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Dictionary: "счеты" - translations and examples

счёты adverb

scores

Сводит старые счеты, сажая людей в тюрьму.

He's settling old scores, locking people up.

Collocations with "счеты" (2)

сводить старые счеты сводить эти счеты

Exemples with "счеты"

Сводит старые счеты, сажая людей в тюрьму. He's settling old scores, locking people up.

Это не правосудие, а лишь козни подлеца, сводящего старые счеты! This is not justice, but the work of an evil man settling old scores!

Они стремятся свести старые счеты не только с виновниками геноцида, но и с теми, кто им содействовал. they look to settle old scores not only against the perpetrators of genocide, but against those who abetted them.

После десятилетий угнетенного положения шииты сегодня получили шанс восстановить равновесие, свести старые счеты и взять под контроль богатство Петролистана. From being the region's losers of the last few decades, the Shia now have the chance to redress the balance, settle old scores - and control the wealth of Petrolistan.

Без сомнения, часть этого давления была вызвана искренней обеспокоенностью, но остальное выражало желание анти Саудовских группировок в США свести старые счеты. No doubt some of these pressures were motivated by sincere concerns, but others were driven by the desire of anti-Saudi groups in the US to settle old scores.

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