран); спица (на колело); траверса, напречна греда; разклонение (на тръба); ( указателна) стрелка, показалец. II. n 1. обикн. pl оръжие; въоръжение; offensive \arms, \arms of offence оръжия за нападение, нападателно оръжие; small \arms пушка, револвер, оръжие, което човек може да носи със себе си; \arms race надпревара във въоръжаването; by force of \arms насилствено, със силата на оръжието; deeds of \arms военни подвизи; in \arms въоръжен; to \arms! на оръжие! under \arms въоръжен и в бойна готовност; мобилизиран; up in \arms готов за борба (за съпротива); прен. наежен; master of \arms учител по фехтовка; a stand of \arms пълна войнишка екипировка; to appeal to \arms прибягвам до оръжие, използвам оръжие; brothers in \arms братя по оръжие; to bear \arms служа, войник съм; to beat to \arms свиквам под знамената; to carry \arms нося оръжие (у себе си); to fly to \arms грабвам оръжието; to ground \arms, to lay down \arms слагам оръжието, предавам се, прекъсвам нападателни действия и давам мир; to present \arms вземам за почест; to rise in \arms ( against) вдигам се на оръжие (срещу); to take o.'s \arms against s.o. нападам; to throw down o.'s \arms слагам оръжие, предавам се; cessation ( suspension) of \arms примирие; ground \arms! order \arms! пушки при нозе! port \arms! пушки за прилез! shoulder \arms! пушки на рамо! slope \arms! пушки на ремък! 2. род войски; the air \arm въздушните войски; 3. герб (обикн. coat of \arms); to bear \arms нося (фамилен) герб; to grant ( assign) \arms to s.o. провъзгласявам някого за благородник, давам някому благородническа титла и герб; assumptive \arms хералд. новопридобит, ненаследствен герб; sergeant of \arms служител в Английския парламент, който носи жезъла на председателя на двете камари; III. v въоръжавам (се) (и прен.); \armed forces въоръжени сили; to \arm o.s. with letters of introduction снабдявам се с препоръчителни писма.

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  • 10 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 11 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

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  • 12 authority

    1. n власть

    a man set in authority — лицо, облечённое властью

    2. n полномочие; право, права; компетенция
    3. n обыкн. власти, начальство; администрация

    local authorities — местные власти; органы местного самоуправления

    4. n воен. инстанция; начальник
    5. n орган, управление; отдел

    supervisory authority — наблюдательный орган, орган надзора

    extraditing authority — орган власти, выдающий преступника

    6. n авторитет, вес, влияние
    7. n авторитет, крупный специалист
    8. n авторитетный источник

    good authority — авторитетное судебное решение; прецедент

    9. n основание

    on the authority of — на основании; по утверждению

    on authority — на основании; со ссылкой на …

    10. n вес, убедительность; сила

    under authority of — в силу, на основании

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. command (noun) command; control; credit; domination; dominion; government; influence; jurisdiction; law; mastery; might; prerogative; prestige; rule; ruling; statute; strength; strings; superiority; supremacy; sway; weight
    2. expert (noun) adept; artist; artiste; doyen; expert; master-hand; maven; passed master; past master; pro; proficient; swell; virtuoso; whiz; wiz; wizard
    3. head (noun) adjudicator; administrator; arbiter; connoisseur; critic; head; judge; master; professional; specialist
    4. official (noun) official
    5. permission (noun) authorisation; authorization; justification; liberty; permission; permit; power; sanction; warrant
    6. right (noun) faculty; right
    7. testimony (noun) testimony; witness
    Антонимический ряд:
    denial; novice; servility; weakness; wrong

