tvrdá měna

He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders. (BNCI)

This would set the scene for a super power scramble for the Middle East's oil resources, the Soviet Union being driven to desperate measures by its lack of hard currency.(BNCI)

It goes without saying that the museum now needs hard currency in order to add to its collection. (BNCI)

výpověď z doslechu

Hearsay evidence if not generally admissible but exceptions are afforded by common law and by the Civil Evidence Act 1968. (BNCI)

It must be remembered, however, that the Order only permits the court to admit hearsay evidence. (BNCI)

For this reason it may be unwise to rely on hearsay evidence, particularly in contested proceedings, where it is possible to call a witness to give direct evidence of the facts in issue. (BNCI)

ctižádostivec

In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer. BNC

Even earlier, as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s, then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office, he was marked for big things. BNC

George is still a high flyer - as he showed by graduating at Dundee Uni at age of 76. Google

svatá válka

 In very recent years holy war has been fought between Iran and Iraq, and with a ruthlessness that has at times, with the use of chemical weapons for example, offended international codes of conduct. (BNCI)

The holy war can be terrible in its course and consequence, and is open to distortion and misuse for a variety of purposes. (BNCI)

Iraq, meanwhile, attempted to take advantage of the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia by calling for a holy war, or Jihad, against King Fahd in order to protect the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina from" infidel" (non-Moslem) forces. (BNCI)

klonování lidí

human reproductive cloning - the reproductive cloning of a sentient human being; generaly considered ethically unacceptable.(Google)

Scientists from across the world, many from the developing world, will call for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning at a UN meeting next week.(Google)

The Act bans within Australia the creation of a human embryo clone; that is, it bans both human reproductive cloning and other forms of human cloning.(Google)