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Перевод: nadir
[существительное] надир [астр.] ; самый низкий уровень; крайний упадок
Тезаурус:
- The 1978 World Cup campaign in Argentina will go down in history as the absolute nadir of Scottish football.
- I can't remember feeling particularly ill, but my energy was now back to zero and my zest for life at a nadir.
- The relationship between the Soviet Union's two dominant politicians here reached its nadir.
- It was 42 points off at its nadir.
- The Committee decided that the two had breached Institute byelaws when, in October 1990, they accepted the appointment as administrators to the collapsed Polly Peck International, in spite of a "continuing professional relationship" between PPI's chairman, Asil Nadir, and Coopers.
- The flight of Asil Nadir on May 4th has destroyed the fraud case it spent more than two years and oodles of money building against him.
- Last Friday's shambles, when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place, was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people's party acting according to the slogan of "all power to the apparatchiks", and losing its soul, its sense of purpose, much of its membership - and the general election - along the way.
- At home, IBM seems to have reached the nadir in some of its businesses during 1992.
- Mr Nadir faced trial in September on charges of theft and false accounting.
- Michael Jordan, senior partner of Cork Gully, and Richard Stone, head of corporate finance at Coopers Lybrand, were found guilty of breaching Institute bye-laws in accepting the appointment of administrators to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional relationship between CL and Asil Nadir, PPI's chairman (see ACCOUNTANCY , November, p 10).
- The SFO argued that it should be denied to Mr Nadir.
- There were times at the Oval when both sides had thoughts of winning; at one point the bookmakers quoted 100 to 1 against a West Indies victory, but a day later they were 5 to 4 when England's Pythonesque second innings was at its nadir.
- The political commentator Hugo Young identifies the nadir of our fortunes as the Cabinet meeting on Thursday 23 July 1981 which he describes as "perhaps the most memorable meeting of the Cabinet in the whole decade of the Thatcher Government".
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