sentenciar (in a non-legal text)

English translation: to declare (declared)

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Spanish term or phrase:	sentenciar (in a non-legal text)
English translation:	to declare (declared)
Entered by:	Kimberlee Thorne

00:55 Apr 2, 2008

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / this is not a legal text, it's a business one

Spanish term or phrase: sentenciar (in a non-legal text)

"La ley (del aporte minero) no funciona así", sentenció enérgicamente el gerente de Comunicaciones de XXXXX XXXXX, XXXXX.

Kimberlee Thorne KudoZ activity Questions: 318 (1 open) (1 without valid answers) (29 closed without grading) Answers: 49 United States
Local time: 12:21

to declare (declared)

Explanation:
Gran Diccionario Oxford

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Note added at 6 mins (2008-04-02 01:01:36 GMT)
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To declare sententiously

Más vale tarde que nunca –sentenció
(Better late than never-he declared sententiously)

Selected response from:

Robert Copeland
United States
Local time: 14:21

Grading comment

Thank you! This fits perfectly into my context.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +5

to declare (declared)

Robert Copeland

4 +6

Stated

Rosa Elena Lozano Arton

5 +2

vehemently affirmed

jmf

declare sententiously

Ivannia Garcia

to pronounce

Clayton Causey

adjudge

Clifford Schisler

Answers

5 mins confidence:

declare sententiously

Explanation:
OXFORD SUPERLEX
sentenciar vi: —más vale tarde que nunca —sentenció = better late than never, he declared sententiously

Ivannia Garcia
Local time: 12:21
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 7

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

to declare (declared)

Robert Copeland
United States
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 90

Grading comment

Thank you! This fits perfectly into my context.

22 mins confidence:

adjudge

Explanation:
To adjudge is to give a firm and clear opinion regarding a certain situation.

Example sentence(s):

"This is where the men stand out from the boys", he adjudged sententiously as he observed their fearfulness

Clifford Schisler
Paraguay
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

27 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

Stated

Explanation:
Así simple.

Rosa Elena Lozano Arton
Mexico
Local time: 12:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

37 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

vehemently affirmed

Explanation:
I think this fits well. Some examples:
As to her confession, she vehemently affirmed that it was secured by force and violence, and only after she had been beaten badly and threatened; ...
www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1952/may1952/gr_l-4218_1952.ht... - 25k

This period of " storm and stress," when the doctrine of the despotic authority of the sovereign was vehemently affirmed and strenuously denied, ...
books.google.com/books?id=r5IzAAAAMAAJ...

Some vehemently affirmed, and others potently believed, that the nation was in a most desperate state; that it was upon the very brink of ruin, ...
books.google.com/books?id=3cUOAAAAIAAJ...

As to her confession, she vehemently affirmed that it was secured by force and violence, and only after she had been beaten badly and threatened; ...
www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1952/may1952/gr_l-4218_1952.ht... - 25k

jmf
United States
Local time: 14:21
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

3 hrs confidence:

to pronounce

Explanation:
I addition to its most common meaning, this verb has the secondary meaning of "to pass judgement".

Sample:

"'The law doesn't work that way' XXXXX XXXXX, XXXXX's Communications Manager hotly/passionately pronounced."

Clayton Causey
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

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