. - Para muchos diputados al Parlamento Europeo la existencia de la prisión de la Bahía de Guantánamo se convirtió en la vara con la que vapulear a Estados Unidos.

. - For many MEPs the existence of the Guantánamo Bay prison became a stick with which to beat America.

vapulear(also: mecatear)

to give … a beating {vb}

SYNONYMS

Synonyms (Spanish) for "vapuleo":

vapuleo

apaleo- castigo- paliza- somanta- tunda- vareo

CONTEXT EXAMPLES

Context examples for "vapuleo" in English(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.

Estrasburgo recibe adicionalmente en el informe un vapuleo al indicar que los costes variables de las sesiones de cinco días en Estrasburgo son un 33 % superiores que los de Bruselas.

In the report, Strasbourg gets more of the same treatment when it is mentioned that the variable costs of the five-day part-sessions in Strasbourg are 33 % higher than for those in Brussels.

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