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

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Верно и то, что свою роль в этом играет и косность школьной системы- наследие авторитарных австро-венгерских традиций,- что мешает признанию иных форм творчества. It was also true that a contributing factor was the rigidity of the school system, a relic of the authoritarian Austro-Hungarian tradition, which was incapable of recognizing other forms of creativity.

И достижение этой цели жизненно важно: нам как никогда прежде нужны знания и информированные обсуждения, если мы не хотим, чтобы будущее формировали невежество и косность. Getting this right is vital: if the future is not to be shaped by ignorance and narrow-mindedness, we need knowledge and informed debate more than ever before.

Однако косность и ложь советской экономической и политической системы сделали ее невосприимчивой к переменам, результатом чего стал полный развал советского государства и его экономики в 1991 году. Yet the rigidities and lies of the Soviet economic and political system proved to be largely impervious to change, culminating in the complete collapse of the Soviet state and economy in 1991.

У каждой бюрократической структуры, в том числе и Организации Объединенных Наций, есть свои недостатки: например, косность или секторальный подход, или же замедленная реакция в случае необходимости принятия мер. Every bureaucracy, including the United Nations, has problems: rigidity, for example, or sectionalism, or being slow to spring into action when called upon.

Нетерпимость и косность затрудняют попытки завязать диалог между цивилизациями, а сторонники жесткого курса используют войну с терроризмом для того, чтобы посягнуть на вековые ценности и принципы, выдумав себе врага по имени «исламский терроризм», хотя этим людям лучше других известно, что ислам ни в чем не повинен. Intolerance and narrow-mindedness had undermined the calls for a dialogue of civilizations and the war on terrorism had been hijacked by hardliners to launch an assault on age-old values and principles through the invention of an enemy by the name of Islamic terrorism, although those individuals knew better than anyone that Islam was innocent.

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