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

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Иерусалим, удобный клич к объединению мусульман во всем мире, представляет собой пороховую бочку, которую готовы поджечь слишком многие. Jerusalem, a convenient rallying cry for Muslims throughout the world, is a powder keg with too many candidates ready to light a match.

Президент Башар Асад, который в то время был реальным преемником, предупредил Израиль о нежелательности вывода его сил в сложившихся обстоятельствах, поскольку такой вывод мог превратить регион в пороховую бочку. President Bashar Al-Assad, who was at the time the virtual successor, had warned Israel not to withdraw under the prevailing circumstances because such a withdrawal could transform the region into a powder keg.

Жид не повезет порожнюю бочку. Jew is not lucky empty keg.

Хиросима превратилась в пороховую бочку для семьи Акаси и группировки Синва. Hiroshima became a flash point for both the Akashi family and Shinwa Group.

Китай, с его системной значимостью, был спичкой, которая подожгла пороховую бочку региональной и местной неопределенности. China, with its systemic importance, was the match that ignited a tinderbox of regional and local uncertainty.

Для россиян космическое агентство Роскосмос представляет собой бездонную бочку для бюджетных средств, или, согласно обозревателю РИА Новости, «черную дыру, которая высасывает деньги прямо из наших карманов». If anything, they see the Roscosmos space agency as a drain on the nation’s cash, or as one op-ed writer at Ria Novosti put it, "as if the dark vacuum of space somehow sucked the money right out of their pockets."

Но сильная светская традиция Казахстана, унаследованная им от советского прошлого, и значительная доля европейского христианского населения (приблизительно 40% от 15,2 миллионов населения) делают его типом общества, установлению которого Западу необходимо содействовать, учитывая исламскую пороховую бочку, на которой он сидит. But it is Kazakhstan's strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40% of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits.

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