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Translate the sentences into Ukrainian taking into consideration the italicized

words which may be translators’ false friends (Consult the English – English
dictionaries)

1. Fifty years later, some of the tanks and field guns that survived the momentous
battle are lined up, freshly painted, in the parking lot at the war museum.

2. The forthcoming European summit in Brussels may be marginally less


momentous than the Potsdam conference of 1945, but that event provides the
closest historical analogy to the odd circumstances in which next week's gathering
will take place.

3. The table was littered with account books and pamphlets.

4. Motorists are offered a guide to the 10 most popular routes likely to be taken by
caravan enthusiasts this summer.

5. The question is whether the oil-consuming nations have enough leverage to


persuade oil exporters to take action.

6. For more than a decade, Tony Blair dominated the nation's political landscape
as prime minister, the most electorally successful leader of the UK Labour party
since the Second World War.

7. ABB, the Swiss-Swedish engineering group enjoyed startlingly positive


academic acclaim in the 1990s, only for the story to change dramatically a couple
of years later.

8. Women who want to make the break back into scientific research should try
emphasizing their academic age rather than their chronological age.

9. The CIA and FBI work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy
Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies.

10. Whenever challenged with these lies we will aggressively push back with the
truth.

11. A critical role in early stages of children's education is assigned to parents.

12. It's critical to remove the dramatic effect the Depression had on this
generation.

13. Because France does not collect official information by religion, it is hard to
say whether the assumption is accurate.
14. Financial markets can value a stock more accurately than any individual
expert.

15. Many South Africans sympathise with the strikers mainly because the
economy seems to be doing better than ever.

16. The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

17. Instead of being a source of pleasure, the prospect of living longer has become
a source of anxiety to many people without adequate pension savings.

18. Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

19. I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

20. Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and
intelligence.

21. It is our policy to correct mistakes as soon as possible.

22. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

23. Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader — not the fact that
it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

24. Students of politics have been interested in many aspects of ethics in public
service.

25. To measure Earth's gravity the probe will use GPS devices to plot its exact
position and a gradiometer, a machine that can detect fluctuations of a million
millionth in Earth's gravity.

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