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English-German translation for "to wave one's handkerchief"
"to wave one's handkerchief" German translation
to wave one's handkerchief
Usage examples
Similar translations for "to wave one's handkerchief" in German
That's a lovely handkerchief.
Would that prevent Cyprus from being one of the first wave of new members?
Togo is similar to many other West African countries in that it is an artificial state, created to serve colonial interests, and indeed one only needs to glance at a map to see this, as Togo, in common with most other West African countries, is shaped like a narrow handkerchief.
I was one of only three British MEPs – all UKIP of course – that opposed the last wave of enlargement.
The first wave of enlargement must be completed in one and a half year's time in Copenhagen in December 2002.
One can ask whether the down-turn would have been as steep had we not had wave after wave of revelations about the lack of internal controls and external oversight.
One man ’ s State aid is another man’ s tax.
One person ’ s freedom ends where another ’ s begins.
The pursuit of the second wave of the feminist movement in the 60s and 70s was strongly focused on enabling women to get on in paid jobs.
No-one has explained to us under what criteria countries like Italy and Belgium are to join the first wave of EMU.
I wish to refer to one problem I can see looming on the horizon between Member States which enter in the first wave and those which remain outside.
That is one of the main causes of instability in the world, and we must act before the tidal wave of weaponry overwhelms us all.
Accordingly, one case that the future agency will certainly have to examine is the current wave of attacks on freedom of expression in Europe.
We will clearly not be able to achieve this with one wave of the wand, but they do point us in the right direction.
Understanding one ’ s past should also help to define one’ s future better.
That is like seeing the mote in one’ s brother’ s eye without noticing the beam in one ’ s own.
The reason behind my attempted trip to Belarus was Mr Lukashenko’ s instigation of a new wave of persecution against those of his citizens whose opinions differ from his own.
The problem is something quite different: it is that Milosevic deprived Vojvodina of its autonomy by force in order to secure himself a majority in Yugoslavia’ s collective state presidency, and that wave after wave of people uprooted and expelled from other parts of Serbia were settled there, thus upsetting the complex ethnic balance, and have to date been socially and politically marginalised, unable to put down real roots.
The idea that one of the three would be in the first wave of accession discussions while the other two could wait behind was met with some consternation in the capitals of the neighbouring republics.
Mr President, the decision to close the Renault factory at Vilvoorde, which is an indication of the current construction of Europe, based on putting employees into competition with one another, has raised a legitimate wave of protest.

