pondělí, 6. května 2024, 14.52
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: MODERN SOCIETY
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managing director

generální ředitel

1. There's a board of five directors, but she is the Managing Director.(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

2. Even though this case dealt with a managing director who was clearly in a fiduciary position , its principles are equally applicable to other employees.(WASPS)

3.Write personal letters to both the company 's chairman and the managing director explaining your position and asking for their help.(WASPS)

market economy

tržní hospodářství

1. More than 1,300 Soviet businessmen, managers and scientists from the state and private sectors are planning to form a business lobby to help fight for a market economy in the Soviet Union. (BNCI)

2. In May 1990, in Hungary, the forum focused on bringing the enterprise culture to the evolving free market economy. (BNCI)

3. More likely, China is still trying to reconcile the irreconcilable: Marxism with a market economy, central control with the reality of powerful politicians in the provinces. (BNCI)

marketing research

průzkum trhu

A function of marketing research is to provide information that will help opportunities to be identified, evaluated, compared and selected. (BNCI)

 International marketing research in the gathering of information from search activities into international markets. (BNCI)

Its main object of attention is the customer (or market-place), and it is the customer's response, or non-response, that gives rise to most of the problems which marketing research is applied to. (BNCI)

mass immigration

masová imigrace

There is no other example in the world of a Government, that in peacetime has deliberately allowed its major population and economic centre to be overwhelmed by mass immigration as is the case with Auckland.(WebCorp)

Fortuyn wanted to completely stop mass immigration into Holland and allow the country to absorb and assimilate the huge number of immigrants that are already in the country. (WebCorp)

More and more newspaper commentators are now questioning the received wisdom that Britain has to have mass immigration in order to survive as a nation.(WebCorp)

mass privatization

masová privatizace

1. These are the mass privatisation of 600 large firms and the `;enterprise pact'; under which trade unions have promised to support the privatisation of 4,000 smaller firms in return for a say in running them (see page 43). (BNCI)

2. The price put on Russian industry comes from the government's programme of mass privatisation. (BNCI)

3. Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme, while the position of Yegor Gaidar, who was closely associated with the reform programme, was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15. (BNCI)

middle-of-the-road party

strana politického středu

It is the party of small farmers and the lower middle-class; it is a middle-of-the-road party.(Google)

 
"I've always believed that the country was richer with a middle-of-the-road party such as the Liberal Party of Canada," said Rouselle. (Google)

Now, I think that all of us should hold this one truth in mind: every Republican, everybody he reaches, every independent, every discerning Democrat should be appealed to on the basis that we are truly a middle-of-the-road party and by that I don't mean just walking a wishy-washy path between right and wrong, not at all. (Google)

minority party

menšinová strana

 It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government. (BNCI)

The administration's minority party has put off a decision whether to withdraw support for Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. (BNCI)

So, when Councillor Peter Bradley replied to a letter from a resident he was careful to describe himself only as a member of `;the minority party';. (BNCI)

molecular biology

molekulární biologie

The introduction of foreign DNA sequences into mammalian cells mediated by DNA transfection is a basic method in modern molecular biology. (Google)

And they come from diverse backgrounds: not only physiologists but also physicists, molecular biologists and mathematicians are attracted into neuroscience which threatens to displace physics and even molecular biology as the queen of the sciences. (Google)

The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level, although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go. (Google)

money laundering

praní špinavých peněz

1. If found guilty, Mr McNamara, who has been charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, could face up to 30 years in jail, the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m. (BNCI)

2. New legislation against" money laundering" came into effect on Aug. 1, 1990, making complicity in the laundering of" dirty money" (essentially the proceeds of the international drugs trade) a criminal offence punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years, and compelling banks to identify the true owner of monies deposited with them. (BNCI)

3. On the other hand, controls of all kinds and state interventions do not have an impressive record in avoiding money laundering, while they frequently create opportunities for corruption. Does this still hold true in a context of globalization?(WebCorp)

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national debt

státní dluh

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.58 billion per day since September 30, 2003!Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!(Google)

For a decade the charade was played that the National Debt was under control and at times lowering. The chart here indicates the absolute size of the national debt month by month.(Google)

Current policy is intended to repay the national debt and also to ensure that long-term interest rates stay below short-term rates, in order to encourage the development of a corporate bond market and provide industry with lower borrowing costs.(BNCI)

no vote

hlas proti

Former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath told him before he left that the Government should have pushed ahead with ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, despite Denamrk's no vote. (BNCI)

A no vote by the Danes in their referendum, due in May or April, would condemn Britain to remain in the slow lane of a two-speed Europe. (BNCI)

The Labour leadership, the Conservative Party, the anti-tax Progress Party and the employers' lobby all argue that the economy would suffer from a No vote. (BNCI)

nominal independence

pouze formální nezávislost

Relations with the Philippines are known by the joint war against the Spanish colonial power that granted nominal independence in 1898, followed by the joint campaign against the Japanese occupation of the 1940s. (WebCorp)

The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), our current adversary in the armed conflict, continues to suppress the sovereign will of the Filipino people in order to perpetuate the interests of the foreign and domestic oppressors and exploiters, despite the US grant of nominal independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. (WebCorp)

Gumbel makes no mention of the conditions imposed by the US for returning Aristide to power as president in the first democratic election Haiti had ever had during its two hundred years of nominal independence.(WebCorp)

nuclear power plant

atomová elektrárna

There have been ten major accidents at nuclear power plants since the first, at Windscale in 1957. (BNCI)

 A primordial black hole would release energy at the rate of 6,000 megawatts, equivalent to the output of six large nuclear power plants. (BNCI)

Austria has decided to dismantle its only nuclear power station, the Philippines has halted construction of its first reactor, and countries such as Australia and Denmark have declined to build any nuclear power plants. (BNCI)

nuclear reactor

atomový reaktor

A large nuclear reactor will contain hundreds, if not thousands of rods filled with uranium fuel. (BNCI)

 The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961. (BNCI)

The Italians wanted to find out what happened inside a nuclear reactor when a pipe taking cooling water into the reactor burst.(BNCI)

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on a war footing

ve stavu válečné pohotovosti

The area was on a war footing and all was bustle and preparation, expecting the hourly arrival of the enemy. (BNCI)

People are extremely tense because it's now a year since the Vietnamese left, and the whole country's on a war footing. (BNCI)

 It was followed, on 18 June, by a letter from Franco to Hitler, in which the Caudillo indicated that he was prepared to enter the war on the Axis' side, once the latter had recognized Spain's right to a portion of territory in North Africa and had provided sufficient economic and military aid to enable the Spanish Army to be placed on a war footing.(BNCI)