Трудности перевода общественно - политического текста с английского языка на русский (стр. 7 )

8. The State Department told Congress on Friday that China went into reverse on human rights last autumn, backtracking on political reform while continuing «to commit widespread and well-documented human rights abuses» that defied international norms.

9. The report fueled talk that US interest rates may be raised this year while expectations are for lower rates in Europe.

10. In the Protestant Netherlands, bourgeois buyers became important patrons of art, and genre paintings found a solid market, while in Catholic Italy, where church and aristocratic patrons called the tune, attitudes were ambivalent toward pictures outside the mainstream of religious and his­tory painting.

11. Sources in the Administration while saying that no decisions have been made, suggest that the current consensus of senior advisers favor a lower-temperature policy designed to improve the bargaining position of the United States.

12. A high-ranking Transport Ministry official recently stated that while Japan is sympathetic to the plight of European shipbuilders, it is unlikely that the Japanese shipbuilding industry will be able to make fur­ther concessions on the matter.

13. Some Americans fear an arms race in space, while others see the military use of the shuttle as a natural consequence of the superiority of U. S. space technology although such superiority may prove temporary.

14. While discussion of a possible link between the krone and Europe's new single currency is at the top of the agenda, analysts expect little more than vaguely worded communiques pledging cooperation be­tween Norway and the EU.

15. But the figures also illustrated that while the company's order backlog remains healthy, fewer customers are purchasing its (Boeing's) most expensive and profitable airplanes.

16. He is reported to have emphasized to the Cabinet that Canada was concerned at the possibility of military action, while Asian members of the Commonwealth were all opposed to the use of force.

17. While pressing for every kind of financial help to the local authorities, it is evident that only nationalization of all urban land is an essential need.

18. The Foreign Secretary will propose a package of measures de­signed to increase the democratic legitimacy of the European Union while curbing the powers of the European Commission.

19. While the US unemployment rate fell back to a 28-year low of 4.3 per cent, the German jobless rate jumped to 10.9 per cent from 10.2 per cent.

20. «...do not allow France alone to be represented by two «heads of government,)) President and his prime minister at the EU summits, for they simply compete to be seen back home as the farmer's best friends,)) said a EU official.

21. ...the riot surpassed those that had preceded it. For here was the most sensational expression of an ugly mood of nihilism and anarchy that has ever gripped a small but significant segment of America's Black mi­nority.

22. As nuclear stations are expensive to build but cheaper to fuel and therefore more suitable for base-load supply, the public utilities associa­tion proposes, on grounds of cost if for no other reason, to meet about 70 per cent of the additional capacity requirement (22,000 megawatts) by commissioning 20 new nuclear power stations over the next 10 years.

23. When is an economic slump not a slump? The answer: When the economy in question is Japan's. For what Japanese economic and busi­ness leaders are all too ready to define as a «slump» or «slowdown» would be considered a rosy picture in virtually any other industrial coun­try of the West.

24. The Battle of the Budget will be fought on two levels: in the Con­gress and between private organizations in the nation that support or op­pose President's economic program.

The second level is particularly interesting, for its object is to influ­ence public opinion, and whoever wins this campaign could be decisive in the final votes on Capitol Hill.

25. We no longer prefer to confront reality directly, for long ago we learned and accepted the fact that reality has for all practical purposes be­come unmanageable. Instead we have turned our energies to the prolif­eration and production of endless amounts of unreality to soothe our tired and fractured egos.

26. Former Attorney General R. C. and U. S. representative G. G. opened a conference on Cuba here last weekend with strong demands for an end to the U. S. economic and political blockade of that island nation.

«We call for an end to the economic blockade of Cuba not only be­cause we believe it is just, not only because we believe it is humane, but also because it is strategically, economically and politically in the inter­ests of the United States.»

27. For most of American history, relations with Europe have been cool.

28. All this proves that all this talk about the so-called greater democ­racy of secret ballot is so much eye-wash. It is open to abuse and is no substitute for our trade union procedure of full discussion at a meeting and a show of hands, said Mr. M.

29. After lengthy negotiations they substituted a treaty for an unoffi­cial agreement.

30. The mill workers in Scotsville had been out for a year and a half already and they were becoming desperate for food and clothing.

31. For these reasons the dreams of a solution along these lines are empty castles in the clouds.

32. The right of the states to decide voting qualifications is preserved, so long as it is not used for systematic discrimination.

33. As always, growth is bound to be uneven. Mexico is being kept aloft by the strong US economy. South Korea is growing again, Japan is showing some signs of life, but Asia is apt to remain shaky for a while to come.

34. For the first time in their history teachers are threatening a real showdown on their objection to the supervision of school meals, the daily duty that means many of them have to work during their lunch hour.

35. It is considered that Atlantic relations for all their seeming nor­malcy face a profound crisis.

36. Already, Israeli officials in Europe, in background meetings with correspondents, have bitterly criticized the plan as an attempt to impose conditions on Israel and as European appeasement of Arab oil states.

37. At the same time, the reported compromise reaffirms the desire of leading administration policy-makers to re-direct foreign aid along more conservative lines that would give bilateral aid priority over multilateral aid as a political tool to reward friends of the U. S. wherever possible.

38. «China is bracing for a slower economic growth rate as troubles at home and abroad take their toll on gross domestic product,)) officials said yesterday.

39. As other western democracies have condemned and abandoned the death penalty, America has defended it with increasing vigour.

40. It was a grueling process of editorial refinement that either im­proved and sharpened the story at each successive stage, or distorted it as it passed from hand to hand and mind to mind.

41. Trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was suspended for a second Monday as brokers and administrators waited for clarifications from the finance ministry of controversial new tax laws.

42. Religious groups in China, including Protestants and Catholics, again experienced interference and repression even as the number of ad­herents in many churches continued to grow at a rapid pace.

43. As recently as early March of this year, the Prime Minister re­buffed one of his top subordinates who strongly urged him to point out to American officials that a lot of their balance-of-payment troubles were of their own making.

44. The incident occurred as MPs were voting in a second round con­fidence vote for the formation of a new centrist government.

45. «But as media conglomerates evolve into media monoliths, con­flict of interest can only become more frequent.»

46. Crude [oil] is gushing from the ground at the rate of 66 m. barrels a day, half as copiously again as in OPEC's prime.

47. There is a flip side to Elizabeth Dole's big-heartedness. Her steely temper and icy glares are almost as legendary in Washington as her acts of charity.

ing as they do in the wake of the fascist outrages at Bologna station and the Paris synagogue, the disclosures are bound to raise the question of how much longer the authorities will turn a blind eye to these open preparations for fascist terrorism in Britain.

49. The Commerce Department is mulling sanctions on offending for­eigners, and the vice-president wants to sound concerned. Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.

50. The latest operation is not quite like those others. First, it is NATO's first unambiguous attack on a sovereignstate that stands accused of being vile not to its neighbours but only to its own ch be­haviour, offensive as it is, has long been considered the prerogative of properly constituted governments.

51. As far as Presidential elections are concerned, they are not very democratic. It's really a monopoly of the two parties, and each year it has been getting more difficult for Independents to get on the ballot in many states.

52. As far as the mind is concerned racism cannot be done away with by legislation. But acts of racism can. That's where we can pinpoint the question. When racist acts become illegal, that becomes a much firmer basis to remove racism from the minds of people. That's an educational process but we can lay the legal basis for it.

53. Ms. Daly, while widely respected for her scholarship, is consid­ered a perpetual thorn in the side of the college administration, as much for her feminist theories as for her views on Catholicism.