Usage examples of "posterity" in English with translation to Russian

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Translations: all18 потомство7 other translations11

"Why do anything for posterity?" "Зачем что-то делать для потомков?"

You can frame that for posterity. Можете поставить в рамочку на память.

What has posterity ever done for me?" Что это процветание когда-либо сделало для меня"?

My ready room even gets preserved for posterity. Мой кабинет сохранен для потомков.

is an old rhetorical question, usually followed by "after all, posterity has never done anything for us." - извечный риторический вопрос, за которым обычно следует продолжение:"в конце концов, они никогда ничего не делали для нас".

Ronald Reagan might have approved. After all, as he put it: “Why should I do anything for posterity? Рональд Рейган должен был бы одобрить это: «Почему я должен что-то делать для процветания?

And there's Jan, noting down my failures and mistakes and idiocy for posterity, like an evil Boswell to my shit Dr Johnson. А вот и Джан, записывает мои провалы, ошибки и идиотизм для потомков, как злобный Босуэлл писал о чертовом докторе Джонсоне.

Such is the call and challenge staring the United Nations in the face: to ensure a peaceful, safe, dignified and prosperous world in our time and for posterity. Именно в этом состоят и призыв к Организации Объединенных Наций, и ее задача: обеспечить мирный, безопасный, достойный и процветающий мир для нас и для грядущих поколений.

But if I sign with a shaking hand, posterity will say, "He hesitated."" So he waited until he could take up the pen and sign with a bold and clear hand. Но если я подпишу его дрожащей рукой, потомки скажут: "Он колебался"". Поэтому он подождал пока пройдёт дрожь и подписал закон размашистым и чётким почерком.

However, under McCain, the wedge between public spending and taxes would be larger, Americans would feel richer, and they would spend more at the expense of "posterity" eight years down the road. Однако при Маккейне разница между тратами на общественные нужды и налогами будет больше, Американцы почувствуют себя богаче и будут тратить больше за счет "процветания" в течение последующих восьми лет.

The reality was that some wished to pursue adult stem cell research to the exclusion of embryonic stem cell research, whereas those who supported giving posterity a chance to benefit from therapeutic cloning did not advocate closing down the former field of research. Суть в том, что одни хотят продолжать исследования стволовых клеток взрослого человека, отвергая исследования эмбриональных стволовых клеток, другие, желающие предоставить последующим поколениям шанс извлечь пользу из терапевтического клонирования, вовсе не требуют свертывания первоначальной области исследований.

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