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Перевод: foist
[глагол] всучить; всунуть
Тезаурус:
- Cowering before a stone-faced jury is Andy Spearpoint, lyricist and singer with the New Fast Automatic Daffodils, attempting to explain why his gang of rhythmic misfits really needed to foist their multi-tentacled percussion patchworks onto a world already over-run with pop music in all its myriad hybrid strains.
- We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism: as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the "we" merely by giving up the "I's that are too obviously wanting in consistency.
- When, in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy, the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities - as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite - he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved, alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others.
- It had three advantages over the submarine system: British launching aircraft already existed whereas the submarines did not; the American content of the total system could be reduced by manufacture under licence in the United Kingdom; and the Americans were likely to tie the purchase of Polaris to the mixed-manned Multilateral Nuclear Force that Eisenhower was keen to foist upon NATO.
- It is impossible to think of Aragorn as irretrievably damned for his ignorance of Christianity (though it is a view some have tried to foist on Beowulf).
- This centres on Bachrach and Baratz's suggestion that public bodies resort to appeals to "symbolic normative values" to foist off challenges to their own values.
- But the plot has more holes than an OAP's hairnet, and the supercilious Ms Dash thoroughly deserves the pig-ignorant Mr Wayans, I strongly advise brother Marlon not to give up the day job and I sincerely hope I am indisposed should they decide to foist Mo' Money 2 on us.
- Think of the cataclysmic consequences that could befall the nation if some ruthless Norwegian baker tried to foist fresh bread on people on the weekend.
- Given no avenues to think for ourselves, we could at least say "No" to what others were seeking to foist upon us.
- For some, the crime may even pay: thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s, when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived, two of the main executives involved were later promoted (Vandivier 1972: 33).
- And Ron Barry, who inspected and passed them, is hardly likely at this stage willingly to foist unfair or unsuitable fences on the profession he so honourably adorned.
- "Don't foist all the blame on I," he retorted.
- Most non-Americans do not realise how large the Civil War looms in the American consciousness, and until recently (before Carter and Reagan) in the South "federal government was regarded essentially as a northern out fit attempting to foist liberal urban values on the stately old agrarian Confederacy".
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