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

Translations:

Slowly, however, Europe has seemed to grow more cohesive in its opposition to American unipolar policies and pretensions. Тем не менее, постепенно Европа стала выглядеть более сплоченной в оппозиции американской однополярной политике и притязаниям.

Despite his religious pretensions as a spiritual guide, Khamenei's future rests largely in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards. Несмотря на его религиозные притязания на роль духовного наставника, будущее Хаменеи во многом находится в руках Стражей исламской революции.

The arguments put forward by the United States during the consultations were an extension of its unilateral attitude, arrogance and false pretensions to being the sole judge and jury in the field of human rights. Аргументация, представленная Соединенными Штатами Америки в ходе состоявшихся консультаций, вновь продемонстрировала односторонние подходы этой страны, ее высокомерие и ложные притязания на роль единственного судьи в области прав человека.

As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the horizon of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists. Перед лицом предупреждений Чернобыля и Ялты нужно искать то, что выйдет за рамки только рациональной и научной мысли, выйдет за пределы иллюзорных притязаний чернобыльских социальных инженеров и ялтинских геополитических стратегов.

Only a criminal dictatorship with demented hegemonic pretensions such as that of Bush could bomb innocent civilian populations in the name of freedom and kidnap, imprison and torture defenceless people in the name of human rights and the so-called war against terror. Только преступная диктатура с безумными гегемонистскими притязаниями, как у Буша, могла бомбить ни в чем не повинное гражданское население якобы во имя свободы и похищать, подвергать заключению и пытать беззащитных людей якобы во имя прав человека и так называемой войны против терроризма.

The Countess had no longer the slightest pretensions to beauty, but she still preserved the habits of her youth, dressed in strict accordance with the fashion of seventy years before, and made as long and as careful a toilette as she would have done sixty years previously. Графиня не имела ни малейшего притязания на красоту давно увядшую, но сохраняла все привычки своей молодости, строго следовала модам семидесятых годов и одевалась так же долго, так же старательно, как и шестьдесят лет тому назад.

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