Model: President Obama feels delightful to have been honored at the Peace
Conference held in Washington, DC last spring.
- , . (to join the presidential race / marathon)
- , . (ambitious and self-confident; to consider smb. as smb. / smth.; a lame duck)
Use the Infinitive Structure and translate the sentences from Russian into English using the words and word combinations in brackets.
Model: I would rather
You had better
- . (leadership styles)
- , . (to fair in such sciences as)
- , , , -
. (to attract smb‟s attention to smth.; cross-cultural problems; unilateral, ethnocentric foreign policy; to be espoused by smb - smb)
16. . (to be more conciliatory; the Middle East countries)
17. , . (to mince words; to stand tough facing the terrorist threat)
18. . (to refuse the idea of doing smth; to shy away from the challenges we are facing)
19. , .
(to be ready for mediation and compromise; force as a strategy for; to resolve conflict)
Model: The biographers have so many patterns in Obama‟s profile to study.
20. , . (leadership styles; to rely upon smth.)
21. , , , . (first Afro-
American President; leadership characteristics; to follow smb‟s example)
Model: The biographers have so many patterns in Obama‟s profile to be observed.
22. / , . (an endless list of commitments; to be unconditionally executed)
23. , , . (there are many hats to be worn; to exercise domestic and foreign policy)
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24. , . (to give a list of necessary changes; to be called for; in the first place)
Model: He is too clever to fail at his entrance exam.
25. , . (to give up a successful political career)
26. , . (ambitious and self-confident; to give smb. a chance; to beat smb.; the race/marathon for Presidency)
27. , . (the average native born American; to be conciliatory; the Muslim world; to enjoy respect from smb; the peoples of the Middle East countries)
28. , , ,
. (an empirically based framework; to have little to offer; those who operate facts)