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cruzamentos e contrapuntos nos posicionamentos dos parlamentares

English translation: crossings and counterpoints in the legislators' stances

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Portuguese term or phrase:cruzamentos e contrapuntos nos posicionamentos dos parlamentares
English translation:crossings and counterpoints in the legislators' stances
Entered by: rhandler

21:35 Mar 21, 2004
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: cruzamentos e contrapuntos nos posicionamentos dos parlamentares
the document is an analysis of research done in Brazil about sexual rights
Emily Tell
United States
Local time: 05:02
crossings and counterpoints in the legislators' stances
Explanation:
Here's a good reference for "crossings and counterpoints:

Entropy Gradient Reversals - Pattern Recognition
... Apollo, Dionysus, Delphi, Styx. Crossings and counterpoints. Toynbee,
Spengler, Robert Graves, Jane Ellen Harrison's dark Prolegomena. ...
www.rageboy.com/0.56.html

And here are examples for "legislator's stances":

Pilot Stories -3/5/2004 - Last Push / Last push
... addressing a meeting of Legatus, an organization of Catholic executives, former Senate President William Bulger predicted that legislators’ stances on same ...
www.rcab.org/Pilot/2004/ps040305/Editorials.html

Population Connection : Reports
... Population Connection's Legislative Action Center is a great source of information regarding your legislators' stances on population issues. Report Archive. ...
www.populationconnection.org/Reports_Publications/ Reports/report320.html
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rhandler
Local time: 09:02
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5 +2crossings and counterpoints in the legislators' stances
rhandler
5intersections
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)


  

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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
crossings and counterpoints in the legislators' stances


Explanation:
Here's a good reference for "crossings and counterpoints:

Entropy Gradient Reversals - Pattern Recognition
... Apollo, Dionysus, Delphi, Styx. Crossings and counterpoints. Toynbee,
Spengler, Robert Graves, Jane Ellen Harrison's dark Prolegomena. ...
www.rageboy.com/0.56.html

And here are examples for "legislator's stances":

Pilot Stories -3/5/2004 - Last Push / Last push
... addressing a meeting of Legatus, an organization of Catholic executives, former Senate President William Bulger predicted that legislators’ stances on same ...
www.rcab.org/Pilot/2004/ps040305/Editorials.html

Population Connection : Reports
... Population Connection's Legislative Action Center is a great source of information regarding your legislators' stances on population issues. Report Archive. ...
www.populationconnection.org/Reports_Publications/ Reports/report320.html

rhandler
Local time: 09:02
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 52
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agree  Henrique Magalhaes
11 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Henrique
agree  Amilcar: Since the original metaphors work perfectly in En and have same meaning, this is un-improvable.
4 days
  -> Thank you, Amilcar, I think so too, but some will try.
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
intersections


Explanation:
this is taken from GRAPHS...I am sure of the intersections....don't know about counterpoints....

sorry couldn't find it......opinions are said to intersect or match..there must be another term for counterpoint in graph language.

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 39
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