    English-Russian base dictionary > authority

  • 13 cover

    ˈkʌvə
    1. сущ.
    1) а) крышка, покрышка, колпак, колпачок The jewel box had a carved wooden cover. ≈ Крышка коробки для драгоценностей была украшена деревянной резьбой. б) обложка, переплет;
    одна сторона обложки to read from cover to cover ≈ прочесть от корки до корки( о книге) Don't judge a book by its cover. ≈ Не суди о книге по ее обложке. Syn: binding
    1. в) футляр;
    чехол a mattress cover ≈ чехол на матрац г) конверт, пакет;
    обертка under the same cover ≈ в том же конверте under separate cover ≈ в отдельном пакете, в отдельном конверте д) покрывало;
    одеяло Do you want another cover on the bed? ≈ Ты хочешь другое покрывало на кровать? Syn: blanket
    1., comforter, quilt
    1., coverlet, eiderdown ∙ Syn: lid
    1., top I
    1., cap I
    1., covering
    1. ;
    wrapper, case II
    1., encasement, envelope, jacket
    1.
    2) а) убежище, укрытие;
    воен. прикрытие, заслон under cover ≈ в укрытии, под защитой to take cover ≈ укрыться When the rain started, we took cover under a large tree. ≈ Когда начался дождь, мы спрятались под большим деревом. air cover ≈ воздушная защита Syn: protection, shelter
    1., shield
    1., guard
    1., defence;
    asylum, refuge
    1., sanctuary, concealment б) покров under cover of darkness ≈ под покровом темноты Syn: cloak
    1. в) перен. ширма;
    предлог, отговорка under cover of friendship ≈ под личиной дружбы Syn: screen
    1., disguise
    1., pretence
    3) а) охот. укрытие, логово( зверя) б) растительный покров
    4) а) коммерч. гарантийный фонд б) страхование
    5) прибор (обеденный)
    2. гл.
    1) накрывать, закрывать, покрывать to cover a wall with paper ≈ оклеивать стену обоями Grandmother always covered the table with a lace cloth. ≈ Бабушка всегда покрывает стол кружевной скатертью. The roof was covered with wooden shingles. ≈ Крыша была покрыта кровельной дранкой. to cover (one's head) ≈ надевать( шляпу и т. п.) Syn: put on, put over, lay on, overlay
    2., blanket
    3., clothe, sheathe, shroud, envelop, wrap
    2., enwrap
    2) защищать, ограждать, укрывать The tent covered the campers from the rain. ≈ Палатка предохранила отдыхающих от дождя. to cover a siege ≈ выдерживать осаду some woods which covered their retreat ≈ леса, которые прикрыли их отступление Syn: protect, shield
    2., guard
    2., shelter
    2., defend
    3) а) закрывать;
    скрывать, маскировать, прятать She covered her face with her hands. ≈ Она закрыла лицо руками. Frank laughed to cover his anxiety. ≈ Фрэнк засмеялся, чтобы скрыть тревогу. to cover the retreat ≈ прикрывать отступление to cover one's tracks ≈ заметать свои следы Syn: hide II
    2., conceal, obscure
    2., secrete;
    cloak
    2., veil
    2., hood
    2., screen
    2. ;
    mask
    2., disguise
    2., camouflage
    2. б) спорт закрывать, прикрывать (игрока соперника) ;
    прикрывать (участок поля)
    4) включать, содержать, охватывать;
    относиться( к чему-л.) The history book covers the years of Eisenhower's presidency. ≈ Эта книга по истории охватывает годы президентства Эйзенхауэра. Syn: deal with, include, involve, contain;
    embrace
    2., embody, comprise, take in, comprehend
    5) освещать (события и т. п.) в печати, на телевидении, по радио The reporter covered the convention for the local newspaper. ≈ Журналист давал материалы о партийном съезде в местную газету. Syn: report
    2., tell of, describe, chronicle, write up
    6) лежать, покрывать;
    расстилаться;
    распространяться Water covered the floor. ≈ Вода покрывает пол. His brewery covers nearly four acres of ground. ≈ Его пивоварня занимает почти четыре акра земли.
    7) преодолевать, проходить( какое-л. расстояние) ;
    спорт пройти( дистанцию) The distance covered was close on twenty miles. ≈ Пройденное расстояние равнялось почти двадцати милям. We covered three states in two days. ≈ Мы проехали три штата за два дня. Syn: travel through, pass over, pass through, traverse
    2., cross
    3.
    8) а) комерч. покрывать, обеспечивать( денежным) покрытием б) страховать This insurance covers the traveler in any accident. ≈ Эта страховка страхует путешественника от любого несчастного случая. Syn: insure
    9) предусматривать, разрешать The rules covers all cases. ≈ Правила предусматривают все случаи.
    10) покрывать (кобылу;
    по отношению к другим животным употребляется редко)
    11) сидеть( на яйцах)
    12) держать под прицелом ∙ cover for cover in cover over cover up (по) крышка;
    обертка;
    покрывало;
    чехол;
    футляр, колпак - a * for a saucepan крышка кастрлюли - a * for a chair чехол для стула - glass * стеклянный колпак конверт;
    обертка;
    упаковка - under plain * в конверте без фирменного штампа, в простом конверте - under separate * (канцелярское) в отдельном конверте - this is a receipt, the goods will be sent under separate * посылаем вам расписку, а товар будет выслан отдельно переплет;
    обложка - soft * мягкая обложка - to read a book from * to * прочесть книгу от корки до корки убежище, укрытие;
    прикрытие, "крышка" - * from fire (военное) укрытие от огня - * from view (военное) укрытие от наблюдения - under * в укрытиии - to take * найти убежище, спрятаться - to break * внезапно появиться;
    выйти из укрытия - the spy's * was to act as a bartender шпион скрывался под видом бармена (спортивное) прикрытие, защита покров - land * растительный покров - sky * облачность, облачный покров (of) покрывало, покров - under * of darkness под покровом темноты лесной покров, полог леса (ботаника) покров семяпочки или семени (охота) нора, логовище - to break * поднять из логовища личина, маска - under * of friendship под личиной дружбы - under * of patriotism прикрываясь патриотизмом прибор, куверт - *s were laid for four стол был накрыт на четыре персоны плата "за куверт" (в ресторане, ночном клубе) (коммерческое) гарантийный фонд;
    страхование (геология) покрывающие породы( автомобильное) покрышка (театроведение) замена;
    заменяющий актер или -ая актриса;
    исполнитель из второго состава > under * тайный;
    секретный;
    > he kept his activities under * он держал свою деятельность в тайне;
    тайно;
    секретно;
    > they met under * они встречались тайно покрывать, закрывать, накрывать - to * a saucepan закрывать кастрюлю - to * up a baby укутать ребенка - to * plants with straw прикрыть растения соломой (редкое) покрывать (голову, плечи) ;
    укрывать - to * one's head надеть шляпу - to remain *ed не снять шляпы - pray be *ed (устаревшее) прошу надеть шляпу прикрывать, ограждать, защищать - to * a retreat прикрывать отступление - the warships *ed the landing of the army военные корабли прикрывали высадку армии - the father *ed the boy from the fire with his own body отец своим телом укрыл мальчика от огня( спортивное) держать, закрывать (игрока) прятать, скрывать - to * one's face with one's hands закрыть лицо руками - the enemy were *ed from our sight by woods лес скрывал от нас неприятеля - to * one's shame скрыть стыд - to * one's tracks замести следы покрывать;
    находить оправдания - his family kept *ing for him семья постоянно покрывала его - to * up for a friend покрывать друга;
    выручать друга (книжное) покрыть, увенчать;
    запятнать - to * oneself with glory покрыть себя славой покрывать, обдавать - you are *ed with dust ты весь в пыли - a passing motor *ed me with mud проезжавшая мимо машина обдала меня грязью обивать;
    оклеивать - to * the seat of a chair with leather обить кожей сиденье стула - to * with wall-paper оклеить обоями покрывать;
    распространяться;
    расстилаться - snow *ed the ground земля была покрыта снегом, на земле лежал снег - enemy troops *ed the whole country вражеские войска наводнили всю страну - the floods *ed a large area наводнение распространялось на большую территорию покрывать, охватывать;
    относиться - his researches * a wide field его исследования охватывают широкую область - documents *ing the sale документы, касающиеся продажи( for) (разговорное) заменять, подменять - please * for me at the counter for a few minutes пожалуйства, подмени меня у прилавка на несколько минут( театроведение) заменять держать под наблюдением - the police got all the roads *ed полиция перекрыла все дороги пройти, проехать - he *ed the distance in an hour он прошел расстояние за час - by evening we had *ed sixty miles к вечеру мы проехали шестьдесят миль( спортивное) пробежать дистанцию - to * the distance in great style показать на дистанции высокую технику бега освещать в печати - to * football matches давать репортаж о футбольных матчах - to * the theatres освещать театральную жизнь предусматривать - the rules * all cases правила предусматривают все случаи (коммерческое) обеспечить покрытие;
    покрывать - to * one's expenses покрыть расходы - the loan was *ed many times сумма займа была перекрыта во много раз страховать - my policy *s me against loss from fire мое имущество застраховано от пожара - you should get yourself *ed as soon as possible тебе надо поскорее застраховаться( карточное) покрывать, крыть принять пари;
    поставить( сельскохозяйственное) случать;
    крыть (матку) сидеть (на яйцах) (военное) держать под обстрелом;
    держать под прицелом - don't move, I have you *ed не шевелись, буду стрелять additional premium for short-term ~ дополнительная страховая премия за краткосрочное покрытие рисков advance ~ авансовое покрытие all risks ~ покрытие всех рисков back ~ четвертая сторонка обложки bank-note ~ покрытие банкнот blanket ~ общее страхование blanket ~ полный перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом ~ охватывать;
    относиться (к чему-л.) ;
    the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету cash ~ денежное покрытие ~ разрешать, предусматривать;
    the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом ~ расстилаться;
    распространяться;
    the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль cost escalation ~ покрытие роста издержек cover = cover-point ~ ком. гарантийный фонд ~ гарантийный фонд ~ гарантировать ~ давать материал, отчет( для прессы) ~ закрывать;
    покрывать;
    накрывать;
    прикрывать;
    перекрывать;
    to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями ~ конверт;
    under the same cover в том же конверте ~ конверт ~ (по) крышка;
    обертка;
    чехол;
    покрывало;
    футляр, колпак ~ обеспечение ~ обеспечивать покрытие ~ обеспечить покрытие (денежное) ~ обложка, переплет, крышка переплета;
    to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) ~ полигр. обложка ~ обшивка ~ относиться (к чему-л.) ~ охватывать;
    относиться (к чему-л.) ;
    the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету ~ охватывать ~ полигр. переплет ~ перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом ~ покров;
    under cover of darkness под покровом темноты ~ покрывать (кобылу и т. п.) ~ покрывать ~ покрытие ~ покрытие (денежное) ~ покупка ценных бумаг при сделках на срок ~ преодолевать, проходить (какое-л. расстояние) ;
    спорт. пройти (дистанцию) ~ прибор (обеденный) ~ принимать на страх ~ разрешать, предусматривать;
    the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом ~ распространяться ~ расстилаться;
    распространяться;
    the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль ~ сидеть (на яйцах) ~ скрывать;
    to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение( досаду) ~ страхование ~ страховать ~ убежище, укрытие;
    прикрытие;
    заслон;
    under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
    to take cover укрыться ~ укрывать, ограждать, защищать;
    he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара ~ уплата( по счету, векселю) ~ целиться( из ружья и т. п.) ;
    держать под угрозой ~ ширма;
    предлог;
    отговорка;
    личина, маска;
    under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы ~ закрывать;
    покрывать;
    накрывать;
    прикрывать;
    перекрывать;
    to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями ~ for losses покрытие убытков ~ girl хорошенькая девушка, изображение которой помещают на обложке журнала;
    журнальная красотка ~ in забросать землей( могилу) ~ in закрыть ~ of loss покрытие убытков ~ of loss покрытие ущерба ~ on death сумма страхового возмещения при смертельном исходе ~ скрывать;
    to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение (досаду) to ~ one's face with one's hands закрыть лицо руками to ~ the retreat прикрывать отступление;
    to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы ~ over скрыть, прикрыть to ~ the retreat прикрывать отступление;
    to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы ~ up прятать ~ up спрятать, тщательно прикрыть cover = cover-point cover-point: cover-point спорт. защитник( в крикете) ~ спорт. место защитника (в крикете) demand for ~ требование покрытия depot under ~ хранилище под крышей dust ~ полигр. суперобложка exchange rate risk ~ страхование от риска изменения валютного курса exchange risk ~ страхование от валютного риска extended ~ расширенное страхование forward ~ бирж. срочное покрытие forward ~ бирж. форвардное покрытие front ~ первая сторонка обложки front ~ передняя часть обложки full ~ полное покрытие ~ укрывать, ограждать, защищать;
    he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара inside back ~ третья сторонка обложки inside front ~ вторая сторонка обложки insurance ~ объем страховой ответственности interest ~ обеспечение выплаты процентов liability insurance ~ риски, охватываемые страхованием гражданской ответственности margin ~ бирж. покрытие маржи master ~ суперобложка maximum ~ максимальный объем страховой ответственности minimum ~ минимальное покрытие molded ~ формованная накладка open ~ генеральный полис open ~ открытый полис primary ~ первичное страхование provide forward ~ бирж. предоставлять срочное обеспечение provide forward ~ бирж. предоставлять форвардное обеспечение ~ обложка, переплет, крышка переплета;
    to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) reinsurance ~ объем ответственности при перестраховании reserve fund ~ покрытие резервного фонда risk ~ перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом subsequent ~ последующая уплата по счету surplus ~ избыточное покрытие ~ убежище, укрытие;
    прикрытие;
    заслон;
    under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
    to take cover укрыться ~ убежище, укрытие;
    прикрытие;
    заслон;
    under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
    to take cover укрыться under: ~ heavy penalty под страхом сурового наказания;
    under the necessity( of smth.) под давлением( каких-л.) обстоятельств;
    under cover под прикрытием ~ покров;
    under cover of darkness под покровом темноты ~ ширма;
    предлог;
    отговорка;
    личина, маска;
    under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы ~ конверт;
    under the same cover в том же конверте vegetative ~ растительный покров vertex ~ вершинное покрытие

