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recibía en el rostro
Caía la flor bajo los balcones, apresurábase el caballero a levantarla, y cuando con una amable sonrisa iba a saludar a la dueña, recibía en el rostro un torrente de agua que le enceguecía y ahogaba, desgracia que él trataba de disimular diciendo con toda galantería: —¡Cómo ha de ser [11] !
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

resign expel eject resist
ANT: Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel, protest, resent, reject.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Rationalisierungsfachmann efficiency expert Rationalisierungsvorhaben
Einsparung economization Rationalisierungsbemühungen rationalization efforts Rationalisierungsfachmann efficiency expert Rationalisierungsvorhaben scheme of rationalization rationiert rationed Rationierung rationing Ratsversammlung council Raubbau exhaustive cultivation Raubbau robber economy Räumung eines Gebäudes vacation of a building Räumungsausverkauf closing-down sale Razzia razzia reagieren react Reaktion reaction Reaktion response real real reale Vermögenswerte tangible assets Realeinkommen real earnings Realeinkommen real income realer Wert real value realer Wert; Sachwert; effektiver Wert real value realisierbar; verwertbar realizable Realisierbarkeitsstudie feasibility study Realkosten real costs Realkredit credit on landed property Realkredit credit on real estate Reallohn real wage Rechenfehler miscalculation Rechenmaschine calculator Rechenschaftsbericht statement of accounts rechenschaftspflichtig accountable rechenschaftspflichtig liable to account Rechenschieber sliderule Rechenzeit calculating time Rechenzeit computing time rechnen count rechnen reckon Rechner calculator Rechner; Rechenmaschine calculator Rechnung bill Rechnung invoice Rechnung (US);
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

redes en el río
Después de algunos días, unos pescadores, que habían echado sus redes en el río, cogieron entre las mallas los zapatos de Tamburí, pero los clavos de que estaba llena la suela destrozaron los hilos de las redes.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Rathor exhausted every resource
The Rathor exhausted every resource to gain access to the fair, and had once nearly succeeded in a surprise by escalade, having cut his way in the night through the forest in the western and least guarded acclivity: but, as the bard equivocally remarks, "though he cut his way through the jhal (brushwood), he could not reach the Jhalani ."
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Requiem eternam eternal rest
The Romish mass for the dead begins with “Requiem eternam” (eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

returns Einnahmen Ertrag revaluation
restriktive Kreditpolitik restrictive endorsement Indossament ohne Obligo retain zurückbehalten retention Zurückbehaltung retrocession Retrozession retrograde rückschreitend return zurückreichen, zurücksenden, zurückgeben return of capital Kapitalrückzahlung returns Einnahmen, Ertrag revaluation Aufwertung revalue aufwerten reveal enthüllen revenue Steuereinkommen, Einkünfte des Staates revenue authorities Finanzbehörden revenue office Finanzamt revenue stamp Stempelmarke review Durchsicht, nachprüfen revocable widerruflich revolving credit sich erneuernder Kredit right Recht right of recourse Rückgriffsrecht right of issuing bank notes Notenprivileg riot Unruhe rise steigen rise in cost Steigen der Kosten rise in interest Zinsauftrieb rise in the bank rate Diskonterhöhung (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

received even explicit recognition
They may not have received even explicit recognition.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

room explained everything revealed
The next morning at daybreak, Valentine and Morrel were walking arm-in-arm on the seashore, Valentine relating how Monte Cristo had appeared in her room, explained everything, revealed the crime, and, finally, how he had saved her life by enabling her to simulate death.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

reddat eas eam rectis
inveniet eis necessaria sua de cujus cumque fœdo terre ille fuerint; et post mortem eorum reddat eas (eam) rectis hæredibus ita quod nullatenus per eosdem fatuos alienentur vel (nec quod) eorum hæredes exheredentur."
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

Rege et Elisabe Reginâ
56.—Lebrija, Hispanarum Rerum Ferdinando Rege et Elisabe Reginâ Gestarum Decades, (apud Granatam, 1545,) lib. 1, cap.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

residence enjoy extraterritorial rights
Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993) Natural hazards: NA Environment-current issues: NA Environment-international agreements: party to: none of the selected agreements signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution, Environmental Modification Geography-note: urban; landlocked; enclave of Rome, Italy; world's smallest state; outside the Vatican City, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the pope's summer residence) enjoy extraterritorial rights @Holy See (Vatican City):People Population: 860 (July 1998 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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