Тема Распознавание значений слов по контексту
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During the Middle Ages, charging any interest on loans was illegal; today it is legal and borrowing is considered beneficial to growth and productivity in our society. As a consequence, the debtor/creditor relationship is encouraged and protected by our laws. This protection extends not only to creditors, by making them more secure in the lending of resources, but to debtors, by making the system fairer and by providing bankruptcy as a last resort - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого выражения.
The public health system of Belarus combines a variety of medical institutions. There are policlinics, hospitals and other curative and preventive institutions operating in towns and cities. Emergency aid is provided by physicians of emergency stations.
Local government authorities provide assistance for the elderly and the disabled - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова.
Dynamo is a common device for converting mechanical energy into electric energy. This process depends on the fact that if an electrical conductor moves across a magnetic field, an electric current flows in the conductor.
Usually a dynamo includes an electromagnet, called the field magnet, between the poles of which a suitable conductor, usually in the form of a coil, called the armature, is rotated. The mechanical energy of the rotation, in the form of a current in the armature, is thus converted into electric energy - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова.
There are several ways of classifying the different human rights. These are the most important components: the right to legal justice; fair trial in criminal cases, the right to defense counsel, prohibition of the use of criminal laws retrospectively.
Privacy and family rights: the right to respect for one’s privacy, respect and protection of the family - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова
Charles Macintosh was a chemist by profession. He worked in textile industry and in 1823 he developed a rubber solution used for raincoat production. Raincoats with this rubber solution didn’t allow water to penetrate. These raincoats were called makintoshes and people use them in rainy weather - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова.
The slowest aircraft are helicopters, which can hover in the air without moving. Aircraft with wings have to fly above a certain speed, otherwise they will crash. However, pedal-powered aircraft flew across the English Channel for the first time. Its average speed was 8 miles an hour – or faster than you can run! - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова.
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. He should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. A man should never be appointed if he is more interested in the question: “Who is right?” than in the question: “What is right?” Management should never appoint a man who considers intelligence more important than integrity - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого слова.
Today, the region of Great Plains is considered the “American breadbasket”. It yields great quantities of crops, especially wheat. Wheat is important in the states of Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
Iowa is considered the richest of the farming states of the Northern Plains. Nearly 96 per cent of the land is arable, that is fit for cultivation. The average size of a farm in Iowa is 114 hectares. Since Iowa is situated in the eastern part of the plains, it receives more rainfall than the states in the west. Corn is grown instead of wheat. In fact, Iowa is the leading state in the USA in corn production. Because of the great amount of corn which is used for fodder, Iowa also leads the nation in the raising of hogs - Прочитайте текст и найдите соответствующий перевод подчеркнутого выражения.
The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest tribunal in the United States. It includes a Chief Justice and eight associate justices. They are all appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.
Under the Constitution the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction (i.e., it is the court in which proceedings may be brought in the first instance) in case affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and cases in which a state is a party. In all other cases coming within the judicial power of the United States, the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction is only appellate, and is subject to exceptions and regulations by Congress.
The Supreme Court cannot alter the Constitution. The Court’s function is to interpret the Constitution, not to alter or modify it.
The Supreme Court meets on the second Monday in October for a session which generally extends through to July