Sentence examples of "потрясать" in Russian with translation "convulse"

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Спустя два года после народных восстаний, потрясших Ближний Восток, уже мало кто говорит об «Арабской весне». Two years after popular uprisings began to convulse the Middle East, few people speak of an “Arab Spring” anymore.
Великобританию потряс скандал, связанный с беспрецедентными расходами парламента, которые не могут сравниться ни с чем, начиная с борьбы со "старой коррупцией" в начале девятнадцатого столетия. Britain is convulsed by a scandal about parliamentary expenses that has no equivalent since the attacks on "old corruption" in the early nineteenth century.
Г-н ЧАММА (Ливан) говорит, что терро-ристические акты, совершенные 11 сентября 2001 го-да, нанесли удар по международной безопасности и стабильности и потрясли мировую экономику. Mr. CHAMMA (Lebanon) said that the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 had dealt a blow to international security and stability and convulsed the world economy.
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