English-Swedish translations for lightning conductor

• åskledare en
  Man kan därför undra om inte Frontex bara måste agera åskledare för att lugna de europeiska medborgarna.You might therefore ask whether Frontex is not just having to act as a lightning conductor to appease the citizens of Europe.
  Denna övervakning förefaller oss i stället vara en slags åskledare som skyddar mot att andra utvecklingsländer kan överklaga till WTO.On the contrary, in our view it is a kind of lightning conductor to deflect any complaints to the WTO by other developing countries.

Definition of lightning conductor

• A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground and protects the building from damage by lightning

Related words

• lightning
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