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

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Translations: all12 крейвен2 малодушный2 other translations8

You're not rude to Dr. Craven anymore either. Ты больше не грубишь доктору Крейвену.

This is a lesson for all countries contemplating corporate tax breaks – even those without the misfortune of being led by a callow, craven plutocrat. Это урок для всех стран, рассматривающих вопрос о корпоративных налоговых льготах – даже тех, кто избежал несчастья, чтобы ими руководил неопытный, малодушный плутократ.

I have met many a craven killer, many a sniveling coward in my time, but every one of them could admit the blackness in their own hearts when the hour came. Я встречал множество малодушных убийц, множество хныкающих трусов в свое время, но каждый из них мог признать тьму в своих сердцах, когда приходил час.

I'm Mr. Craven's housekeeper and servant to no one. Я - экономка мистера Крейвена, а не чья-то служанка.

We live in craven times. Мы живём в опасные времена.

There is nothing more craven than a freak like yourself. Нет никого трусливее такого же фрика, как ты сам.

You really are a craven little thing, aren't you? А вы просто маленькая трусиха, да?

The Craven and Disgraceful Response to the Murder of the American Ambassador in Libya Позорная и трусливая реакция на убийство американского посла в Ливии

Countries that fail to undertake these reforms are dismissed as craven or lacking political will, and soon suffer the consequences: higher interest rates when borrowing abroad. Вскоре эти страны начинают страдать от последствий такой репутации, а именно более высоких ставок процента при получении иностранных займов.

Its Uzbek leader, Rashid Dostum, unleashed on his headquarters city, Mazar-I-Sharif, a wave of craven brutality and human rights abuses that bear comparison with the Taliban’s worst activities. Его лидер, этнический узбек Рашид Достум, штаб-квартира которого была располагалась в городе Назар-и-Шариф, развязал волну трусливых зверских убийств и других нарушений прав человека, которые сравнимы по своей жестокости с наихудшими аналогичными действиями Талибана.

As Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani, a prominent Asian diplomat and academic, puts it, “Europeans are irrelevant to the world’s great issues, obsessed by internal process, culturally arrogant, craven in the face of the US, and blind to the rise of Asia.” Как заметил видный азиатский дипломат и академик из Сингапура Кишор Махбубани: «Европейцы отстали от наиболее важных глобальных проблем, они одержимы своими внутренними процессами, культурно высокомерны, трусливы перед лицом США, и слепы к усиливающейся роли Азии».

And should you quench your thirst with the famous water drawn from Évian-les-Bains, you may wish to reflect on the craven failure of a conference that could have saved so many lives – and on what it can still teach us today. И утоляя жажду знаменитой водой из Эвиан-ле-Бен, вам следует задуматься о трусливом провале конференции, которая могла бы спасти столько жизней, – и о том, чему она может научить нас сегодня.

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