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Перевод: contra

[наречие]
наоборот; напротив; против;
[существительное]
нечто противоположное;
[предлог]
против

Тезаурус:

1. For this sort of Englishman, "externality, - to things English - is what any American is condemned to; and per contra "inwardness" - with things English - is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright.
2. Ernesto Cardenal, in his poem The US Congress Approves Contra Aid , had also noticed an evangelical quirk in a contra raid:
3. The CIA-backed contra war was an inconsequential affair in world terms, although it brought much destruction and suffering to the Nicaraguans themselves.
4. UNO's acceptance of US campaign fund donations and Mrs Chamorro's appointment of the former contra director, Afredo Cesar, as her adviser, has opened her to charges of collaborating with the US.
5. Concern about a possible cancellation of the parliamentary and presidential polls grew after Mr Ortega ended the ceasefire with the contra rebels on November 1.
6. But Hull's stumbling poetry suggested that the contra war could also be made transcendent: an ideological and moral imperative, part of the "manifest destiny" of America to civilize the hemisphere, as earlier adventurers had phrased it, under the eye of God.
7. The contra operations had to be continued, North told his congressional questioners, "for the love of God and the love of this nation".
8. Owen, feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters - - but remembering what he had sworn "on the altar of God" - hoped that he might still be of use to North "against another group of Godless communists."
9. The contra cause was fired by reverence, both among the rebel leaders and their American sponsors, for democracy in its raw form, not far from anarchy: for freedom of action and impulse, for the right to take up arms and set up companies, but not for the constraints of legislatures or even, much, for the damp blanket of different opinions.
10. According to West European diplomats in Managua, President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the "peace maker" who ended the contra war.
11. If North was running the contra war vicariously (" from my desk"), the smooth organizers of the private pro-contra network and their rich, mostly female, mostly elderly contributors were even further removed.
12. Contra Buchloh et al .,
13. This is the cue for the survivors - a young Contra (Mark Hadfield) and his prisoner (Christian Dixon) - to embark on an odyssey in the course of which the psychological balance of power gradually shifts.