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

Translations:

Уровень моря мог бы подняться, потопив крупные города и небольшие островные государства. Sea levels could rise, drowning major cities and small island states.

Национальная Противоракетная Оборона работает против всего проекта по контролю за вооружениями в целом: сторонники системы ПРО думают, что она прикрывает Америку от ядерной атаки, после того как та умыла руки по отношению к нераспространению ядерного оружия, потопив запрет на проведение ядерных испытаний. National Missile Defense works against the entire project of arms control: in the minds of the system's supporters, it provides safety against nuclear attack for a US that has washed its hands of nonproliferation by scuttling the test ban.

Хотя можно было бы составить длинный список таких имен. Это, конечно же, Нельсон Мандела, которого не сломили 17 лет тяжелой физической работы и 23 года тюрьмы. Обладая удивительной способностью прощать, он сумел вывести свою страну из ужаса апартеида, не потопив ее в крови. We could make a very long list, but obviously Nelson Mandela, emerging from 17 years of hard physical labor, 23 years of imprisonment, with this amazing ability to forgive, so that he could lead his nation out the evil regime of apartheid without a bloodbath.

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