5. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на передачу фразеологических оборотов.

1. Half of the faux pas involved violations of patient confidential­ity

2. For any party leader, persuading the voters otherwise is a tall order.

3. Among the upper and middle class, most young men pulled every string they could to avoid fighting in a war that few of them agreed with.

4. This was a far cry from the usual charges against Ms. Reno.

5. Panics among international investors are as old as the hills.

6. It could become more difficult to assign contracts based on price alone and increased watchdog attention means it will be harder to turn a blind eye on safety.

7. The city fathers have finally given the green light to the first new building project in the city.

8. Of the three workers who were in the immediate vicinity two are so seriously injured that their chances are slim. The third might survive given appropriate medical care, but it will be touch and go.

9. "My treat," said George firmly, leading the way. Jonathan made a half-hearted protest, "Why don't we go Dutch?"

10. A couple of glasses of wine had released his inhibitions long enough for him to accept the challenge, but the Dutch courage had­n't lasted for fifty minutes.

11. The members of the environmental movement are between a rock and a hard place. They don't like global warming and they don't like nuclear energy. But if they want to prevent global warm­ing, they are going to have to embrace nuclear energy.

12. I think a good accountant could pretty much make a living anywhere doing taxes. If you are not out to make a killing, that is.

13. Even if you love what you are doing, some days a one-person business feels like a one-ton albatross.

14. It's such a mixture of truth and falsehood. Our job is to sift the wheat from the chaff.

15. Sean Connery got a big hand from friends and fans at the Lincoln Center.

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France Denies Losing out on Brussels Jobs

It is claimed in some quarters that France, a founder member of the European Union, has had the grass cut from under its feet by Britain, the "slowcoach" of the community, which this week scooped up most of the good jobs in the upper echelons of the Brussels ad­ministration. And all with the blessing of the European Commis­sion's very Anglophile Italian president, Romano Prodi.

But then Britain, although it has decided to position itself on the outer reaches of European construction, has nevertheless been ex­tremely active in the Belgian capital. Britons play a leading role in the lobbying firms that have proliferated in Brussels, and have placed themselves in key positions within the EU administration with a professionalism that contrasts sharply with the amateurish­ness and individualism that often typify the French approach.

So has France really suffered some kind of Waterloo in the battle to secure key EU jobs? Neither the Elysee Palace, nor the prime minister's office, nor the foreign ministry seem to think so — though their official reaction may be partly motivated by the need to put a brave face on events.

The prime minister's office stresses that it would be a big mistake to put the appointment of EU directors general on the same plane as that of advisers. "As regards advisers. Prodi laid down clear rules of 'multinationality' so as to strengthen the commission and bring in new blood," says one of Lionel Jospin's aids. "France respected those rules, our partners less so."

Does France need to worry about mounting Anglophilia within the commission? Prodi's spokesman, Ricardo Levi, prefers to play down the issue: "We have to look at this from a broader, worldwide perspective. French has undeniably lost ground to English. A few years ago only French was spoken in the pressroom here. Now you hear both English and French."

As for the alleged loss of French influence in the upper echelons of the ELI administration, Levi stresses Prodi's desire to carry out reforms that France fully supports: "We had to make a break with the habits of the past, which allowed certain countries to 'own' some directorates-general. The criteria we have followed are based on the need to ensure job rotation, maintain a balance and base ap­pointments on merit. It so happened that the British had some ex­cellent candidates. But in the longer term the French presence re­mains predominant."