Task 2. Analyze the sentences with the Complex Gerundial

1. Despite much angry and sometimes ignorant talk about Japanese 

burying their guilty secrets, there is a great deal of Japanese literature 

that deals honestly with the war.

2. The scandal has resulted in the local station chief of America’s 

CIA giving warning that America might stop sharing intelligence with 

South Korea.

3. The U.S. State Department faulted the Muslim fundamentalist 

faction known as the Taliban for publicly beating women for not being 

accompanied by a close male relative.

4. Nominal sovereignty is no longer the valuable commodity it once 

was, and independence may actually lead to people having less control 

over decisions that crucially affect them.

5. Foreign exchange analysts, despite all the fanfare and pep talk 

about the United States reasserting its leading role as a bastion of free 

enterprise, remain extremely skeptical that the dollar’s strength can be 

sustained without the support of high interest rates.

6. With consumer prices in the euro area only 1 % higher than they 

were a year ago, there is little risk of currency depreciation causing a 

dangerous surge in inflation.

7. The next bad step will be to say that the WTO’s test is wrong: 

instead of the importer having to prove that a product is dangerous, let 

the exporter show that it is safe.

8. The continued success of voluntary mass vaccination depends 

on governments providing accurate information about the risks and 

benefits.

9. The Europeans suspect the Americans of cheating on the deal 

by funneling indirect subsidies to Boeing, in contravention of the 

agreement to limit subsidies to 30% of a project’s cost.

10. The supremacy of EU law over national law is also implicit in 

the treaties. Nor could the court’s powers be repatriated by Britain or 

anyone else, without a country leaving the Union altogether.

11. The unions sought discussions with the company on supervisory 

grade matters, about which no understanding agreement existed with 

the unions, and insisted on shop-floor employees being present during 

these discussions.

12. Those trade unionists who believed the propaganda about 

the freeze benefiting the lower-paid workers got a shock just before 

Christmas, when agreements affecting farm workers and shop assistants 

were referred to the Prices and Incomes Board.

13. France is the largest contributor to the offensive after the US and 

is fully committed to success. Yet at the same time politicians on both the 

left and right are profoundly wary of France being so closely involved in a 

military venture that is US dominated and orchestrated through NATO.

14. But if this experiment fails then it is obvious that, far from there 

being an improvement in the standards of life of the British people, 

there will be a steady diminution.

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