English-German translation for "pec-waving or pec-slapping"

pec-waving or pec-slapping

pec-waving or pec-slapping

The road between Pristina and Pec has been blocked off, there are reports of artillery shelling of Kosovan villages, and new victims are being claimed every day.

‘ Waving or drowning’: it is sometimes very difficult to tell the difference.

It is difficult to decree normality in a country by waving the barrel of a kalashnikov.

I would like once again to state my conviction: we are not of the opinion that by admitting very poor regions in Eastern Europe - Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, Bulgaria and others - into the European Union, that regions that are poor or that are experiencing difficulties in the north, the centre, the south, not to mention the outermost regions, will become rich as if by waving a magic wand.

Madam President, I feel like someone standing on the quayside waving farewell to the beautiful, unsinkable Titanic.

We know we shall not be able to make all the difficulties simply disappear by waving a magic wand.

As democratically elected representatives waving the white flag, we hid like terrorists to assist and protect these people who are victims of terrorist acts.

Mrs Roth-Behrendt was in good health and leading an army of pensioners who were waving placards bearing the words " Long live Mrs Roth-Behrendt ".

And this is also an area where we have to state in the clearest terms that it is not enough to tour the capitals of the applicant countries slapping everyone on the back and saying " Things are going well ".

And we are all slapping ourselves on the back; there is a mood of self-congratulation over our giving more money to Africa, as if, somehow, money will solve the whole problem.

Ladies and gentlemen, as Mr Perry has just said, I think I can say that virtually everyone in this Parliament of course shares the feelings of our colleagues who are waving the banners concerned.

I fully support the point made by my EPP colleague, Mr Bowis, that under no circumstances can we export our problem from the developed world by slapping taxes on our older plants with problematic emission standards and just driving those jobs and those particular production units to the less developed regions where they are less able to cope with environmental degradation.

If he does come, if the bloodstained invader of Iraq sets foot on the Greek soil of freedom, he may be sure that he will never forget the reception which the Greek people have in store for him, a peaceful reception of course, but with flag-waving and voices raised in song.

A terrorist organisation has thus come to power, one whose declared strategic aim – as confirmed by the countless ambiguities with which the organisation’ s leaders answered our questions during the mission – is the creation of a state, waving goodbye to peace, human rights, and the rights of women and religious minorities.

But this report also notes that too frequently we are compelled to take action in areas that should not lie within the jurisdiction of the Community, that the pressure on us to legislate, exerted mainly by Member States - sometimes by the European Parliament itself - is unceasing, especially in technical fields, mostly from those Member States waving the flag of subsidiarity most ardently.

Or justifiable.

Or darker.

Or Parcheesi.

Or someone.

temporary derogations, and/or