English-German translation for "to drive down"

to drive down {vb} (also: to bring down, to go down)

     to drive with one's foot down to the floor

They showed a BMW driving down the street.

I was driving down and Helen asked me to stop by and ask you --

I urge that financial prudence is not made an excuse to drive more people down into poverty.

European social policy cannot have the driving down of wages as its objective.

And, you know, I'm just thinking, "Oh, my god, my whole family got in a van and drove down here from Pennsylvania."

I went to Sierra Leone, and there was this minister driving down in the dead of night -- comes across this village.

When I am driving down a road at sunset all I can think is, this is almost as beautiful as my games are.

And my parable here is you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving because you've seen cows before.

In this way, competition will have the effect of driving administration costs down and pushing the quality of the service up.

It drives salaries down, causes unemployment among adults and prevents children from receiving an education.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things that drive me down, take the emotional level down, and you've got to recover from those.

I was driving down 7th Avenue one night at 3 a.m., and this steam pouring out of the street, and I thought, "What causes that?"

It does this in a couple of ways -- chasing productivity, which drives down prices and encourages us to buy more stuff.

But then he got older, he got calmer, and one day he was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles he told me, and this is when it all changed for him.

And to drive us faster down this road they top it off by playing the good old refrain about the spirit of the treaties going beyond the letter of the treaties.

It is not competitive selling at a loss to weaken rival products, nor is it driving down the quality of those products.

Instead, we should do everything possible to make it easy for them, since there really could be a consumer revolution that would drive down prices and provide alternatives.

The effects of a ports directive, which aims to encourage competition in order to drive down the price of port activity, are the most far-reaching in precisely those ports.

We are working for a trading system which effectively drives production costs down and which encourages companies to relocate in search of competitive advantage.