pátek, 3. května 2024, 17.57
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: MODERN SOCIETY
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racial disadvantage

znevýhodnění na základě rasy

There is real racial disadvantage, but it cannot be tackled without studying the differing circumstances of minority groups. (Google)

As the table illustrates, there is little evidence of racial disadvantage. (Google)

There is no racial disadvantage, there is only a financial disadvantage. (Google)

racial discrimination

rasová diskriminace

It reads: `;For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country neither the WRU, nor any of its member clubs, will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SARB. (BNCI)

The effects of forty years of apartheid ideology and hundreds of years of racial discrimination on South African society have been reflected and reproduced in its education system. (BNCI)

Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines, imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War. (BNCI)

radioactive waste

radioaktivní odpad

The French government has published details of the locations under consideration for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. (BNCI)

THE Government is to fight a move to introduce a permanent international ban on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. (BNCI)

Moreover, it could increase problems of disposal of radioactive waste. (BNCI)

rampant racism

nezkrotný rasismus, vymykající se kontrole

Affirmative action is necessary in this country because there is still rampant racism among whites. (Google)

There’s still rampant racism. And that’s still a thorn in the American dream,” he said. “Racism has been the Achilles heel of this country. It’s limited us.”(Google)

Rampant racism and corruption, inadequate communication with patients, maldistribution between rural and urban areas and a Eurocentric medical profession are some the ingredients creating barriers to success in South Africa.(Google)

rate of exchange

směnný kurs (valut)

1. In respond you will receive SMS message, indicating targeted currency, kind of transaction, date, the best rate of exchange and the list of currency exchangers, fulfilling the transactions by this rate, and their contact phone numbers.(WebCorp)

2. Above is a chart designed to display the cross rates of eight major world currencies. Scan across the chart to find the rate of exchange between any two of these currencies.(WebCorp)

3. When I went out there with Sandra I was told that you normally get a better rate of exchange in the country when you change travellers cheques.(WASPS)

 

ravages of war

ničivé následky války

The programme looks at how the countryside was affected by the ravages of war, and how the Vietnamese people are trying to recover from it. (BNCI)

The area has escaped the ravages of war and forest clearance which have devastated most of the region. (BNCI)

 Ethiopia, now at peace, is trying to rebuild from the ravages of war. (BNCI)

recovered debt

uhrazený dluh

The outsourcing firm contacts customers via a variety of methods to arrange payment in exchange for a percentage of the recovered debt.(WebCorp)

 The collected guarantee fee amounts and recovered debt amounts according to the Regulation on the governmental guarantee for foreign loans borrowings by enterprises and credit institutions.(Google)

 The governmental guarantee providing agencies shall have to guide and urge the enterprises and credit institutions guaranteed by the Government for their capital borrowings to pay fully and on time the guarantee fee as well as recovered debt amounts (if any) to the accumulation fund.


religious persecution

pronásledování na základě náboženské víry

According to family tradition he lived among Arabs and came to England in early life as a refugee from religious persecution.(BNCI)

 A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines, fleeing religious persecution in Germany, and the Whig ministry's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709. (BNCI)

 It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society, but mostly the ministers and farmers, and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway, took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy, many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith. (BNCI)

renewable energy

obnovitelná energie

Many congressmen are keen to revive research into renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. (BNCI)

Renewable energy generation 45% of electricity demand could be met from wind power In fact, the amount of electricity produced by renewable sources in the UK has steadily declined over the past five years. (BNCI)

The UK has extensive geothermal resources and its research into this form of renewable energy is the most advanced in the world.(BNCI)

reverse charge call

hovor na účet volaného

1. International Reverse Charge calls- Contact the operator in the country you are calling from and if your call is placed through to Optus Operator Services, you will be asked for the phone number and for the name of the person who will agree to pay for your call.(Google)

2. Call charges will be reallocated to the main directory number if a reverse charge call is accepted on a Your Call additional telephone number.(Google)

3. In most countries you can call free of charge. Everywhere else, you can make a reverse-charge call. Our multi-lingual staff will be able to answer your questions.(Google)

right-wing party

pravicová strana

Of these two approaches, the first has the virtue of identifying differences of ideology which were unquestionably important to some members of each right-wing party and were later to influence the internal politics of the Franco regime. (BNCI)

This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party, the National Democrats, whose anti-U S, anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 --; 8. (BNCI)

In Austria this week, a far right-wing party has just won 22 per cent. (BNCI)

risky business

riskantní obchod, hazard

The market must hope, however, that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd's investor becomes no more precarious. (BNCI)

But, considering the amount of money you may lay out, buying Koi can also be a risky business. (BNCI)

In the first place, he argues, farming is a risky business (he compares it to `;road racing';) and if the demand for his products dries up then it is just bad luck on the farmer and his dependants. (BNCI)

road tax

silniční poplatek

1. Road tax is a government levy on every vehicle, which is payable in advance for a 6 or 12-month period. ... Every vehicle kept or used on a public road legally requires road tax, vehicle insurance and for vehicles over 3 years ... (WebCorp)

2. The new road tax rules mean that the keeper named on a Vehicle Registration Certificate - also known as a logbook - is legally responsible for taxing a vehicle until DVLA has been notified that it is off the road or has been sold, transferred, scrapped or exported.

3.Analysis carried out by Friends of the Earth shows people who buy gas-guzzling sports and luxury cars pay the same road tax as owners of medium-sized family saloons, despite producing vastly greater emissions of carbon dioxide, the main pollutant causing
  global warming.(WebCorp)