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

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Президент Франции Жак Ширак неосмотрительно предположил, что Иран с одной или двумя ядерными бомбами не представляет серьезной угрозы, принимая во внимание возможность ответного ядерного удара. Эти его рассуждения настолько поразили французских чиновников, что они бросились поправлять комментарии президента. French President Jacques Chirac unguardedly speculated that an Iran with one or two nuclear bombs might not pose a serious a threat, given the possibility of nuclear retaliation – his musings so startled French officials that they quickly jumped in to correct the President’s comments.
Я только пластырь поправляю, перевязку. I'm just correcting the plaster, dressing.
Он задавал наводящие вопросы свидетелям обвинения, поправлял и дополнял их ответы и дал секретарю суда указания записывать только те показания, которые устанавливают вину Ашурова. He asked leading questions to prosecution witnesses, corrected and completed their answers and instructed the court's secretary to record only those testimonies establishing Ashurov's guilt.
Во время занятий поправлять макияж запрещено! Doing make up in the classroom is forbidden!
Майрону не пришлось поправлять прическу и макияж и он раньше времени залез в кабинку. Ugh, Myron's hair and makeup were in peak condition, so he got into his stage pod early.
Вы должны расправлять мне складки, поправлять фату, держать платочки и уговаривать не плакать от радости. I should be flounced and fluffed up and checked over and handed tissues and told not to cry with joy.
Идея, что снижение налогов приведет к росту производительности и будет себя оплачивать (и поправлять бюджет) оказалась совершенно иллюзорной. The idea that tax cuts would lead to productivity gains and would pay for themselves (and fix the budget) has proved entirely illusory.
Где-то в другом месте Африки слоны пьют каждый день, но недостаток воды здесь привел к тому, что пустынные слоны могут поправлять свои водные запасы раз в четыре-пять дней. Elsewhere in Africa elephants drink every day, but the lack of water here means that desert elephants can only refill their tanks once every four or five days.
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