| Russian | English |
| опираться на | use as leverage (Higginbottom instructed his publishers to generate advance publicity for "The Bloody Nun" by using the success of "The Bloody Priest" as leverage. – опираясь на успех ART Vancouver) |
| опираться на | go upon ("But if I had not taken things for granted, if I had examined everything with care which I should have shown had we approached the case de novo and had no cut-and-dried story to warp my mind, should I not then have found something more definite to go upon? Of course I should. The lady's charming personality must not be permitted to warp our judgment." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) – опираться на нечто более существенное ART Vancouver) |
| опираться на | go on (In truth, it is difficult to be certain of anything with cases like these: all we have to go on are the witness reports. -- нам приходится опираться только на отчёты свидетелей (Janet & Colin Bord, "Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century") ART Vancouver) |
| опираться на | draw upon (These classic examples of Egyptian metal art draw upon the artistic traditions of ancient Egypt. – опираются на ART Vancouver) |
| опираясь на | by using sth. as leverage (Higginbottom instructed his publishers to generate advance publicity for "The Bloody Nun" by using the success of "The Bloody Priest" as leverage. Needless to say, that resulted in a total disaster. – опираясь на успех ART Vancouver) |