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > cover

  • 14 llave


    llave sustantivo femenino 1 ( en general) key; bajo llave under lock and key; la llave del éxito the key to success; llave de contacto ignition key; llave maestra master key, passkey 2 (Mec) ( herramienta) wrench (AmE), spanner (BrE); 3 ( en tubería) valve;
    ◊ la llave del gas the gas jet (AmE) o (BrE) tap;
    cerrar la llave de paso to turn the water/gas off at the main valve (AmE) o (BrE) at the mains
    b) (AmL) (de lavabo, bañera) faucet (AmE), tap (BrE)
    4 ( en un texto) brace 5 (en lucha, judo) hold;
    llave sustantivo femenino
    1 (de una cerradura) key: cierra con llave, lock the door Auto la llave de contacto, the ignition key (de una cañería) tap
    la llave del gas, the gas tap
    la llave de paso del agua, the stopcock, US water valve (del fluido eléctrico) switch
    ama de llaves, housekeeper
    2 (herramienta) US wrench
    llave Allen, Allen wrench
    llave fija, spanner
    llave inglesa, adjustable spanner, US monkey wrench
    3 (en defensa personal) lock
    4 Tip brace Locuciones: bajo llave, under lock and key ' llave' also found in these entries: Spanish: abrir - acertar - andar - cerrar - encerrar - encerrarse - entrar - girar - maestra - maestro - para - a - abierto - caer - cerrado - chorro - doble - duplicar - echar - empaque - ir - meter - tener - vuelta English: adjustable spanner - bloody - cut - fit - frantic - get in - key - lock - lock away - lock up - master - master key - monkey wrench - nelson - put - right - skeleton key - spanner - stranglehold - tap - to - unlock - use - wrench - dig - duplicate - ease - faucet - good - have - hold - how - ignition - main - monkey - pass - run - skeleton - strangle - switch - time

    English-spanish dictionary > llave

  • 15 parallel UPS system

    1. параллельная система ИБП

     

    параллельная система ИБП
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    [Интент]

    Parallel Operation: The system shall have the option to install up to four (4) UPSs in parallel configuration for redundancy or capacity.
    1. The parallel UPS system shall be of the same design, voltage, and frequency. UPS modules of different size ratings shall be permitted to be paralleled together for purposes of increased capacity or UPS module redundancy. The UPSs in the parallel configuration shall not be required to have the same load capacity rating.
    2. Parallel Capacity: With N+0 system-level redundancy, up to 2MW of load can be supported by the system.
    3. Parallel Redundancy: With N+1 system-level redundancy, up to 1.5MW of load can be supported by the system, and only the UPS being replaced must be isolated from the source (bypass operation is not required for the entire system during the UPS replacement procedure).
    4. Output control: A load sharing circuit shall be incorporated into the parallel control circuits to ensure that under no-load conditions, no circulating current exists between modules. This feature also allows each UPS to share equal amounts of the total critical load bus. The output voltage, output frequency, output phase angle, and output impedance of each module shall operate in uniformity to ensure correct load sharing. This control function shall not require any additional footprint and shall be an integral function of each UPS. The static bypass switches shall be connected in parallel.
    5. Parallel System Controls: To avoid single points of failure, the UPS system shall have no single dedicated control system designed to control the operation of the parallel UPS system. Control of and direction of parallel UPSs shall take place via a master/slave relationship, where the first UPS to receive logic power asserts itself as a master. In the event of a master failure, a slave UPS shall take the role of master and assume the responsibility of the previous master UPS. Regardless of which UPS is master or slave, user changes to the system status, such as request for bypass, can be done from any UPS connected to the bus and all UPS on the bus shall transfer in simultaneously.
    6. Communication: Communication between modules shall be connected so that the removal of any single cable shall not jeopardize the integrity of the parallel communication system. Load sharing communications shall be galvanically isolated for purposes of fault tolerance between UPS modules. A UPS module's influence over load sharing shall be inhibited in any mode where the UPS inverter is not supporting its output bus. Transfers to and from bypass can be initiated from any online UPS in the system.
    7. Display: Each UPS multi-color LCD touch screen user interface shall be capable of using an active touch screen mimic bus to show the quantity of UPS(s) connected to the critical bus, as well as the general status of each UPS, such as circuit breaker status information. Any touchscreen display shall support the configuration of the [entire parallel] system and shall provide event and alarm data for all UPSs in the parallel configuration. A Virtual Display Application shall be available for download to the customer’s computer and shalll support remote monitoring of a complete system with up to 4 UPSs in parallel.
    8. Battery runtime: Each UPS must have its own battery solution. The battery solution for the entire system can be a combination of standard and third-party batteries, but each UPS must use only one battery solution – either standard or third-party batteries.
    9. Switchgear: A custom switchgear option shall be required for parallel operation.

