forma tan artificial

English translation: ..sets such unrealistic deadlines

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Spanish term or phrase:forma tan artificial
English translation:..sets such unrealistic deadlines
Entered by: Lydia De Jorge

07:04 Sep 29, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism
Spanish term or phrase: forma tan artificial
No podemos aceptar una ley que pone fechas limites de un modo tan artificial.
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..sets such unrealistic deadlines
Explanation:
sugg

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You are very welcome!
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Lydia De Jorge
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1..sets such unrealistic deadlines
Lydia De Jorge
4which sets deadlines in such an artificial/contrived manner/way
David Hollywood
4so artificially
Cinnamon Nolan
4in such an arbitrary fashion (or rephrase below)
Carol Gullidge


  

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which sets deadlines in such an artificial/contrived manner/way


Explanation:
:)

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we can't accept/tolerate a law that imposes deadlines in such a contrived/artificial manner/way ...

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condensed version: we can't accept a law that imposes such contrived deadlines/time limits

David Hollywood
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 27
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
so artificially


Explanation:
a law that imposes deadlines so artificially/arbitrarily.

I think the adverb will do in this case.

Harris could then discard amended ballot counts that come in after the deadline, but she could not do so "arbitrarily," Lewis ruled. ...
dir.salon.com/story/politics/trail/2000/11/14/trail_mix/

He thereupon held, as a matter of law, that when the Commission fixed 50 cents as ... due process of law; or (5) if the Commission acted so arbitrarily and ...
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=222&invol=541

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-STATE AS DErENDANT.-The State of Oklahoma created a ... that if it is administered with a partial eye or so arbitrarily that it makes ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-2234(191503)13%3A5%3C416%3ACLSAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H



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If you prefer "artificially", it's more emphatic to place it earlier in the sentence:

a law that so artificially imposes deadlines.

This standard, so artificially created, was said to be the law or laws that were eternal and unchangeable, for they must be eternal and unchangeable if they ...
oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=680&chapter=51124

At the same time it is a mistake to speak of land-law reformers as if the term denoted ..... and so artificially to increase the overcrowding of our towns, ...
oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=291&chapter=20832&layout


Cinnamon Nolan
Spain
Local time: 15:55
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in such an arbitrary fashion (or rephrase below)


Explanation:
OR

...that sets such arbitrary deadlines





Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:55
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
..sets such unrealistic deadlines


Explanation:
sugg

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Note added at 6 days (2007-10-05 18:17:09 GMT) Post-grading
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You are very welcome!

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 08:55
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Hollywood: like it :) not literal but sounds good :)
6 hrs
  -> thanks David!
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