La Paz oor Afrikaans

La Paz

/lɑːˈpæz/ eienaam, naamwoord

The administrative capital of Bolivia.

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He was amazed that we had come all the way from La Paz.
Hy was verbaas dat ons die hele pad van La Paz af gekom het.

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He was amazed that we had come all the way from La Paz.
Hy was verbaas dat ons die hele pad van La Paz af gekom het.

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In the meantime, I was having health problems that were aggravated by the high altitude of La Paz.
Intussen het ek gesondheidsprobleme ondervind wat vererger is deur die feit dat La Paz so hoog bo seespieël is.

He was amazed that we had come all the way from La Paz.
Hy was verbaas dat ons die hele pad van La Paz af gekom het.

Nevertheless, the way was soon clear to head to my foreign assignment: La Paz, Bolivia.
Dit was nietemin weldra moontlik om na my buitelandse toewysing te vertrek: La Paz, Bolivia.

As missionaries in Bolivia, Edward Michalec (left) and Harold Morris (right) preached first here in La Paz
Edward Michalec (links) en Harold Morris (regs) het, as sendelinge in Bolivia, eers hier in La Paz gepreek

They were on leave from La Paz, Bolivia’s principal city.
Hulle was op verlof en het van La Paz, Bolivia se hoofstad, gekom.

On June 9, 1946, our plane landed in La Paz.
Ons vliegtuig het op 9 Junie 1946 in La Paz neergestryk.

“I used to work as a housemaid in La Paz,” she says.
“Ek het as ’n huisbediende in La Paz gewerk”, sê sy.

When we arrived in La Paz, the brothers who were to meet us had not arrived.
Toe ons in La Paz aankom, het die broers wat ons daar sou ontmoet, nog nie opgedaag nie.

After working 11 years in La Paz, we were given an assignment in the southern part of Bolivia.
Nadat ons 11 jaar in La Paz gewerk het, het ons ’n toewysing in die suidelike deel van Bolivia ontvang.

She works in La Paz, Bolivia, where ethnic differences often separate the rich from the poor.
Sy woon in La Paz, Bolivia, waar etniese verskille dikwels die rykes van die armes skei.

Brother Knorr suggested that we have our home and Kingdom Hall in a more central location in La Paz.
Broer Knorr het voorgestel dat ons ons huis en Koninkryksaal op ’n sentraler plek in La Paz moes hê.

La Paz is almost 12,000 feet [3,625 m] above sea level, so on most days we were above the clouds.
La Paz is omtrent 3 625 meter bo seespieël geleë, en ons was dus die meeste van die tyd bo die wolke.

Our class graduated on February 1, 1981, and I was assigned to La Paz, Bolivia, along with Enriqueta Ayala (now Fernández).
Ons klas het op 1 Februarie 1981 gegradueer, en ek is saam met Enriqueta Ayala (nou Fernández) na La Paz, Bolivia, gestuur.

In the early 1970’s, the branch home of Jehovah’s Witnesses in La Paz had a total of only 12 members.
In die vroeë 1970’s het die takkantoor van Jehovah se Getuies in La Paz maar net 12 personeellede gehad.

Then, in 1965, I returned to live in La Paz in one of the missionary homes, where I have been ever since.
In 1965 het ek teruggekeer om in La Paz in een van die sendinghuise te woon, waar ek vandag nog is.

Finally, on October 25, 1945, Harold Morris—a classmate—and I arrived at El Alto Airport, just outside of La Paz, Bolivia’s capital city.
Uiteindelik, op 25 Oktober 1945, het ek en Harold Morris—’n klasmaat—op die El Alto-lughawe aangekom, net buite La Paz, die hoofstad van Bolivia.

These water supplies are also the chief source of drinking water for three Latin-American capitals: Lima, Peru; Quito, Ecuador; and La Paz, Bolivia.
Hierdie watervoorraad is ook die hoofbron van drinkwater vir drie Latyns-Amerikaanse hoofstede: Lima, Peru; Quito, Ecuador, en La Paz, Bolivia.

After serving in Santa Cruz for six years, I was assigned to Bolivia’s principal city, La Paz, where I spent the next 25 years.
Nadat ek ses jaar lank in Santa Cruz gedien het, is ek na die hoofstad van Bolivia, La Paz, gestuur, waar ek die volgende 25 jaar deurgebring het.

Instead, they gave first attention to La Paz, the capital, which is located in the Andes at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet [3,700 m].
Trouens, hulle het hulle eers toegespits op die hoofstad La Paz, wat in die Andes op ’n hoogte van byna 3 700 meter geleë is.

The Bolivian Times of La Paz stated: “It is said that eight million Indian slaves were consumed,” died, in Potosí’s mines during the colonial period.
Die Bolivian Times van La Paz het gesê: “Daar word beweer dat agtmiljoen Indiaanse slawe gesterf het” in Potosi se myne gedurende die koloniale tydperk.

In March 1949, Brother Knorr and his secretary, Milton Henschel, came from New York and visited our three missionary homes, in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Oruro.
In Maart 1949 het broer Knorr en sy sekretaris, Milton Henschel, van New York af gekom en ons drie sendinghuise in La Paz, Cochabamba en Oruro besoek.

One day, while going from house to house in one of the better sections of La Paz, a maid answered the door and invited me in.
Eendag, terwyl ek in een van die beter gedeeltes van La Paz van huis tot huis gewerk het, het ’n diensmeisie die deur oopgemaak en my ingenooi.

Many large cities in the developing world, such as Dhaka, Freetown, Guatemala City, Lagos, and La Paz, already face poverty rates of 50 percent or more.
Talle groot stede in die ontwikkelende wêreld, soos Dhaka, Freetown, Guatemalastad, Lagos en La Paz, het reeds te kampe met armoedesyfers van 50 persent of hoër.

This meant carrying both a phonograph and a book bag up and down the steep hills of La Paz at the breathtaking altitude of 12,000 feet (3,660 m).
Dit het beteken dat ons ’n grammofoon sowel as ’n boeksak op en af teen die steil heuwels van La Paz op die asemrowende hoogte van 3 660 meter moes dra.

WHY do visitors drive two to three hours from the Andean city of La Paz, across part of the barren wastes of the Altiplano, to an isolated area called Comanche?
WAAROM ry besoekers twee tot drie uur lank van die dorp La Paz in die Andesgebergte af, oor ’n deel van die barre vlakte van die Altiplano, na ’n afgesonderde gebied met die naam Comanche?