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

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You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience. Знаете, простые слова теряются в зыбучем песке опыта.
Memory had to be built, take hold, and resist the quicksand of banalization and denial. Память надо было создавать, укреплять и защищать от зыбучих песков банальности и отрицания.
Otherwise, disputes about fulfillment of this or that provision will lead the entire process back into the familiar quicksand of Middle East futility. Иначе споры о выполнении того или иного условия приведут весь процесс обратно в знакомые зыбучие пески ближневосточной тщетности.
One hopes that the ground is now better prepared for such proposals to take root, before Greece sinks further into the quicksand of insolvency. Можно надеяться, что сейчас почва лучше подготовлена для подобных предложений, и они дадут всходы, прежде чем Греция еще глубже увязнет в зыбучих песках неплатёжеспособности.
And they managed to grow cash flow/share from operations 32% as well while actually reducing debt by 28% while their peers sank further into the red quicksand. И ей удалось увеличить соотношение движения наличных средств на акцию на 32%, снизив при этом долг на 28%, в то время как аналогичные компании все глубже вязли в зыбучих песках за красной чертой.
40 years of rust can turn deck plates into quicksand. 40 лет ржавчины, могут превратить палубные пластины в болото.
It's what Marianne LaFrance calls "standing in social quicksand." Марианна ЛаФранс называет это "утопание в социальном болоте".
Captain Woodward, 20 feet down will put you right in the middle of the quicksand. Капитан Woodward, 20 футов в вниз И Вы окажетесь непосредственно в середине сыпучего песка.
But it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand because we woke up in the 1960s to all these really bad values: racism, gender discrimination, pollution - they were bad values. And we wanted to create a legal system where no one could have bad values anymore. Но это тяжелое препятствие, потому что мы влезли в правовое болото, когда очнулись в 1960-х и ужаснулись наших ценностей: расизма, гендерной дискриминации, загрязнения окружающей среды. Это были плохие ценности. И мы захотели создать правовую систему, которая бы никому не позволила их исповедовать.
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