English-Portuguese translations for whitewash

branquear'Enverdecer? o desempenho social e ambiental é tão mau como "branquear" lucros. "Greenwashing" your social and environmental performance is as bad as "whitewashing" profits. A resolução em apreço vem branquear esta situação e o nosso grupo não a apoiará. The resolution on the table whitewashes this state of affairs, and our group will not support it. O que o senhor deputado Roszkowski afirmou, nomeadamente, que o Grupo Social-Democrata está a tentar branquear alguma coisa, não é verdade. What Mr Roszkowski said is not true, namely that the Social Democratic group is trying to whitewash something.
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encobrirPor esta razão, lamento as tentativas do Governo britânico no sentido de atenuar as críticas formuladas neste relatório, de corrigir a história e de encobrir os erros do passado.For that reason, I am saddened by attempts from the British Government to water down this report, to rewrite history and effectively to whitewash the past.

A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white
A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep
Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair
A campaign to paper over unfavorable elements
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence
To cover over errors or bad actions
To repay the financial debts of (another person
To prevent a team from scoring any runs
To make over so that it is or seems more white, for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of people of color in an event and focusing on only white participation

The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood
In his sermon, the minister didnt try to whitewash over the sins of his church

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