jpdb beta

old evils; long-standing abuses; old-fashioned ways; old-fashioned; outdated; outmoded

1

political strife

1

opposition faction

1

deism

1

construction; establishment

1

tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend

1

pushing forward (undaunted); pushing on (toward a goal); striving (for)

1

Pius

4

Savona

14

military base

3

confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

3

intelligence network; information network

1

tough measure; firm step; strong measure

1

in fact

2

to lead (someone) by the nose; to twist (someone) around one's little finger

1

tactician; schemer; intriguer; resourceful person

1

to get someone to say; to make someone say

1

unexpected; unforeseen; strange

1

guess; speculation; supposition

2

big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)

1

weakening

1

to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)

4

so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense

1

godfather

1

external; foreign; with foreign countries; towards foreign countries

1

to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.); to reason with; to advise; to try to persuade; to exhort; to admonish

1

to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one; to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor; (lit.) to touch the scale on a dragon's throat

1

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

1

to reschedule; to recompose; to recross (one's legs); to reset

1

reconsideration

1

violence; reckless action; (an) outrage

2

acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation

1

morality; moral principles

1

to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize

1

written protest

1

hostage

1

careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

1

violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement

3

international problem

2

to impose; to visit upon; to inflict

2

wasted effort; fruitless effort; vain efforts

1

(moral) backbone; spirit; soul; grit

2

complicity

1

individual; one by one

1

to punish; to penalize; to penalise

1

to lessen; to decrease; to diminish

1

blowing (e.g. of the wind); playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet); (pair of) bellows; casting; founding

1

gap; break; pause; interval; cut; incision

1

frustration

1

soft; flabby; spongy; mushy; soggy

2