"currais"

English translation: corral

23:25 May 11, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics
Portuguese term or phrase: "currais"
A política assistencialista é eleitoreira e serve apenas para se formarem "currais".
vertebem
Brazil
Local time: 17:10
English translation:corral
Explanation:
verb
1. enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"
2. arrange wagons so that they form a corral
3. collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"

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5machine-controlled voters ...controlled voters
airmailrpl
4enclosures
Susy Ordaz
4corral
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enclosures


Explanation:
enclosures

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corral


Explanation:
verb
1. enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"
2. arrange wagons so that they form a corral
3. collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Example sentence(s):
  • Someone here was pontificating... and even boasting of corraling ILLEGAL voters!(maybe just spiteful)
  • ........and only serves to corral voters.

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It is to the popint! Thank you very much.
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Asker: Na mosca!

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machine-controlled voters ...controlled voters


Explanation:
Jon Christian Ryter The machine-controlled voters of New York, like the machine-controlled voters of California, are largely feminist, pro-abortion, pro-Sodomite socialist ...
www.jonchristianryter.com/2003/030113.html

Socialism, feminism, and suffragism, the terrible triplets ... The woman boss with a number of controlled voters may be expected to accept a hundred dollar seal skin where a man boss would demand $500.00 in cash. ...
memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/naw:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbnawsan6027div52))



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Suffrage in the South, Part I: The Poll Tax Machine controlled voters are spared this trouble. About six o'clock in the evenings during poll receipt time, workers come around to the "receptive" ...

In Texas, loans and gifts for the payment of poll taxes are against the law. Pushing the charges against Maverick was the "temporarily beaten local political machine, which," according to the Richmond Times Dispatch, "is notorious throughout the Southwest."
www.newdeal.feri.org/survey/40a01.htm

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Asker: Excelente tradução! Thank you very much.

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