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Перевод: overpower

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пересиливать; побеждать; брать верх; подавлять

Тезаурус:

1. Henry continued, "The riots here followed those in neighbouring counties, of which our people had heard rumours, as if those rioters had been able to overpower the gentry and as if large masses of men were moving on from London, to aid them in forcing their masters to give higher wages.
2. The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour; who was famous for long, sudden, and embarrassing silences; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church; a man who loved theology - they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology, and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion, for Marxists as for anyone else; whose principal theme was the glory of God, and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability - there was not enough knife in the mind - but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person; who disturbed other people's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings - they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God, a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower.
3. Thus Witold Gombrowicz's apparently anti-political call for "an elusive man who is a play of contradictions" is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky's "Kangaroo", whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo "on a night between July 14th 1789, and January 9th 1905" (note the dates), is "the only way for a free mind to cope an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it."
4. He ruled with justice and mercy, befriending the Moors rather than seeking to overpower them with his presence.
5. The trunks in the clearing had formed an ever-tightening ring which threatened to overpower him; to crush him with its living might.
6. A writer in an edition of the Manchester City News of 1908 recorded that such a vast hive of industry could overpower even a worldly-wise observer:
7. They tend to overpower the spiky, inventive choreography.
8. This gives a lighter, cleaner taste which doesn't overpower and illustrates the fact that it is not just the obvious oily herring, mackerel and salmon which have the body to withstand a mustard onslaught.
9. The same is generally true of diurnal raptors, although they can also take larger animals because with their stronger beaks and talons they are able to overpower and kill larger and more powerful prey, and they may on occasion hunt cooperatively (Bednarz, 1988).
10. Incidentally, when using very penetrating essences such as ylang-ylang, taget and especially ginger, go easy - otherwise they will overpower the blend.
11. Bryan Shelton hit 24 aces to overpower top-seed MaliVai Washington 7-;5, 7-;6 in the semi-finals of the River Oaks International tournament in Houston.
12. Bright florals are the rage this season so you'll need a subtle shade of tights to complement rather than overpower your outfits.
13. Run-down primitive rituals stalk "The Hollow Men"; in Sweeney Agonistes they overpower jazz-age London.