largely
Example
Joachim Gauck is a former human rights activist from communist East Germany and won the largely ceremonial office with a landslide victory.
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важный (пост), важная (должность), очень значительный
#International politicstranslation added by a kBronze en-ru
D-day
Example
In all these ways the D-day victory again being celebrated on Friday cements its claim to be the foundation event of our era.
Dignity
Example
Many Germans are looking for Gauck to restore some dignity to the presidency, a post tarnished by financial scandals that toppled his predecessor Christian Wulff.
Crowning triumph
Example
And it was the crowning triumph of a people’s war in which what had been suffered and learned during service in the civilian armies of the western allies was to affect profoundly the nature of politics in their societies after the war.
to set to rights
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It was a measured and awesome act, one that began the process of setting to rights the world Hitler had turned upside down and that began healing the terrible wounds he had inflicted on Europe.
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Это был взвешенный и поразительной акт, который вернул мир на рельсы закона и порядка, после того как Гитлер попытался
translation added by Aleh LaGold en-ru
Sie sprechen zwar vom körpereigenen Energieleitsystem und vom Neuromonitoring.
Wer könnte so engstirnig sein und sich vor seinen Erkenntnissen verschließen.
Weil die Menschheit die alten Wissenschätze nicht konsequent bewahrt,ist das noch lange kein Grund,derNatur den Rücken zu kehren
Wie wir so gemütlich beisammen saßen, haben wir ihnen auch gleich Löcher in den Bauch gefragt, denn für uns ist ja alles so neu.
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Лишь только мы уселись поуютней рядом, мы сразу начали задавать им море вопросов, ведь для нас было все ново.
translation added by Алёна Махнёва
back-story
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There is of course a back-story here as well.
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Предыстория; подоплека
translation added by Elena BogomolovaGold en-ru