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| hopeless struggle; rearguard battle ("Democracy seems no better suited than dictatorship to saving rainforests because money talks in both, and from generation to generation, rearguard battles against the devastation have been handed off." – From an article by Edward Hoagland in Harper's, March 2009; с превосходящими силами VLZ_58) | |||
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| безнадёжная борьба: 4 phrases in 2 subjects |
| Makarov | 2 |
| Military | 2 |