    [Schneider Electric]

    Тематики

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    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > parallel UPS system

  • 16 control

    kənˈtrəul
    1. сущ.
    1) а) надзор, сдерживание, контроль;
    регулирование;
    контроль, проверка She was in full control of the situation. ≈ Она полностью контролировала ситуацию. The fire was finally brought under control. ≈ Огонь наконец-то удалось погасить. The area was placed under the control of the military. ≈ Территория была передана под контроль армии. - birth control - social control - absolute control - close control - strict control - government control - parental control - communicable-disease control - emissions control - flood control - pest control - quality control - stress control - wage control exercise control exert control pass under the control of smb. cost control flight control control panel control rod price control control tower without control - out of control be in control Everything under control. ≈ Все путем, все как надо, все в порядке. б) самообладание, сдержанность в) спорт в автогонках: зона трассы, где ограничена скорость, напр. пит-лейн г) спорт в автогонках: место, где производятся контрольные замеры параметров машины, напр., высота, клиренс и т.п. д) лицо, осуществляющее надзор, контроль е) в спиритизме: дух, прямо связанный с медиумом и контролирующий его поведение и слова в течение транса ∙ Syn: restraint, check, restriction
    2) руководство, управление, контроль;
    власть She lost control of the car. ≈ Она потеряла управление машиной, она не справилась с управлением. assume control of take control of
    3) техническое регулирование а) регулировка, настройка( напр., радиоприемника), подгонка б) радио модуляция в) мн.;
    тех. органы управления( кнопки, ручки, рычаги и т.п.) ;
    ручки настройки радиоприемника remote control control stick
    4) мед. контрольный пациент( в эксперименте) ;
    биол. контрольное подопытное животное
    2. гл.
    1) распоряжаться, управлять, руководить, господствовать, подчинять, приказывать, командовать;
    иметь большинство( в совете директоров и т.п..) ;
    осуществлять власть (любого рода) Henceforth I obey and you control. ≈ Отныне я подчиняюсь, а ты командуешь;
    отныне ты начальник, я дурак. Syn: administer, direct, govern, manage, regulate, rule, supervise
    2) осуществлять надзор, контроль а) регулировать, контролировать, проверять Anyone who wishes to control my statements will have no difficulty in doing so. ≈ Любой, кто захочет проверить истинность моих утверждений не столкнется ни с малейшими трудностями. Syn: verify б) тех. настраивать (обычно set up) в) сдерживать (что бы то ни было) The superabundance of life is controlled by the law of mutual destruction. ≈ Беспредельный рост числа живых существ сдерживается действием закона взаимного уничтожения. Difficulty in controlling his temper. ≈ Трудности в сдерживании себя. control oneself Syn: curb, hinder г) юр. отменять( о словах: предыдущие заявления, показания) ;
    отклонять Syn: overrule ∙ Syn: check управление, руководство - the teacher has good * over his class учитель держит класс в руках;
    - under government * контролируемый правительством;
    - circumstances beyond our * не зависящие от нас обстоятельства;
    - to get beyond * выйти из-под влияния;
    - to bring under * подчинить своему влиянию, контролировать (политика) контроль, власть;
    обладание - islands under British * острова, управляемые Великобританией;
    - to exercise * over smth. осуществлять контроль над чем-л.;
    владеть чем-л.;
    - to be in * smth. управлять чем-л.;
    - to be in the * of smb. быть в чьей-л. власти;
    - he was in the * of crimilans он оказался в руках преступников контроль, проверка;
    надзор - selective * выборочный контроль;
    - to be under * быть под надзором контрольный экземпляр, препарат;
    контрольная группа регулировка, управление - traffic * регулирование уличного движения;
    - birth * регулирование рождаемости;
    - * of fire (военное) управление огнем;
    - remote * управление на расстоянии;
    телеуправление, дистанционное управление;
    - to lose * of a motor-car потерять управление автомобилем;
    - to go out of * (авиация) (морское) потерять управление;
    перестать слушаться руля регулирование;
    ограничение - rent * регулирование кввартирной или арендной платы;
    - wage-price * контроль над ценами и заработной платой;
    - arms * контроль над вооружениями, ограничение вооружения борьба( с отрицательными явлениями) - * of epidemics борьба с эпидемическими заболеваниями;
    - noise * борьба с шумом;
    - locust * борьба с саранчой сдержанность, самообладание - don't lose * of your temper не теряйте самообладания;
    - to speak without * говорить не стесняясь;
    - to keep one's feelings under * сдерживать свои чувства, владеть собой;
    - to regain * of oneself овладеть собой pl (техническое) органы управления (топография) сеть опорных пунктов пробный удар (фехтование) (радиотехника) регулировка, модуляция "хозяин", дух, который вещает устами медиума "хозяин", шеф, руководящий деятельностью агента, шпиона контрольный - * experiment контрольный опыт;
    - * organization контрольная организация относящийся к управлению - * room диспетчерская, аппаратная;
    пункт управления - * station( военное) пост управления;
    - * board( техническое) приборный щиток, панель или пульт управления;
    - * flight( авиация) управляемый полет;
    - * airport( военное) аэродром с регулируемым воздушным движением;
    - * surface( авиация) плоскость управления;
    - * whell( авиация) штурвал;
    - * level( авиация) рычаг управления;
    - * bit (компьютерное) управляющий разряд;
    служебный разряд;
    - * block управляющий блок управлять, руководить - he knows how to * his horse он умеет управлять лошадью;
    - to * fire (военное) управлять огнем;
    - to * the ball (спортивное) держать мяч под контролем контролировать, владеть - who *s these islands? кому принадлежат эти острова? контролировать, проверять - to * expenditure проверять расходы регулировать, контролировать;
    ограничивать - to * prices регулировать цены( радиотехника) настраивать сдерживать - to * emotions сдерживать чувства;
    - to * oneself сдерживаться, сохранять самообладание делать пробный удар (фехтование) access ~ контроль доступа access ~ вчт. контроль за доступом accuracy ~ вчт. контроль правильности adaptive ~ вчт. адаптивное управление anticipatory ~ вчт. управление с прогнозированием appropriation ~ контроль за ассигнованиями arms ~ контроль над вооружениями assessment ~ контроль налогообложения to be beyond( или out of) ~ выйти из подчинения social ~ общественный контроль;
    to be in control, to have control over управлять, контролировать ~ надзор;
    сдерживание;
    контроль, проверка;
    регулирование;
    birth control регулирование рождаемости birth ~ контроль за рождаемостью birth ~ регулирование рождаемости border ~ пограничный контроль brightness ~ вчт. регулирование яркости изображения brightness ~ вчт. регулировка яркости to bring under ~ подчинить;
    to pass under the control (of smb.) перейти в (чье-л.) ведение budgetary ~ контроль исполнения сметы budgetary ~ контроль методом сличения со сметой budgetary ~ сметный метод контроля built-in ~ вчт. встроенный контроль carriage ~ вчт. управление кареткой cascade ~ вчт. каскадное управление channel ~ вчт. управление каналом circumstances outside one's ~ обстоятельства непреодолимой силы communications ~ вчт. управление передачей concurrency ~ вчт. контроль совпадений concurrency ~ вчт. управление параллелизмом concurrent-operations ~ вчт. управление параллельной работой continuous ~ вчт. непрерывное управление contrast ~ вчт. регулировка контраста contrast ~ регулятор контраста control борьба с отрицательными явлениями ~ владеть ~ власть ~ государственное регулирование ~ контролировать ~ контроль ~ контрольный ~ контрольный орган ~ контрольный пациент (в эксперименте) ;
