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Английский язык для магистратуры
T
he –ism Schism
3. Multinational entities such as the World Trade Organization, NATO, and the U.N. have exist-
ed for a long time, but Europe is increasingly vesting core government prerogatives — the 
power to prosecute/persecute and judge, the power to regulate and make law, and soon 
perhaps the power to tax and make war — in bodies that are accountable to governments, 
not voters.
4. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act was enacted to deal with the 
Mafia and organized crime. RICO basically lets the government (or individual bodies) pros-
ecute/persecute a person who directs or promotes crime without getting his hands dirty.
5. People came to America because they were seeking adventure and profit or were being pros-
ecuted/persecuted for their difference or because they had no oportunities in their home-
lands
6. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from prosecution/per-
secution 
7. 
Persons who discriminate are subject to the law and may be prosecuted/persecuted
8. Religious terrorism can be quite extreme in its tactics. Not only does it strive to avenge a long 
history of prosecution/persecution and injustice, but it frequently carries out preemptive at-
tacks. 
to affect — to effect
1. 
How does a prejudiced, negative view effect/affect the people being stigmatized?
2. Forces working in collaboration are more likely to effect/to affect change than forces operat-
ing independently.
3. we do care about health care and we want to do something to effect/affect positive reform.
4. The Chinese leaders initiated reforms to effect/affect a gradual transition to a free-market 
economy.
5. Modifications in family organization induced by economic and demographic transition have 
been complemented by moral, ideological, and religious trends that also effect/affect the 
institution of marriage.
6. Even the most’ political’ or’ revolutionary’ art cannot effect/affect social change, unless certain 
socio-economic and political conditions are present.
7. During the Franco-Iroquois peace after 1665, Jesuit missionary efforts effected/affected the 
conversion of hundreds of Iroquois into Christianity.
8. According to the Council, 10 million Roma in the EU are disproportionally effected/affected by 
discrimination, violence, unemployment, poverty, bad housing and health standards.
Ex. 14. Translate the sentences using the vocabulary of the unit.