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Usage Note
durchsetzen is separable: you setzen a plan durch to push it through against resistance. Reflexively, sich durchsetzen means 'to assert oneself' or 'to win out', as a person or an idea.
Examples
"Sie setzte ihre Idee durch."
Natural Translation
She pushed her idea through.
Literal Translation
She set her idea through.
Related Words
- Abgeordnete delegate
- Abgeordnetenmandat parliamentary mandate, MP's seat and commission
- Abstimmung vote
- Abstimmungsergebnis result of a vote, voting outcome
- Abstimmungsmarathon voting marathon; extended series of successive votes in parliament
- Abstimmungsverhalten voting behaviour (in a parliament or assembly)
- Amtsinhaber incumbent
- Amtszeit term of office
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