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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
groupe verbal
verbes à particule adverbiale,
verbe à particule // verbe sans particule
sémantisme / sens > équivalences, quasi synonymes
clear out // disperse
knock out // eliminate
step in // intervene
step down // quit
crank up // restart
cut off // block
play down // donwplay
Columbia to continue talks with student protesters after deadline to clear out passes
Columbia University officials said early Wednesday they will continue to negotiate with student pro-Palestinian protesters after setting a midnight deadline for them to disperse.
May 17, 2020
California sues oil giants, saying they downplayed climate change. Here's what to know
September 16, 2023 NPR
Brazil scales back environmental enforcement amid coronavirus outbreak
Experts fear efforts to protect field agents from virus could lead to surge in deforestation
Fri 27 Mar 2020 17.37 GMT Last modified on Fri 27 Mar 2020 20.39 GMT The Guardian
Brazil will reduce efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, despite concerns that reduced protection could lead to a surge in deforestation.
Brazil scales back
Alabama Commissioner Lays Out How State Plans To Curb Violence In Prisons
June 11, 20197:03 PM ET NPR
Alabama's Department of Corrections has unveiled a three-year plan to address its shortcomings and improve conditions for inmates and staff.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/
James Murdoch quits
as
BSkyB boss to spare blushes
Tuesday 3 April 2012
James Murdoch stepped down as chairman of BSkyB six weeks after giving up a similar role at News International, saying he "could become a lightning rod" for criticism of the satellite broadcaster, in the wake of condemnation of his handling of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
James Murdoch quits as BSkyB boss to spare blushes,
C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks in Pakistan to Thwart Taliban
September 27, 2010 The New York Times By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.
C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks
in Pakistan to Thwart Taliban,
Tornado obliterates Kansas farming town
Sat May 5, 2007 11:09PM EDT Reuters By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A tornado wiped out most of a small farming town in southwestern Kansas, killing nine people and injuring at least 63, emergency officials said on Saturday.
Tornado obliterates
Kansas farming town,
Reid launches Home Office shake-up
· Focus on prison, probation and immigration services · Attempt to lift staff morale and public confidence
Wednesday June 21, 2006
The home secretary, John Reid, will outline to senior Home Office civil servants today his initial plan to "rescue his heavily criticised department and begin to restore its battered staff morale.
He is expected to lay down an action plan and the milestones that the immigration, prison and probation services need to meet to make the Home Office "fit for purpose".
He will be followed on Friday by the prime minister, Tony Blair, outlining the changes he wants to see in the criminal justice system to ensure it does more to safeguard the rights of the victim.
Reid launches Home Office shake-up,
Minister promises to end adult illiteracy by 2020
Thursday June 15, 2006 pledged last night to stamp out illiteracy and innumeracy in the adult workforce by 2020, claiming it was no longer acceptable to indulge in "the luxury of failure" by tolerating poor basic but vital skills.
Minister promises to end adult illiteracy by 2020,
'Da Vinci Code' pulls in estimated $29 million on opening day
Updated 5/21/2006
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Da Vinci Code banked an estimated $29 million at the box office on its first day in theaters, an industry official said Saturday, positioning the film to turn in the strongest opening weekend for any movie this year.
'Da Vinci Code' pulls
in estimated $29 million on opening day,
Don't try to push us around, lord chief justice tells Labour
Wednesday October 12, 2005
The government should not attempt to browbeat judges over its new anti-terrorism laws, the new senior judge in England and Wales warned yesterday. The lord chief justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, said judges were not in conflict with the government but said that it would be "wholly inappropriate" for a politician to try to put pressure on them. His strong defence of the judiciary's independence comes after Tony Blair, speaking recently on the subject of treating suspected terrorists, said the "rules of the game" were changing.
Don't try to push us
around, lord chief justice tells Labour,
C&W takes on BT in broadband battle
Cable & Wireless plans to go head to head with BT, investing millions in its Bulldog broadband business and providing a fillip to beleaguered telecommunications equipment maker Marconi by choosing its kit.
Headline and §1, G,
27.5.2005,
Parents are collectively shelling out £1.02bn a year towards the cost of insuring their children to drive, research showed yesterday.
An estimated 1.78 million parents pay towards the cost of their offspring's car insurance, paying an average of £575 a year each, according to Sainsbury's Bank.
