orillar
Kimani, quien creció ahí y luego se mudó a otra parte, cotorreaba con unos viejos amigos después de acudir a una fiesta de quinceañera cuando los agentes lo orillaron. | Kimani, who had grown up in the area and then moved away, was hanging out with old friends after attending a Sweet Sixteen party when police rolled up on him. |
Es verdad que nunca se arrepiente de nada y recuerda su larga cauda de engaños con detalle y deleite asombrosos; pero aquí no se trata de cinismo: las circunstancias lo orillaron a hacer suyo cada papel, a seguir el juego hasta el final. | True, he never repents anything, and recalls his long string of deceit with a wealth of detail and astonishing delight; but this is not cynicism: circumstances force him to make each role his own, to play the game through. |
Los motivos que lo orillaron al crimen no deben desconocerse. | The reasons that led him to commit the crime should not be ignored. |
Sin embargo, varias crisis financieras orillaron a los donantes a solicitar eficiencia y esfuerzos estratégicos para demostrar resultados, y se requirió tomar decisiones difíciles. | But multiple financial crises left donors calling for efficiencies and strategic efforts to demonstrate results, and negotiators were required to make tough choices. |
Activistas orillaron al Congreso, por un margen de votos estrecho, a cerrar las puertas de esa institución que ha entrenado a algunos de los peores violadores de los derechos humanos del hemisferio. | Activists pushed Congress within a handful of votes of closing the doors on the institution that has trained some of the worst human rights violators in the hemisphere. |
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