Sentence examples of "rearguard" in English
Our forces there fought a heroic but in the end hopeless, rearguard action.
Наш гарнизон принял героический, но увы безнадёжный оборонительный бой.
The fact is that in designing elaborate new institutions in response to the events of the last five years, there is a risk of fighting a rearguard action, rather than looking ahead to meet new challenges.
Дело в том, что при проектировании сложных новых институтов в ответ на события последних пяти лет, существует риск того, что мы начинаем бороться с прошедшими войнами, а не смотреть вперед для решения новых задач.
Similarly, rearguard efforts to prove that those who opposed war in Iraq were right and that the Americans and the Britons wrong, together with demands for ``proof" that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, are unconstructive and only cause mutual irritation.
Аналогично запоздалые усилия с целью доказать, что те, кто сопротивлялся войне в Ираке, были правы, и что американцы и англичане ошибались, вместе с требованиями "доказательств" того, что Ирак имел оружие массового уничтожения, являются неконструктивными и только вызывают взаимное раздражение.
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