But despite the high cost of the cover, parents are failing to shop around for the most competitive deal, with a quarter of them only bothering to get one quote.
Parents face £1bn bill for
kids to drive, first §§,
Brown kicks off leadership drive by trying to win over super-union
Gordon Brown began his post-election campaign to become prime minister with a speech aimed at wooing the massive vote wielded by a giant union in the Labour Party.
Headline and §1, I,
19.5.2005,
Hollick bows to pressure and gives up bonus
Lord Hollick, founder and former head of United Business Media, bowed to an unprecedented show of shareholder disapproval yesterday and agreed to waive a controversial £250,000 bonus.
Headline and §1,
HP rolls out printers for small business market
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (Reuters) -
Hewlett-Packard Co.
a broad lineup of laser and inkjet printers aimed at the small- and medium-business market, where color printing is growing in popularity.
HP rolls out printers
for small business market,
Blair reshuffles pack as Howard throws in hand
A CHASTENED and damaged Tony Blair shook up his Cabinet and a defeated Michael Howard said that he would quit as Tory leader yesterday after a seismic general election which left none of the main players able to claim a triumph.
Headline and §1,
Times, 7.5.2005,
NASA Pushes Back Shuttle Launch to July
Fri Apr 29, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery's launch will be delayed until July, NASA's chief said on Friday amid concerns the agency has not corrected the problem that caused the Columbia ship to break apart upon re-entry in 2003.
NASA Pushes Back
Shuttle Launch to July, R, Fri Apr 29, 2005 03:22 PM ET,
FSA forces travel firm to wind up
Thousands of people have been left holding worthless travel insurance policies after one of the UK's biggest travel brokers was last night forced into provisional liquidation for selling policies not underwritten by an authorised insurer.
Headline and §1,
29.4.2005,
How ice cream tickles your brain
Eating ice cream really does make you happy. Scientists have found that a spoonful of the cold stuff lights up the same pleasure centre in the brain as winning money or listening to your favourite music.
Headline and §1, G,
29.4.2005,
Blair Fends Off Critics on Iraq, Leads in Polls
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has overcome fierce opposition attacks over his support for the Iraq war to hold a strong lead in the run-up to a May 5 general election, two opinion polls showed on Tuesday.
Blair Fends Off
Critics on Iraq, Leads in Polls, headline and §1,
Poles Send Off Pope with Prayers and Gun Salutes
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Cannon roared, sirens wailed and church bells rang in Poland where millions of people prayed and wept for Pope John Paul, their greatest native son and spiritual leader. Poles gathered Friday at churches and open-air masses, where giant-screen televisions showed the Vatican funeral service, to bid farewell to a man who inspired their fight against communism and pushed them toward mainstream Europe.
Headline and first §§, Fri Apr 8, 2005 08:22 AM ET,
Doctor Who sees off prime-time foes in ratings war
Forget the Cybermen and the Daleks. Returning to BBC1 for the first time in 16 years, Doctor Who was on Saturday night vanquishing even more formidable foes - the popular ITV duo Ant and Dec. The revived drama, starring Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor, and Billie Piper as his sidekick, Rose Tyler, attracted 9.9 million viewers on average throughout the show and seemed certain to get a new generation cowering behind their sofas every Saturday evening. Despite roping in David Beckham, Mariah Carey and Sir Trevor MacDonald as guests to see off the Time Lord on BBC1, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway managed only to attract an audience of 7.2 million, according to the unofficial figures.
Headline and first §§, G,
28.3.2005,
Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years, says WWF
Many Arctic animals, including polar bears and some seal species, could be extinct within 20 years because of global warming, a conservation group said yesterday.
Headline and sub, G,
31.1.2005,
Atkins mania is just wilting away
THE celebrated Atkins diet is on the wane in America and experts predict Britain will soon follow as slimmers tire of its rigid regime. More than half the disciples of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet have drifted away in America and there are indications of a big decline here.
Headline
and §1, ST, 12.11.2004,
Betfair steps in to bail out punters
Accounts to be replenished after Sporting Options collapse
Betfair, the largest online betting exchange, yesterday stepped in to rescue punters at Sporting Options from a £3.5m shortfall after it collapsed into administration this week amid allegations that it had misused clients' cash
Headline, sub and §1,
17.11.2004,
Europe leads space race to hunt down ET
Work begins on flotilla of floating mirrors to detect life on far distant planets
Headline and sub, O,
24.10.2004,
Broker's £230m FT suit [ is ] rejected
Claim based on market value was 'a waste of time' A high court judge yesterday threw out broker Collins Stewart's record £230.5m damages claim against the Financial Times.
