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 Translation for 'struggle for existence' from English to Slovak
boj {m} o existenciustruggle for existence
existenčný boj {m}struggle for existence
Partial Matches
zápasiť o n-čo [nedok.]to struggle for sth.
bojovať o n-čo [nedok.]to struggle for sth.
boj {m} o prežitiestruggle for survival
bojovať o prežitie [nedok.]to struggle for survival
pol.
boj {m} o moc
struggle for power
jestvovanie {n}existence
existencia {f}existence
živorenie {n}miserable existence
existovať [nedok.]to be in existence
zápas {m}struggle
boj {m}struggle
pokúšať sa [nedok.]to struggle
úsilie {n}struggle
usilovať sa [nedok.]to struggle
snažiť sa [nedok.]to struggle
pol.
mocenský boj {m}
power struggle
pol.
triedny boj {m}
class struggle
pre {prep} [+ak.]for
na {prep} [+ak.] [účel, cieľ: určený na n-čo; čas. údaj: stanovený na dátum, hodinu ap.; porovnanie dvoch aspektov]for
miesto {prep} [+gen.]for
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Usage Examples English
  • This tradition of seeing Romania as a bastion of Latinism threatened by enemies everywhere culminated in the 1930s where the Iron Guard argued there were "natural laws" that determined Romania's struggle for existence, which allowed the Legion to justify any act of violence no matter how amoral as necessary because of the "natural laws".
  • This continual struggle for existence is an important assumption of natural selection introduced by Darwin as an explanation for evolution.
  • The poem contains a passage that describes the struggle for existence.
  • His influential ideas include the development of theories regarding the struggle for existence and natural selection.
  • However, he was highly critical of the term "struggle for existence" which he rejected.

  • In his "Philosophy of Natural History" he described the struggle for existence. He has been described as a "precursor of Darwin".
  • The monks of the Strict Observance were dispersed in 1780, but the struggle for existence was prolonged until 1787, when the last abbot died.
  • In 1974, Lynn published a positive review of Raymond Cattell's "A New Morality from Science: Beyondism", in which he expressed the opinion that "incompetent societies have to be allowed to go to the wall" and that "the foreign aid which we give to the under-developed world is a mistake, akin to keeping going incompetent species like the dinosaurs which are not fit for the competitive struggle for existence".
  • Charles Darwin's theory of how evolution works ("By Means of Natural Selection") is explicitly competitive ("survival of the fittest"), Malthusian ("struggle for existence"), and even gladiatorial ("nature, red in tooth and claw").
  • This included ideas because they are invented, imitated and selected by humans: ‘The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world.

  • Darwin emphasizes that he used the phrase "struggle for existence" in "a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another"; he gives examples ranging from plants struggling against drought to plants competing for birds to eat their fruit and disseminate their seeds.
  • He writes about three main mechanisms; the struggle for existence, the transformation of species into each other, and the environmental factors.
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