Sentence examples of "Нелепо" in Russian with translation "ironic"

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Действительно нелепо, что американский министр финансов Ханк Полсон, бывший глава Goldman Sachs, фирмы, которая является примером финансового триумфализма, является инициатором спасения поддерживаемых правительством бегемотов, которые явно себя пережили. It is ironic indeed that US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a former head of Goldman Sachs, a firm that exemplifies financial triumphalism, is spearheading the effort to save government-sponsored behemoths that have so conspicuously outlived their usefulness.
Особенно нелепо то, что многие курды из юго-восточных областей Турции, которым обещали имущество армян и гарантированное место на небесах за убийство неверных, охотно принимали участие в геноциде. It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey's southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide.
Для активистов по защите прав человека нелепым является то, что избранное на выборах (но в основном, возглавляемое военными) правительство, против которого они в принципе выступают, должно предпринимать реформы, за которые они так долго боролись, но которые игнорировали избранные на выборах гражданские правительства. For human rights activists, it is ironic that an elected (but basically military-led) government that they oppose in principle should be undertaking reforms they have long advocated, but that elected civilian governments ignored.
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