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Перевод: decimation

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казнь ; взимание десятины

Тезаурус:

1. Not unexpectedly, his defence of the major-generals in the debates over the decimation bill was "hot".
2. Fearing a wholesale decimation of its executive ranks, The Journal said, DEC tried to persuade him to stay but failed.
3. For while there are many for whom the decimation of Baghdad is guided by a fine and noble and sense of justice, many others find themselves with effectively no alternative but to support "our government" / "our boys" / "freedom" or whatever other option is put before them, in spite of their doubts about the validity of the whole bloody exercise.
4. of Scottish people want independence resulted from the Government's decimation of the Scottish industrial base, such as Ravenscraig, Armitage Shanks, which is in the Minister's constituency, and the litany of factory closures and job losses and from increasing poverty in Scotland.
5. His standing in the public opinion polls plummeted as a result of his pardon of Nixon, and the 1974 congressional elections led to further decimation of Republican party representation - the Democrats gaining 49 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate.
6. Nevertheless, despite the decimation of Eadwine's family, a Deiran prince, Oswine, son of Eadwine's cousin, Osric, emerged as king among the Deirans ( HE 111, 14) (see Appendix, Figs 6.1 and 7.1), though he was evidently unable or disinclined to revive the Canterbury mission at York.
7. There are two basic reasons for the apparent anomalies in what generally appears to be a steady expansion of the vineyard area: first, the uprooting of old, commercially non-productive vines; and second, the decimation of large patches of vines due to natural causes like frost, hail, disease, pests, etc.
8. He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too.
9. He was noted, too, for vigorous, even violent, implementation of the decimation tax upon Royalists and was certainly among the most assiduous of the major-generals.
10. Yesterday's meeting, which saw the group change its name from Ferranti International Signal to Ferranti International, also approved changes in its articles designed to prevent it breaching borrowing powers as a result of the decimation of its equity base by the 215million write-off.
11. The material on the album tackles some uncomfortable topics, including the recent decimation of the mining industry ( Please Sir ), and the Gulf War ( Swansea ).
12. He was worried by the decimation of forests by charcoal burners and persuaded King James I to forbid glass furnaces to be fired with wood in 1615.
13. His flat is modernist and bleak, his clothes are grey, she dresses in red and puts enough flowers in his kitchen to make up for the decimation of the rainforests.