    контрольное подопытное животное ~ радио модуляция ~ надзор;
    сдерживание;
    контроль, проверка;
    регулирование;
    birth control регулирование рождаемости ~ надзор ~ тех. настраивать ~ обусловливать;
    нормировать (потребление) ~ ограничение ~ проверка ~ проверять ~ распоряжаться ~ регулировать;
    контролировать;
    проверять ~ регулировать ~ регулировка ~ регулировка ~ руководить;
    господствовать;
    заправлять;
    иметь большинство (в парламенте и т. п.) ~ руководить ~ руководство ~ (обыкн. pl) радио ручки настройки радиоприемника ~ pl тех. рычаги управления ~ сдержанность, самообладание ~ сдержанность ~ сдерживать (чувства, слезы) ;
    to control oneself сдерживаться, сохранять самообладание ~ сдерживать ~ управление, руководство ~ вчт. управление ~ управление ~ управлять, распоряжаться ~ вчт. управлять ~ управлять ~ attr. контрольный;
    control experiment контрольный опыт ~ attr. контрольный;
    control experiment контрольный опыт experiment: control ~ контрольный эксперимент ~ of access контроль доступа ~ of epidemics борьба с эпидемическими заболеваниями ~ of foreign exchange transactions контроль валютных операций ~ of line limits страх. контроль по максимуму ~ of overdrafts контроль превышения кредита ~ of posting контроль бухгалтерских проводок ~ сдерживать (чувства, слезы) ;
    to control oneself сдерживаться, сохранять самообладание coordinated ~ вчт. согласованное регулирование cost ~ контроль за уровнем затрат credit ~ кредитная политика credit ~ кредитный контроль cursor ~ вчт. управление курсором customs ~ таможенный контроль damage ~ ремонтно-восстановительные работы dash ~ вчт. кнопочное управление data coherency ~ вчт. обеспечение непротиворечивости данных data ~ вчт. управление данными data flow ~ вчт. управление потоками данных data-initiated ~ вчт. управление с внешним запуском derivative ~ вчт. регулирование производной digital ~ вчт. цифровое управление direct ~ прямое регулирование direct ~ прямое управление discontinuous ~ вчт. прерывистое регулирование distribution ~ вчт. управление распространением economic ~ экономический контроль encoded ~ вчт. кодовое управление end-to-end-flow ~ вчт. сквозное управление потоком error ~ вчт. устранение ошибок exchange ~ валютный контроль, валютное регулирование exchange ~ валютный контроль exclusive ~ вчт. монопольное управление export ~ контроль за экспортом exposure ~ контроль риска потенциальных убытков feed ~ вчт. управление подачей feedback ~ вчт. управление с обратной связью feedforward ~ вчт. регулирование по возмущению financial ~ финансовый контроль finger-tip ~ вчт. сенсорное управление floating ~ вчт. астатическое регулирование flow ~ вчт. управление потоками flow ~ вчт. управление потоком данных format ~ вчт. управление форматом get under ~ попадать под влияние get under ~ попадать под контроль government ~ государственное регулирование government ~ государственный контроль government ~ правительственный контроль graphic attention ~ контроль с помощью мнемосхемы ground ~ радио наземное управление, управление с земли social ~ общественный контроль;
    to be in control, to have control over управлять, контролировать hazard ~ контроль степени риска home country ~ контроль внутри страны housing ~ контроль за жилищным строительством import ~ контроль импорта independent ~ вчт. автономное управление industrial ~ производственный контроль industrial ~ вчт. управление произвольным процессом inferential ~ вчт. косвенное регулирование input/output ~ вчт. управление вводом-выводов interacting ~ вчт. связанное регулирование interactive ~ вчт. управление в интерактивном режиме intermittent ~ вчт. прерывистое регулирование interrupt ~ вчт. контроль прерываний inventory ~ управление запасами keyboard ~ вчт. клавишное управление legality ~ контроль за законностью light pen ~ вчт. управление световым пером link ~ вчт. управление каналом связи main ~ вчт. основное управляющее воздействие manual ~ вчт. ручное управление marketing ~ регулирование сбыта marketing ~ управление маркетингом master ~ вчт. организующая программа materiel ~ склад. управление материально-техническим обеспечением medium-access ~ вчт. управление доступом к среде передачи данных memory ~ вчт. управление памятью micropramming ~ вчт. микропрограммное управление multicircuit ~ вчт. многоконтактная схема управления multipath ~ вчт. многоканальное управление multivariable ~ вчт. многосвязное регулирование nonlinear ~ вчт. нелинейное регулирование numeric ~ цифровое управление off-line ~ вчт. автономное управление on-off ~ вчт. двухпозиционное регулирование operation ~ управление хозяйственной деятельностью optimizing ~ вчт. экстремальное регулирование to bring under ~ подчинить;
    to pass under the control (of smb.) перейти в (чье-л.) ведение passport ~ паспортный контроль pen ~ вчт. управление световым пером physical ~ физическая проверка pollution ~ борьба с загрязнением pollution ~ контроль за загрязнениями portfolio ~ контроль портфеля активов prevention and ~ профилактика и контроль price ~ действия правительства по контролю над ценами price ~ контроль цен price ~ котроллирование цен (путем установления потолка цен на некоторые продукты) price ~ регулирование цен priority ~ вчт. приоритетное управление process ~ управление производственным процессом process ~ вчт. управление техническим процессом production ~ диспетчеризация production ~ контроль производства production ~ регулирование производства production ~ управление производственным процессом production yield ~ вчт. контроль выхода programmed ~ вчт. программное управление project ~ управление проектом proportional ~ вчт. линейное регулирование pulse ~ вчт. импульсное управление push-button ~ вчт. кнопочное управление quality ~ контроль качества quality ~ (QC) произ. проверка качества;
    контроль качества;
    управление качеством;
    регулирование качества rate ~ вчт. регулирование скоростью ratio ~ вчт. регулирование соотношения read ~ вчт. управление считыванием remote ~ дистанционное регулирование remote ~ дистанционное управление remote: ~ тех. дистанционный;
    действующий на расстоянии;
    remote control дистанционное управление, телеуправление rent ~ регулирование арендной платы rent ~ регулирование квартирной платы retarted ~ вчт. регулирование с запаздыванием risk ~ контроль риска selective credit ~ селективный кредитный контроль self-acting ~ вчт. саморегулирование self-operated ~ вчт. прямое управление sensitivity ~ вчт. регулирование чувствительности separate ~ надзор за выполнением соглашения о раздельном жительстве супругов sequential ~ последовательный контроль servo ~ вчт. следящее управление shared ~ вчт. совместное управление sight ~ вчт. визуальный контроль sign ~ вчт. контроль по знаку single-level ~ вчт. одноуровневое управление single-loop ~ вчт. одноконтурное регулирование slide ~ вчт. плавное регулирование social ~ общественный контроль;
    to be in control, to have control over управлять, контролировать split-cycle ~ вчт. быстрое регулирование step ~ вчт. ступенчатое регулирование step-by-step ~ вчт. шаговое регулирование stepless ~ вчт. непрерывное регулирование stock ~ вчт. контроль уровня запасов storage ~ comp. блок управления памятью storage ~ контроль уровня запасов storage ~ comp. управление памятью storage ~ comp. устройство управления памятью strict cost ~ жесткий контроль затрат supervisory ~ административно-технический надзор supervisory ~ вчт. диспетчерский контроль supervisory ~ диспетчерский контроль supervisory ~ оперативное руководство task ~ вчт. управление заданиями tax ~ налоговый контроль technical ~ технический контроль time-variable ~ вчт. регулирование во времени traffic ~ регулирование движения traffic ~ вчт. регулирование трафика transfer ~ вчт. управление передачей upsetting ~ вчт. задающее воздействие version ~ вчт. управление версиями write ~ вчт. управление записью

