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For our purposes, it is irrelevant whether these groupings have formed to respond to or to precipitate the declining effectiveness of the United Nations.
Para nuestros propósitos, es irrelevante si estos grupos se han formado para responder a la disminución de la eficacia de las Naciones Unidas o para precipitarla.
He stumbled, nearly precipitating the three of them into the gutter.
Tropezó, y estuvo a punto de precipitarlos a los tres a la calzada.
“She would also,” Alleyn said, “have had to dislodge a walloping big drainpipe and precipitate it into the ditch.” Mr.
—Pero también tuvo —prosiguió Alleyn— que dislocar uno de los grandes trozos de tubería y precipitarlo a la zanja.
There was no doubt that Hortense would rather be left a widow than take care of an invalid who peed on himself, and she might be tempted to precipitate his death.
Hortense podía tentarse de precipitarle la muerte, porque sin duda prefería quedar viuda antes que cuidar a un inválido que se meaba.
LaPointe and Guttmann follow the Vet down the steep embankment, glissading dangerously over cinders, braking to prevent a headlong run that would precipitate them into the darkness below.
LaPointe y Guttmann siguen al Veterano por el abrupto terraplén, resbalando peligrosamente sobre restos de carbón y frenando para evitar un impulso que podría precipitarlos hacia la oscuridad que hay debajo.
they maintain that he understood that it was an improvised and badly organized operation and that he decided to precipitate it so the golpistas would not have time to finish preparations and thus it would fail;
sostienen que comprendió que se trataba de una operación improvisada y mal organizada y que decidió precipitarla para no dar tiempo a que los golpistas terminasen de ponerla a punto y para asegurar así su fracaso;
She would have liked to see him again to present him with her doubts, to speak with him alone, to learn to kno w him well so that she could be certain that her impulsive decision would not precipitate her into another, more serious one: capitulation in her personal war against her father.
También ella hubiera querido verlo otra vez para confrontarlo con sus dudas, hablar con él a solas, conocerlo a fondo para estar segura de que su decisión impulsiva no iba a precipitarla a otra más grave, que era capitular en la guerra personal contra su padre.
What is peculiar to the suicide is that his ego, rightly or wrongly, is felt to be an extremely dangerous, dubious, and doomed germ of nature; that he is always in his own eyes exposed to an extraordinary risk, as though he stood with the slightest foothold on the peak of a crag whence a slight push from without or an instant's weakness from within suffices to precipitate him into the void.
Pero es peculiar del suicida sentir su yo, lo mismo da con razón que sin ella, como un germen especialmente peligroso, incierto y comprometido, que se considera siempre muy expuesto y en peligro, como si estuviera sobre el pico estrechísimo de una roca, donde un pequeño empuje externo o una ligera debilidad interior bastarían para precipitarlo en el vacío.
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