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быть главным (Who is calling the shots in this house? 4uzhoj); командовать (Sally always wants to call the shots, and Mary doesn't like to be bossed around. Oldbore); отдавать приказы (Oldbore); задавать тон (Increasingly in shaping our foreign policy priorities it is the media which calls the shots. bookworm); распоряжаться (Anglophile); решать (This reminded me of a lesson I took away from earlier dealings with Russians: They always know what they want, so you'd better know what you want or they will roll right over you. And in today's Russia, the question is what does Vladimir Putin want, because he calls the shots on anything of consequence. MichaelBurov); руководить (Sally always wants to call the shots, and Mary doesn't like to be bossed around. MichaelBurov); управлять (We would love to know, Mr. Prime Minister, since for all practical purposes your Government still calls the shots on this supposedly autonomous corporation. • Is the military really the power behind the President now? Who really calls the shots?); отвечать (за – on: Who's calling the shots on this project? – Кто отвечает за этот проект? ZolVas); заказывать музыку (The Saudis, the Iranians, the Iraqis, they called the shots, they were the ones with the vast stockpiles of oil, not the Americans, where the holes were running dry. Val_Ships); заправлять (Myanmar's Shan state, which borders both China and Thailand, is the wild wild east. And in many parts of the state, it's well-armed ethnic militias, not Myanmar's military, who call the shots.) |
