Sentence examples of "око за око" in Russian with translation "an eye for an eye"
Многие из нас могут находить привлекательным принцип Ветхого завета "око за око, зуб за зуб".
Many of us can see the appeal of the Old Testament principle of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Махатма Ганди когда-то выразил несогласие с библейским выражением "око за око, зуб за зуб".
Mahatma Gandhi criticized the biblical justification of retribution, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Военная эскалация – не просто око за око, а примерно десять жизней палестинцев за одну жизнь израильтянина – достигла предела.
Military escalation – not just an eye for an eye but roughly ten Palestinian lives for every Israeli one – has reached its limit.
Действительно, в некоторых древних книгах говорится о ценности принципа «око за око, зуб за зуб», и так мы иногда характеризуем поведение детей.
It's true that certain ancient books talk of the value of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and yet we also apply "tit for tat" to such actions, the name we also give to the behaviours of children.
К сожалению, во многих странах мира, люди, похоже, не могут ещё в своём желании справедливого возмездия быть выше библейского наставления "око за око".
Sadly, in many places in the world, it seems that men and women have not advanced beyond the biblical admonition of "an eye for an eye" in their yearning for retribution.
"Око за око" означает, что преступником может быть только тот, кто совершил противоправное деяние, но не люди, всё преступление которых заключается лишь в родстве с ним.
"An eye for an eye" asks that the culprit should be the sole target, and not others, whose only crime was to be related to him.
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