Translation for "slave-owning" to spanish
Translation examples
“Your slave-owning friends are going to lose.”
—Tus amigos esclavistas van a perder.
She had slave-owning ancestors and a trained voice.
Tenía antepasados esclavistas y una voz educada.
You would have said that a slave-owning society was the prerequisite for democracy, would you not?
¡Usted habría dicho que la sociedad esclavista es la condición previa de la democracia! ¿No es cierto?
went to Greece, which seemed wholly appropriate when you think of Ancient Greece as the fundament of European culture – or thoughtfully cynical, if you wish to correlate the decline of democracy in Europe with the slave-owning society in Ancient Greece. In any event it was quite simple: because of its now endless financial and budgetary crisis, Greece was out of credit, which left it defenceless and obliged to take what it was given.
Esto parece del todo congruente cuando se piensa en la Antigüedad griega como fundamento de la cultura europea, o ingeniosamente cínico si se quiere relacionar la degradación de la democracia en Europa con la sociedad esclavista de la Antigüedad griega, pero en realidad la cosa era de lo más simple: debido a su ya interminable crisis económica y presupuestaria, Grecia estaba totalmente desacreditada y, por ello, indefensa, y tenía que aceptar lo que le dieran.
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