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > control

  • 17 in any way

    by way of — в качестве; с целью; через; посредством; путем

    Синонимический ряд:
    under any circumstances (other) anyhow; at all; ever; in any case; in any manner; in the least; to any extent; under any circumstances; under any condition

    English-Russian base dictionary > in any way

  • 18 Deane, Sir Anthony

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1638 Harwich (?), England
    d. 1721 England
    [br]
    English master shipwright, one of the most influential of seventeenth-century England.
    [br]
    It is believed that Deane was born in Harwich, the son of a master mariner. When 22 years of age, having been trained by Christopher Pett, he was appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Naval Dockyard, indicating an ability as a shipbuilder and also that he had influence behind him. Despite abruptness and a tendency to annoy his seniors, he was acknowledged by no less a man than Pepys (1633–1703) for his skill as a ship designer and -builder, and he was one of the few who could accurately estimate displacements and drafts of ships under construction. While only 26 years old, he was promoted to Master Shipwright of the Naval Base at Harwich and commenced a notable career. When the yard was closed four years later (on the cessation of the threat from the Dutch), Deane was transferred to the key position of Master Shipwright at Portsmouth and given the opportunity to construct large men-of-war. In 1671 he built his first three-decker and was experimenting with underwater hull sheathing and other matters. In 1672 he became a member of the Navy Board, and from then on promotion was spectacular, with almost full responsibility given him for decisions on ship procurement for the Navy. Owing to political changes he was out of office for some years and endured a short period in prison, but on his release he continued to work as a private shipbuilder. He returned to the King's service for a few years before the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688; thereafter little is known of his life, beyond that he died in 1721.
    Deane's monument to posterity is his Doctrine of Naval Architecture, published in 1670. It is one of the few books on ship design of the period and gives a clear insight into the rather pedantic procedures used in those less than scientific times. Deane became Mayor of Harwich and subsequently Member of Parliament. It is believed that he was Peter the Great's tutor on shipbuilding during his visit to the Thames in 1698.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1673.
    Bibliography
    1670, Doctrine of Naval Architecture; repub. 1981, with additional commentaries by Brian Lavery, as Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture 1670, London: Conway Maritime.
    Further Reading
    Westcott Abell, 1948, The Shipwright's Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  • 19 cover

    [ˈkʌvə]
    additional premium for short-term cover дополнительная страховая премия за краткосрочное покрытие рисков advance cover авансовое покрытие all risks cover покрытие всех рисков back cover четвертая сторонка обложки bank-note cover покрытие банкнот blanket cover общее страхование blanket cover полный перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом cover охватывать; относиться (к чему-л.); the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету cash cover денежное покрытие cover разрешать, предусматривать; the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом cover расстилаться; распространяться; the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль cost escalation cover покрытие роста издержек cover = cover-point cover ком. гарантийный фонд cover гарантийный фонд cover гарантировать cover давать материал, отчет (для прессы) cover закрывать; покрывать; накрывать; прикрывать; перекрывать; to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями cover конверт; under the same cover в том же конверте cover конверт cover (по)крышка; обертка; чехол; покрывало; футляр, колпак cover обеспечение cover обеспечивать покрытие cover обеспечить покрытие (денежное) cover обложка, переплет, крышка переплета; to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) cover полигр. обложка cover обшивка cover относиться (к чему-л.) cover охватывать; относиться (к чему-л.); the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету cover охватывать cover полигр. переплет cover перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом cover покров; under cover of darkness под покровом темноты cover покрывать (кобылу и т. п.) cover покрывать cover покрытие cover покрытие (денежное) cover покупка ценных бумаг при сделках на срок cover преодолевать, проходить (какое-л. расстояние); спорт. пройти (дистанцию) cover прибор (обеденный) cover принимать на страх cover разрешать, предусматривать; the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом cover распространяться cover расстилаться; распространяться; the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль cover сидеть (на яйцах) cover скрывать; to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение (досаду) cover страхование cover страховать cover убежище, укрытие; прикрытие; заслон; under cover в укрытии, под защитой ; to take cover укрыться cover укрывать, ограждать, защищать; he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара cover уплата (по счету, векселю) cover целиться (из ружья и т. п.); держать под угрозой cover ширма; предлог; отговорка; личина, маска; under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы cover закрывать; покрывать; накрывать; прикрывать; перекрывать; to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями cover for losses покрытие убытков cover girl хорошенькая девушка, изображение которой помещают на обложке журнала; журнальная красотка cover in забросать землей (могилу) cover in закрыть cover of loss покрытие убытков cover of loss покрытие ущерба cover on death сумма страхового возмещения при смертельном исходе cover скрывать; to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение (досаду) to cover one's face with one's hands закрыть лицо руками to cover the retreat прикрывать отступление; to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы cover over скрыть, прикрыть to cover the retreat прикрывать отступление; to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы cover up прятать cover up спрятать, тщательно прикрыть cover = cover-point cover-point: cover-point спорт. защитник (в крикете) cover спорт. место защитника (в крикете) demand for cover требование покрытия depot under cover хранилище под крышей dust cover полигр. суперобложка exchange rate risk cover страхование от риска изменения валютного курса exchange risk cover страхование от валютного риска extended cover расширенное страхование forward cover бирж. срочное покрытие forward cover бирж. форвардное покрытие front cover первая сторонка обложки front cover передняя часть обложки full cover полное покрытие cover укрывать, ограждать, защищать; he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара inside back cover третья сторонка обложки inside front cover вторая сторонка обложки insurance cover объем страховой ответственности interest cover обеспечение выплаты процентов liability insurance cover риски, охватываемые страхованием гражданской ответственности margin cover бирж. покрытие маржи master cover суперобложка maximum cover максимальный объем страховой ответственности minimum cover минимальное покрытие molded cover формованная накладка open cover генеральный полис open cover открытый полис primary cover первичное страхование provide forward cover бирж. предоставлять срочное обеспечение provide forward cover бирж. предоставлять форвардное обеспечение cover обложка, переплет, крышка переплета; to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) reinsurance cover объем ответственности при перестраховании reserve fund cover покрытие резервного фонда risk cover перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом subsequent cover последующая уплата по счету surplus cover избыточное покрытие cover убежище, укрытие; прикрытие; заслон; under cover в укрытии, под защитой ; to take cover укрыться cover убежище, укрытие; прикрытие; заслон; under cover в укрытии, под защитой ; to take cover укрыться under: cover heavy penalty под страхом сурового наказания; under the necessity (of smth.) под давлением (каких-л.) обстоятельств; under cover под прикрытием cover покров; under cover of darkness под покровом темноты cover ширма; предлог; отговорка; личина, маска; under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы cover конверт; under the same cover в том же конверте vegetative cover растительный покров vertex cover вершинное покрытие

