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Перевод: aggrandizement

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увеличение; усиление; повышение; расширение; возвеличивание
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Тезаурус:

1. Without his influence, the vast energy expended on Wissenschaft over the centuries might have been used for purposes of individual or national aggrandizement.
2. Although I have described the events in terms of the DUP's success in displacing other Unionist groups, the leaders of the DUP were not fixed on personal aggrandizement at any cost.
3. The Fifty Years, in the historian's causal scheme, were the underlying cause of the war, which Thucydides saw as the process of Athenian aggrandizement which struck fear into Sparta.
4. It was, after all, the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else - at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement - originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire, giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged, absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples.
5. Meanwhile, she had pursued personal aggrandizement at his expense, a whisper of conscience hinted, until he had learned that he was nothing but a nuisance to her.
6. On the other hand, Ceolred's attack on Ine demonstrated the harsher reality of that desire for military prestige and territorial aggrandizement which is the more constant feature of Anglo-Saxon political history in this period.
7. The British Foreign Secretary, Palmerston, wrote in a despatch of December 1833 that there could be No reasonable doubt but that the Russian Govt. is intently engaged in the prosecution of those schemes of aggrandizement toward the South which, ever since the Reign of Catherine, have formed a prominent feature of Russian policy.
8. Not misuse their authority for personal aggrandizement or gain.
9. Even so, the propaganda which set out to promote the aggrandizement of the figure of Franco, almost to the point of beatification, could not have succeeded without fertile ground in which to plant its seeds.
10. In reality, aggrandizement was very far from Russia's thoughts.
11. Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit.
12. In political terms, the grants to Buckingham can be partially justified by the need to replace the council of the prince of Wales which, apart from the attack on its Woodville members, had lost its focus with the accession of Edward V. But the scale of the grants leaves no doubt that the primary aim was the aggrandizement of Buckingham.