Sentence examples of "at their own expense" in English
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Las mujeres son sistemáticamente degradadas al recibir las triviales atenciones que los hombres piensan que es varonil atribuir a su sexo, cuando de hecho los hombres ofensivamente sostienen su propia superioridad.
They decided to adopt a child rather than having one of their own.
Ellos decidieron adoptar un niño en lugar de tener uno propio.
Food prices are at their highest level since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization began keeping records in 1990.
El precio de los alimentos está en su nivel más alto desde que la Organización de Comida y Agricultura de las Naciones Unidas comenzó a registrarlos en 1990.
Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.
Los matemáticos son como los franceses: sea lo que fuere que les digas, ellos lo traducen a su propio lenguaje y lo transforman en una cosa totalmente diferente.
My father died when the cherry blossoms were at their best.
Mi padre murió cuando las flores de los cerezos estaban en su apogeo.
After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.
Después de eso, me voy, pero entonces me doy cuenta de que olvidé mi mochila.
Since they had no children of their own, they decided to adopt a little girl.
Como no tenían hijos propios, decidieron adoptar a una niña pequeña.
Heck, with oboe players there are those who, rather than search for a reed that suits them, find it faster to make their own.
Entre los intérpretes de oboe hay aquellos que en lugar de buscar una caña que les acomode, encuentran más rápido hacerse una propia.
It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Es sorprendente atestiguar que los iraníes, sobre quienes los árabes impusieron el Islam a través de la derrota militar, se han convertido en sus seguidores más fervientes, hasta el punto de oprimir a aquellos del zoroastrismo, a pesar de ser la religión de sus propios padres. Es una especie de síndrome de Estocolmo a escala nacional.
While there are some people who use the Internet to learn foreign languages, there are others, living on less than a dollar a day, who cannot even read their own language.
Mientras hay algunas personas que usan Internet para aprender lenguas extranjeras, hay otros que viven con menos de un dólar al día, que ni siquiera saben leer su propio idioma.
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