| English | Russian |
| create one's own chapter of history | вписать новую страницу в историю (When the Olympic flag is handed from one host city to the next at the Closing Ceremony, that city begins creating its own chapter of Olympic history. Victorian) |
| for your own protection | в целях вашей личной безопасности (ART Vancouver) |
| of one's own will | добровольно ("The owner of an open-top convertible called Vancouver police about 6 p.m. on Sunday to say he had returned to his parked Chevrolet Corvette supercar in the Sunset Beach parking lot to find a stranger had climbed inside the vehicle through the open roof and was sitting in the driver's seat without his consent. (...) When it became clear the man would not leave the car of his own will, officers used a bean bag shotgun on the man's legs, which allowed officers to move in and arrest the 36-year-old Vancouver man." The Province ART Vancouver) |
| take one's own life by drowning | утопиться (Almost simultaneous with the receipt of a dramatic note from her husband, Michael, declaring he was taking his own life by drowning, Mrs. Lucy Quilligan of 413 Beach Street, was informed this morning by a telegram from the Brooklyn police that a body, believed to be that of her husband, was washed ashore. (Don Juan Quilligan, 1945) ART Vancouver) |