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  • 20 fire

    ˈfaɪə
    1. сущ.
    1) а) огонь, пламя to build, kindle, light, make a fire ≈ разводить огонь to fuel fire ≈ подбрасывать топливо to poke, stir fire ≈ ворошить огонь to stoke, to nurse the fire ≈ поддерживать огонь to bank a fire ≈ засыпать огонь to douse, extinguish, put out a fire ≈ тушить огонь to light, to make up the fire ≈ затопить печку to stir the fire ≈ помешать угли в печке the glow of a fire ≈ отблеск огня a fire burns ≈ огонь горит blow the fire strike fire fire and faggot lay a fire electric fire gas fire penal fire purgatory fire give the fire fire in one's belly by fire and sword go through fire go through fire and water where is the fire? Syn: blaze, conflagration, flame, alkahest there is no smoke without a fire ≈ посл. нет дыма без огня pull the chestnuts out of fire ≈ таскать каштаны из огня between two fires ≈ меж(ду) двух огней б) пожар;
    воспламенение, возгорание, горение to bring a fire under control ≈ тушить пожар to contain fire ≈ сдерживать пожар to extinguish, put out fire ≈ тушить пожар to stamp out a fire ≈ затаптывать пожар raging, roaring fire ≈ ревущий пожар forest fire ≈ лесной пожар a fire breaks out ≈ пожар загорается a fire burns ≈ пожар горит a fire goes out ≈ пожар затихает a fire smoulders ≈ пожар тлеет a fire spreads ≈ пожар распространяется be on fire set fire to smth. set smth. on fire set a fire catch fire take fire a burnt child dreads the fire ≈ посл. прим. обжегшись на молоке на воду дуешь в) извержение вулкана The fires of Etna. ≈ Извержения Этны. г) горючее, топливо (дерево, уголь, бензин и т.п.) Syn: firing, fuel д) свет, свечение, огонь
    2) а) жар, лихорадка Syn: fever, inflammation б) пыл, воодушевление;
    страсть, страстность, неистовость Syn: zeal, fervour, enthusiasm, spirit в) поэт. перен. вдохновение
    3) воен. огонь, стрельба (on) to attract, draw fire ≈ вызывать огонь to call down fire on ≈ давать приказ об атаке на to cease fire ≈ прекращать огонь to commence fire ≈ открыть огонь to exchange fire( with the enemy) ≈ перестреливаться( с врагом) to hold one's fire ≈ стрелять to open fire on the enemy ≈ открыть огонь по врагу artillery fire ≈ артиллерийский обстрел automatic fire ≈ обстрел из автоматов concentrated, fierce, heavy, murderous fire ≈ сильный огонь cross fire ≈ перекрестный огонь harassing fire ≈ изнурительный огонь hostile fire ≈ огонь противника machine-gun fire ≈ пулеметный огонь rapid fire ≈ сильный огонь rifle fire ≈ ружейный огонь stand fire running fire be under fire ∙ to be under fire ≈ служить мишенью нападок under fire ≈ под обстрелом not to set the Thames on fire ≈ звезд с неба не хватать to set the Thames on fire ≈ быть знаменитым, иметь потрясающие заслуги to play with fire ≈ играть с огнем, рисковать to fight fire with fire ≈ посл. клин клином вышибать;
    противостоять атаке, держать удар
    2. гл.
    1) а) зажигать, поджигать( что-л. с целью сжечь, реже топливо, свечи и т.п.) ;
    воспламенять(ся), загораться He fired his camp. ≈ Он поджег свой лагерь. б) топить печь в) обжигать( керамику, кирпичи и т.п.) ;
    сушить (чай и т. п.) Syn: bake г) извергаться( о вулкане) д) мед. прижигать е) зажигать курительную трубку ∙ Syn: light, kindle, ignite
    2) алеть, краснеть (обычно о закатном и рассветном небе, но не только)
    3) а) стрелять, вести огонь, палить;
    выстреливать to fire point-blank ≈ стрелять в упор б) фото "щелкать", снимать кадр
    4) а) воодушевлять, возбуждать( into) The speaker fired the crowd into marching to Parliament with their demands. ≈ Выступающий призывал толпу идти к Парламенту со своими требованиями. Venice, that land so calculated to fire the imagination of a poet. ≈ Венеция так специально построена, чтобы возбуждать вдохновение поэта. Syn: inflame, heat, animate б) возбуждаться;
    раздражаться, свирепеть The parson fired at this information. ≈ При этой новости священник взорвался.
    5) а) увольнять Syn: dismiss, discharge б) отказываться выставить картину на вставке (о галеристе) ∙ fire ahead fire at fire away fire off fire out fire up
    3. межд. черт! дьявол! и т.п. Fire and fury, master! What have we done, that you should talk to us like this! ≈ Черт возьми, хозяин! Что мы такого сделали, что вы с нами так разговариваете?! огонь, пламя - * endurance огнестойкость - * point( техническое) температура воспламенения - to keep up a good * поддерживать сильный огонь - to be on * гореть;
    быть в огне /в пламени/ - to set on *, to set * to поджигать - to catch /to take/ * загораться, воспламеняться - to cook smth. on a slow * готовить что-л. на медленном огне - to strike * высекать огонь - to lay the /a/ * разложить огонь /костер/ топка, печь, камин - electric * электрическая печка;
    электрический камин - gas * газовая плита;
    газовый камин - to light the *, to make up the * развести огонь, затопить печку - to stir /to poke/ the * помешать в печке - to nurse the * поддерживать огонь - to mend the * усиливать огонь, подбрасывать дрова и т. п. - to blow the * раздувать огонь;
    разжигать недовольство /страсть, вражду и т. п./ пожар - forest *s лесные пожары - * prevention противопожарная техника;
    противопожарные мероприятия - house that has suffered * дом, пострадавший от пожара жар, лихорадка - St.Anthony's * (медицина) антонов огонь, рожистое воспаление, рожа пыл, воодушевление;
    живость - sacred * "священный огонь", вдохновение - * and fury пламенность, неистовая страсть - full of * and courage пылкий и мужественный( военное) орудийный огонь, стрельба - running * беглый огонь;
    град возражений, критических замечаний - under * под огнем, под обстрелом - to be under * подвергаться обстрелу;
    служить мишенью для нападок - to direct one's * against направлять огонь на;
    обрушиваться на - to draw the * of (the enemy) вызвать на себя огонь (противника) ;
    вызвать критику /возражения/ - to hand * производить затяжной выстрел;
    дать осечку - to miss * дать осечку;
    бить мимо цели, не достичь цели;
    не дать должного эффекта - to open * открывать огонь;
    выступать против( кого-л.) - to stand * выдерживать огонь противника;
    выдерживать критику /испытание/ - to cease * прекращать огонь - line of a * линия огня - * at will одиночный огонь - * for adjustment пристрелка - * for demolition огонь на разрушение - * for effect огонь на поражение - * over (open) sights стрельба прямой наводкой пуск ракеты блеск, сверкание - the * of a diamond сверкание алмаза в грам. знач. прил.( военное) огневой - * accompaniment огневое сопровождение - * assault огневой налет - * power огневая мощь - * command /order/ команда для стрельбы - * co-operation огневое взаимодействие - * cover /support/ огневая поддержка - * curtain огневая завеса - * density плотность огня - * effect огневое воздействие - * mission огневая задача - * sector сектор обстрела - * trench траншея в грам. знач. прил. пожарный, противопожарный;
