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Д. А. Крячков
UNIT VI
4. Despite their efforts, most countries have not done away with discrimination against women.
5. During the crisis, many companies made use of pay cuts in order to maintain what staff they 
felt able to keep. 
6. Education is the highest form of skill training where the particular purposes for which the 
skills might be utilized are not always specified. 
7. 
Even in some open societies, criticizing those who hold high offices can be hazardous to your 
health and livelihood.
8. In South Africa, the education system used to be one of the principal instruments through 
which the apartheid system was sustained and preserved.
9. Information power helps create conditions for global peace and prosperity to emerge, but it 
is also exploited by international terrorists, drug traffickers, and other criminals.
10. Intelligence is not an end in itself; what it seeks to achieve in the long run is to inform policy-
makers or agencies responsible for military operators.
11. It is well-known that conflict is a permanent feature of all social life, and especially of politics.
12. Nuclear weapons not only bring prestige, but also bring the influence necessary to achieve 
the desired effect in negotiations or elsewhere.
13. Some western scholars posit that an alliance with Russia during World War II was a “necessary 
evil” to be put up with in the short-term in order to defeat the immediate aggressor.
14. After the first World War an attempt was made to reorganize the world on an effective and 
sensible basis.
15. The self-interested policies of the western world contribute to poverty and underdevelop-
ment in many regions of the world, which threatens to keep up the existing system of asym-
metrical relations with developing nations.
16. We must root out terrorism by changing the prevalent mindset that provided a fertile ground 
for the growth of this menace.
17. Yeltsin’s broad powers were based on his personal popularity rather than law, and therefore 
proved sensitive to changing public opinion.
Ex. 9. Complete the following sentences using the words and phrases from Ex. 4 
in their correct form.
1. 
After Kosovo, many commentators worldwide concluded that the United States had adopted 
a “neo-imperialist” strategy aimed at expanding and __________ its hegemony.
2. Any state would be __________ if it sold technology to an adversary, thus changing the bal-
ance of military power between the two countries in the adversary’s favor.
3. Begun in 1988, the global initiative to __________ polio by the end of the year 2000 is spear-
headed by WHO, Rotary International and UNICEF.
4. Gamal Abdel Nasser rose to __________ in 1954, two years after a military coup had deposed 
King Farouk. 
5. Gone are the days when the Holy See is looked to as the _______ source of spirituality.
6. In analyzing the Kosovo crisis, some experts pointed out that the intervention was ‘legally 
questionable’ yet politically __________; in effect, states can ‘do the right thing’, even without 
legal sanction. 
7. In international relations there is no __________ authority that can boast of the required 
power to enforce compliance with rules of conduct, so states are free to pursue their own 
interests. 

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