Translation for "pugnar" to english
Pugnar
verb
Translation examples
verb
a) Fomentar el desarrollo económico y social integral de la comunidad latinoamericana y pugnar porque alcance, a la brevedad posible, la plena integración económica, política y cultural de sus pueblos;
(a) To promote the integrated economic and social development of the Latin American community and to strive for the full economic, political and cultural integration of its peoples within the shortest possible time;
No es propio de mí pugnar con una dama.
It ill becomes me to strive with a lady, but...
en vez de pugnar por el lucro, la lujuria o el progreso, contentarse con el lujo de ser.
not striving always for gain, lust, or advancement, but content with the luxury of being.
verb
El uso indiscriminado de armamento convencional ha sido ampliamente reconocido como una amenaza al estado de derecho y la paz social, por lo que, en el marco de la Convención sobre ciertas armas convencionales, México continuará promoviendo las normas consagradas en la Convención de Oslo y pugnará porque las decisiones de las Altas Partes Contratantes honren los principios humanitarios y de desarme consagrados en tan importante instrumento.
The indiscriminate use of conventional weapons has been widely recognized as a threat to the rule of law and social peace. Therefore, Mexico will continue to promote in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the standards enshrined in the Oslo Convention and will fight to ensure that the decisions of the high contracting parties honour the disarmament and humanitarian principles enshrined in that important instrument.
Tuvo que pugnar por mantenerlo a raya cuando preguntó—: ¿Ha… ha encontrado alguno?
She had to fight to hold it in check as she asked, "Have-have you found any?"
Por un momento solo pudo aferrarse a la escalerilla y pugnar por coger aire.
For a moment all he could do was grasp the rung of the ladder and fight for air.
En cuanto a las gitanas, el marqués tuvo que pugnar con la junta que gobernaba la Casa de la Misericordia para trasladarlas allí.
As for the gypsy women, the marquis had to fight with the council that governed the House of Mercy in order to move them there.
Erraba por entre la vegetación del terrarium apoyándose en sus inseguras zancas y experimentando cierto alborozo, en busca de algo de lo que huir, algo con lo que pugnar, algo que comer o aprender.
He roved through the verdure of the terrarium on his shaky shanks with a counterfeit of gladness, looking for something to flee, something to fight, something to eat, something to learn.
Si dormir equivale a un relajante chapuzón en un tranquilo lago, lo que yo hacía era pugnar para salir a la superficie en medio de un tempestuoso mar, lejísimos de la costa más cercana. No soñaba.
If sleep was going for an easy swim in a calm pond, what I was doing was fighting to surface in the middle of an ocean storm, far from any land at all. I didn’t dream.
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