    связанный с огнем - * point (техническое) температура воспламенения или вспышки - * prevention противопожарные мероприятия > *s of heaven небесные огни, звезды > liquid * крепкие спиртные напитки > council * (историческое) костер индейцев, разводимый во время совещаний > between two *s между двух огней > to play with * играть с огнем > to flight * with * клин клином вышибать > one * drives out another * клин клином вышибают > * and brimstone адские муки > * and brimstone! черт возьми! > to flash /to shoot/ * метать искры (о глазах) > to go through * and water пройти огонь и воду > to pull /to snatch/ smb. out of the * спасти кого-л., выручить кого-л. из беды > with * and sword огнем и мечом > to put to * and sword предать огню и мечу > * and water are good servants, but bad masters огонь и вода хорошие слуги человека, но воли им давать нельзя > out of the frying-pan into the * из огня да в полымя > to add fuel to the * подлить масла в огонь > there is no smoke without * (пословица) нет дыма без огня > * that's closest kept burns most of all( пословица) скрытый огонь сильнее горит > the * which lights /warms/ up at a distance will burn us when near (пословица) огонь, греющий нас на расстоянии, жжет вблизи > a little * is quickly trodden out (пословица) легче погасить искру, чем погасить пожар;
    искру туши до пожара зажигать, разжигать, поджигать - to * a house поджечь дом - to * a boiler( техническое) развести котел воспламенять;
    взрывать - to * a hole (горное) взорвать шпур - to * a mine взорвать мину воспламеняться воодушевлять, воспламенять - to * with anger разжигать гнев воодушевляться, загораться ( чем-л.) стрелять, производить выстрел;
    вести огонь - *! огонь! (команда) - to * blank стрелять холостыми патронами - to * smoke вести огонь дымовыми снарядами - to * a target обстреливать цель - to * a volley дать залп - to * at /on,upon/ smb., smth. стрелять в кого-л., по чему-л. - to * at a target стрелять по цели - police *d into the crowd полиция стреляла в толпу запускать - *! пуск! (команда) - to * a rocket запустить ракету прижигать( каленым железом) топить (печь) обжигать( кирпич, керамику) сушить (чай и т. п.) швырять, бросать - to * wet clothes into a corner швырнуть мокрые вещи в угол - to * a grenade бросить гранату выпалить - to * questions at smb. засыпать кого-л. вопросами (американизм) (разговорное) увольнять, выгонять с работы to be on ~ гореть;
    перен. быть в возбуждении ~ воен. огонь, стрельба;
    to be under fire подвергаться обстрелу;
    перен. служить мишенью нападок to stir the ~ помешать в печке;
    between two fires перен. меж(ду) двух огней to blow the ~ раздувать огонь;
    перен. разжигать страсти (и т. п.) ~ пожар;
    to catch (или to take) fire загореться;
    перен. зажечься( чем-л.) ~ огонь, пламя;
    to strike fire высечь огонь;
    to lay a fire разложить костер;
    развести огонь (в очаге, печи и т. п.) ;
    electric fire электрическая печь или камин factory ~ пожар на предприятии to play with ~ играть с огнем;
    to fight fire with fire = клин клином вышибать fire воодушевлять;
    возбуждать ~ воспламенять(ся) ~ выгонять с работы ~ жар, лихорадка ~ загораться ~ зажигать, поджигать;
    to fire a house поджечь дом ~ обжигать (кирпичи) ;
    сушить (чай и т. п.) ~ воен. огонь, стрельба;
    to be under fire подвергаться обстрелу;
    перен. служить мишенью нападок ~ огонь, пламя;
    to strike fire высечь огонь;
    to lay a fire разложить костер;
    развести огонь (в очаге, печи и т. п.) ;
    electric fire электрическая печь или камин ~ огонь ~ пожар;
    to catch (или to take) fire загореться;
    перен. зажечься (чем-л.) ~ пожар ~ вет. прижигать (каленым железом) ~ пыл, воодушевление;
    поэт. вдохновение ~ свечение ~ стрелять, палить, вести огонь (at, on, upon) ;
    to fire a mine взрывать мину ~ топить (печь) ~ увольнять ~ разг. увольнять;
    fire away начинать;
    fire away! разг. валяй!, начинай!, жарь! ~ зажигать, поджигать;
    to fire a house поджечь дом ~ стрелять, палить, вести огонь (at, on, upon) ;
    to fire a mine взрывать мину ~ разг. увольнять;
    fire away начинать;
    fire away! разг. валяй!, начинай!, жарь! ~ разг. увольнять;
    fire away начинать;
    fire away! разг. валяй!, начинай!, жарь! ~ off дать выстрел;
    перен. выпалить (замечание и т. п.) ~ out разг. выгонять;
    увольнять;
    fire up вспылить ~ out разг. выгонять;
    увольнять;
    fire up вспылить forest ~ лесной пожар gas ~ газовая плита или камин;
    it is too warm for fires слишком тепло, чтобы топить insure against ~ страховать от пожара gas ~ газовая плита или камин;
    it is too warm for fires слишком тепло, чтобы топить ~ огонь, пламя;
    to strike fire высечь огонь;
    to lay a fire разложить костер;
    развести огонь (в очаге, печи и т. п.) ;
    electric fire электрическая печь или камин to light (или to make up) the ~ затопить печку;
    to nurse the fire поддерживать огонь running ~ беглый огонь;
    перен. град критических замечаний;
    not to set the Thames on fire = звезд с неба не хватать to light (или to make up) the ~ затопить печку;
    to nurse the fire поддерживать огонь plant ~ пожар на предприятии to play with ~ играть с огнем;
    to fight fire with fire = клин клином вышибать running ~ беглый огонь;
    перен. град критических замечаний;
    not to set the Thames on fire = звезд с неба не хватать running: ~ последовательный, непрерывный;
    running commentary радиорепортаж;
    running fire беглый огонь;
    running hand беглый почерк to set ~ (to smth.), to set (smth.) on ~, амер. to set a fire поджигать (что-л.) to set ~ (to smth.), to set (smth.) on ~, амер. to set a fire поджигать (что-л.) to set ~ (to smth.), to set (smth.) on ~, амер. to set a fire поджигать (что-л.) set: to ~ laughing рассмешить;
    to set on fire поджигать;
    the news set her heart beating при этом известии у нее забилось сердце to stand ~ выдерживать огонь противника (тж. перен.) to stir the ~ помешать в печке;
    between two fires перен. меж(ду) двух огней ~ огонь, пламя;
    to strike fire высечь огонь;
    to lay a fire разложить костер;
    развести огонь (в очаге, печи и т. п.) ;
    electric fire электрическая печь или камин

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  • Master of the Sacred Palace — Master of the Sacred Palace, or in Latin Magister Sacri Palatii , is a Roman Curial office which has always been entrusted to a Friar Preacher of the Dominican Order and may be described as the pope s theologian. The current post is held by Fr.… …   Wikipedia

  • Master of the Sacred Palace — • This office (which has always been entrusted to a Friar Preacher) may briefly be described as being that of the pope s theologian. St. Dominic, appointed in 1218, was the first Master of the Sacred Palace (Magister Sacri Palatii) Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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  • Master Musicians of Joujouka — Origin Jajouka, Morocco Genres Folk music, World, Sufi music of Morocco Years active ? – present Labels …   Wikipedia

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