Sentence examples of "колебался" in Russian with translation "dither"

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Удивительно думать, что мир немедленно мобилизовался, чтобы выгнать Ирак из Кувейта в 1991 году, но колебался более двух лет, пока убивали десятки тысяч сирийцев, а их страну, колыбель цивилизации, разоряли. It is astounding to think that the world mobilized immediately to push Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, but has dithered for more than two years as tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed, and their country, a cradle of civilization, laid waste.
После нескольких недель колебаний польское правительство отказалось. After weeks of dithering, the Polish government refused.
Аналогичные колебания очевидны и на геополитическом уровне. Similar dithering is apparent at the geopolitical level as well.
Но хронические колебания и неудачные политические решения Ющенко постоянно подрывают его фундаментальные демократические задатки. But Yushchenko's chronic dithering and poor political judgement consistently undermine his fundamental democratic credentials.
У президента Батлла нет времени на колебания, если он хочет удержать левых, экономика должна повернуть на право задолго до перевыборов. President Batlle doesn't have time to dither; if he wants to hold off the hard Left, the economy must turn right before the next election.
Тем не менее, Хатояма колеблется, подрывая один из наиболее важных столпов мира и безопасности в тихоокеанском регионе, альянс Японии и США. Yet Hatoyama dithers, undermining the most important pillar of peace and security in the Pacific, the Japan-US alliance.
Аналогично, когда Китай активизировал усилия по подрыву регионального статус-кво – и территориального, и прибрежного – США колебались, мало чем успокаивая своих нервных азиатских союзников. Likewise, as China has stepped up efforts to upend the regional status quo – both territorial and riparian – the US has dithered, doing little to reassure its jittery Asian allies.
Он отдалился от своих союзников из Социально-демократической партии (СДП), решив (после нескольких месяцев колебаний) поддержать соглашение с США о продлении действия их авиабазы Футенма на острове Окинава. He alienated his Social Democratic Party (SDP) allies by opting – after months of dithering – to honor an agreement with the United States ensuring the future of the Futenma Airbase on Okinawa.
Но вместо того, чтобы делать выбор, такие ведущие страны Европы как, например, Германия, колебались, сперва размахивая членством в НАТО как сочной морковкой, а потом взяв это предложение назад, предоставив американцам пускаться в героические разглагольствования, избегая принятия необходимых мер. But, instead of choosing, major European countries, such as Germany, have dithered, first dangling NATO membership as a juicy carrot, and then withdrawing the offer, leaving the Americans to indulge in heroic rhetoric without the necessary follow-through.
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