Sentence examples of "Одним махом" in Russian with translation "at a stroke"
Я повторяю, без преувеличения, что ураган «Айвэн» за несколько часов обратил Гренаду в груды щебня, одним махом перечеркнув плоды труда и достижения ее народа с момента обретения ею независимости в 1974 году.
I repeat, without exaggeration, that Hurricane Ivan, in a few short hours, reduced Grenada to rubble and, at a stroke, undid the hard work and achievements of its people since independence in 1974.
Я зашел на интернет-аукцион, который проходил в Холидэй Ин в Пало Альто, и купил 11 компьютеров G4 одним махом.
I went to a dot-com auction at a Holiday Inn in Palo Alto and I bought 11 G4s with a stroke of a paddle.
Выступая в качестве представителя страны, которая в прошлом уже провела подобные реформы и продолжает проводить их, я хотел бы напомнить о том сравнении, которое приводилось в Болгарии и других местах в начале наших усилий по проведению экономических реформ: «Если вы вынуждены отрубить коту хвост, — говорилось тогда, — сделайте это одним махом; это может быть больно, но быстро и результативно.
Speaking as a representative of a country that has undertaken such reforms in the past and is continuing to do so, I would like to recall a comparison that was made in Bulgaria and elsewhere at the start of our economic reform effort: “If you must cut the tail off a cat”, it was said, “do it with one stroke; it might be painful, but it is over quickly, and it is effective.
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