25. In a strategic sense, the Norwegian approach if pressed further, appears to be a development that could lead toward dividing Europe from the United States.
26. Already very many sections of the Labour, trade union and cooperative movements support policies on these lines. Their members number millions.
27. To get the kind of Budget the country needs means a fight for a different policy within the Labour movement.
28. American politics is passing through a highly unusual phase. In a country where local issues usually dominate voting patterns, foreign policy has surprisingly emerged as the defining issue of the current political debate.
29. Mrs. Robinson admits she is not a natural politician in the Irish sense: she lacks the glad-handing skills so valued in the small world of Irish politics.
30. Aides billed the president's speech to California business and policy leaders as a major address laying out his goals for the remainder of his term.
31. In the fluid world of Middle Eastern politics, the Iraqi Kurds, despite massacres and betrayals, still maintain lines of communication with the President.
32. But even if conservatives triumph, those involved in the contest say the energy of street-level politics, and the sense among Iranians that the election is providing them with a genuine voice in local government, can only speed the process of liberalization.
33. Nothing would do more to protect American security in the decades ahead than ensuring that Russia's immense stockpile of nuclear weapons and materials is diminished and adequately controlled.
34. The next decade or two may bring specific threats from specific Muslim countries, such as a nuclear-armed Iran or Algeria; but there is no sign yet of a shoulder-to-shoulder Islam.
35. It can certainly be said that lax management, waste and worse have been part and parcel of Brussels programmes for decades.
36. No particular fan of an American model, Mr. Pfister describes the investigation of the US President by an independent counsel as partisan, inspired by the right wing of the Republican Party, and using inquisition — like methods.
37. It is surely chauvinistic to identify the West with America and Britain alone, and partisan to attribute its slow triumph to one favoured thread of an ever complicated politics.
38. No mean partisan Representative, Tom Campell, Republican of California, has joined with Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, to gather some 40 congressmen to demand on constitutional grounds that the president obtain authority from Congress before taking military action against a country [Yugoslavia].
39. A full warning [of nuclear blackmail] came from the report of the commission on missile threats. This was a bipartisan commission, with members who have often disagreed on weapons issues.
40. Under a compromise already reached by the Environment Minister, a Greens lawmaker, and the Economics Minister, a non-partisan energy expert, the ban (of sending spent fuel out of Germany for reprocessing) will not take effect until a year after passage.
41. Years of partisan wrangling over the US deficit, taxation, foreign aid and contributions to international organizations have created a consensus that Americans cannot pay more and resentment that the European allies appear to be paying less.
42. The Iraqi Kurds may be running their affairs autonomously for now, but all know how devastating the disciplined Iraqi armored units can be against their lightly armed guerrillas.
43. The report said the Mayan population in Guatemala paid the highest price, when the military identified them as natural allies of the guerrillas.
44. Whether a second chamber should be elected or nominated, with regions or special interests represented, is getting decision the wrong way round.
45. The death of about 500 people in an explosion in South-Eastern Nigeria is being blamed on the sabotage of a fuel pipeline: saboteurs breached it last week.
46. Tired of corruption and crime in the state (Maharashtra, India), voters, with some help from a few honest bureaucrats, are starting to disown bad government.
47. Few among her admirers would call her a natural bureaucrat, or a natural diplomat, or a good «details» person — all of which a European commissioner needs to be.
48. In recent years in particular, an emboldened class of investigating magistrates has made unprecedented progress in investigating public officials suspected of abusing their position.
49. In the Balkans and elsewhere, we are supporting the advocates of moderation and tolerance against the ruthless exploiters of ethnic hatred.
50. Americans must exert themselves not only to listen more carefully to European concerns but also to convey them accurately to political opinion makers in the USA.
51. Domestic law enforcement has many techniques for gathering data, including lawful wiretaps and grand jury investigations.
52. Many of the most internationalist of administration officials feed rather than combat congressional resentment [over the European allies].
53. The war in Kosovo is a reminder of the split between interventionists, such as Mr. McCain, and isolationists, such as Pat Buchanan, a fire-breathing presidential aspirant who says that the United States should never have got involved in the Balkans in the first place.
54. The offenders were told, that the Police Department would use all its legal powers against them unless the killings stopped.
55. The new model was brought to Barclay, which is a public school. It means lots of homework, a gruelling workload of spelling tests, rigorous instruction in math and science, and steady infusion of world history, literature and art to ensure that the children become ((.culturally literate.»
56. Calvert is an exclusive private school in Baltimore, with an overwhelmingly white, middle-class student body and an outstanding academic reputation.
57. The traditional curriculum, such as it was, virtually disintegrated during the campus upheavals of the 1960s, when millions of students demanded and won the right to get academic credit for studying whatever they pleased.
58. Direct democracy obliterates the distinction between government and the governed, it is a system of popular self-government.
59. With American unemployment at record post-war low and the economy steaming ahead, industries such as steel and memory chips have resorted to anti-dumping suits to protect themselves against imports.
60. Mr. Howard is relying on the minutes of a meeting held on January 10th at the Home office to support his claim that he did not mislead MPs.
61. If the Prime minister is to win the referendum he plans to call soon after the next election, he needs the European project to continue to convey an impression of remorseless forward momentum... What, though, if the momentum stalls, or seems to?
Часть II
ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ ДЛЯ ПЕРЕВОДА
НА СМЕШАННЫЕ ТРУДНОСТИ
1. Сделайте синтаксический и грамматический анализ следующих предложений и переведите их, обращая внимание на перевод различных функций инфинитива, герундия и причастия.
1. But just when they need time to work through their promising changes and help from the United States in completing them the European allies risk running into political static in Washington because of U. S. wishes to recast NATO in a role approximating a global policeman — a futuristic vision of the alliance that European policymakers see as premature now, and perhaps forever.
2. The European Commission argues that «unfair tax competition)) among EU countries distorts the single market — by allowing low-tax countries, or heavens, to attract capital from high-tax jurisdictions — and indirectly contributes to Europe's high unemployment rates by shifting taxation from capital to labour.
3. Europe seemed to find its footing in NATO's post Cold-war posture, finally making a promising start on European military cooperation demonstrating a new readiness to use force and pulling down barriers to consolidating its national defence companies into Europe - wide industries.
4. «Truths!» Charles de Gaulle is supposed to have shouted. «Did you think I could have created a [Free French] government against the English and the Americans with truths? You make History with ambition, not with truths».
5. Taken with the smooth closure this year of alliance enlargement to include new members from Central Europe, there seems to be much to celebrate next year when Washington hosts ceremonies marking the anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
6. If the Parliament insists on pushing through a policy forged in the heat of an election campaign rather than out of the calm consideration and consultation that the Parliament's committee structure is supposed to encourage, ministers in London will have to accept the anomaly or follow suit.
7. Attempts to strengthen common foreign and security policy, the EU's «second pillar», by importing majority voting or incorporating the Western European Union, Europe's defence club, into the EU, look like failing.
The biggest changes are likely to come in the «third pillar»: justice and home affairs.
8. Considered on the fringes of legality because of its liberal views, the Freedom Movement (of Iran) has been allowed to field four candidates for the 15 municipal council seats in Tehran.
9. Built-in encryption also could make it easier to add access controls to PC's and routinely scramble all stored data, making it harder to steal computer resources or files.
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