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144 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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144 months ago

   wrote:

in the banking sector

My comment:

his services were offered primarily in the banking sector, especially smaller banks... (not sure if "were offered" is correct here. It depends on the type of services offered. They seem to be nuanced somehow).

144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

he had recourse to the banks

My comment:

especially small banks where he knew people whom he flattered/pampered, and who would protect him,(and so provide him with money for the loans he needed to make). Please provide more context. I think this is the general sense but then you have to turn it round according to the style you adopted in other parts

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144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

he had recourse to the banks

My comment:

especially small banks where he knew people whom he flattered/pampered, and who would protect him,(and so provide him with money for the loans he needed to make). Please provide more context. I think this is the general sense but then you have to turn it round according to the style you adopted in other parts

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144 months ago

   wrote:

Ungere-here may mean play up to/flatter so as to get what he wanted from them

144 months ago

   wrote:

"ungere" here means TO BRIBE

144 months ago

   wrote:

Carlos, probably, played up to means BRIBE too, besides other connotations; that's why I put "may mean"

144 months ago

   wrote:

Ungere-here may mean play up to/flatter so as to get what he wanted from them

144 months ago

   wrote:

Carlos, probably, played up to means BRIBE too, besides other connotations; that's why I put "may mean"

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