Headline,
sub and §1, G, 21.10.2004,
Survey: U.S. to Rein in Holiday Spending
Tue Oct 5, 2004 12:06 AM ET Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans are planning to curb their holiday spending this year, making it a challenging shopping season for U.S. retailers, according to a holiday buying survey by The NPD Group.
Survey: U.S. to Rein in Holiday
Spending, R,
Tue Oct 5, 2004 12:06 AM ET,
Sharon vows to step up assault on Gaza strip as death toll rises
Ariel Sharon said yesterday that an assault on the Gaza strip that has claimed more than 60 lives and injured 250 people - the bloodiest of the intifada - will be expanded until it puts an end to Hamas rocket strikes against Israel.
Headline and
§1, G, 4.10.2004,
More pupils bunk off school, figures show
Thousands of teenagers are continuing to skip school daily, despite a series of government initiatives on truancy which are costing millions of pounds.
Headline and §1, G,
17.9.2004,
Police clear out squatters as new Iraqi state starts to flex its muscles
"The police are going to kill me unless you take me with you," said Ahmed Hussein in a terrified voice, as half a dozen angry Iraqi policemen closed in on him. One of them had just taken his black pistol out of his belt and was holding it by his side. Violence erupts with extraordinary speed in Baghdad. Early yesterday morning a hundred or more blue-shirted Iraqi police, armed with sub-machine-guns, had expelled Mr Hussein and 54 families from 17 luxury houses they had occupied illegally since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Headline, I, 4.9.2004,
Schröder vow to
push ahead on EU treaty
In an interview with the Financial Times,
Mr Schröder
suggested Germany could be the first country
in the European Union
to adopt the treaty.
Headline and first §§, FT, 16.7.2004, might be more effective in steering an asteroid away from a collision course. He worked out that a thrust equivalent to that from a Reliant Robin could deflect a 1bn tonne asteroid in just 75 days.
Crash mission to deflect Earth-bound asteroid:
Berlusconi escapes EU censure over budget
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, on Monday staved off a reprimand in Brussels from Europe's finance ministers over his government's unwieldy budget, but back in Italy appeared increasingly isolated from his political partners.
Headline and §1, FT, 5.7.2004,
US hands over power in Iraq
The US-led coalition today transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government, two days ahead of the scheduled June 30 handover date. The transfer of power took place in a ceremony in Baghdad's heavily guarded green zone, where outgoing US governor Paul Bremer signed over the country - and its escalating security troubles - to interim prime minister Ayad Allawi. Headline and first §§, G, 28.6.2004, http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4958273-103550,00.html
Postal vote chaos could put back election date
Ministers may be forced to delay elements of next month's "Super Thursday" European and local elections, opposition politicians warned yesterday, amid mounting chaos in the distribution of postal votes across northern England.
Headline and §1, G,
29.5.2004,
Zimbabwe's Australia Test series [ is ] called off
Cricket's 'Zimbabwe issue' was clouded in mystery today after Australia's Test tour of the country was cancelled. Headline and §1,
I, 21.5.2004,
France leads calls for Aristide to step down
International pressure mounted on the president of Haiti to resign yesterday as rebels tightened a noose around the capital, Port-au-Prince, and took a town crucial to their advance. Headline and §1, G, 28.2.2004,
Blair to unveil crime superforce
Intelligence-led agency to be launched to take on the 'Mr Bigs' of international criminal cartels
Tony Blair is to unveil a crime-busting superforce to tackle organised drugs, vice and money-laundering operations at a national and international level.
Headline, sub and first §§, G,
7.2.2004,
Company 'held back' data on drug for children
Antidepressant had no effect, leak reveals The British manufacturers of an antidepressant drug that was last year banned from use in children knew as long ago as 1998 that it did not work and deliberately avoided publishing the full data because of the risk to their lucrative adult market, according to a leaked internal document.
Headline and §1, G,
3.2.2004,
Gates aims to wipe out spam as UK broadband users unwittingly help the spammers
Monday 26 January 2004 01:00 The Independent
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, used a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos to promise to rid the world of spam, or junk e-mails, within two years.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/
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