English-French translation for "grist"

grist {noun}

Any such action would be grist to the propaganda mill of the Iraqi regime.

There is less activity now, which in turn is grist to the mill of the separatists.

This ruling is grist to the mill of people who question the legality of certain positive actions.

Unfortunately we, the European Union, have added grist to the mill of mutual destruction with our mistakes.

Criminalizing people who do not have papers is grist to the mill of parties which are racist and xenophobic.

That is the grist to the mill of cooperation between the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council.

We do not therefore wish to bring grist to the mill of those who, as it were, want to see the back of this scheme.

The terrorist feeds on this type of propaganda; this is what he needs to survive, it is grist to his mill.

This is constant grist to Mr Bonde’ s mill – if I may be so bold as to name names – and he makes political capital out of it.

Do you really not realise that delays in the timetable are grist to the mill of nationalist forces and actually encourage their emergence in these countries?

On the contrary, injections of finance would only be grist to the mill of those people who have been unscrupulously amassing fortunes in Latin America for years.

It is all grist for the mill of the urgent work that needs doing to develop permanent, objective, adaptable verification capability for use, with effect, whenever we need it.

These three dates, three violent upheavals, give the Commission grist to its mill in its accountant's view of a policy of austerity and rationing.

In order to succeed, however, we must address each and every problem if we want to avoid providing grist to the mill for people-pleasers or the shameful opponents of enlargement.