Sentence examples of "потушить" in Russian with translation "extinguish"

<>
Однако устроить пожар, конечно же, проще, чем потушить его. Starting a fire, however, is naturally easier than extinguishing it.
Однако неспособность правительства потушить их порождена той же самой авторитарной системой, которая хочет уничтожить Химкинский лес. But the government's ineffectiveness in extinguishing them is borne from the failings of the same authoritarian system that seeks to bulldoze Khimki Forest.
Слишком часто мы тратим огромные средства для того, чтобы вести борьбу с пожаром, который мы могли бы легко потушить, приняв вовремя превентивные меры. Too often, we spend vast sums of money to fight fires that, in hindsight, we might more easily have extinguished with timely preventive action.
Государственное телевидение показало его сегодня сидящим в кабине пожарного самолета Бе-200, который набирал воду из реки, чтобы потушить два пожара в Рязанской области. State television showed him in the cockpit of a Be-200 firefighting plane today as it scooped up water from a river to extinguish two fires in the Ryazan region.
Он не может быть потушен водой или песком. It cannot be extinguished by water or by sand.
Власти заявили, что пожары были потушены, но «Коммерсантъ» приводит слова Григория Куксина из Greenpeace Russia, который отрицает этот факт. Authorities said that the fires have been extinguished, but Kommersant quoted Grigory Kuksin, of Greenpeace Russia, who refuted the good news.
Examples of word usage in different contexts are provided solely for linguistic purposes, i.e. to study word usage in a sentence in one language and how they can be translated into another. All samples are automatically collected from a variety of publicly available open sources using bilingual search technologies.
If you find a spelling, punctuation or any other error in the original or translation, use the "Report a problem" option or write to us.

In this section, you can see how words and expressions are used in different contexts using examples of translations made by professionals. The Contexts section will help you learn English, German, Spanish and other languages. Here you can find examples with phrasal verbs and idioms in texts that vary in style and theme. Examples can be sorted by translations and topics.

Learn foreign languages, see the translation of millions of words and expressions, and use them in your e-mail communication.