English-German translation for "to boil up"

to boil up {vb}

to boil up {vb} (also: to be brought to a boil)

Hana, boil some water.

In actual fact, we are facing a much deeper crisis: Mr Blair has simply chosen to exacerbate the clash, to show up Europe ’ s weakness and to bring its contradictions to the boil; he has simply highlighted the problems of a Europe torn apart by self interest, unwilling to make any effort to support enlargement, and unable to genuinely face up to the challenges of the third millennium or to assert itself as a unitary political entity on the world stage.

Need we remind ourselves that democracy does not boil down to having a vote?

The boil perhaps needed to burst, but, above all, we must not leave.

To conclude, the issue of employment does not boil down to the issue of growth, however essential it might be.

The Commission's proposal rightly limits these practices, which often boil down to no more than double taxation.

Their patience has been pushed to the limit and the miracle is that it did not boil over before.

If that is what it is to boil down to, then it is a very good idea.

Blackmailing threats of resignation indicate a weakness which is a running sore already and will develop into a festering boil.

The lot of processes of this nature is to produce texts which necessarily boil down to the lowest common denominator.

Heinrich Böil describes the RAF's fight as a declaration of war... made by desperate intellectuals, 6 versus 60 million.

This would boil down to funds raised by taxation being invested as venture capital and to substantial shares in the profits then being handed over to private enterprise.

In summary, all the negative aspects of the Commission's proposal boil down to a financial problem resulting from the intention to carry out enlargement with no additional budget.

This in turn clearly means that we must lance the festering boil left behind by the war crimes which have been committed.

The development cooperation policy that we are pursuing must not boil down to simply funding projects in order to clear our consciences.

At the end of the day, we arrived at figures that boil down to 1.18 % in commitment appropriations and 1.07 % in payment appropriations.

The longer this policy remains on the boil the more indigestible it is, not only for my country but also for the whole European Union.

I think this is where the Socialist Group is to be congratulated, since it was our patient strategy which lanced the boil that was sapping the institutions.

The position is all the more astonishing since the aid from the IMF, in the final analysis, does in fact boil down to a subsidy paid by Japan, the United States and Europe to begin a high risk economic policy.

We have attempted to arrive at a formula which does its best to avoid what could boil down to - as Mr Bourlanges rightly stated - the simple extension of codecision to fields where the cooperation procedure currently applies.